DO YOU KNOW a service-minded young person who would like to make a positive difference? Please share The Civic Circle’s AmeriCorps VISTA opportunity with your networks. This position includes full benefits, professional training opportunities, and tuition assistance. The VISTA will make a valuable social impact while gaining skills in program development, marketing, evaluation and nonprofit governance. We thank Transform Mid-Atlantic for sponsoring this position that will help us empower the next generation with civic skills like news literacy and voting. Apply via AmeriCorps HERE. Questions? Please email info@theciviccircle.org.
SUMMER BASEBALL is here, and you are invited to join The Civic Circle at Shirley Povich Field this Sunday, July 20 at 7 p.m. We will throw out the ceremonial opening pitch as that evening’s “Community Heroes,” and you will enjoy delicious refreshments, good company, and good fun—all for a good cause! Big thanks to Bethesda Big Train Baseball for this opportunity, and for supporting nonprofits in our community! Doors open at 6 p.m. Purchase tickets HERE.
“GIVE A HOOT” FOR DEMOCRACY with The Civic Circle at Give a Hoot Comedy Club in Gaithersburg on August 1 and 2. Enjoy stand-up comedy by Shawn Shank and delicious food and drink by La Mexicana, all to benefit The Civic Circle and support our mission to build youth civic power through music and the arts. Shawn has performed at clubs, colleges and charity events all over the country for more than two decades. Doors open at 7 p.m. and the show begins at 8 p.m. Get your tickets HERE.
SAVE THE DATE TO CELEBRATE The Civic Circle's seventh anniversary on Thursday, October 23, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., at the Silver Spring Civic Center. It’s our seventh year in operation, and there are seven “steps to democracy” at the heart of our program, so you will not want to miss our “Art of Democracy” celebration. Our featured speaker will be Kyle Lierman, CEO of Civic Nation, and we’ll have refreshments, live and silent auctions, live music and civic arts activities. For sponsorship and volunteer opportunities, please email info@theciviccircle.org. Hope to see you there!
THE CIVIC CIRCLE EXTENDS THANKS to the generous funders who have stepped forward recently to underwrite our increasingly urgent mission to lift youth voices, and advance democracy and civic learning through the arts. Big gratitude goes out to the Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County for supporting with an extremely generous grant for general operating support in the coming year. We also thank the Takoma Foundation for community funding that will help us underwrite a summer camp with Community CHEER in Long Branch this summer. To do your part for democracy and civic learning at a challenging juncture for our organization and for all nonprofits, please click HERE.