THREE CIRCLES FOUNDATION INC
To see youth embraced and leading Christ-centered lives
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Children from fatherless homes are more likely to be poor, become involved in drug addiction, alcohol abuse, drop out of school and experience emotional and behavioral problems. Boys are more likely to become involved in crime and girls are more likely to become pregnant as teenagers.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Monthly Day Camps
Involving teenage boys in community service projects, life skills activities, Bible teaching and adventures!
Truth Talks
Weekly events held at two local group foster homes. One for girls and one for boys. The events include Bible lessons, movie nights, eating out, trips to the park, etc. Additionally, rides to church are provided.
Mentoring
Only available to youth and volunteers currently actively involved in Truth Talks or Monthly Day Camps. Mentorships begins with simple role modeling, then can move into either formal life skills training or discipleship.
WorkWise
Career Readiness Program (Pilot Program version 1.2!) for our older youth who are ready to explore their career and educational options. Many of the youth we serve slip though the cracks of generally available guidance in these areas.
TBRI Family Care Center
Families of our youth receive supportive care in many ways. We also provide TBRI training for other nonprofits, teachers, government agencies, youth leaders, etc. in the community.(for more informaiton on TBRI, see https://child.tcu.edu/about-us/tbri/)
Where we work
Awards
Ministry Mastery Certification 2018
Ministry Ventures
External reviews
Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Number of Monthly Day Camps
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Adolescents
Related Program
Monthly Day Camps
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Holding steady
Context Notes
We host day camps monthly in order to build relationships with at-risk youth. The 4 main tenets are 1) Community Service, 2) Bible teaching/storytelling, 3) Practical Life-skills, 4) Adventure!
Number of group Bible teaching/storytellings in 2019
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Adolescents
Related Program
Monthly Day Camps
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
We share the gospel message through relevant topical themes each month with a devotional talk in the morning and a related story from the Bible in the afternoon. We capitalize on the power of stories!
Number of experiential Life Skills activities done at 2019 Day Camps
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Adolescents
Related Program
Monthly Day Camps
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
We teach skills that many of us take for granted as having learned from a Father or other male figure, mechanics, carpentry, building a camp fire, money management and more.
Number of Adventure outings in 2019
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Adolescents
Related Program
Monthly Day Camps
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
We work hard and we play hard! Fishing, caving, hiking, visiting boulder fields, kayaking, etc.
Number of free youth attendees to our Monthly Day Camps in 2019
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Adolescents
Related Program
Monthly Day Camps
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
It costs us $50-60/month per youth each month to attend camp. We do not charge the youth, their families, Juvenile Court or Dept of Juvenile Justice for youth to attend.
Number of new campers in 2019
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Adolescents
Related Program
Monthly Day Camps
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
Some campers we may meet only once. Some have come for ten years and now serve in volunteer roles. Due to the somewhat transient nature of the demographic we serve, retention rate is not applicable.
Number of weekly group mentoring sessions at a group foster home in 2019
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Adolescents
Related Program
Truth Talks
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
There is no way to truly record the impact of this special subset of volunteers. They not only mentor weekly, sacrificially giving their time, they also take the youth to church 1-2 times weekly.
Number of free youth attendees at our weekly group mentoring sessions in 2019
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Adolescents
Related Program
Truth Talks
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
This sub-program has been operating weekly for 7 years now. These youth just become a part of your heart. This may become the basis for a second location of Three Circles.
Total number of free youth Coaching relationships in 2019
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Adolescents
Related Program
Mentoring
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
Life gets real when graduation is at-hand or has passed. What do we do now? We scaffold these youth to get drivers licenses, vehicles, jobs & explore what it means to live for Christ in the workforce.
Total number of weekly free youth Coaching sessions in 2019
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Adolescents
Related Program
Mentoring
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
Research consistently shows that one of the main determining factors in the success of a young person is a stable, consistent relationship with a safe, caring adult.
Staff hours attending Juvenile Court in 2019
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
This is a ministry of presence. We prayerfully support the youth and family while they are facing stressful and difficult sessions in Juvenile court.
Number of youth referrals from Juvenile Court
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
We currently receive no funding for this from Juvenile Court or Dept. of Juvenile Justice. We simply stand as a resource in the community for these youth. They are treated just like all the other boys
Number of staff hours attending Local Interagency Planning Team meetings in 2019
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Type of Metric
Input - describing resources we use
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
This is a group of service providers that meets monthly in each county of Georgia. We receive no funding from it but attend in hopes that we can help a family with a youth in need.
Staff/Volunteer hours of delivering free Trust-Based Parenting Classes
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
We have a TBRI Practitioner on staff. All of our volunteers and staff are trained in this common sense, trauma-informed care.
Dollars relationally spent on Family Support in 2019
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Type of Metric
Input - describing resources we use
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
We go beyond the day camps and mentoring to meet practical family needs when possible. We are careful to differentiate between enabling (destroys relationship) and helping (builds relationship).
Total number of Community and Volunteer trauma-informed care training events in 2019
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
We take safety, trauma-informed care and trust seriously. We have two organizational-wide training days per year.
Hours of Community and Volunteer trauma informed care training offered in 2019
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Number of attendees to Community and Volunteer trauma informed care training in 2019
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
We offer Trauma-informed care training (TBRI, specifically) to the community at no charge.
Number of youth-led community service projects
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Seniors, Economically disadvantaged people, People with disabilities
Related Program
Monthly Day Camps
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
We have learned that our youth are empowered by serving their community. They realize they are needed and they learn practical skills.
Total number of volunteer hours contributed to the organization
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Type of Metric
Input - describing resources we use
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
Where would we be without our volunteers? We wish there was a way to actually track all behind-the-scenes volunteerism hours. It is probably two to three times what gets recorded. Thank you!
Goals & Strategy
Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.
Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
We are building a trauma-informed group of Christians to go on "the walk of a lifetime" with youth from hard places.
We lovingly EMBRACE teenagers from hard places in positive relationships with safe people in their community.
We EMPOWER them to trust safe adults, themselves, and Jesus Christ if they so choose.
We EQUIP them for jobs and/or educational advancement, to help others around them, make informed decisions about their spiritual beliefs and to have confidence in their value as a person.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
Phases of the ministry (currently we are at Phase 1):
PHASE 1-EMBRACED though our Monthly Day Camps
-Community Service Projects
-Life Skills Activities
-Bible Teaching/Storytelling
-Adventures
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PHASE 2-EMPOWERED in a weekly individual Coaching relationship
-Weekly Group Mentoring
-Weekly Individual Mentoring
-Role Modeling
-Soft Skills/Good habits
-Discipleship
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PHASE 3- EQUIPPED in our WorkWIse career Readiness pilot program
-Entrepreneurial Endeavor
-Matched Savings account-
-Life Skills/Good Habits
-KUDER account for Career planning
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If possible, If needed one of our volunteers will provide a family home for our youth.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
-We have a dedicated and growing group of volunteers and financial partners.
-The lessons learned from 10 years of relationship building with teenagers from hard places and their families are a well of trust and strength.
-We attempted to start a second location last year and it did not fully materialize. We therefore decided to focus on developing our core model locally this year. We hope to revisit this expansion endeavor and learned much from the experience. We hope to keep each camp location small and intimate.
-We are local Christians serving local teens from hard places doing local community service projects.
-We have a growing network of businesses that are interested in being involved with our youth and programming.
-Affiliation with the City of Refuge-Northwest Ga is a culmination of many years of networking and partnering with other organizations/churches and local government.
-We have 4 part-time staff dedicated to the mission of TCF.
-We have a capital campaign for 2019-2020 to further develop Phase 2 and 3 of the ministry.
-Additionally, the President left his professional job one year ago to serve full-time as a leader of this ministry.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
We have built a solid community of youth, families, volunteers, financial partners and employees.
We are growing our Coaching (Mentoring Program)
We are piloting our version 1.2 WorkWise Career Readiness program
We hope to eventually offer our programming to other areas that want to learn more about building life changing relationships with youth from hard situations.
We hope to eventually have family homes available for the youth that need them.
Financials
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Operations
The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.
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THREE CIRCLES FOUNDATION INC
Board of directorsas of 12/28/2021
David Luther
Three Circles Foundation
Joshua Baker
Southeast AgriSeeds
Joshua Baker
Southeast AgriSeeds
Pattie Luther
David Luther
Georgia Fireman Pension Fund
Board leadership practices
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Board orientation and education
Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? Yes -
CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? No -
Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? No -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? No -
Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? No