I’m Katie Wang, RG’s new Chapter Organizing and Leadership Development Director! I have served as the Senior Pacific Regional Organizer with our Los Angeles, Bay Area, Portland, and Seattle chapters for the last 6 years and am really jazzed about stepping into this new director role.

During my time as regional organizer, I’ve learned so much from our incredible member leaders in my region—from their creative ideas to bring in new people to their chapters, to the ways they foster belonging in their in-person events and enthusiastically invite each other to step into leadership in rightsized ways.

I’ve also learned so much from Christina B. and Valeriya E. who are both transitioning off staff as our former Chapter Organizing and Leadership Development Director and Membership Manager, respectively. Christina has brought a lot of rigor and strategic thinking to our work—inviting us most recently to think about the very potent question of “are we digital organizers?” And Valeriya has taught me to proudly and boldly stand behind our membership and fundraising work—that it matters deeply, and we need to advocate and defend it, alongside our organizing. And as you may know, we’re hiring for both my previous role as Senior Pacific Organizer and Membership Program Manager.

As I’m moving into this new role and my 7th year at RG, I’m bringing enthusiasm and energy around supporting our team of regional organizers to be sustainable and to grow in their skills. I’m thrilled that I get to work with our brilliant and strategically-thinking organizing team and continually sharpen and clarify our work.

From a local chapter leader to now chapter organizing director, I’m still alight with fire for our work of organizing young people with wealth! We’re seeing a huge wealth disparity that’s only growing, heartbreaking attacks on so many marginalized communities, and as young people with wealth, now more than ever, it’s time to go get our people, organize, and fight alongside and in solidarity with poor and working class communities for color. 

The Solidarity Economy and Transformative Investment Principles (SE/TIPs) working group is proud to be a supporter of New Economy Coalition’s upcoming Black Solidarity Economy Fund (BSEF) Funder Briefing! Join NEC, Kataly Foundation, Women Donors Network, and RG for a moment of reflection and recommitment as we share lessons learned from the first 5 years of BSEF, and mobilize resources for the next 5 years. 

Register here!

📅 Wednesday May 28th, 3PM - 4PM ET 📍 Zoom

What: A funder briefing to share lessons learned from the BSEF and mobilize resources for the fund. We will be making an ask to contribute, but the fund accepts gifts of any amount. 

Who should attend: Funders, donors, organizers, and anyone who wants to mobilize to grow the Black Solidarity Economy Fund. 

Why it’s important: In 2025, BSEF will democratically-distribute its millionth dollar. This comes as we honor the fifth year anniversary of the Floyd Uprisings, a reckoning that birthed the fund itself. Just as importantly as moving money, BSEF now serves as a crucial organizing tool for growing NEC’s membership base and building out new campaigns. In short, BSEF is following a legacy of Black solidarity economy organizing– from the creation of the community land trust movement to benevolent mutual aid societies– in showing that money is not just a resource to be redistributed, but a tool for democratically growing our movement. This comes in a political moment of increased political repression and a mere 1-2% of philanthropic funds making their way to Black communities.

RG MI co-hosted the Building Our Solidarity Economy Conference on University of Michigan - Ann Arbor campus with UM’s Ginsberg Center and around 30 campus and broader community partners. Studies indicate that over half of UM undergraduates are RG constituents, and this conference was one step of many we’ve taken to connect with them. We had over 180 attendees, including visitors from RG Ohio, RG Minnesota, and Resource Movement Toronto for this one-day conference to learn and share about their experiences with the solidarity economy. This conference also served as a large connection forming, base building, and leadership development opportunity for our chapter members. Many new connections with potential future chapter partners were formed, we got interest from around 30 potential new members that we are in the process of following up with and onboarding, and a group of chapter members stepped into new and exciting leadership roles in the process of bringing this conference together.

We also launched our housing campaign with the Rent Is Too Damn High Coalition in late March, where we are supporting their efforts training up and resourcing Detroit tenant organizers.

Our Palestine Solidarity Circle raised over $160k for their partner, Palestinian Youth Movement NYC. These funds will help to secure a permanent space for PYM in NYC, so they can continue to locally build on their liberatory work as the largest mobilizer of Arab and Palestinian youth in the US. An independent, self-governed space in Bay Ridge, a longtime Arab diaspora neighborhood in NYC, will offer current and future generations of organizers a physical anchor, opening up more possibilities for events, like teach-ins and volunteer meetings.

Our Housing Justice Circle raised over $115k for East New York CLT, which acquired its first property last year with the support of RG donors. These funds will support hiring a new anti-displacement organizer who will help tenant associations organize in preparation for future building takeovers, and provide economic and social work support to residents from the time of the building purchase through their transition to ownership.

Our Onboarding Circle’s annual Spring Campaign launched this month, with 25 new members at the first meeting! The Spring Campaign allows new members to grow their political know-how, build concrete organizing skills, and foster relationships with movement partners (and RG members!) through immersion in a critical campaign. This year, they’re partnering with Housing Justice for All on their fight to Freeze the Rent: a campaign that will impact the lives of 2.4 million rent-stabilized tenants, support the election of a progressive mayor in NYC, and build a cross-class, multiracial voting bloc of tenants that could shape New York politics for years to come.

St Louis Chapter of RG hosted Angela Barbash of Revalue for a crash course on 1) what questions to ask financial advisors 2) how to do due diligence on community lending projects 3) steps to shift $ from wall street. We learned a lot!

We're excited to share that our Executive Director, Yahya Alazrak, has been featured in Inside Philanthropy's latest roundup of "Philanthropy's Most Powerful People Under 40." 🎉 We're also thrilled to see RG alum Morgan Curtis recognized as well! 

The article highlights how an estimated $84 trillion will move into younger hands by 2045 as part of the Great Wealth Transfer—a shift that’s already reshaping the philanthropic landscape.

As young people with access to wealth, we have a powerful opportunity—and responsibility—to step up, redistribute resources, and help build a world where everyone has enough.

The article, 8 Organizations of Rich People Determined to Dismantle their own Privilege, highlights our movement—young people with wealth owning our power and organizing for systemic change—and features us alongside Donor Revolt, Solidaire Network, and Patriotic Millionaires.

Margi, an RG Alum, will be sharing about her process of redistributing $3.5 million to Black and Indigenous land justice without strings attached, following movement leaders' guidance in  upcoming webinars, Liberatory Investments blog posts, and podcast episodes.

“Now may be both the hardest and most important time to radically redistribute wealth. I’m leaning into that simultaneous challenge and opportunity by sharing about the money I inherited and how I’ve shifted power in the process of returning wealth to the communities and places that generated it in hopes that my wealth redistribution process can support others.” 

Register for SURJ’s webinar White People, Wealth, and the Politics of Money Under Authoritarianism where Margi will be speaking (on May 6th from 8:00 - 9:15pm ET / 5:00 - 6:15pm PT), check out this overview of Margi’s process, and stay tuned for forthcoming storytelling and future opportunities to connect by following https://medium.com/@liberatoryinvestments

We encourage you to consider joining RG as a dues paying member, and if you would like to get involved in your local chapter, please fill out this intake form!

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