National Bioneers Conference 2018 - October 18-22, 2018

Produced in collaboration with Resource Generation, which organizes young people with wealth and class privilege in the U.S. to become transformative leaders working towards the equitable distribution of wealth, land and power.

We are living in an age of massive wealth inequality. The 8 richest people in the world (all men) own as much wealth as the poorest half of the global population. Most philanthropy in the U.S. is a symptom of this wealth inequality and does not address its root causes. This panel features leaders who are seeking to: shift underlying power dynamics; practice philanthropy as redistribution; and work across class and racial divides to move money to frontline poor and working class-led organizations fighting for racial and economic justice. This is a cross-class panel, including speakers who have experienced poverty, and this deep and transformational conversation will include voices from impacted and impactors. With Quinton Sankofa, co-owner, Sirius Creativity; “Tiny” Gray-Garcia, journalist, poet, educator, co–founder of POOR Magazine; Rajiv Khanna, Director of Philanthropic Partnerships, Thousand Currents; Iimay Ho, Executive Director, Resource Generation. Moderated by: Arianne Shaffer, Director of the Indie Philanthropy Initiative.