
“Brown Bag” Lunch on Giving Circles
In April, GT members carried their own salads and sandwiches to the home of Treasurer Ellen Yahuda for a lunchtime discussion of giving circles. Our speaker and discussion leader was Lynn O’Connell, executive director of one of GT’s 2015 grantees: Computer CORE. O’Connell has a masters degree in philanthropy and wrote her thesis on the subject of the day: the spread of giving circles nationwide. She helped us see Giving Together in the context of similar organizations and sha