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Circles USA @circlesusa.bsky.social · 4d

That’s a wrap on #CUSAConf25! Thank you to all of our staff, volunteers, partners, sponsors, and attendees who made this a week to remember—full of inspiration, innovation, laughter and love! 💙

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Circles USA @circlesusa.bsky.social · 5d

#CUSAConf25 NETWORK AWARDS now live streaming on FB, Insta and YouTube! See links in our feed below! 🏆💐🥇💫

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Circles USA @circlesusa.bsky.social · 5d

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!

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Circles USA @circlesusa.bsky.social · 5d

“We name the shame to tame the #shame…” TRAUMA OF MONEY author and financial trauma educator Chantel Chapman at #CUSAConf25 #livestransformed #CirclesUSA

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Circles USA @circlesusa.bsky.social · 5d

Where does gratitude live in the body? How does it feel when we recall expressions of thankfulness and connection? TRAUMA OF MONEY author Chantel Chapman leads participants in a #financialtrauma healing exercise at #CUSAConf25

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Circles USA @circlesusa.bsky.social · 5d

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Circles USA @circlesusa.bsky.social · 5d

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2025 Network Awards | CUSA Leadership Conference

Other event by Circles USA on Thursday, October 23 2025

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Circles USA @circlesusa.bsky.social · 5d

Watch on YouTube: circlesusa.org/so/0aPdjyJbs...

2025 Network Awards | CUSA Leadership Conference

Join us for our 2025 Network Awards, live from Ogden, Utah at our 2025 Leadership Conference!

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Circles USA @circlesusa.bsky.social · 5d

In just a few hours, we're hosting CUSA's 2025 Network Awards at our #CUSAConf25 in Ogden, UT. We can't wait to celebrate some truly outstanding work from across our community of practice this year.

You can tune in live from wherever you are at 11am MT (10am PT / 12pm CT / 1pm ET)!

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Circles USA @circlesusa.bsky.social · 5d

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

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Circles USA @circlesusa.bsky.social · 5d

Stories move hearts in ways facts alone cannot. In the #CUSAConf25 session The Art of Storytelling, attendees step into their stories, claim their pasts, and uncover the power their voices hold to change minds.

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Circles USA @circlesusa.bsky.social · 5d

We love a #MakerSpace! At the session for Creating the Future Through Collaborative Art, #CUSAConf25 attendees are letting creative play to embody the hope, resilience, and community at the heart of the #CirclesUSA movement.

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Circles USA @circlesusa.bsky.social · 5d

“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

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Circles USA @circlesusa.bsky.social · 5d

“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

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Circles USA @circlesusa.bsky.social · 5d

Ogden, UT’s Poet Laureate Angelika Brewer takes the stage now at #CusaConf25

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Circles USA @circlesusa.bsky.social · 5d

“When you have hope, you’ve halfway won.” ❤️‍🔥Jennifer Brown #CUSAConf25

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Circles USA @circlesusa.bsky.social · 5d

“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

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Circles USA @circlesusa.bsky.social · 5d

What’s on your wishlist for the next #CirclesUSA strategic plan? “My hope is that this plan will give us a stronger infrastructure…if we had more people who exemplified radical hospitality, we would not be in this position socially.” Peyton McCoy #CUSAConf25

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Circles USA @circlesusa.bsky.social · 5d

And Board member Jennifer Brown joining us from SC via zoom!

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Circles USA @circlesusa.bsky.social · 5d

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.

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Circles USA @circlesusa.bsky.social · 5d

We are so inspired by the Parkersburg Engagement Project, a year-long WVian experiment to cultivate civic engagement that bridges divides! This work asks: “Who do you need to reach out to?” #CUSAConf25 #communitywins

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Circles USA @circlesusa.bsky.social · 5d

“Our kids’ behaviors are not just rebellions against us; they’re children’s way of communicating their needs to us.” Circles Chief Learning Officer Kris Alexander #CUSAConf25

Circles USA @circlesusa.bsky.social · 5d

In her Bringing Your Why to Your Youth session, #CirclesUSA CLO Kris Alexander is teaching members how to make sure all our kids are are safe, cared for, and supported in our chapters.

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Circles USA @circlesusa.bsky.social · 5d

In her Bringing Your Why to Your Youth session, #CirclesUSA CLO Kris Alexander is teaching members how to make sure all our kids are are safe, cared for, and supported in our chapters.

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Circles USA @circlesusa.bsky.social · 5d

What would you do if your new CEO—highly successful in their previous role—falls prey to mission drift at your org? Board members are learning best practices for this and other scenarios from Circles RVA’s Lisa Specter-Dunaway’s in her Nonprofit Board Essentials session at #CUSAConf25

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Circles USA @circlesusa.bsky.social · 5d

#FamilyCenteredCoaching #CUSAConf25

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