Generosity, impact, social connections, and fun: Giving Circles offer a winning blend. They are also playing an increasingly important role in helping to strengthen and contribute to the growing global field of community philanthropy around the world. The growth of Giving Circles is happening within a larger global shift towards an appreciation of the power and potential of everyday generosity, made possible by new technology (through online platforms such as GlobalGiving and GoFundMe etc.), and framed as a form civic participation and collective organizing (by, for example, the Giving Tuesday movement and The Funding Network). This study explores how a simple idea,...
Generosity, impact, social connections, and fun: Giving Circles offer a winning blend. They are also playing an increasingly important role in helping to strengthen and contribute to the growing global field of community philanthropy around the world. The growth of Giving...