FUNDRAISING GOAL $20,000
The Circle Way non-profit relies on individual donations to continue our work, and we hope to raise $20,000 for our year-end fundraising campaign.
A GROWING MOVEMENT
More circle practitioners accessing this essential practice
More circle initiatives unequivocally affirming turning to one another
More circle stories from across the world
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Putting Equity and Justice in the Center: The Circle Way unequivocally affirms the essential practice of turning to one another to uphold racial, ethnic, gender, disability, economic, and environmental justice.
ANNUAL GRANTS
In 2023 we provided close to $30,000 in grant support for new circle initiatives and to support individuals attending circle trainings. Donations also support the free quarterly virtual practitioner circles, free circle resources, monthly newsletter, materials and more.
SOME RECENT GRANTS
that your donations have supported in the past year
Circle has a long connection to various nature-based programs and rites of passage ceremonies. The Circle Way’s grant support to Wild Mountain Retreats contributed to an Access Fund that provided financial assistance to BIPOC wilderness guide trainees.
“Our dream is that BIPOC participants will feel a deeper sense of safety and belonging when showing up in nature-based programs and rites of passage ceremonies through affinity space and BIPOC guides in leadership.”
Safe Space Circle, an eight-week program for children that grew out of a meeting with community crisis responders who were concerned about dynamics that were negatively impacting the children living in their housing complex.
The goal of Safe Space Circle is for children to feel supported and protected and to introduce a model to the children and families that promoted skills to communicate and engage without violence, using various circle modalities.
MORE RECENT CIRCLE GRANTS
that your donations have supported in the past year
A multi-session convening of community partners to creating equitable support for human milk feeding and a breastfeeding friendly ecosystem in community.
Creating containers of communal healing.
A consistent neighborhood healing circle to both archive the stories of healing within the community and to train community members in the skills of circle keeping.
Working in The Gambia on equality and bring back the practice of circle in communities.
Integrating circle in reconnecting Black, Indigenous, and People of Color to nature through mindful wilderness trips and ancestral skills workshops.
Developing organizational cultures that undo white supremacy.
Circle-based podcast series about stories and learnings from practitioners of various circle lineages and leaders who are integrating Circle within existing systems.
Supporting the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals movement by creating communities of engagement with the Inner Development Goals Initiative.
White Women Accountability Circle for Collective Liberation to unpack the intersection of race with gender, class, ability, and other identities that are subject to marginalization.
Drum circles to bring diverse stakeholders together for healing in a challenging community college.
“i think of movements as intentional worlds, or perhaps more accurately as worlds designed by and for intentional people, those who are able to feel the world not as an unfolding accident of random occurrences, but rather as a massive weaving of intention. what results from your efforts depends on your intention.” ~ adrienne maree brown (author, doula, activist)
Help grow this circle movement
More circle practitioners accessing this essential practice
More circle initiatives unequivocally affirming turning to one another
More circle stories from across the world
The Circle Way is a registered 501c3, non-profit organization (EIN 31-1624092).
Financial donations to The Circle Way are tax-deductible in the United States.