Giving Circles

If you want to learn, connect, give and fundraise for climate justice movements in the Global South, here’s your chance!

Thousand Currents 2025 Climate Justice Giving Circle for Resource Generation members … and their family!

Apply now! Application deadline is January 20th, 2025

What is the Thousand Currents climate justice giving circle?

Intended to galvanize individual donors to deepen their commitment to climate justice through collective learning and mobilization of funds, this program is educational, heart-opening, relational and tactical.

Giving circles are meant to support, challenge, and inspire donors to give more, fundraise more, and make longer-lasting commitments to supporting climate justice movements in the Global South.

This year, we are inviting Resource Generation (RG) members to invite a family member or close friend to join in this giving circle journey– quite literally– and expand the circle. We are looking for someone who shares your access to wealth and interest in making the world a more just and equitable place, but perhaps has not yet immersed themselves (or wants to go deeper) in climate justice, transformational philanthropic practices, or funding grassroots movements.

The giving circle will meet on Zoom on the last Tuesday of each month at 3pm PT / 5pm ET between March and August, 2025. More details in the application.

What can participants expect?

You can expect to leave with…

• An internationalist lens on U.S. frameworks, from racial justice and reparations to the Green New Deal, and the opportunity to address globalized historical inequities through global giving
• A long lasting sense of deeper connection to this shared planetary emergency
• A clear analysis of impactful ways to fund moving forward. (For example, learning the importance of funding Indigenous-led groups, or deeper understanding of global movement ‘ecosystems’)
• The experience of making a significant donation to critical movement-building
• Fundraising and donor organizing training in our relational, transformative approach
• One-on-one accompaniment and coaching from senior Thousand Currents team members

Who should apply?

• Dues-paying members of RG who are in a position to commit to giving at least $10,000 themselves (or via a family giving vehicle), as well as try to fundraise at least an additional $10,000* from their community
• Someone who wants to invite a family member or close friend to join in this journey!
• People who have baseline experience with RG — a praxis group or national retreat, for example. Your invited person need not have this same experience!
• You are not required to have any prior familiarity with Global South grassroots movements, or fundraising

Why Thousand Currents, and why now?

Thousand Currents believes the answers to the most entrenched societal challenges around the world rest in the hands of directly affected frontline communities. We raise money to fund those communities working in the areas of food, economic, and climate justice. We provide core, flexible, long-term grants and value-added services.

Thousand Currents also has a 40-year history of transformative donor organizing through our one-to-one relationships, annual Academies, additional training and workshops we offer at RG and other conferences. You can read more about Thousand Currents here.

Since 2019, we have partnered with RG members to host giving circles focused on learning, giving, fundraising and organizing around the climate crisis.

Apply here! Application deadline is January 25, 2025

Questions? Email Jessie Spector, Thousand Currents’ Director of Donor Organizing, at jessie@thousandcurrents.org.

Want to have a word with someone who has participated in a prior RG giving circle? Reach out to Jessie and she’ll connect you!