Circles USA
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Building community to end poverty through intentional friendships, personal transformation, and systemic change led by the people closest to the challenge.
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In this month's installment of The Learning Curve Chronicles, CLO Kris Alexander reflects on the power of community—not only as an ideal of a thriving life, but as a core need essential for our very survival. Read it here: www.circlesusa.org/post/the-lea...
November 21, 2025 at 10:27 PM
In this month's installment of The Learning Curve Chronicles, CLO Kris Alexander reflects on the power of community—not only as an ideal of a thriving life, but as a core need essential for our very survival. Read it here: www.circlesusa.org/post/the-lea...
"We don’t need to go back to the old American Dream—we need to co-create a new one. One rooted in equity, care, and the reality that all people deserve to thrive, not just survive." —Kamatara, Circles USA Executive Director
November 14, 2025 at 9:58 PM
"We don’t need to go back to the old American Dream—we need to co-create a new one. One rooted in equity, care, and the reality that all people deserve to thrive, not just survive." —Kamatara, Circles USA Executive Director
The Circles USA Network Awards celebrate the many individuals, families, and chapters doing outstanding work building community to end poverty nationwide.
We are so pleased and proud to spotlight our 2025 Network Award Winners. Congratulations, CUSA Network rock stars! 🏆✨
We are so pleased and proud to spotlight our 2025 Network Award Winners. Congratulations, CUSA Network rock stars! 🏆✨
November 12, 2025 at 9:41 PM
The Circles USA Network Awards celebrate the many individuals, families, and chapters doing outstanding work building community to end poverty nationwide.
We are so pleased and proud to spotlight our 2025 Network Award Winners. Congratulations, CUSA Network rock stars! 🏆✨
We are so pleased and proud to spotlight our 2025 Network Award Winners. Congratulations, CUSA Network rock stars! 🏆✨
Appreciative Inquiry allows us to learn from the wisdom of those closest to the challenges we address—which is what Circles is all about.
Dive into the process with us in S2E7 of The Big View: Ending Poverty in Your Community! circlesusa.org/s2e7
Dive into the process with us in S2E7 of The Big View: Ending Poverty in Your Community! circlesusa.org/s2e7
November 7, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Appreciative Inquiry allows us to learn from the wisdom of those closest to the challenges we address—which is what Circles is all about.
Dive into the process with us in S2E7 of The Big View: Ending Poverty in Your Community! circlesusa.org/s2e7
Dive into the process with us in S2E7 of The Big View: Ending Poverty in Your Community! circlesusa.org/s2e7
Meet Cheyenne Hurt, a graduated Circle Leader from Circles Indianapolis who is now serving as her chapter's Coach, Interim Director, Board Member and more!
Read Cheyenne’s story: www.circlesusa.org/post/leaders...
Read Cheyenne’s story: www.circlesusa.org/post/leaders...
November 3, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Meet Cheyenne Hurt, a graduated Circle Leader from Circles Indianapolis who is now serving as her chapter's Coach, Interim Director, Board Member and more!
Read Cheyenne’s story: www.circlesusa.org/post/leaders...
Read Cheyenne’s story: www.circlesusa.org/post/leaders...
We’re launching a new Salon Series to bring leaders together across sectors for bold dialogue and solutions to poverty.
Our first stop was in DC, tackling the Cliff Effect with 22 leaders from 14 orgs.
Quarterly Salons continue online + in person in 2026.
More: www.circlesusa.org/post/circles...
Our first stop was in DC, tackling the Cliff Effect with 22 leaders from 14 orgs.
Quarterly Salons continue online + in person in 2026.
More: www.circlesusa.org/post/circles...
October 30, 2025 at 8:00 PM
We’re launching a new Salon Series to bring leaders together across sectors for bold dialogue and solutions to poverty.
Our first stop was in DC, tackling the Cliff Effect with 22 leaders from 14 orgs.
Quarterly Salons continue online + in person in 2026.
More: www.circlesusa.org/post/circles...
Our first stop was in DC, tackling the Cliff Effect with 22 leaders from 14 orgs.
Quarterly Salons continue online + in person in 2026.
More: www.circlesusa.org/post/circles...
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On Nov 1 – without immediate action by Congress – federal funding for SNAP will run out. In a matter of days, tens of millions of Americans will go hungry.
Urge your members of Congress to pass legislation to fund SNAP for the duration of the government shutdown: go.bread.org/page/89991/a...
Urge your members of Congress to pass legislation to fund SNAP for the duration of the government shutdown: go.bread.org/page/89991/a...
October 30, 2025 at 4:46 PM
On Nov 1 – without immediate action by Congress – federal funding for SNAP will run out. In a matter of days, tens of millions of Americans will go hungry.
Urge your members of Congress to pass legislation to fund SNAP for the duration of the government shutdown: go.bread.org/page/89991/a...
Urge your members of Congress to pass legislation to fund SNAP for the duration of the government shutdown: go.bread.org/page/89991/a...
That’s a wrap on #CUSAConf25! Thank you to all of our staff, volunteers, partners, sponsors, and attendees who made this a week to remember—full of inspiration, innovation, laughter and love! 💙
October 23, 2025 at 6:52 PM
That’s a wrap on #CUSAConf25! Thank you to all of our staff, volunteers, partners, sponsors, and attendees who made this a week to remember—full of inspiration, innovation, laughter and love! 💙
#CUSAConf25 NETWORK AWARDS now live streaming on FB, Insta and YouTube! See links in our feed below! 🏆💐🥇💫
October 23, 2025 at 5:06 PM
#CUSAConf25 NETWORK AWARDS now live streaming on FB, Insta and YouTube! See links in our feed below! 🏆💐🥇💫
Would you believe us if we told you this is financial #trauma #healing? 😉 #CUSAConf25 folx activating our empathetic brains with TRAUMA OF MONEY’S Chantel Chapman!
October 23, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Would you believe us if we told you this is financial #trauma #healing? 😉 #CUSAConf25 folx activating our empathetic brains with TRAUMA OF MONEY’S Chantel Chapman!
“We name the shame to tame the #shame…” TRAUMA OF MONEY author and financial trauma educator Chantel Chapman at #CUSAConf25 #livestransformed #CirclesUSA
October 23, 2025 at 3:36 PM
“We name the shame to tame the #shame…” TRAUMA OF MONEY author and financial trauma educator Chantel Chapman at #CUSAConf25 #livestransformed #CirclesUSA
Where does gratitude live in the body? How does it feel when we recall expressions of thankfulness and connection? TRAUMA OF MONEY author Chantel Chapman leads participants in a #financialtrauma healing exercise at #CUSAConf25
October 23, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Where does gratitude live in the body? How does it feel when we recall expressions of thankfulness and connection? TRAUMA OF MONEY author Chantel Chapman leads participants in a #financialtrauma healing exercise at #CUSAConf25
In just a few hours, we're hosting CUSA's 2025 Network Awards at our #CUSAConf25 in Ogden, UT. We can't wait to celebrate some truly outstanding work from across our community of practice this year.
You can tune in live from wherever you are at 11am MT (10am PT / 12pm CT / 1pm ET)!
You can tune in live from wherever you are at 11am MT (10am PT / 12pm CT / 1pm ET)!
October 23, 2025 at 3:02 PM
In just a few hours, we're hosting CUSA's 2025 Network Awards at our #CUSAConf25 in Ogden, UT. We can't wait to celebrate some truly outstanding work from across our community of practice this year.
You can tune in live from wherever you are at 11am MT (10am PT / 12pm CT / 1pm ET)!
You can tune in live from wherever you are at 11am MT (10am PT / 12pm CT / 1pm ET)!
Guess who we’ll be talking to on our LAST MORNING here in beautiful Ogden, UT? So excited to welcome Chantel Chapman, author of Trauma of Money to #CUSAConf25 !! cc: @chantelchapman @traumaofmoney
October 23, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Guess who we’ll be talking to on our LAST MORNING here in beautiful Ogden, UT? So excited to welcome Chantel Chapman, author of Trauma of Money to #CUSAConf25 !! cc: @chantelchapman @traumaofmoney
Stories move hearts in ways facts alone cannot. In the #CUSAConf25 session The Art of Storytelling, attendees step into their stories, claim their pasts, and uncover the power their voices hold to change minds.
October 22, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Stories move hearts in ways facts alone cannot. In the #CUSAConf25 session The Art of Storytelling, attendees step into their stories, claim their pasts, and uncover the power their voices hold to change minds.
We love a #MakerSpace! At the session for Creating the Future Through Collaborative Art, #CUSAConf25 attendees are letting creative play to embody the hope, resilience, and community at the heart of the #CirclesUSA movement.
October 22, 2025 at 10:29 PM
We love a #MakerSpace! At the session for Creating the Future Through Collaborative Art, #CUSAConf25 attendees are letting creative play to embody the hope, resilience, and community at the heart of the #CirclesUSA movement.
“What I found is important…is to learn to sit with my pain. To honor my pain. And then to put it down.” Roxy Hastings teaches #CUSAConf25 attendees how to use movement to reduce care fatigue
October 22, 2025 at 10:21 PM
“What I found is important…is to learn to sit with my pain. To honor my pain. And then to put it down.” Roxy Hastings teaches #CUSAConf25 attendees how to use movement to reduce care fatigue
“Everybody is creative: we’re born creative and that creativity is trained out of us.” Ogden’s Poet Laureate Angelika Brewer teaches in her session, Creativity as The Human Superpower, this afternoon at #CUSAConf25
October 22, 2025 at 10:02 PM
“Everybody is creative: we’re born creative and that creativity is trained out of us.” Ogden’s Poet Laureate Angelika Brewer teaches in her session, Creativity as The Human Superpower, this afternoon at #CUSAConf25
Ogden, UT’s Poet Laureate Angelika Brewer takes the stage now at #CusaConf25
October 22, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Ogden, UT’s Poet Laureate Angelika Brewer takes the stage now at #CusaConf25
“When you have hope, you’ve halfway won.” ❤️🔥Jennifer Brown #CUSAConf25
October 22, 2025 at 8:58 PM
“When you have hope, you’ve halfway won.” ❤️🔥Jennifer Brown #CUSAConf25
“Hate rhetoric has turned into real action that is oppressing many of us…and we are also confronting who we are in terms of our ability to vote. In our strategic plan, CUSA must make a decision to what extent our work can build coalitions to address these crises.” Joan Kuriansky #CUSAConf25
October 22, 2025 at 8:57 PM
“Hate rhetoric has turned into real action that is oppressing many of us…and we are also confronting who we are in terms of our ability to vote. In our strategic plan, CUSA must make a decision to what extent our work can build coalitions to address these crises.” Joan Kuriansky #CUSAConf25
What’s on your wishlist for the next #CirclesUSA strategic plan? “My hope is that this plan will give us a stronger infrastructure…if we had more people who exemplified radical hospitality, we would not be in this position socially.” Peyton McCoy #CUSAConf25
October 22, 2025 at 8:56 PM
What’s on your wishlist for the next #CirclesUSA strategic plan? “My hope is that this plan will give us a stronger infrastructure…if we had more people who exemplified radical hospitality, we would not be in this position socially.” Peyton McCoy #CUSAConf25
And Board member Jennifer Brown joining us from SC via zoom!
October 22, 2025 at 8:49 PM
And Board member Jennifer Brown joining us from SC via zoom!
STARTING NOW! #CirclesUSA has a stellar working Board, and they’re here with us at #CUSAConf25 to speak on nonprofit governance, the future of Circles, and how our network can come together to end #poverty in our lifetime.
October 22, 2025 at 8:32 PM
STARTING NOW! #CirclesUSA has a stellar working Board, and they’re here with us at #CUSAConf25 to speak on nonprofit governance, the future of Circles, and how our network can come together to end #poverty in our lifetime.
We are so inspired by the Parkersburg Engagement Project, a year-long WVian experiment to cultivate civic engagement that bridges divides! This work asks: “Who do you need to reach out to?” #CUSAConf25 #communitywins
October 22, 2025 at 7:54 PM
We are so inspired by the Parkersburg Engagement Project, a year-long WVian experiment to cultivate civic engagement that bridges divides! This work asks: “Who do you need to reach out to?” #CUSAConf25 #communitywins