What we hold.

The Fund's local circles, held through the In Search of Peace community justice practice: peer support, circle keeping, and community-based responses to sexual harm and other relational violence. Rooted in Central Virginia, offered virtually worldwide, and free, always. The Fund pays for circles so that cost is never the reason someone stays alone with this.

Grounded in abolitionist values and deep relational practice, these circles respond to harms that ripple through families, schools, social spaces, and local institutions. They meet the needs of those who have experienced harm, those who have caused harm, support people, and community members, sometimes in separate spaces, sometimes overlapping.

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Tenderfeet Circles are peer-led healing circles for people who were sexually abused as children in the Boy Scouts of America, and for the people who love them. The practice is modeled on Hidden Water's circle model for childhood sexual abuse, adapted to the particular shape of this harm: its scale, its institutional silence, and the specific loyalties and losses that Scouting carried for so many boys.

Circles will be free, voluntary, and keeper-held. More soon.

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This namesake project invites communities across the southeastern United States and beyond to ask, and begin to answer, the hardest questions: What do we do with sexual harm if we don't turn to police, prisons, or forced silence? These often larger-scale, circle-based dialogues explore lived experiences, fears, longings, and possibilities, not as abstractions but as collective openings.

The project also connects with and supports practitioners, groups, and communities already engaged in these conversations: restorative and transformative justice practitioners, rape crisis and domestic violence interventionists, community organizations, and beyond, learning from local leadership, sharing resources, and building interdependence across regions.

If we can learn to talk about these harms without defaulting to punishment, we can accelerate our ability to build a world where prisons are no longer required.

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