by Resource Generation | Apr 15, 2014 | Action, Advocacy, Class Privilege, Conferences, Cross-Class, Donor Organizing, Featured, Giving, Giving Circles, Philanthropy, Racial Justice
Three years ago, I decided to go to Making Money Make Change, the annual conference put on by Resource Generation. I know that I will inherit wealth in the future, so I decided to go to the conference to start thinking about this privilege, about my family, and my own...
by Resource Generation | Apr 18, 2012 | Donor Organizing, Wealth Redistribution in Action
Have you ever wondered about giving circles? What are they? How do they work? How do you start one? Are you in a giving circle and wondering how others are doing it? In these interviews, RG folks share their experiences with and reflections about participating in...
by Resource Generation | Mar 16, 2012 | Donor Organizing, Wealth Redistribution in Action
There were six of us. Katherine Orr, Julia Read, Michelle Rider, Ellie Weiner, Nickerson Hill and myself. We’d formed a group with the expressed purpose of pooling a large amount of money to give away. But why were we doing this? Why was group giving so important to...
by Resource Generation | Oct 27, 2011 | Action, Wealth Redistribution in Action
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 bed. The apartment smells like cayenne and tomatoes, warm broth and buttery onions. Barely eaten containers of hummus,...
by Resource Generation | Oct 18, 2011 | Wealth Redistribution in Action
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 out of an idea at last year’s Making Money Make Change, and has grown...
