I first joined Resource Generation in 2013 because I wanted to be part of ending the harm of racial capitalism. I have been a member ever since. Being a member of Resource Generation over many years has deepened my accountability and commitment to wealth redistribution and helped me feel connected and grounded in this moment where stress…
Where We’ve Been From Iimay Ho, Resource Generation Executive Director Resource Generation was founded as a peer to peer donor organizing network back in 1998. From its very beginnings, co-founders Tracy Hewatt and Lynne Gerber were looking for peers to connect with – other young people with access to wealth and class privilege who wanted…
Introducing RG’s inaugural 2019-2020 RG Student Organizing Fellows! Student Organizing Fellows will be supporting RG student leaders on college campuses across the country to build strong relationships across class, bring more wealthy and class-privileged students into movements for racial and economic justice, and learn and develop skills along the way. I’m grateful to Harshita, Rose,…
As a community of young people with access to wealth and class privilege it is essential that we (staff and members) take the time to learn about the Black and Native lead organizing locally and nationally and to support in whatever ways we’re able.
We were proud to have sent a delegation of 8 RG members and 5 staff to Center for Popular Democracy’s People’s Convention last month! This was a big step in developing our national campaign partnership with CPD and in being a visible, organized group of young people with wealth in a space centering poor and…
As the first young person of color with wealth to become ED of RG, Iimay will be sharing reflections on living at the intersection of a strange Venn diagram and fighting racism and classism in the Trump era
Resource Generation stands in solidarity with the ongoing active resistance movements at the border, in Puerto Rico, and Hawai’i’s Mauna Kea. These struggles are power struggles that are inextricable from systemic wealth inequality, white supremacy, and colonization. In each of these resistances, people with wealth and power are trying to impose their agendas through force…
Moving at the ‘speed of trust’ across class differences.
At Resource Generation, we are saddened and enraged at the escalating attacks on reproductive rights and the policing of our bodies that the most recent wave of anti-abortion bans represents. We know that pre-Roe v. Wade people with wealth who needed a safe abortion were often able to pay top dollar to receive services here…
While we’re at it, let’s have a 100% estate tax and abolish inheritance.
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