Charity, as the Roman playwright Terence said, begins at home, and the B?More Fund, a local example of philanthropy?s trend-setting “giving circle” concept, takes this admonition to heart.

The four-year-old nonprofit networking group of area “emerging leaders,” whose $500 per year dues underwrites the group?s annual recognition of local community activists, awarded $5,000 each at the downtown Creative Alliance on Thursday to a youth center developer, the founder of asecond-chance, remedial school, and an urban improvisational theater impresario.