Originally posted on boldergiving.org. Jessan is a RG Member Leader in our Seattle Local Chapter. In 2007, at 20 years old, I got my first job as an engineer. When I opened the offer letter from Google, I realized that my starting salary of over $100,000 would be more than anyone I’d ever been close…
I’ve been involved for RG for three years now. I’m proud to say that over that time I’ve given away far more money than I ever thought I would. I’ve been a part of growing a cross class giving circle and mutual aid funds. I’ve organized my community to shift resources towards justice work. It…
Burke Stansbury is a RG alumni and former board member and chapter leader. He currently lives in Seattle with his family.In February of this year I invited my dad, Michael Stansbury, to participate with me in a giving project through the Social Justice Fund NW. He was a little apprehensive at first and had a…
Originally posted on thehuffingtonpost.com on September 10, 2013. Simone Sneed is a member of Resource Generation and a part of the New York City People of Color Praxis Group. “No building bears their names. No boardroom displays their portraits. No foundation sustains their legacy. And yet, the philanthropists best known to me are the ones…
Post by Lizzie Busch, RG member leader and an attendee at our recent Transformative Leadership Institute in early July, 2013. The Transformative Leadership Institute was a 4 day training for rg member leaders from across our work in chapters, family philanthropy, tax organizing, racial justice, Making Money Making Change planning and more. Two weeks ago,…
This post was written by Ashley Horan, James Schaffer, Sarah Abbott, and Isaac Lev Szmonko “Justice was always going to elude Trayvon Martin, not because the system failed, but because it worked. Martin died and Zimmerman walked because our entire political and legal foundations were built on an ideology of settler colonialism — an ideology…
Re-posted from Facebook: A response from Nicole Lewis, former RG staff member and co-author of the forthcoming book “Between a Silver Spoon and the Struggle: Reflections on the Intersection of Racism and Class Privilege.” **** Until the killing of Black men, Black mothers’ sons, is as important as the killing of White mothers’ sons, we…
Over the coming days and weeks we will be posting reflections on the Trayvon Martin murder, Zimmerman acquittal, and all that it is opening up. They are from members, staff, former staff, RG advocates and allies…a series of posts as they arise; not all representing a sole vision or perspective but many processes that are…
Over the coming days and weeks we will be posting reflections on the Trayvon Martin murder, Zimmerman acquittal, and all that it is opening up. They are from members, staff, former staff, RG advocates and allies…a series of posts as they arise; not all representing a sole vision or perspective but many processes that are…
Special thanks to Mac Liman, who really pushed my thinking on this and also was a superb and frequent editor. One of the first questions we always get asked on the tax team is: why should we fight for higher taxes to go into government funding when the US government is so terrible? After being…
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