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May 2, 2024 at 10:20 PM

Organizing Drive Launch

We're growing for housing justice! Our hearts are in Rafah, and with brave students and supporters who are holding down encampments on college campuses. We faced a decision as to whether to delay our All Member Call tonight in favor of encouraging everyone to join encampments, and we came back to t…
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April 24, 2024 at 10:00 PM

One week left to before Organizing Drive Launch All Member Call 

Dear Resource Generation Community,  What does home mean to you? A place of respite, joy, grief, restoration, community. It’s the one place where you should feel safe and secure. For many, the right to a home has been robbed by the commodification of land and housing as an asset to be bought and so…
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April 3, 2024 at 4:08 PM

Don't Abandon the South: April 4th 6 ET

Since the overturning of Roe v. Wade, national abortion funds have led the fight in ensuring that Americans can access the reproductive care that they need. Despite a boom in philanthropic giving to abortion funds in the year after the Dobbs decision, funds across the country are struggling to mee…
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April 1, 2024 at 11:05 PM

Announcing RG's National Campaign Launch!

It’s with great pride that we, staff and National Campaign Team of Resource Generation announce that we’re launching a national campaign on housing to flank Center for Popular Democracy (CPD)’s House Everyone Campaign this Spring. We’ve been invited by CPD to take part in a once in a generation ef…
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February 29, 2024 at 8:25 PM

Save the Date for MMMC 2024!

Farewell to 3 longtime staff members, Will the Revolution be Funded?, LA Chapter planning the whole year, Give Big, Give Earlier! We are moving full-steam ahead into 2024. With the state of the world, there is so much organizing to do. Yet, in the midst of it all, RG continues to shift and change. E…
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February 16, 2024 at 9:02 PM

“TAX US MORE BUT NOT FOR WAR”- ARRESTED AT THE US HOUSE

Image: Fox News Yesterday, Leah and I participated in civil disobedience at the US Capitol to demand a permanent ceasefire and to say “no” to more tax dollars for war and border militarization. We joined youth from organizations like United We Dream, Rising Majority, IfNotNow and more to share a uni…
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February 8, 2024 at 2:51 PM

National College Praxis is back! Register by February 14!

We’re super excited to announce that National College Praxis is back! Run by Harry, Leila, and Trelstad (RG’s Student Organizing Fellows), praxis will meet for five sessions weekly, from late February through March. Register by February 14th at http://bit.ly/RGcollegepraxis.  College Organizing is …
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February 7, 2024 at 2:45 PM

Want to be on RG’s alumni listserv?

Hi there,  Are you a dues-paying alumni member of Resource Generation? Do you want to be on the alumni listserv? I am embarking on a process to recruit dues-paying alumni members to this Google Group who are not currently on it, but may want to be. If you ARE a dues-paying alumni member of RG and wa…
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February 5, 2024 at 9:03 PM

High-Net Wealth Hang & Embodied Divestment

“People with access to wealth have much more to offer than just moving money” Yahya is as big of a nerd about organizing the rich as I am. That’s saying something, and it’s one of the things I dearly love about them. I met Yahya the year I was stepping out of my role as associate director at Resour…
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January 30, 2024 at 8:19 PM

Embodied Divestment - Why and How?

Are you curious about divestment as a tactic to resist war? Are you sick of the dissonance of sensing your money is funding genocide? Do you want to move your money into deeper alignment with movements for liberation? Do you want support finding your next steps? RG is partnering with art.coop, Rad …
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January 18, 2024 at 11:30 PM

New Year, Same Badass Membership Staff

Happy new year all,  It’s Valeriya and Julia, RG’s membership-focused staff, here with an update on our 2023 budget-raising efforts, a reminder of what we do at RG and what you can expect from us, and an invite to upcoming RG goings ons:  How did it go raising the 2023 RG budget? RG continues to be …
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January 16, 2024 at 6:10 PM

Learn and Take Action for Gaza

You are invited to two upcoming opportunities to learn and take action to stop the Genocide in Gaza– please join us. Join the Funding Freedom Series: RG is cosponsoring a three part political education series starting January 16th focused on conditions Palestinians lived under before October 7th. It…
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December 24, 2023 at 3:34 PM

Everyone deserves a joyous and plentiful End of Year

We need you. Celebratory EOYs should be for everyone—not just the rich and privileged. As we round out the end of 2023, the words of my colleague Ekundayo are ringing in my ears: “My Sundanese, Congolese, and Palestinian brothers, sisters, and siblings do not have an “end of year.” My cousin who st…
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December 21, 2023 at 8:51 PM

Our Programming and Poli Ed team this year: 🔥🔥🔥

They may be our newest team, but they packed one hell of a punch! 2023 was a huge year for the Resource Generation community. Before the end of the year, we’re highlighting perspectives from the four subsets of our organizing team. Today’s highlight is from our Programming & Political Education…
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December 19, 2023 at 9:34 PM

Our ED, Yahya Alazrak, was arrested today

👇 Resources to Take Action on Gaza 👇Dear beloved RG Community,   Our hearts continue to break over the violence and deaths in Gaza. The past 73 days have shown us that there is no military solution in Gaza, and that the global majority, including 75% of countries that make up the UN, are calling for…
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December 18, 2023 at 6:38 PM

Our campaigns team in 2023: 📈📈📈

2023 was a huge year for the Resource Generation community. Before the end of the year, we’re highlighting perspectives from the four subsets of our staff organizing team. Today’s highlight is from our campaigns staff, Emery and Nora! Consider this email series a 2023 annual report teaser trailer ;…
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December 15, 2023 at 2:21 PM

All aboard the RG Win Train!!

This time from our beloved Resource Mobilization team! 2023 was a huge year for the Resource Generation community. Before the end of the year, we’re highlighting perspectives from the four subsets of our staff organizing team. Today’s highlight is from our Resource Mobilization team (RM)! RM = Juli…
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December 14, 2023 at 7:15 PM

RG's biggest wins in base-building and leadership development this year!

An interview with our very own Nicole F., Mid-Atlantic Regional Organizer!! 2023 was a huge year for the Resource Generation community. Before the end of the year, we’re highlighting perspectives from the four subsets of our staff organizing team. Today’s highlight is from our base building & l…
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December 11, 2023 at 1:21 PM

Farewell from Ekundayo, Multiracial Base-Building Manager

Let's raise this budget before the end of the year!! Peace y'all!  With the year coming to an end, I find myself, like every year, fighting the contradictions that capitalism and the nonprofit industrial complex have created: hibernation versus completing a ton of tasks before winter break. I also f…
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December 7, 2023 at 8:45 PM

Were Hiring! Apply for 2 Regional Organizers!! Come work with us!

RG'S 2023 WRAPPEDDDDD! Let's freaking close this budget!! Hey, move your money!! 2023 has been a momentous year for Resource Generation. Making Money Make Change returned to in-person after a four-year hiatus, we raised over $660K during RG’s Fall Drive, we re-launched our first Family Philanthropy…
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December 5, 2023 at 3:47 PM

Post-MMMC 2023 Wrap!

Hey, you're looking cute and ready to redistribute! Hi John,   It was probably the moment the lyrics “it’s a party in the movement space” hit me (sung to the tune, of course, of the Nashville-to-LA bop “Party in the USA”) that I realized that we were in for a fun night, but that was just the opener,…
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November 29, 2023 at 8:20 PM

RSVP: Dec 7 Money Survey Report Back & Jan 24 Transformative Fundraising Training!

Hi all,  Valeriya from Resource Generation here. You're invited to two upcoming RG events below—I'll be leading both and can address any questions! Money Survey Report BackThursday, December 7 from 7-8:30pm ET, 4-5:30pm PT RSVP for the Report Back! Couldn't make it to MMMC but want to learn more ab…
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November 27, 2023 at 10:09 PM

MMMC 2023: $2M+ to movements, $100k to Grassroots International’s Palestine Solidarity fund

Belonging and possibility.  Going into our first in-person Making Money Make Change conference in four years, these two feelings were the most important thing our team had to communicate to the members and prospective members attending the conference. And we did it. Even I left with a deeper sense o…
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November 3, 2023 at 6:55 PM

Were Hiring! Apply to be RG's new Organizing Director!!

Apply for our Family Philanthropy Praxis 2023! Come to our Evening with the RG Board! WE'RE HIRING AN ORGANIZING DIRECTOR! The primary role of the Director of Organizing is to be the lead of the Organizing Team, ensuring that all aspects of our organizing - base building and leadership developme…
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October 19, 2023 at 2:48 PM

RG’s raising another $2,000,000 in two months

Dear Resource Generation Community,   My name is Sahana Mehta and I am the High Net Wealth Program Manager at RG. I’ve been on staff for just over a year, and have been an RG member since 2020. I came to RG as a young organizer with a deep sense of responsibility to dedicate my time, energy, and res…
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October 18, 2023 at 8:47 PM

Call to Action: Solidarity with Gaza

Dear Beloved Resource Generation Community,  We write to you as we collectively endure the feelings of pain, grief, anger, exhaustion, fear, and more. We mourn all Palestinians and Israelis who have been horrifically killed over the last two weeks and the many years of this violence. We have an urge…
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October 12, 2023 at 9:13 PM

I'm moving $ to RG this year & you should too!

Hello everyone, I'm moving money to RG this year, and you should too!  My access to wealth comes from my dad's side, accumulated by a family real estate business in New York City. It was just ten years ago that my dad actually inherited a substantial sum of money (approaching $100 million, but it's …
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October 2, 2023 at 8:58 PM

48 hours to register for Making Money Make Change!

Hi John!  Just 48 hours remain to sign up for our first in-person Making Money Make Change since 2019!   Prior to the pandemic, MMMC was a turning point for many of us as we recognized our class privilege, access to wealth, and the necessary steps toward redistributing land, wealth, and power. It’s …
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September 28, 2023 at 3:00 PM

Last Chance to Register for MMMC!

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 equ…
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September 27, 2023 at 5:09 PM

RG Fall’s Drive is HERE!

RG’s Fall Drive is here! That’s right, that’s right… It’s the time of year we ask you to invest in RG by renewing or becoming a member. For those of you who don’t know, I work alongside Valeriya, RG’s Membership Manager, and other RG staff and member leaders to make sure that RG is fully and powerf…
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September 22, 2023 at 5:28 PM

Collecting Our Folks: Fall Drive is Coming!

When I first walked into Making Money Make Change 14 years ago, I’d never been in a space quite like it (registration for Making Money Make Change, Nov 9-12, 2023 is live, here). At the same time, it felt eerily familiar – almost a sense of déjà vu. I was already several years into my own redistrib…
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August 10, 2023 at 2:34 PM

Resourcing RG’s Work

Being more than halfway through the fiscal year, we want to reground in our financial need as an organization. We are asking RGers to become dues-paying members and resource our work at as close to 10% of their overall giving as they can this year.   Want more info about our expenses and the amazin…
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July 27, 2023 at 3:29 PM

3 Things We Will and Won’t Miss about our teammate Nadav

New England Regional Organizer Nadav David is leaving RG after over 3 years on staff. We’re so sad to see him go, and we’re so excited to continue hearing from him in his new role building and supporting the solidarity economy! We wanted to share some shady appreciations for our comrade as he makes…
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July 17, 2023 at 9:30 PM

Registration Now Open: Making Money Make Change Nov. 9-12, 2023

Wondering about the role of young wealthy people in social and environmental movement spaces? Ready to leverage your privilege for social change? Let’s do this work together! Register Now Making Money Make Change (MMMC), Resource Generation’s signature annual gathering, is back in person for 2023…
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June 22, 2023 at 10:59 PM

A very cringe email celebrating Jes Kelley, former Program Director!

Also, Ohio, Portland, LA, and Fund Abortion Now! putting in work. Sign up for the RG Internationalism Series and Organizing Summit now! In true Jes Kelley fashion, she came, collaborated, transformed, and quietly walked into the sunset after leading RG’s amazing political education and transformati…
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June 7, 2023 at 3:15 PM

See you IN PERSON this summer!

Also a save the date for our ~in-person~ MMMC! As a community, RG has cautiously and gratefully decided to gather in person this year to welcome the new leadership that has flooded into our membership community over the past 3 years. Some of the core skills—relationship-based agitation, transformat…
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June 5, 2023 at 8:25 PM

Celebrating the Spring Drive (+ it’s not too late to renew dues!)

The spring membership & redistribution pledge drive has wrapped! As a member of the RG staff for over three years and a dues-paying member for over five years, I love sharing RG's work with my community. Whether on the basketball court, at a wedding, or a community event, I am always excited to…
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June 1, 2023 at 10:25 PM

Our INCREDIBLE College Fellows, RG's *new* TikTok, 2022 Annual Report

Not to mention our Internationalism Summer School, Organizing Summit, Transforming Philanthropy, It is with the utmost pride that I present Resource Generations's 2022 Annual Report, which is a testament to the incredible grappling, resilience, and triumph of everyone involved in this complex organ…
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May 31, 2023 at 6:15 PM

1 Day Left in the Spring Drive!

Today is the last day of RG’s Spring Membership & Redistribution Pledge Drive. It has truly been a glorious month and a half, and I want to thank all of you who have thrown down with us. Our Spring Drive goals were: Raise more than $1 Million in membership dues from 1033 members; ensure that at…
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May 28, 2023 at 3:11 PM

What We Do Today - 2 days left in the spring drive!

For the first 25 years of my life, I was organized around my vote, my whiteness, and my dissension with “traditional” gender norms—but not my class. Even with $30k sitting in Wall Street from a drop-out’s college fund, no one in movement space had ever asked me, “Hey kid, got class privilege? Want …
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May 22, 2023 at 7:15 PM

My giving increased 800% because of RG

My RG story is, in many ways, a pretty recognizable one. When I attended my first Making Money Make Change in 2019, I was giving away about $5,000 a year. Now, nearly four years later, I have pledged to redistribute $45,000 in 2023, or a quarter of my inheritance. I needed my phone to do the math—b…
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May 19, 2023 at 2:31 PM

RG’s Money Story

In 1998, RG was started by a group of young people who created affinity circles to collectively dig deeper into their wealth, where it came from, and how to be better stewards of it. RG received donations to keep the then-small organization funded. But in 2011, low involvement and a lack of funding…
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May 16, 2023 at 3:44 PM

Transforming Philanthropy launches in 6 days - Register Now!

Our Philanthropy Coachella line-up is out of control!! Incredible. Visionary. Speakers & Partners. Don't miss out! 💤Hello RG! 💓 We are thrilled to announce that the registration for RG's 2023 Transforming Philanthropy Virtual Series is LIVE, and the series begins in just 6 days! 🌟 👀  Resource Ge…
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May 14, 2023 at 2:34 PM

John, join our first all-member call!

Hello John!   In one week, the NMC and RG Staff are bringing together ALL RG members from every corner of country into one Zoom call—and you’re invited. 🥳 (Pssst if you haven't renewed your dues or joined RG yet, now is a good time to do so!)  This year, it was important to us to create a space for …
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May 9, 2023 at 4:01 PM

John, camp(aign) with us this summer! ⛺️

Here are three campaigns actions you can take right now for a just and liberated world Hello John,  I’ve started off this year thinking about our movements and asking myself these questions - what does it mean to build collective power as a group of young people with access to structural power alrea…
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May 1, 2023 at 10:15 PM

Unpacking the Annual Redistribution Pledge

At RG, we know that individual giving is most effective if we can harness it to build towards collective power and transformation. Redistribution alone is not the answer.    It doesn’t build power for RG members to donate their money quietly and discreetly; doing so  plays into destructive class pa…
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April 27, 2023 at 4:01 PM

...Ready for it?

Transforming Philanthropy 2023, RG Organizing Summit, Internationalism Summer School, Midwest Mingle, All-Member Calls, Member Leader Onboarding Training, and #BlogReboot People Power & Transformation RG’s spring membership and redistribution pledge drive (April 17-May 31) is here! This year, w…
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April 17, 2023 at 9:01 PM

Spring Drive 2023 is here!

For the better part of three years, so many of us only had the bandwidth for what was right in front of us. “What do I need to do today?” was our guiding question. Questions like, “What do I want for next year?” felt vulnerable and a set up for disappointment. Why plan for a future when we didn’t k…
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April 13, 2023 at 4:11 PM

🌻 The spring drive launches next week!! 🌱

Dear John,  RG’s spring membership and redistribution pledge drive (April 17-May 31) is coming soon! This is the first large national coordinated swath of programming and organizing that RG is up to in 2023, amidst so much more on its way. This year, RG is launching a national campaign, hosting an i…
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March 30, 2023 at 9:30 PM

Sneak peak on campaigns, fund abortion now update, and spring drive is coming!

The Spring Membership & Redistribution Pledge Drive (April 15-May 31) is coming! In this 6 week period, staff and members work hard to collectively rededicate to RG as a multiracial membership organization and a political home. This is a time to also celebrate the work we all do to not only sus…