Guide to Giving Circles: Pooling resources to support change and build community 🤲 Joelle Berman and LiJia Gong - Get Together

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“This is about everyday people coming together with their friends, with their families, with their community, with their colleagues and saying that they have a voice and that they want to use it in a constructive and powerful way in their communities. It just happens to be that we're dealing in philanthropy.” - Joelle Berman In this episode, we sit down with two bad**s women for a conversation on the joy and challenges of giving circles - how to get one started, how to reach a consensus as a group, and how to celebrate along the way. In 2015, LiJia Gong attended marches and supported the #BlackLivesMatter movement. She felt inspired to do more. So she and three friends started gathering, exploring how they might use the bonds of their friendship and shared values to reduce inequality. Their giving circle " Radfund" was born from these conversations. The friends pledged to pool 1% of their annual income and 0.1% of their wealth annually to support organizers in NYC doing the work to challenge structural inequality and fight for racial and economic justice.

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