“What I found is important…is to learn to sit with my pain. To honor my pain. And then to put it down.” Roxy Hastings teaches #CUSAConf25 attendees how to use movement to reduce care fatigue
October 22, 2025 at 10:21 PM
“What I found is important…is to learn to sit with my pain. To honor my pain. And then to put it down.” Roxy Hastings teaches #CUSAConf25 attendees how to use movement to reduce care fatigue
CUSA’s own Kris Alexander and Addie Hartnett speaking on The Psychology of Spending: Why Money Choices Defy Logic! #CUSAConf25
October 21, 2025 at 7:52 PM
CUSA’s own Kris Alexander and Addie Hartnett speaking on The Psychology of Spending: Why Money Choices Defy Logic! #CUSAConf25
The results are in! We're pleased and proud to share the feedback we’ve compiled from attendee questionnaires for #CUSACONF25. Thank you to everyone who joined us this year!
November 24, 2025 at 5:58 PM
The results are in! We're pleased and proud to share the feedback we’ve compiled from attendee questionnaires for #CUSACONF25. Thank you to everyone who joined us this year!
Reverend to Reverend: Rev Kamatara, our ED, quotes the Rev Dr Martin Luther King, Jr in Circles USA’s striving build a Beloved Community. This work, he taught, “will require a qualitative change in our souls as well as a quantitative change in our lives". #CUSAConf25 #communitywins
October 22, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Reverend to Reverend: Rev Kamatara, our ED, quotes the Rev Dr Martin Luther King, Jr in Circles USA’s striving build a Beloved Community. This work, he taught, “will require a qualitative change in our souls as well as a quantitative change in our lives". #CUSAConf25 #communitywins
STARTING NOW! #CirclesUSA has a stellar working Board, and they’re here with us at #CUSAConf25 to speak on nonprofit governance, the future of Circles, and how our network can come together to end #poverty in our lifetime.
October 22, 2025 at 8:32 PM
STARTING NOW! #CirclesUSA has a stellar working Board, and they’re here with us at #CUSAConf25 to speak on nonprofit governance, the future of Circles, and how our network can come together to end #poverty in our lifetime.
“Everybody is creative: we’re born creative and that creativity is trained out of us.” Ogden’s Poet Laureate Angelika Brewer teaches in her session, Creativity as The Human Superpower, this afternoon at #CUSAConf25
October 22, 2025 at 10:02 PM
“Everybody is creative: we’re born creative and that creativity is trained out of us.” Ogden’s Poet Laureate Angelika Brewer teaches in her session, Creativity as The Human Superpower, this afternoon at #CUSAConf25
Does your chapter know how to build a Circle Leader binder to engage and equip your team members with tools for success? You will after this #CUSAConf25 session with Circles NWA’s Laura Robard!
October 21, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Does your chapter know how to build a Circle Leader binder to engage and equip your team members with tools for success? You will after this #CUSAConf25 session with Circles NWA’s Laura Robard!
October 22, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Guess who we’ll be talking to on our LAST MORNING here in beautiful Ogden, UT? So excited to welcome Chantel Chapman, author of Trauma of Money to #CUSAConf25 !! cc: @chantelchapman @traumaofmoney
October 23, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Guess who we’ll be talking to on our LAST MORNING here in beautiful Ogden, UT? So excited to welcome Chantel Chapman, author of Trauma of Money to #CUSAConf25 !! cc: @chantelchapman @traumaofmoney
Always great to see our friend Alex Ruder of the Atlanta Fed’s Community & Economic Development Team! #CUSAConf25 #CliffEffect
October 21, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Always great to see our friend Alex Ruder of the Atlanta Fed’s Community & Economic Development Team! #CUSAConf25 #CliffEffect
October 22, 2025 at 4:42 PM
“People in poverty have been taken advantage of…without ever being asked if their stories can be used.” Sarah Thornburg, Circles Ambassador par excellence, lays down some truth in How To Talk About Circles (so people really get it!) #CUSAConf25 #CirclesUSA
October 21, 2025 at 5:02 PM
“People in poverty have been taken advantage of…without ever being asked if their stories can be used.” Sarah Thornburg, Circles Ambassador par excellence, lays down some truth in How To Talk About Circles (so people really get it!) #CUSAConf25 #CirclesUSA
Erin Schaefer (of Erin Schaefer Grants LLC) is laying down some serious knowledge in her session “Closing Down the Funding Circle: Grants That Power Change” today at #CUSAConf25
October 21, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Erin Schaefer (of Erin Schaefer Grants LLC) is laying down some serious knowledge in her session “Closing Down the Funding Circle: Grants That Power Change” today at #CUSAConf25
What is it about the scent of a fresh nametag that gets us pumped for conference season? 🤔 See you soon, #CUSAConf25 crew! #communitywins #CirclesUSA
October 20, 2025 at 10:37 PM
What is it about the scent of a fresh nametag that gets us pumped for conference season? 🤔 See you soon, #CUSAConf25 crew! #communitywins #CirclesUSA
“We’re told you’re supposed to work hard to advance…but then you have financial instability on top of other barriers.” Kamatara and Michelle Crawford describe the Cliff Effect in Cliff Effect 101: Bridging the Gap #CUSAConf25 #CliffEffect
October 21, 2025 at 4:51 PM
“We’re told you’re supposed to work hard to advance…but then you have financial instability on top of other barriers.” Kamatara and Michelle Crawford describe the Cliff Effect in Cliff Effect 101: Bridging the Gap #CUSAConf25 #CliffEffect
“I came in with an open heart and open mind. I wanted to succeed again…I want to help change the landscape of poverty.”
Patty Herndon of Circles Davis County, UT kicks off our Circle Leader keynotes with powerful testimony about hope and #socialcapital. #bigview #CUSAConf25
Patty Herndon of Circles Davis County, UT kicks off our Circle Leader keynotes with powerful testimony about hope and #socialcapital. #bigview #CUSAConf25
October 21, 2025 at 3:32 PM
“I came in with an open heart and open mind. I wanted to succeed again…I want to help change the landscape of poverty.”
Patty Herndon of Circles Davis County, UT kicks off our Circle Leader keynotes with powerful testimony about hope and #socialcapital. #bigview #CUSAConf25
Patty Herndon of Circles Davis County, UT kicks off our Circle Leader keynotes with powerful testimony about hope and #socialcapital. #bigview #CUSAConf25
How lucky is #CUSAConf25 to have a generous sponsor like @weberstate? Today we’re hearing from Alexis Bucknam, Weber State University’s ED for Community Engagement. Thanks for all you and Weber do, Alexis! 🙏💜
October 21, 2025 at 6:28 PM
How lucky is #CUSAConf25 to have a generous sponsor like @weberstate? Today we’re hearing from Alexis Bucknam, Weber State University’s ED for Community Engagement. Thanks for all you and Weber do, Alexis! 🙏💜
“When you have hope, you’ve halfway won.” ❤️🔥Jennifer Brown #CUSAConf25
October 22, 2025 at 8:58 PM
“When you have hope, you’ve halfway won.” ❤️🔥Jennifer Brown #CUSAConf25
“Hate rhetoric has turned into real action that is oppressing many of us…and we are also confronting who we are in terms of our ability to vote. In our strategic plan, CUSA must make a decision to what extent our work can build coalitions to address these crises.” Joan Kuriansky #CUSAConf25
October 22, 2025 at 8:57 PM
“Hate rhetoric has turned into real action that is oppressing many of us…and we are also confronting who we are in terms of our ability to vote. In our strategic plan, CUSA must make a decision to what extent our work can build coalitions to address these crises.” Joan Kuriansky #CUSAConf25
“We’re in our 2nd year of a criminal justice degree. And Every Monday for 2.5 years, we’re at Circles. I don’t know where we’d be without it.”
Raeanna and Jason Earl of Circles Campaign of Mid-Ohio Valley bring home our Circle Leader keynotes with style 🩵 #CUSAConf25
Raeanna and Jason Earl of Circles Campaign of Mid-Ohio Valley bring home our Circle Leader keynotes with style 🩵 #CUSAConf25
October 21, 2025 at 3:54 PM
“We’re in our 2nd year of a criminal justice degree. And Every Monday for 2.5 years, we’re at Circles. I don’t know where we’d be without it.”
Raeanna and Jason Earl of Circles Campaign of Mid-Ohio Valley bring home our Circle Leader keynotes with style 🩵 #CUSAConf25
Raeanna and Jason Earl of Circles Campaign of Mid-Ohio Valley bring home our Circle Leader keynotes with style 🩵 #CUSAConf25
“Cross class friendships are the strongest predictor of upward mobility identified to date.” —CodiAnne Nye, Circles Weber County Community Support Manager
#CUSAConf25 #SocialCapital
#CUSAConf25 #SocialCapital
October 21, 2025 at 7:21 PM
“Cross class friendships are the strongest predictor of upward mobility identified to date.” —CodiAnne Nye, Circles Weber County Community Support Manager
#CUSAConf25 #SocialCapital
#CUSAConf25 #SocialCapital
“Empowering conversations are free. Getting together with groups of people is free…there are some things that no budget line can ever take away from us.” —Jomaris DeJesús, Exec Dir, The Prosperity Agenda #CUSAConf25 #communitywins
October 22, 2025 at 4:13 PM
“Empowering conversations are free. Getting together with groups of people is free…there are some things that no budget line can ever take away from us.” —Jomaris DeJesús, Exec Dir, The Prosperity Agenda #CUSAConf25 #communitywins
Thrilled to welcome Prosperity Agenda ED Jomaris DeJesús, this morning’s #CUSAConf25 featured speaker! Jomaris calls CUSA “a place where Hope is not hypothetical, but a practice we share.” #CirclesUSA
October 22, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Thrilled to welcome Prosperity Agenda ED Jomaris DeJesús, this morning’s #CUSAConf25 featured speaker! Jomaris calls CUSA “a place where Hope is not hypothetical, but a practice we share.” #CirclesUSA
Jomaris DeJesús of The Prosperity Agenda is helping #CUSAConf25 members sort out our life priorities as part of today’s Family-Centered Coaching session! #communitywins
October 22, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Jomaris DeJesús of The Prosperity Agenda is helping #CUSAConf25 members sort out our life priorities as part of today’s Family-Centered Coaching session! #communitywins
Would you believe us if we told you this is financial #trauma #healing? 😉 #CUSAConf25 folx activating our empathetic brains with TRAUMA OF MONEY’S Chantel Chapman!
October 23, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Would you believe us if we told you this is financial #trauma #healing? 😉 #CUSAConf25 folx activating our empathetic brains with TRAUMA OF MONEY’S Chantel Chapman!