From Trust Fund to Funding Trust
After I graduated from college, I learned I was the owner of a trust fund worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. In June, I made my first gift of $80,000 to a social justice foundation.
Wealth Redistribution in Action
Personal (and Collective) Liberation Through Giving
What guidance would you give to a room full of fundraisers about how to ask you for money? That was the question I tried to answer on a “#RealTalk with Major Donors” panel at the recent Allied Media Conference in Detroit. AMC is a conference led by people of color and queer and trans folks,…
Bridging the Gap
On May 20th I attended the North Star Fund’s forum for Resilient New York, a forum to advance grassroots organizing as a key strategy to protect the dignity and rights of all New Yorkers. The event was a call to community members, donors, grantmakers, and organizers to unite around a proactive shared vision to support…
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How I Learned to Embrace Family Philanthropy’s Contradictions (And Why This Matters in Today’s Urgent Social Justice Moment)
Act I: Family Philanthropy = Bad? My siblings and I found out that we were on the board of a family foundation six years ago over Christmas dinner. “Surprise! We are now the Pink House Foundation!” my parents announced over root vegetables and waning holiday cheer. (Our house in Northwest Washington, DC was bright pink.)…
Give Big, Give Now, Keep Giving for Social Justice
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Cross-Class Giving in Philly with Bread & Roses
by Ben Goldstein What does it mean to be accountable to a cross-class, cross-generational and multi-racial group raising money for grassroots organizing as a young white man with access to wealth? This is the question I asked myself when I joined the Bread & Roses Giving Project early this year. The Giving Project is a…
Centering Racial Justice and Indigenous Sovereignty in the New Economy
I was deep in the new economy and localism scene when I finally connected with Resource Generation in 2013. I had been working on local investment issues, and how to connect local investors with local businesses. Behind the scenes I was working on convincing my family that our assets, or at least any capital in…
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Door-Knocking for Reparations–as a Rich Kid
by Dominque Tan and Rachel Gelman, Bay Area RG Chapter leaders If a group of poor and indigenous people knocked on your door, would you receive them? If they asked whether you would donate your resources to community reparations, would you?This spring, POOR Magazine challenged both the Bay Area Resource Generation Chapter and the broader…
Growing Visibility, Growing Roots: Engaging Durham with RG North Carolina
By Maggie Heraty and David Roswell of RG North Carolina As Resource Generation North Carolina has grown in numbers and deepened in scope, we have recognized the need to strengthen our base and be more public and active in our community. In Fall 2015 we hosted two events to help meet these needs. Our hope…
What We’ve Learned After a Decade of Climate Funding, and What We’re Doing Instead
Farhad Ebrahimi – RG alumni member and long-time major supporter of RG – on strategy and movement-building with his foundation. Lots of juicy nuggets and modeling of social justice values and transparency in philanthropy. This post originally appeared at Medium. Read on! Vivian Huang, Campaign and Organizing Director at Asian Pacific Environmental Network Philanthropy isn’t necessarily known for making long-term…