How Supporting RG Increases Funding to Social Justice
As progressive young people with wealth, it’s our responsibility to organize wealthy folks to take action to end economic inequality and move money to fund economic and racial justice.
Author: Resource Generation
Check out our member’s op-ed in the Des Moines Register!
“I was born into wealth, and I benefit from government handouts.”
Leading on Wealth Redistribution as Young People of Color with Wealth
Some of Resource Generation’s leaders of color with wealth share why attending Making Money Make Change changed their life and relationship to economic and racial justice.
Why MMMC, Why Now, and What’s Next?
If you come from or have earned wealth and believe in a future where wealth, land, and power are equitably shared, join us at MMMC so we can dream together about what’s next.
#DefendDACA — Resource Generation Stands with Immigrant Youth
Hoarding wealth, exploiting poor & working-class communities, gutting corporate regulations, & forcing austerity on the 99% cause economic insecurity, not immigrants.
From Trust Fund to Funding Trust
After I graduated from college, I learned I was the owner of a trust fund worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. In June, I made my first gift of $80,000 to a social justice foundation.
“As the South goes…” – Our Reflections on Charlottesville
Our reflections on Charlottesville and why organizing young people with wealth toward economic and racial justice is so increasingly critical.
How I Facilitated Conversations About Money with My Extended Family
By Margi, RG memberMy Mini Praxis Group with Aunts and Uncles I grew up in an owning-class family and didn’t know it. My parents chose to live their daily lives within the means of their salaries, but subtly used inherited wealth to assist with big expenses like my education and buying our home. I was…
Personal (and Collective) Liberation Through Giving
What guidance would you give to a room full of fundraisers about how to ask you for money? That was the question I tried to answer on a “#RealTalk with Major Donors” panel at the recent Allied Media Conference in Detroit. AMC is a conference led by people of color and queer and trans folks,…
Healthcare Not Wealthcare — A note from RG member Sam Waxman
When elected officials put wealth-hoarding of the rich over the most basic human needs of the many, young people with wealth have a critical role in pushing back.