Giving circles are basically like book or investment clubs in which participants make an advance commitment to join the group, pool their funds and work together as a group to give them away. Giving circles work best when you give the participants some choice as to how they allocate the funds. However, there are lots of different ways to do them.
Here are a few links that will explain giving circles:
- This article in Kiplinger mentions giving circles through the foundation I started called the Clarence Foundation: http://www.
kiplinger.com/magazine/ archives/2008/01/giving- circles-local-philanthropy. html - From Town & Country: http://www.siliconvalleycf.
org/docs/town_and_country_ june_2008.pdf (see p. 178) - A short overview: http://www.
theclarencefoundation.org/ GivingCircleArticle.pdf - Documentary about the Traveling Giving Circle to Kenya to incorporate travel. It is on our temporary site and on youtube.
- Schwab: http://www.
theclarencefoundation.org/ kenyaarticle.pdf - www.elevenplusyou.com.
For more information about how to participate in the giving circles related to Campus Tec in Guatemala, please contact incubadora@tec.com.gt
Please read about Campus Tec in the NY Times:
or here is a presentation we did in our last visit to the Silicon Valley in California last December: