“Group for Young People with Wealth Raises Over $1 Million to Honor Michael Brown”
“Resource Generation (RG), a nonprofit group of mostly white young people who self-identify as wealthy and class privileged, decided to raise money — $1 million for what they call black-led organizing for black liberation. “Seeing day after day the headlines and the popular outrage in Ferguson led a small number of us in RG to ask, ‘What can we do?’” recalls Chad Jones, a middle class “advocate member” of black and white parentage.* “The possibility of moving a million dollars in nine months to black organizing for black liberation was something that would be a material contribution and an act of solidarity with black communities most under attack.”…
Resource Generation ended up with a list of 200 groups, which they added toan interactive mapthat describes each group and links to their website. The map went live on April 13th. “With this list we wanted to give our members the opportunity to discover black-led organizations in their local areas and institutions, to give them the opportunity to engage not just as someone who writes a check, but [to form a] relationship, to [show] up to a rally or protest,” says Spector.”
Too cool, I love this.
