Please Join the Circle for Children in its 96th Year by Donating, Sponsoring
​and Participating in our 2023 Annual Golf Tournament

 Our Annual Golf Tournament will bring Golfers, Sponsors, Patrons, Organizers and Guests together for a memorable day of playing golf and fundraising with results positively impacting disadvantaged youth for years to come.Georgia’s children are among its most precious assets, and no one knows this better than the Circle for Children.

Founded in 1927, the Circle (as it’s affectionately known) has a rich tradition of financial giving to local organizations, educational scholarships and hands-on volunteerism with disadvantaged children throughout metro Atlanta and Georgia. Since its inception, the Circle organizes annual fundraisers including our Gala and the Golf Tournament.

Our Mission: To give aid and encouragement in promoting the education and well-being of At-risk children in the state of Georgia.

For the 2024-25 fundraising year, our beneficiary is City of Refuge in Atlanta, Georgia.

• City of Refuge is celebrating 26 years of providing transitional housing for women & their children coming out of crisis in one of the most crime ridden zip codes in Atlanta.
• City of Refuge also provides daycare, preschool, after school programs, psychological & therapeutic services, plus medical care & on-site school, all under one roof.
• City of Refuge's comprehensive approach helps to break the cycle of poverty, homelessness, and abuse that are too common in historically marginalized and economically disadvantaged communities.

Scholarships

In addition to our primary beneficiary, The Circle also funds scholarships for students in need via the Linda Gross Memorial Scholarship Fund.

• On average we help to financially support eight scholarship students each year.
• Our Circle Scholars demonstrate academic promise and financial need.
• Scholars include former foster kids or children who have participated in programs offered by current or past beneficiaries.
• Members of our scholarship committee stay in touch with each scholar to offer encouragement and promote continued academic success.

The circle is a 100% volunteer organization who has contributed millions of dollars in aid and scholarships, as well as countless hours of hands-on service to youth who have suffered abuse, neglect and abandonment.

Devereaux Behavioral Health, a previous beneficiary, has used our donations to renovate living areas to bring comfort, warmth, color, and security to the residents’ environment that they often have not experienced before. Donations have also transformed a run down space into an updated Salon. We also assisted with funds to transform a sports field, including adding dugouts, backstop and equipment storage providing more athletic opportunities to the children. As one Deveraux employed described it, “starting with mud and now having a facility comparable to the nearby private school.”