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Category Archives: 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 and … Continue reading
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, Atlanta, and many other cities are now coming together to stand up as, for, and … Continue reading
Sep
23
2011
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: On September 20, 2011, the DC city council voted to increase taxes on residents making … Continue reading
Sep
7
2011
Several members of the Migrant Justice Solidarity Working Group (now renamed Hummingbird Collective) recently attended a fundraising training at RG’s New York office. The training was facilitated by grassroots fundraising smarties Yasmeen Perez and Emily Nepon, both of whom have been doing grassroots … Continue reading
Back in April, I received a couple of phone calls from my sister, Sonja, the current family philanthropy organizer at RG, urging me to attend the Creating Change Through Family Philanthropy retreat in Petaluma. I didn’t give it much thought … Continue reading
This letter to the editor was submitted to the NY Times at the end of last week. Sign on to a longer version of this letter at lettertothefuture.us. The Letter to the Future site will be updated soon with additional … Continue reading
Aug
15
2011
Me (Mike Gast, Co-Director of RG) asking myself a few of the questions I’ve been wanting to answer about my work and vision. Why wait! So why do you do the work that you do? What’s in it for you? … Continue reading
Jun
21
2011
The day I transferred $300,000 out of my bank account for the Wayside Center for Popular Education was the best day of my life that no one heard about. I left the office into wintery downtown DC to sign paperwork, … Continue reading
Apr
13
2011
Reposted from the Social Justice Fund Northwest’s justice journal. In the few weeks leading up to the first meeting of this year’s Next Generation Giving Project, it became clear to me that I have felt something missing since last year’s … Continue reading
Update: On April 1 DC Mayor Vince Gray proposed a new tax bracket of 8.9% for household income over $200,000 a year, a modest increase and a small victory for Save Our Safety Net and coalition partners who have pushed … Continue reading
