Giving Circle Today on TueNight
Illustration: Jill McCleary
Last Friday night, over a glass of red wine and some spicy pecans, I learned about my friends’ second grade career aspirations. One of them thought she would grow up to be a pamphleteer, another thought she could get a berth with the Sweathogs, and a third yearned for a split career: professional swimmer/Burger King Waitress. (Think that over. Burger King Waitress.)
Just another memorable icebreaker at Giving Circle.
My Giving Circle—a group of women that gathers four times a year to socialize and pool their funds for various nonprofits—is still going strong, seven years after Hurricane Katrina motivated us to get together the first time and do SOMETHING to make the world around us a tiny bit better. I’m talking about Giving Circle today over at a fresh and hip new website called TueNight, and I hope you’ll click through to read our story.
More than that – if you have any interest in setting up your own Giving Circle with your friends, please feel free to hit me up with questions about how to do it. It has been such a joy to be involved in, and consistently rewards us beyond any monetary donations we make. I feel so lucky to be a part of this very simple yet rewarding endeavor.
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I had to use this video because of the band and song name, but I make no representations beyond that. Kind of a Mumford Band Meets High School Thespian Alumni vibe.
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