Good Circles

06/01/2026

06/01/2026

Most Mississippi households quietly run a little short every month.

It's not about being careless. It's about the math. By the time the rent is paid, the truck is full of gas, and the groceries are home — there's usually a balance somewhere that didn't get caught. A card that carried a little weight. A bill that got split. A "we'll figure it out next paycheck."

You already know what that feels like. The flat tire on a Tuesday. The kid's field trip needing twenty bucks on a Monday morning. The vet bill. The school registration fee. Something always shows up — and it always shows up in the week the rent's due.

And the part nobody likes to say out loud: most of the money you spend doesn't even stay here. Eighty-six cents of every dollar at the big-box leaves Mississippi the second you spend it. Doesn't come back. Doesn't feed your town, your school, your church, or the food pantry that's been short on canned goods since March.

Good Circles is a Mississippi-headquartered marketplace launching in September. It doesn't ask you to change what you buy or where you shop. It changes the rails underneath. The same places you already shop. The same things you were already going to buy. Pay about 10% less at checkout — and a slice of every sale funds a Mississippi nonprofit you picked when you signed up.

Same money. Same stores. Different math.

The full breakdown is in the slides — what one family keeps in a year, what one town would generate, what stops leaving.
And here's the question I'd actually like to ask.
Jackson. Hattiesburg. Vicksburg. Meridian.

Whose neighbors are the most connected? Whose small businesses know each other by first name? Whose food pantry, whose rescue, whose booster club, whose after-school program — would actually catch fire if a thousand of you decided to do this together?

Tag your town in the comments.
Tag the local business that should be the first one in.
Tag the nonprofit that gets your dollars.
The first town to a thousand wins. Not figuratively — actually.

05/31/2026

The lowest alternative platform take is 6.5% of gross. Our maximum is 1% (based on net profit, not gross). The launches in September. is best when the benefits.

05/27/2026

A 10% raise just showed up — and it funds your town while you spend it.

Here's something most people never think about: the average U.S. household gives about $2,600 to charity every year, almost all of it straight out of their own pocket.

Good Circles flips that. You shop the same local places you already love. You pay about 10% less. And a slice of every purchase quietly funds a Mississippi nonprofit you choose. Same money. Same stores. No coupons, no second app, no catch.

Swipe through and find your number — what you'd keep, and what your everyday spending would send to the causes you care about. A median Mississippi household that runs half its spending through Good Circles keeps about $2,222 a year and sends $667–$1,333 to the nonprofit they pick. Go all-in and you can match that $2,600 national average — without giving an extra dime.

We're building the founding list right now, and it works better the more of your circle is on it:

05/27/2026

If your favorite coffee shop joined Good Circles: a $5 latte costs you $4.50 instead of ~$8.50 on DoorDash, the shop nets MORE ($3.11 vs ~$2.50), and a Mississippi nonprofit you picked gets $0.35. The shop pays nothing extra — the math just routes differently. Tag the coffee shop that deserves this.

05/26/2026

You're about to spend the next two quarters writing grants.

Average Mississippi nonprofit grant cycle: 2+ years from proposal to first dollar. Average award: $5,000–$15,000. Capacity burned: roughly a third of your team's time.

Here's an alternative.

Good Circles routes 10% of the net profit on every local purchase to the nonprofit the customer picks. If 200 Mississippians designate your nonprofit, you receive about $14,400/year. If 500, about $36,000. Recurring. No proposals. No reporting cycles. IRS-verified distributions.

We launch in Mississippi this September. Founding Nonprofits get a homepage slot, priority discoverability, and a permanent badge.

If you run a Mississippi 501(c)(3) and grant fatigue is real for you, let's talk.

05/25/2026

No sales. No Call to Action. If you can read this today, or respond back, today is not about us or you. Today is about those who are no longer with us so that we could be here.

05/23/2026

How to start rebuilding your community in 90 seconds.

No donation. No fundraiser. No second app. Just watch.

This is the entire Good Circles flow, start to finish, no edits:
→ Sign up
→ Pick the Mississippi nonprofit you want your money to fund — any verified 501(c)(3)
→ Shop the local businesses you already use
→ Check out

That's the whole thing. At checkout you save 10%. The local merchant keeps 89% of the net profit — far more than any delivery app leaves them. And 10% goes to the nonprofit you chose. Automatically. Every time. (The last 1% runs the platform.)

You didn't donate. You didn't budget. You bought what you were already going to buy — through a system built to keep the money home.

That's how a town turns around: not with one big gift, but with thousands of ordinary purchases finally pointed in the right direction.

When communities build on Good Circles, Good Circles build their communities.

We launch in Mississippi this September. Show one neighbor.

05/22/2026

If you run economic development for a Mississippi city, here's the data you have on local spend retention:

Tax receipts. 90 days delayed. Aggregated. No neighborhood breakout. No category detail. No way to know whether your Main Street program actually moved any dollars.

Here's the data you don't have:
— How much was spent locally yesterday
— How much went to out-of-state platforms vs. local businesses
— Which neighborhoods are gaining or losing ground
— Which business categories are bleeding

We're launching a community marketplace in Mississippi this September. Every transaction routes through a system that can quantify all of that — by neighborhood, by category, in close to real time.

If your city is still reading Main Street decline through 90-day-old data, let's talk before launch.

City of Meridian-Government