Sharing our Stories
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Towards Homefulness: The POOR Magazine Solidarity Family
“On Saturday at noon,” Tiny said, “please stop wherever you are and light a candle and say a prayer for Homefulness. That’s when we at…
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Staff Transitions
Hello RG Community, We have some updates on staffing we want to share with you. We are excited to announce that we have hired Sarah…
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What Does a Community of Rich Kids Look Like?
Often people refer to the Resource Generation “community,” roughly defined as young people with wealth who are committed to social justice and are connected on…
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What Disability Justice Has to Offer Social Justice
Reposted from the GIFT Blog.I attended my first workshop on disability justice facilitated by Mia Mingus and Stacey Milbern, two Korean queer women with disabilities, at the…
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Standing in Our Power: A Personal Journey
Taij Moteelall, RG’s former director, shares some reflections on her time with RG below. Reposted from the Power Up Networks Blog. As the Occupy Wall Street phenomenon…
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Zeph's Story
I’m a mid-forties white genderqueer person born and raised in Montreal and raised again in the Mission District in San Francisco. I came from an…
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New Paradigms: How Mission Investing is Transforming Philanthropy
With the Occupy Wall Street protests ongoing, the movement for re-aligning investments with social change values is more relevant than ever. While corporations essentially own…
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Revive: Diary of a Giving Circle, Part I
It’s early wintertime outside. A collection of soaked boots crowd the tiny vestibule. The cat is buried underneath a small hill of coats on the…
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The 1 Percent Stands for Tax Justice
Have you seen RG’s new tumblr account, We are the 1 percent, We stand with the 99 percent? Or maybe this picture of RG’s co-director,…
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One Year Out: An Update from the Hummingbird Collective
We’re writing with updates from the RG Migrant Justice Solidarity Working Group, recently renamed the Hummingbird Collective. (Much less of a mouthful, right?) This funding project was born…
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99 and 1: Standing Up for Wealth Redistribution
In the last 18 days since the occupation of Wall Street, the Occupy movement has spread across the country. Boston, DC, San Francisco, Chicago, Portland,…
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Tax the Rich, Save our Safety Net!
Reposted from a September 21st article at Left Turn. RG members have been a driving force in the SOS Campaign in Washington, DC —check it out! Victory:…