Redistribute Wealth: Wealth Redistribution as Repair, Return, Solidarity & Love

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Each month SURJ Santa Cruz County suggests a local organization that is doing excellent work strengthening racial and economic justice in our county. If you’re able, please consider making a donation– healthy for you, healthy for our community. Thank you!

Redistributing White Wealth Santa Cruz County (formerly known as Reparations Santa Cruz) is a collective political education and wealth redistribution project that acts from the belief that collective liberation depends on the liberation of wealth and resources that have been accumulated and hoarded by generations of European-descended colonizers in the US. This anti-capitalist redistribution project seeks to address not only the legacy of historic anti-Black racism but also the contemporary reality of the racial wealth gap. As a project of SURJ Santa Cruz County, we provide a platform for those benefiting from racial capitalism or experiencing class privilege in some way to use a reparations lens to facilitate wealth redistribution to Black individuals and communities with no strings attached. Further, we are working to strengthen a solidarity economy that celebrates our interdependence as our greatest asset.

We acknowledge that no amount of money received can heal the enduring trauma of anti-Black racism. We acknowledge that no amount of money given can absolve non-Black people of the responsibility to practice anti-racism. And, we acknowledge the crucial role of wealth redistribution in Black liberation and, indeed, in the liberation of us all.

Ready to move money for redistribution? You can contribute directly via RWW’s Chuffed platform. Email redistwhitewealth@gmail.com if you’d prefer to mail a check or contribute via a channel other than Chuffed. RWW plans to distribute proceeds contributed through RWW’s Chuffed platform as of August 31, 2025 to local Black-led organizations/projects that serve, uplift and directly support Black residents of Santa Cruz County as well as to the GoFundMe Campaign for Thairie Ritchie.