Over the past 6 years, Resource Generation has built partnerships with The Movement for Black Lives and the Center for Popular Democracy—through uprisings and compounded crises we’ve worked to keep our relationship steady. This year, RGers have pledged to move 2.9M (253k in C4 Money) to Movement for Black Lives and just over 1M to CPD (122k in C4 money)—these commitments represent a meaningful commitment to these organizations and now is the time to follow through!

Today, I want to share with you why we ask you to pledge 10% of your overall giving to our partners, and ask you to sign the Redistribution Pledge if you haven’t yet, make a commitment to our partners and renew your dues to RG!

We also believe we must be in relationship with, and follow the leadership of, organizations led by communities most directly impacted by the systems we are trying to change. Since 2015, we’ve partnered with the Movement for Black Lives and the Center for Popular Democracy because…

In order to achieve our mission, we believe we must be organizing and building power to win systemic changes that make wealth hoarding impossible. M4BL is demanding massive investment in community safety outside of policing. CPD is pushing for health care and education as human rights. Where does that money come from? It comes from our demand to tax ourselves, to tax billionaires out of existence and redistribute that wealth to communities. Our campaign partners are holding the movement and policy visions for *how* redistribution happens.
Resourcing our campaign partners is redistributing POWER, not just money. By giving to organizations that RG decided to partner with through an accountable, transparent, and inclusive process, you are committing to collectivizing your giving and shifting power as part of your redistribution work. Both M4BL and CPD resource their affiliates all over the country and are well positioned to resource local fights with national strategy in mind.

Showing up with money is an important way we build trust and relationships with poor and working class led organizations, and one of the niches RG has to offer. Redistributing money is not the only way we do this (we can also be giving our time, skills, leveraging our networks, etc), but it is a crucial one!

SO! Our ask for you today? Take part in collective action and redistribution of power by signing the Redistribution Pledge (and signing the Electoral Giving Pledge if you’re giving C4!), sending 10% of your overall giving to our powerful national campaign partners, and renewing your dues with RG!

Learn more about M4BL’s work on their website at https://m4bl.org/

Learn more about CPD’s work on their website at https://www.populardemocracy.org/