Built from years of work inside climate justice organizations, national networks, board governance, fundraising systems, and leadership transitions.
Donor relationships, member relationships, coalition history, board decisions, institutional memory, and organizing data often live across disconnected spreadsheets, CRMs, inboxes, docs, and platforms that organizations do not control.
That fragmentation costs time, trust, money, and power.
Circle asks what becomes possible when movements own more of their own infrastructure.
What if the systems used for fundraising, governance, relationship mapping, leadership development, and coalition building were designed around power building instead of extraction?
Circle is a movement-owned relationship infrastructure platform for organizations and networks that need better ways to see their relationships, steward trust, coordinate work, and move resources.
Circle is for climate justice organizations, movement networks, funders, coalitions, and community-rooted institutions that need systems that support the work instead of creating more work.
Movements are being asked to do more with less, while the tools they depend on grow more consolidated, more expensive, and less accountable to the people using them. The relationships and knowledge that took years to build are increasingly held in systems organizations cannot govern.
At the same time, more leaders are naming the cost of that dependence and looking for something they can actually own. Building Circle now means the people closest to the work can shape it from the start — rather than inheriting one more platform designed around someone else’s priorities.
Circle grows out of my experience supporting climate and racial justice organizations through governance, fundraising, board development, leadership transitions, recruitment, and network building. I’ve spent more than a decade inside the systems Circle is being built to support.
I’m not building it alone. Circle is being shaped alongside comrades who know this work from the inside — organizers, builders, and movement leaders who share the belief that movements should own the infrastructure their work depends on.
If you are interested in funding, advising, piloting, or learning more about Circle, get in touch.
dany@danysigwalt.com