Catch up with The Civic Circle:
End the Year Civics Strong!
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THE CIVIC CIRCLE REACHED close to 1,000 students in grades 3-12 this year, continuing our expansion into Middle and High Schools, and offering 325 sessions of civic arts programming to low-income students in Montgomery County. Highlights of the fall semester included workshops and community civic events that took advantage of the election as a teachable moment. Students at Silver Spring International Middle School and Montgomery Blair High School explored voting and democracy through poetry and dance with teaching artists Malachi Byrd and Carolina
Youth Voices Matter
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Montgomery County President Kate Stewart & SMOB Praneel Suvarna YOUTH VOICES WERE FRONT and center at The Civic Circle’s “Voices of Hope” celebration on December 8. Montgomery County Council President Kate Stewart’s Q&A with Praneel Suvarna, Student Member of the Board, was a highlight of the evening, covering topics from the future of education and youth services in our county to how to be a principled leader. We also heard from Civic Circle Maryland Service Corps member Meleny Arias-Ramos,
A Time for Gratitude and Hope
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WE EXTEND HEARTFELT GRATITUDE to the extremely generous donors who made our GivingTuesday campaign a success. If you missed the opportunity to join us earlier this week, it’s not too late to support our timely mission to teach civic skills through the arts! Every little bit helps, and there are many ways to give: Click HERE or on the DONATE button below Text the code “GIVESONG” to 44-321 via cell Donate by check (visit www.theciviccircle.org) Share our social media campaign, which is HERE! FOR
GivingTuesday is Here!
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THE CIVIC CIRCLE’S MISSION to empower students to understand and participate in democracy has become more crucial than ever, and on this global day of giving, we invite you to join our “Give Hope” campaign. Whether you give $5, $50 or $500, your GivingTuesday contribution will help revive democracy by lifting up youth voices through the arts, and teaching young students real-world civic skills like voting, news literacy and public service! THERE ARE MANY WAYS for you to
It’s Time to Give Hope!
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Video Credit: Montgomery Community Media GIVING TUESDAY IS TOMORROW and The Civic Circle invites you to join our “Give Hope” campaign so we can put our program, and our organization, on a path to sustainability. The Civic Circle is expanding to bring arts-based civic learning to students in the Middle and High School grades. We are also raising the funds to hire senior staff to ensure that our program can keep growing and thriving. There’s never