Sharing our Stories
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Co-Director Transitions
As the co-chairs of the Resource Generation board, we are pleased to announce a few internal shifts within the RG staff. We thought it would…
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Why I'm a Progressive Funder -or- Why I'm a Radical Activist Who Happens to Have Some Money
I was recently asked to speak to a captive audience on the subject of why I’m a “progressive funder.” I was more than happy to…
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Getting to know Giving Circles in RG
Have you ever wondered about giving circles? What are they? How do they work? How do you start one? Are you in a giving circle…
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Take the RG survey!
Hey RG community, Please take the RG survey! It is crucial in helping us in our organizing and will help us to get a read…
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Introducing Nitika, RG's newest organizer!
Hi RG community, I am thrilled to join the staff of Resource Generation, at this particular moment, to organize young people of color with wealth.…
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Revive: Diary of a Giving Circle, Part 2
There were six of us. Katherine Orr, Julia Read, Michelle Rider, Ellie Weiner, Nickerson Hill and myself. We’d formed a group with the expressed purpose…
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An Open (Love) Letter to Guys in RG
Dear RG (Resource Generation) guys, This is gonna be awkward. No two ways about it. Im gonna be writing about feelings, money, our relationships, and…
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Why do I choose to stand with the 99%?
When I saw the tumblr site “We are the 1%. We stand with the 99%,” I thought about $140,050 sitting in a bank account in…
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Lies on Safety
It is spring of 2008, and I am giving a workshop on prison industrial complex abolition at Wesleyan University in Connecticut. We start by asking…
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Love, Challenge, and Insights: Organizing Wealthy Folks
I love the crap out of rich people. RG has helped show me that. Meeting dozens and dozens of wealthy people, each and every one…
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AAPIP Promotes "Democratic Philanthropy" through Queer Justice Fund's Missed Opportunities Report and New Giving Circles
Another version of this post originally appeared on the AAPIP blog. It is probably no surprise that there is a long-standing need for funding for…
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Traitors to their Class
By Peter Dreier and Chuck Collins This piece was originally posted on boston.com on December 20th After five weeks, Harvard students just evacuated the tents…