In RG’s 20th anniversary year we are proud to rollout two innovations which will take our work of organizing young people with wealth for the equitable distribution of wealth, land, and power to the next level by being more clear, public-facing, and transparent about our work. These are defining “wealth” in “young people with wealth” and shifting from a strict non-solicitation policy to leaning into our role as movement funders and fundraisers. Both of these changes have been years in the making and a response to member, board, and external partner feedback.

The project of defining what “wealth” means for our base began in earnest in 2015, as a result of a racial justice assessment process where one key recommendation was to create a definition of wealth so that young people of color with wealth could more easily identify as part of RG’s base. In general, in order to build our power, we need to be specific and clear about who our base is, which means defining “wealth”.

In order to support accountable cross-class relationship building and our shift towards becoming more external-facing, we must be honest and transparent about our expectations for fundraising and giving within Resource Generation as an organization of people with access to wealth and wealthy networks.

To this end we are moving from a general “no” stance around fundraising to “yes and do it according to a set of fundraising principles.” This means RG is now generally a place in which fundraising asks can happen, except for spaces explicitly designated as non-solicitation spaces. We expect RG members to give and to become skilled and grounded fundraisers for social justice movements.

Read the source article about RG's new policies around wealth and fundraising at Resource Generation.