Come to CCTFP 2011!

Hello RG community!
There is less than ONE WEEK left to register for RG’s 2011 Creating Change Through Family Philanthropy retreat! Let us tell you why…
Jessie and Nicole love CCTFP!
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Hello RG community!
There is less than ONE WEEK left to register for RG’s 2011 Creating Change Through Family Philanthropy retreat! Let us tell you why…
Jessie and Nicole love CCTFP!
See you there!
I attended my first Resource Generation retreat, Making Money Make Change, in the Fall of 2010 at a retreat center nestled in the redwoods outside of San Jose, California. I spent those four days immersed in the stories of young people with wealth taking bold action, learning about powerful organizing across the U.S., getting to tell…
One of the great blessings of being a part of humanity is the diversity we encounter every day. We can to meet and interact with so many different types of people with so many interests, that we get to learn, experience and grow constantly. Most of the time, this makes us better human beings. There…
As the co-chairs of the Resource Generation board, we are pleased to announce a few internal shifts within the RG staff. We thought it would be good to present this as a blog post directed to the larger RG, donor organizing, and social justice community, in part because it relates to bigger questions that many…
If you’d like to read more about Felice’s remarkable work, here is a post from Betsy Leondar-Wright at Class Action’s blog. Felice Yeskel, co-founder of Class Action, passed away in her home early this morning after a courageous struggle with cancer. Felice was a tireless activist working to bring about social change. Through fearlessly sharing her…
The plenary, Redistributing Wealth, Land and Power: Leveraging Privilege Towards Collective Liberation, from our retreat, Making Money Make Change, is available to listen to on SoundCloud. Listen to it here. Panelists: Dominique Tan (RG member), Margi (RG member), Rye Young (Third Wave), and Braeden Lentz (Solidaire and RG board member). Moderator: Burke Stansbury (Social Justice Fund…
Adapted from Classified: How to Stop Hiding Your Privilege and Use It for Social ChangeTo go to Adam’s Buzzfeed article with the above title, click here. Hey all. My name’s Adam, and this is a first time post to the RG blog! I’m excited to contribute to a community that has, in a short period…
We hold the liberation of Black and Indigenous people as central to the liberation of all people. We know that attempted genocide and chattel slavery created the initial foundation for massive wealth disparity in the U.S. and that the continued exploitation and criminalization of those communities upholds the racial wealth divide. We believe that well-resourced Black and Native Left organizing is a critical part of how we all get more free.
We believe social justice movements need to be led by communities most directly impacted by injustice. As young people with access to wealth, we choose to undermine the pattern of funders dictating the work and instead choose to follow the leadership of transformative social justice movements and communities, led by people who are: poor, working-class, Black, Indigenous, of color, women, disabled, queer and trans.
We work towards eradicating classism and towards wholeness. We believe that all classes and communities are interconnected and interdependent and that classism has been used to wedge and divide us. We know that much is lost communally in the name of wealth accumulation and that people with wealth have a lot to gain from returning wealth to the collective and transforming our economy. We know that the current economic system is untenable, and we work to build a solidarity economy.
We believe that people ages 18–35, with wealth and class privilege, are at a pivotal stage in life to make a lifelong commitment to social movements. Youth movements and organizing are, and have been bold and visionary. We are building on the legacy of those who came before us, and we are working for a better world for those who will come after. Young people with access to wealth and class privilege need to be organized as protagonists—actively engaging in and seeking out ways that leverage and redistribute our access to power and resources within our control, and redirect resources and power within the networks and institutions we are connected to. We are committed to resisting ageist norms of people acquiring power and holding on to it and constantly doing leadership development to bring about new leadership.
We believe personal and structural change are deeply connected, and every person has the ability to heal and grow. We are committed to working towards transforming ourselves, our organizations, our communities, and society as a whole through our work. We bring our full selves, our experiences, our stake, and our strategic thinking to build cross-class relationships in working for a just and livable world.
We believe in collective and individual growth, groundedness and interdependence. We know that tensions will arise, and we will approach these with curiosity on behalf of our personal and collective wants. We will work to see tensions as generative rather than destructive and finite. We welcome principled disagreement and will strive to keep conflict generative in service of our broader goals and mission.
We believe in the power of collaboration across class, race, and movements. We know that our vision depends on our relationships with communities, organizations and people across our movement ecosystem, with whom we share similarities and differences. Through our organizing work we also seek ways to invite our families, communities, and other people with access to wealth to this work.
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