The World To Come
Will we hide our inheritances and trust funds away in overseas bank accounts and repressed fears? Or will we heed the call of the marginalized everywhere to live into our responsibility…
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About RG NYC
RG NYC organizes events, workshops, discussions, and more, but these should only be seen as the tip of the iceberg. We’re not primarily a service-provider. We’re primarily a community. Our goal is to provide a roadmap, resources, and moral support to help each other live up to our ideals and not succumb to the feelings of entitlement, apathy, isolation, and frustration that are encouraged by conventional thinking about wealth and privilege. We want our members to feel confident and informed and to live their lives with intention, honesty, and accountability.
If you’re just getting to know us…
Sign up on RG’s website if you haven’t already; we’ll add you to the RG NYC listserv and get you connected to a current member for an introductory conversation.
Attend events, meetings, and actions (publicized on the RG NYC listserv and tracked on our Google calendar).
Apply to join a Praxis group (we run these once a year, starting in the fall). You can register your interest by filling out our RG NYC Future Involvement Survey.
Tell us about your onboarding experience! We’re always trying to improve or process and we appreciate all feedback!
Attend one of RG’s national retreats.
If you’re ready to do more…
Join a circle and help organize events, meetings, and actions. To learn more, fill out our RG NYC Future Involvement Survey and we’ll follow up.
More info about RG NYC
Read the RG NYC one pager for more info!
Chapter Structure
RG NYC is member-led and member-organized (with the guidance and support of a paid staff organizer from the national organization). In 2019 we transitioned to a “sociocratic” chapter structure where decision-making power is held by “circles” (formerly known as “working groups”), each of which is responsible for a specific area of the chapter’s work.
While the chapter’s events are generally open to all members, the work of organizing these events is carried out by our circles. Our three main circles are Moving Money, Action, and Base Building, which correspond to our three core competencies of collective action, moving money, and community organizing outlined above (the fourth competency, racial and economic justice, is part of all the work we do). If you want to learn more about joining a circle, fill out our RG NYC Future Involvement Survey.
Chapter Updates
Questioning the Self-Made Myth
My dad came from nothing, or so the story goes. He grew up on his family’s farm in the dry plains of western Nebraska, feeding the chickens each morning before walking…
Moving Money in a Crisis
After the tragedy in Orlando, the New York City RG chapter hosted a conversation about moving money in response to crises. Here are some choice quotes from our discussion: How…
Meet the 1 percenters finding solace in wealth redistribution
By Kate Aronoff In a political and economic system seemingly tailor-made for the 1 percent, backlash against “wealth therapy” — the trend of moneyed Americans seeking counsel through their Occupy-induced…
Take More Risks: How can RG show up more fully for Black liberation?
by Katherine Wolf and Holly Fetter, Members of the New York City RG Chapter’s Giving and Campaign Committees Thank you to Maurice Mitchell for attending our chapter event on Tuesday, December…
New York Tax Team Taking Action on the Millionaire’s Tax
We are all at Resource Generation’s Making Money Make Change conference! Wish you were here. For those of you who had to miss it, here’s a throw back Thursday post…
Our thanks and our thoughts in light of recent events
We at Resource Generation stand proudly in solidarity with all the actions happening this week in the name of climate justice, and extend our gratitude and support to the incredible amount…
A Personal Reflection on The Case for Reparations
“Reducing American poverty and ending white supremacy are not the same.” Ta-Nehisi Coates’s recent article in The Atlantic not only draws attention to the national debate on reparations for slavery,…
Beyond Lip Service: Donating as Political Action
By Alok Vaid-Menon of @DarkMatterRage This past month I had the privilege to help fundraise for some movement organizations that I love (including Audre Lorde Project, Queer Detainee Empowerment Project,…
"Coming Out" as Rich Kids: Elspeth Gilmore
Re-blogged, due to our partnership with Bolder Giving:Elspeth Gilmore, current executive director of RG, writes in Bolder Giving about coming to terms with class privilege and inheritance. At age 33, I’m at…