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Category Archives: Class Privilege
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
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
Sep
3
2011
“Imagine a world where the owning class are so sure of their own goodness that they can face unflinchingly the genocide, slavery, war, and oppression that they have engineered and profited from for centuries and commit to backing those that … 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
Aug
19
2011
My time interning at RG has been fulfilling both personally and professionally. Unlike other internships, my work at RG allowed me to be creative and take initiative of my own projects. One project I found particularly engaging was working to … 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
Jul
21
2011
At the heart of philanthropy is a great contradiction, one that our generation is struggling to resolve. Many philanthropists accumulated their wealth through disruptive innovations, ruthless business practice, or, as Balzac said, “great wealth with no obvious source is some … 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
May
13
2011
For a while now I’ve been wanting to share my story with the Resource Generation (RG) community. So much of my experience in RG has been about telling our stories and using it as the foundation for our organizing. So … Continue reading
