As The Circle Way non-profit begins the year-end fundraising campaign, we look back to celebrate some recent grants.

We provide grants to individuals to participate in a learning event that teaches and/or practices The Circle Way, as well as funding the design and development of new initiatives and projects grounded in circle that promote racial, gender, disability, ethnic, economic and environmental justice. Learn more about our relational grants process here.

In 2024 we provided $30,000 in grants!

Here are some recent grants that your donations have supported in the past year:

• Supporting three in-person circle trainings in Ohio, New York, and South Carolina

• Transformational dance programs with young people

• Circle conversations around death and dying

• Fostering green social transformation in Europe

• Enhancing access to circle process in Viet Nam by supporting circle trainings, practitioners group, and materials (see their previous blog post here)

• Collective approach to ending infant mortality

• Protecting Indigenous knowledge ecosystems in traditional Himalayan communities

• Supporting youth involved in the juvenile justice system

• Healing for Black and Women of Color deeply rooted in West African traditions, customs, beliefs, art forms and family life

• Growing circle practice in The Gambia (see their previous blog post here)

• Creating wellness communities with people who support children

• Circles with Indigenous and People of Color in natural settings to foster healing

• Middle and high school girls trained in restorative circle practice

• Wilderness Guide Training for Black, Indigenous and People of Color

• Facilitating circles specifically tailored to neurodivergent and Queer people

• Training with middle and high school students to help peacefully resolve conflict and reimagine how they express their emotions

• Wilderness connections with Black, Indigenous and People of Color that prioritizes building community through circle (see their previous blog post here)

• Photography workshops that integrate circle

• Enriching the work of Kufunda Village in Zimbabwe

More highlights in the 2024 Annual Summary, Celebrating the Circle Way, can be found here.

Contribute to our year-end fundraising and help us create more to celebrate in 2025!

More circle practitioners accessing this essential practice

More circle initiatives affirming turning to one another

More circle stories from across the world