About Us

Full Circle Fund is an active philanthropic network of members in the San Francisco Bay Area who partner with social entrepreneurs to advance innovative solutions to the world's most pressing problems.

Full Circle Fund members leverage their time, money, skills and connections to the service of nonprofits, businesses and government agencies in partnerships that result in significant impact on the community.

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Cultivating New Community Leaders

Our members are successful entrepreneurs, professionals and executives from the business, start-up, venture capital, government, philanthropic and nonprofit sectors. By providing these diverse individuals with quality leadership development and networking opportunities, Full Circle Fund fosters leaders who are knowledgeable and active in social and civic issues.

Collectively, our members spend thousands of hours in partnership with nonprofits, bringing their skills and connections to bear on the challenges these organization face. In this way, members use their business skills to maximize the value of their philanthropic investment.

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Read our 2011 Annual Report.

Community Impact in Three Key Areas

It's the financial and intellectual support of Full Circle Fund's members that makes a difference in the community. Our members provide not only donations but, more importantly, hands-on assistance to nonprofit organizations.

Members conduct their work through Circles, focusing their hands-on grantmaking in three key issue areas:

• Education
• Global Economic Opportunity
• Environment

Each Circle continuously refines its understanding of its target problem through public-policy research, discussions with community leaders, and site visits to nonprofit organizations.

"Full Circle Fund is the embodiment of how entrepreneurial efforts can systematically build ongoing mechanisms through a network of support, creativity, and people working together to address key issues in the local community. I think the model will sustain massively into the future."

Reid Hoffman

Co-Founder of LinkedIn, Partner at Greylock

Full Circle Fund Investor