I’m working with a team of great people to re-launch a Boston chapter of Resource Generation, a non-profit that works to organize young people with privilege to create social change. One of the understandings that separates my childhood from my adulthood is the realization of my limits as one person. I'm done with the cowboy model of change that our society has unfortunately held up as a possible way to make a difference. I have seen and lived my limits as an individual, and I accept that meaningful, sustainable change requires organizing and re-thinking networks of power. Resource Generation is helping me to develop templates for organizing among people with privilege that I would never be able to do on my own.
In particular, I'm indebted to Christopher Ellinger, one of the founders of Bolder Giving, a non-profit that works to create a more transformative society by encouraging people with privilege to use their resources to make a difference in society here and now, instead of relying on the vision of changing things "some day."
This summer, I hope to attend the Resource Generation Leadership Institute at the historic Highlander Center in Tennessee to develop my own organizing capacity. In November, I'll also be attending the Making Money Making Change conference in Petaluma, California.
In particular, I'm indebted to Christopher Ellinger, one of the founders of Bolder Giving, a non-profit that works to create a more transformative society by encouraging people with privilege to use their resources to make a difference in society here and now, instead of relying on the vision of changing things "some day."
This summer, I hope to attend the Resource Generation Leadership Institute at the historic Highlander Center in Tennessee to develop my own organizing capacity. In November, I'll also be attending the Making Money Making Change conference in Petaluma, California.