Michigan

Michigan

Welcome to RG Michigan!

Resource Generation is a community of young people with wealth and/or class privilege organizing for economic justice. We redistribute personal & inherited wealth to movements and solidarity economy work–while using our social capital to support economic justice campaigns.

In Michigan, we have been organizing since 2017, primarily in Detroit and Washtenaw County. In 2022, we decided to combine our Ann Arbor and Detroit chapters and launch work across the state.

Would you like to talk to a current member or join our email list? Let us know here:

What are our core activities/areas of work?

Praxis: 6-month cohorts of 6-8 RGers where they define their values and build a redistribution plan, while learning about the socioeconomic systems that drive economic inequality and wealth hoarding. We typically run 1 to 2 praxis cohorts a year. We expect to run 2-3 more praxis cohorts in 2026, definitely one in Detroit and one in Washtenaw!

Partnerships: We build relationships with organizations in Michigan (at a pace of 1 per year for the time being) to resource their work with redistributed wealth. We build our capacity as fundraisers and learn about the work of our partners as we build our partnership. Our current chapter partners are:

    • Peace House Ypsi
    • Rent is Too Damn High Coalition
    • The Daytime Warming Center of Washtenaw County
    • In 2024, we partnered with Transforming Power Fund

Campaigns: In 2023, we joined the Fund MI Future campaign. Through this coalition, we advocated for a graduated income tax in Michigan and built our knowledge about how tax evasion and regressive taxation policies can promote wealth hoarding.

We are raising $300,000 for the The Daytime Warming Center of Washtenaw County to buy a permanent location. Learn more and donate via our GiveButter!

Mutual Aid: We share mutual aid asks and offerings in our signal chat and encourage members to be active in cross-class spaces.

Campus Organizing: Over half of the undergraduate students at University of Michigan – Ann Arbor are RG constituents (come from the top 10%). On March 28 2025 we hosted a Solidarity Economy conference at the University of Michigan School of Social Work, in partnership with the Ginsberg Center. We met with student groups and held events in partnership with academic units to build momentum, recruit conference co-organizers, and establish longer-term relationships.

What is our chapter’s size and scope?

RG Michigan is considered a medium-sized chapter in the RG Ecosystem, with around 30 dues-paying members. Members attend quarterly gatherings (the last one, in December, is always a winter party) and organize events for the chapter and with partners.

Our chapter is characterized by mostly wealthy people without very much access to their wealth or without very high incomes–so we focus a lot on family organizing. We have a few High Net Wealth members and a few members who grew up working class or middle class but are now in the top 10%. We have a few members who are both wealthy and have high incomes. We are prioritizing relational organizing that expands our multiracial membership.

What are the opportunities to get involved in the next 6 months?

  • 📚 Join a praxis group by filling out our interest form here (or to get more info) 📚
    • Detroit Praxis launched April 2026 and goes until October or November 2026
    • Washtenaw Praxis will launch in 2026, likely in the fall
  • 🌞 Join our 2026 campaign to resource the Daytime Warming Center (DWC) in Ypsilanti, MI
  • 🌞 DWC is a critical mutual aid & community space for Ypsi & neighbors
  • 🎶 Attend a Monthly Mingle, informal gatherings with food, music & conversation 🎶

Start here:

« Western Mass
Connecticut »