News & Events

The Civic Circle is gearing up for a busy fall schedule that includes continued collaboration with Montgomery Housing Partnership, a new democracy program at Gaithersburg Elementary School with Carpe Diem Arts, and after-school workshops through Montgomery County’s Excel Beyond the Bell program. We will also be creating web-ready curriculum materials that will be made available county-wide, thanks to ongoing support from the Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County. Summer sped by, and school’s start

The Civic Circle is very excited to welcome Kelly Gilpin Clarke as our first Program Manager, a position made possible by the Greater Washington Community Foundation and the Children’s Opportunity Fund. Kelly comes to us with exceptional credentials as a student-focused educator with 14 years of experience. She most recently served a decade as a tenured professor at SUNY Nassau Community College in New York, where her many roles included helping hundreds of students with

The Civic Circle is honored and excited to be among more than a dozen nonprofits in the region to receive grant support from the Greater Washington Community Foundation. This grant comes through the Children’s Opportunity Fund, which recently announced its launch as an independent nonprofit, and will enable us to hire a program manager so we can serve more students in Eastern Montgomery County. Thank you!

The Civic Circle’s Hamilton Camp with Carpe Diem Arts was a heartwarming success, thanks to an extremely special group of campers who threw themselves into Hamilton singalongs and crafts, songwriting and ukulele lessons. Campers even created an illustrated a “Revolutionary War Timeline,” proving again that yes, you can get elementary schoolers excited about American history. A highlight was a camper performance of “The Citizen Tango,” about the “seven steps to democracy” at Carpe Diem’s Community

The Civic Circle is thrilled to welcome Vanesa Pinto (left) and Catherine Sheehy (right) to our Board of Directors! Vanesa is Empowerment and Leadership Development Program Director at CHEER (Community Health and Empowerment through Education and Research), where she oversees advocacy and community organizing in Long Branch. Catherine is Global Lead for Sustainability Partnerships at the safety science organization UL. For more than two decades, she has worked at the intersections of business, economics and