This is part of our continuing efforts to promoting a culture of valuing employees and our well-being. Please anticipate delayed or minimal response to your inquiry.

During July, this means: 

• The Operations team will be taking the week of July 5th off and in general we are encouraging staff to take time off in July. 
• Chapter organizers will not be sending out weekly emails to chapter listservs and will be attending fewer chapter meetings. 
• We will not be hosting RG 101 in July. 
• We will not be posting on social media. 
• In general we will be slower to respond to external inquiries, and we ask for your patience during this time. 

More information and resources in our blog post about our organizational pause. Thanks for the support!

IIMAY'S LAST BLOG POST AS EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

It’s hard to believe that this is my last blog post as the Executive Director of Resource Generation. I have truly been transformed by my RG journey, from joining the DC chapter in 2013 to moving into my Associate Director role in 2014 to becoming the Executive Director in 2017. I have built lifelong friendships, significantly increased my giving, had difficult (and rewarding!) conversations with my family about money, learned what it means to be in accountable cross-class relationships, and have been consistently called in and invited to act in integrity from my deepest values. 

Thank you to every one of you – from alumni, former and current staff and board, Advocate members, constituent members, and supporters and organizational partners – who have made RG the powerful, challenging, loving, vibrant, community and political home that it is today for me and so many others.   

Since I know not everyone is interested in reading my 45+ page exit memo, I thought I would share some overall reflections as I wrap up my time on staff:  

1. Fund other organizations the way you fund RG. 

Read Iimay Ho's entire last blog post and additional reflections here <3<3<3.

ARE YOU RG'S NEXT DIRECTOR OF ORGANIZING?
APPLY BY SUNDAY *JULY 18TH* (NEW DEADLINE)

If you can see yourself or someone else in this role, please check out the full job description and pass it along!

• The primary role of the Director of Organizing is to be the lead of the 13-person Organizing Team, ensuring that all aspects of our organizing - basebuilding and leadership development, campaigns, resource mobilization, online organizing, national programming - are integrated and building power in service of our mission and goals. The Director of Organizing directly supervises 5 members of the Organizing Team. The Director of Organizing is responsible for setting the strategy, goals, and budget for the organizing team and ensuring that the team has the resources and support they need to reach those goals.
   
• The Director of Organizing is a key organizational thought leader on how RG’s organizing fits into the bigger movement landscape of multi-class, multi-racial organizing for racial and economic justice. The Director of Organizing’s success will be measured by the strength of our overall organizing: growth in our base, actions taken with partners, money moved, and campaign victories that are aligned with our 40-year campaign vision.
   
• The Director of Organizing understands that building power requires a team in which individuals hold both a high degree of ownership of their work and a high level of collaboration with each other, and that the communication to support this collaboration must be multidirectional and built on trust. They can hold a process that includes multiple viewpoints while moving toward a decision. The Director of Organizing can hold their own work with minimal oversight by leaning into self-reflection, regular assessment, and adjustment to their work. In leading a team, they build off of their own and others’ strengths and are direct and open in their communication. They bring empathy and compassion to their work with others.
   
• The Director of Organizing is a senior leadership role. They will report directly to the Executive Director and this position is a key member of the Executive Team of Resource Generation, which sets organizational goals and budget, implements internal policies and evaluates external impact, and aligns the overall organization with our mission. Like all of RG’s organizational leaders, the Director of Organizing is expected to apply an intersectional racial justice lens to their work.

Application instructions and more info here.

MAKE A REDISTRIBUTION PLAN

We ask all RGers to make a plan to redistribute at least 7% of their assets and/or 10% of excess income. Here’s some examples of what that could look like for different situations!

Find the graphic and text on our membership FAQs page here.

Check out the Redistribution Guidelines to help you think through how much to give, make a concrete commitment and sign the Redistribution Pledge, and join or renew as a dues-paying member of RG!
 

UPCOMING RG WEBINARS & ONLINE EVENTS!
 

Friday and Saturday, October 15 - 16
Save the Date & Cast Your Vote: MMMC 2021!
This year, Making Money Make Change will happen October 15th and 16th. Mark your calendars now, registration will open in August. In the meantime, you can vote on what this year's workshop topics will be, take a moment to fill out this short form to help shape MMMC! 

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RG Jewish Organizing

Jewish members gathered over the last few weeks to complete a two-part series on Visions of Jewish Safety beyond wealth accumulation, nationalism/Israeli state, and policing/state violence. Whether or not you made it to the series, we’d love for you to fill out this short survey to share feedback and interest in future RG Jews organizing. If you are interested in being added to the RG Jews email list, please contact Nadav at [email protected]. 

Wednedsay, July 14th
Birth Justice Series

Join us for the final call in the Uplifting Birth Justice Series. The call will be on July 14th and focus on funding maternal and newborn health, justice and equity.

• We are working in partnership with the Women Donors Network and over 15 other organizations at the center of the birth justice movement to bring you this free series. Our last workshop is "From Silos to Synergy: Funding Maternal and Newborn Health, Justice, and Equity" on July 14th.  
  • Come away with an understanding of what the birth justice movement is, how it works in partnership with reproductive justice movement to impact all the needs and rights around reproductive health, and what it means for investment in birth to be anti-racist and feminist. More info and registration here.

TAKE ACTION FOR SYSTEMIC CHANGE!

Check out our new campaigns section on our website and

• learn more about the Breathe Act and also
• take a moment to email and/or text your representatives to support a raise in the minimum wage and tax on wealth!

FROM PARTNERS

• The Funders Collaborative on Youth Organizing (FYCO) is hiring a Donor Engagement Manager
   
• Our friends at Solidaire are hosting a series with Action Center for Race & The Economy (ACRE) to develop a deeper understanding of how corporate campaigns and capital strategies can effectively confront racial capitalism and how donors can support movement calls for corporate accountability and action. The first session was on June 24th and was about organizing skill-building session on various ways donors can show up to flank movements. The second session on July 8th will focus on ways Solidaire members can get involved in current campaigns to dismantle Wall Street power alongside ACRE.   
   
• Stop Line 3
  • For years community members have been fighting against the construction of the tar sand line 3 pipeline. This fight, led by Indigenous organizers, is at a critical moment. Please take a moment to act in solidarity by donating, signing the petition and showing up in any other ways you are able including attending and/or sponsoring someone else to attend the Treaty People Gathering that is happening in Northern Minnesota June 5th-8th, priority days Sunday June 6th and Monday June 7th. 

ALSO...

• Our 2020 Annual Report is up on our website! Read more about all we accomplished together in 2020, including highlights from each area of our work.
   

We encourage you to consider joining RG as a dues paying member, and if you would like to get involved in your local chapter, please fill out this intake form!