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LAST CHANCE TO REGISTER FOR MMMC!
Missed our Sept 25 deadline? No worries! Registration is extended until Wed, Oct 4 .
Join us in Nashville from Nov 9-12 where young people (ages 18-35) with access to wealth and class privilege will turn our vision of a future in which land, wealth, and power are equitably distributed into reality.
Check out the 2023 Schedule and Workshops here [[link removed]] , and secure your spot by Oct 4!
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COVID-19 Policy: Participants are required to mask indoors unless eating or drinking, take a PCR test before travel, and take a rapid test daily, sharing results with RG staff before entering common areas. A limited number of masks and tests will be on-site, but if you are able, please bring your own. Guest rooms are single occupancy, and each room shares a restroom with the adjoining guest room.
THE FALL DRIVE IS HERE!
Come to a phone bank [[link removed]] : Sign up here [[link removed]] to join one of three, one-hour-long cross-chapter phone/text banks
Wed Oct 4, 6-7pm ET/3-4pm PT
Wed Oct 18, 5-6pm ET/2-3pm PT
Tues Oct 24, 5-6pm ET/2-3pm PT
Send an email ask to your chapter or working group listserv: [[link removed]]
Sign up here [[link removed]] on a rolling basis to write a membership/redistribution ask (aka an 'appeal') to your chapter or working group listserv.
Plan to make a membership & ask at any meetings and local events during the Fall drive (Sept 27-Nov 9).
Did you know? The reported wealth of 2023 redistribution pledge signers is over $186 million.
Because less than 30% of our dues-paying members have signed the RP this year, we know that total is under-reported and in fact much higher.
2023 RP signers have pledged to resource movements this year with about $106 million dollars building the world to come.
Though we're currently behind on our fundraising goals, the money is absolutely there in our base to raise RG's organization 2023 budget, and then some. If every single 2023 pledge signer paid RG dues at 10% of their overall giving, we could more than double the operating budget by January. And this wouldn’t require even half our members (since only about 30% of members sign the pledge year to year)!
Also - of the people who have signed the pledge, 57% of those overall reported assets are moving out the door this year and into social movements. Nearly perfect glass half empty, glass half full here. We are really pushing our people to move big money, AND we have work to do.
CHAPTER UPDATES
Cross-Chapter Member-led #StopCopCity
In June 2023, a group of RG members came together to join the ambitious and historic pivot of the #StopCopCity movement to stand up a referendum campaign as one tactic following the city council's approval to finance the construction of a controversial and wildly unpopular police training facility in south Atlanta aka “Cop City.” We set a goal of raising $250k as part of the larger campaign launch goal of $1.5M. We hosted a donor briefing with over 30 attendees, and made asks of family, coworkers, and each other. In total, we raised over $190k from over 100 people within the RG community. We’re closing out our active involvement in the rapid response campaign, but wanted to share these celebrations and take-aways that may be applicable to future member-led campaigns.
RG members organizing with the #StopCopCity movement:
A/sa Kramer-Dickie, Campbell Wilks, Claire Hannapel, Frankie Jones, Sarina Sawyer, Nora Leccese
Summer Retreat with Transforming Power Fund, Peace House, Revalue Investing and Fund MI Future. [[link removed]] RG-Michigan
The RG Michigan Chapter is moving $50,000 for the Transforming Power Fund [[link removed]] this year. In July, we held a retreat with TPF and other redistribution partners where we deepened our mutual understanding of each other's work. Our chapter built key capacity in understanding how a social justice fund like TPF is different from traditional philanthropy.
On October 1, we will follow up with a fall retreat focusing on money stories and "tough nuts to crack" in our redistribution. We are excited to welcome Aimée Laramore, Director of Learning Services at the Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy (Grand Rapids) to help us build a soft landing place for hard topics around wealth, class, and redistribution. Register here [[link removed]] !
19 smiling RGLA members at the community meeting, and miso the dog! [[link removed]] RG-Los Angeles
RGLA has been rockin’ and rolling! Over the summer, two of our members went to the national organizing summit, and this fall, two of our members will lead a chapter praxis. In September, we hosted a community gathering attended by 19 folks and 1 dog! People brought friends, roommates, other organizers, and we were inspired by the energy and momentum we feel moving forward as a chapter.
RG-New Orleans
New Orleans is beginning the process of rebuilding. We held our first strategy dinner meeting to discuss what outreach and growth look like in our region and our commitment to cross-racial, cross-class organizing efforts. We did a bit of power mapping and will be doing it again with a hopefully larger group at our next meeting next month!
RG-Portland
The Portland Chapter is kicking off the fall with a praxis group! We're rekindling connections with local partners with a few members hopping on a Social Justice Fund NW webinar: "Making a Will that Reflects Your Values." Plus our base-building team is flyer-ing around town and doing more 1-1s with new members. We're looking forward to the seasons changing and stewing on chapter structure questions and bringing more folks into leadership roles.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Declassified: The RG All Member Call
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Wednesday Oct 4, 2023
7-8:15 ET/ 4-5:15 PT
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Come one, come all to the Declassified- the RG All Member Call! This is the one stop shop to get the info you need as an RG Member, connect across chapters, and understand and participate in our national strategy to build the number of young wealthy people ready to take action for redistribution. In theQ3 call, we’ll scheme on our Fall Organizing Drive–a focused time to recruit new RG members and hear from the National Member Council, RG’s representative, member led decision making body.
FROM OUR PARTNERS:
Overcoming Conflicting Feelings About Wealth Redistribution
Do you want to redistribute wealth but feel too afraid to do it, or get stuck on figuring out how much to give? It’s normal to feel conflicted about decisions that impact our sense of safety and security.
Money coach and former RG Staff, Iris Brilliant is co-hosting a 4 part series with Wazi Merit. For more information: [link removed] [[link removed]]
RG in the Media
RICH WHITE MEN
Former RGer, Garrett Neiman, has written a new book called Rich White Men: How to Uproot the Old Boy's Club and Transform America . The book profiles Garrett's experience in the circles of billion- and millionaire- white men during his time at elite private institutions and in fundraising for the equity and racial justice non-profits he founded over the last 15 years. Rich White Men is part expose, part personal reckoning with his own identity as a rich white man, and part analysis of policy solutions to bring the US toward much greater equity.
Former RGer Abraham Lateiner, and current RGer Otis Pitney, are working on an impact campaign alongside the book to extend its reach in wealthy circles and matchmake interested wealthy readers with the right political homes and grassroots organizing efforts. Here is their website if you would like to learn more or reach out: Rich White Men [[link removed]] .
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