Circle of Women is a new kind of non-profit, run entirely by full-time students and young professionals. The organization was founded in 2005 by three young Harvard women when they realized that the world under-invests in girls. Since then, Circle of Women has carried out the mission to build and support sustainable secondary schools, making classrooms more accessible to young women in developing countries.

The organization collaborates with communities eager to implement innovative, sustainable, and localized solutions to increase girls’ access to secondary schools. In doing so, it cultivates a new generation of global citizens by providing students at home with hands-on opportunities in organizational leadership, fundraising and project management.

Circle of Women believes that one educated girl affects one community, and that one community effects a world of change. Our ultimate goal is to encourage all women and girls to be these agents of change.