This year’s Making Money Make Change (MMMC) conference in Stony Point, NY was the largest and best MMMC I’ve attended since I started on staff back in 2014. MMMC is Resource Generation’s signature conference, and is the only conference in the country that specifically brings together young people with wealth (age 18-35) to build community, gain skills around financial literacy and giving, and learn how to move their resources to support social, economic, and racial justice.

This year’s conference had 100 young people with wealth in attendance. Taking place a year after the elections, there was a strong sense of clarity and urgency about the role of young people with wealth to step up in this political moment and challenge the massive racial and wealth inequality at the root of so much suffering in our country.

The Leveraging Privilege panel (recorded video here) forefronted the message of interdependence, not doing this work in isolation, and the importance of building strong relationships across class. In particular, Yasmeen Perez from Social Justice Fund NorthWest and Ro Adler, RG Philly chapter leader, talked about the transformative experience of organizing and participating in cross-class giving circles where everyone gives a meaningful gift, fundraises their networks, and then makes grantmaking decisions together.

Read the full article about Making Money Change at Resource Generation.