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January 22, 2025 at 9:15 PM

Tangible action and connection for the fight ahead

Hey everyone,   The past weeks were filled with fires in LA, a tenuous ceasefire in Gaza and Trump’s inauguration which showcased the consolidation of Tech and Billionaire power alongside the MAGA elites. It’s a lot to hold, and you don’t have to do it alone.  This is a critical time to turn towar…

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January 7, 2025 at 10:15 PM

⚡️ We're hiring for a Program Director! ⚡️

We're hiring!! We're currently searching for our next Program Director! The salary range has been updated after our staff-wide salary increase. Please share widely with your network! Deadline to apply is January 20.   The key responsibilities of the Program Director include generating content to …

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December 19, 2024 at 5:08 PM

What does RG membership mean for the movement?

Friends,  As we collectively face the escalating polycrisis and the increasing concentration of power and wealth, RGers have a responsibility and opportunity to invest in movement infrastructure – the building blocks and underlying formations that make it possible to sustain organizing across the …

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December 17, 2024 at 6:49 PM

6 Dos and Don’ts of Attending MMMC

MMMC-it's a wrap!! We're hiring!! and more!! 6 Do's and Don’ts of Attending MMMC DO be a little nervous. I can’t recommend my own course of action (i.e., being so nervous on the way to Nashville that I couldn’t even watch the flight map on the plane, which is my favorite show), but it makes sense …

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November 12, 2024 at 7:30 PM

Now Is The Time

“They want you to feel powerless and to surrender and to let them trample everything and you are not going to let them. You are not giving up, and neither am I. The fact that we cannot save everything does not mean we cannot save anything and everything we can save is worth saving.  You may need …

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November 7, 2024 at 7:31 PM

The way through is together—RG Community Gathering 11/13

Come to our RG Action Post-Election Community Call on Nov 13th- 7-8:30 ET RG Community,   It's been a painful few days. Once you’ve hydrated and called loved ones and looked at the sky, come join us.   Our objective as Resource Generation is to stay steady and engaged to offer support to movements.…

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October 31, 2024 at 10:28 PM

Post-Election Gathering, Fall Drive Wrap, Alumni Praxis/Listserv!

It's a packed fall! 🍁 Friends,   From my “front porch” in Wisconsin, I’m seeing both tremendous efforts to put pressure on the Harris Campaign to make durable commitments to an arms embargo on Israel (noise demos at her hotel, disruptions at every campaign event) AND voter outreach from organizatio…

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October 9, 2024 at 10:30 PM

Drive Updates and RG International

RG's in Canada, Germany, the UK, Scandinavia, and France... TL;DR I just got back from Resource Movement’s annual conference (that’s RG Canada!!) and want to tell you about it It’s the last week of RG’s month-long Fall Drive. Be sure to renew your membership dues and sign the redistribution pledge…

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October 4, 2024 at 2:58 PM

Don't forget to register for MMMC!

Our annual conference, Making Money Make Change is almost here. Every year dozens of young people with wealth gather from around the country one of the most socially taboo subjects: money.  Read the sweet note from a former MMMC attendee, Anna, on why *you* and all young people with wealth should …

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October 1, 2024 at 10:38 PM

How to support Hurricane Helene disaster relief efforts and southern movement-building

Hey y’all—Tucker and Emery here, with our thoughts about Hurricane Helene. If you don’t have time to read this email, please refer to the list of rapid response mutual aid orgs listed at the bottom.  Our hearts are heavy bearing witness to the effects of Hurricane Helene this past week. Over 130 p…

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September 30, 2024 at 10:36 PM

Several RG Staff Arrested for Housing Justice

John,   Our hearts are with everyone impacted by Hurricane Helene. We will be sharing resources and ways to move money in the coming days to alleviate the current suffering and build the long-term movement to shift climate policy and invest in southern organizing. Climate disasters inevitably exac…

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September 23, 2024 at 9:30 PM

Reflections on One Year of Heartbreak, Solidarity, and Political Home

**This email was originally sent out without attribution to our Resource Mobilization Director, Leah V.** One year ago, as we reflected on October 7 and the unfolding of the most recent chapter in the genocidal war on Palestine, we told our Resource Generation community that “We are proud to be pa…

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September 23, 2024 at 7:02 PM

Reflections on One Year of Heartbreak, Solidarity, and Political Home

One year ago, as we reflected on October 7 and the unfolding of the most recent chapter in the genocidal war on Palestine, we told our Resource Generation community that “We are proud to be part of a community organizing towards justice with profound and unwavering determination.”   One year late…

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September 16, 2024 at 4:22 PM

The Fall Drive is Here, The Crises Continue, What Are You Gonna Do About It?

I obsessively think about community resilience. Have I built up enough flow of reciprocity and authentic mutual aid in my networks? When will I know what ‘enough’ really feels like in that realm? Is crisis the only test for this? If I experience a rupture of some kind, or if RG wasn’t able to exi…

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September 12, 2024 at 4:08 PM

See how we’ll transform philanthropy at MMMC 2024? Very demure, very mindful 💅

Hi John,  My name is Sahana and I am the High Net Wealth (HNW) Program Manager at RG.  This year, we will offer a Transforming Philanthropy Track at our annual Making Money Make Change Conference in Nashville, TN from November 21-24.   In 2022, just 0.7% of charitable dollars from wealthy people w…

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August 9, 2024 at 3:37 PM

Register for MMMC 2024 today!

Hey Community! Are you itching for space to be among like-minded young people committed to shaping a more just and equitable world? The 2024 Making Money Make Change conference is just the space for you.  REGISTER Making Money Make Change (MMMC), Resource Generation’s annual gathering, is back i…

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August 1, 2024 at 7:30 PM

Meet our new Organizing Director, 2023 Annual Report, HNW Survey...

And, of course, our incredible meme round-up High Net Wealth RG Member Survey (Summer 2024)   RGers are activating in big ways this year, and High Net Wealth members play a unique role in our organizing! We invite you, HNW members, to complete this survey to inform future offerings for HNW RG membe…

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June 26, 2024 at 8:17 PM

~Almost~ Final Numbers on our Organizing Drive 🎉

Can you think of 3 people who you can bring to our Campaign Launch tomorrow? For most of us, we know where we’ll be tonight. We’ll be on our couch, watching our shows, doing our chores, swiping on our apps, or yapping up a storm with our friends and loved ones. With a bone-deep certainty, we know …

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June 18, 2024 at 8:32 PM

Out of secrecy and into leadership

Hey John,   Nora here—I’m warmly inviting you and a friend to come to RG 101 on June 24th and our Housing Campaign Launch on June 27th. We have an urgent invitation to get involved in the fight for fair housing, but first I want to share with you more about RG if you’ve been curious to get involve…

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June 5, 2024 at 6:33 PM

Housing is Hot in Key Electoral States ➡️ Learn more 6/11

Our partners at Center for Popular Democracy Action (CPD Action) are faced with a daunting challenge: to simultaneously block the power of fascist and white supremacist forces and build the power of grassroots organizations led by and accountable to working-class communities of color.  Their path…

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May 30, 2024 at 9:38 PM

Updates on our Organizing Drive!

It’s the end of the day. You’re 12 years old. You’ve been carrying around a mountain of science textbooks, 2” binders with random sheets of loose leaf paper, and that spiral agenda issued to you at the beginning of the school year. The best part of the day is shaking off the weight of the day, an…

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May 15, 2024 at 11:00 PM

The Organizing Drive is Here!

Here's how you can plug in ➡️ It's here!   The Organizing Drive is a six-week intensive base-building and resource organizing lead up to our public launch of RG’s of our National Campaign on Housing, in partnership with the Center for Popular Democracy. As you heard on the All Member Call, we have a…

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May 9, 2024 at 10:00 PM

Support the Students: Free Palestine!

All Power to the Students!   139 campuses and counting are using encampment as a tactic to pressure their administrations to divest from genocide in Gaza and war profiteering. We are witnessing—and participating in—the most widespread significant college organizing this country has seen in several …

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May 7, 2024 at 10:00 PM

Housing Justice & Jewish High Net Wealth Praxis Cohort Applications due Friday!

Hello from Sahana, RG High Net Wealth Program Manager!   We are thrilled to remind folks that the applications for RG's Spring 2024 High Net Wealth Praxis cohorts are live and due this Friday, May 10th. Praxis is a political education, reflection and accountability program for cohorts of young peop…

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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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