Hi, John -- As we’re winding down the year, my body and spirit is feeling the call for deep rest and reflection. Looking back on the year I feel grateful and inspired.

We are moving money, taking action, and building cross-class partnerships while organizing more young people with wealth than ever before in alignment with poor and working-class led movements for social justice. We are balancing our external work with internal sustainability practices, from supporting sabbaticals and staff transitions to working with members to lead the next phase of developing a new member-leadership structure. And we expanded our work and our impact this year in exciting ways!

Here are some of Resource Generation’s 2019 highlights, among so many more!: 

• We partnered with SONG and the National Bailout Collective (members of the Movement for Black Lives, one of our national campaign partners) to host a webinar and launch a fundraising campaign to support the Black Mama Day’s Bailout. We raised over $60,000 for the campaign in a few weeks! 
   
• We continued to ramp up our work with our national campaign partners by fundraising for and sending a delegation of RG members to the Center for Popular Democracy's (CPD) People’s Convention in the summer. Check out this blog post from RG members who attended the powerful gathering of over 1,800 poor and working-class social change leaders. 
   
• We organized another sold-out Making Money Make Change conference in November with almost 90 young people with wealth in attendance and featured workshops on reparations, land-based wealth redistribution, climate justice, electoral organizing, regenerative investing, healing and transformation, and more. Affiliates of M4BL and CPD participated in a state of social justice organizing plenary and lifted up the connections between immigrant justice, anti-imperialist struggle in Puerto Rico, and racial justice and emphasized the power of grassroots community organizing.  
   
• It was a banner year for sharing our stories in the media, with a NY Times op-ed, a feature in Town and Country magazine, a Vox article featuring staff organizer Adam Roberts, and a member leader profiled in a NY Times Magazine advice column on “how to give away your trust fund”. We’re proud to be part of shifting the narrative around wealth accumulation and showing concrete examples of young wealthy people practicing wealth redistribution and cross-class solidarity. 
   
• We reached our giving pledge goal! 401 RGers signed onto RG’s giving pledge, meeting our annual goal of 400 signatures!!! Through the Giving Pledge and our Giving Guidelines, RG asks people in the top 10% to develop plans to redistribute all or almost all inherited wealth and/or excess income to social justice movements in alignment with our social justice giving principles. 

Thank you for all of the time, energy, support, and resources you’ve contributed to make all of this possible. As we move into the challenges facing us next year, I trust our collective power, commitment, and moral clarity on the imperative of organizing young people with wealth to work alongside movements to end racial capitalism in our lifetimes.

And THANK YOU to this cornucopia of organizations that supported RG's work this year! Learn more about their ongoing work here.

Wishing you rest, connection, and rejuvenation during this season and looking forward to being in it together in 2020. 

Onward, 

Iimay Ho
RG Executive Director 

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P.S. -- *RG WEBINAR ALERT* Mark your calendars for our webinar on the results from RG's Resource Survey. More info and registration details here.