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August 2025

The Gift of Giving Has Powerful and Unexpected Ripples

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July 2025

The Power of WHY Combined with HOW

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June 2025

Food is Culture. Lessons from the 2025 Gourmand Awards in Portugal

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May 2025

Books As Instruments of Peace

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April 2025

Audacious Asks and Incremental Progress Plus Give Big Goal

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March 2025

Hands Across the World: The Power of Consistent & Creative Collaboration

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February 2025

Highlights: Ethiopia Trip 2025 – People, Progress, and More Big Plans!

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January 2025

Countdown to Ethiopia 2025: Looking Back and Planning for the Future

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December 2024

Making Big Dreams Happen with Empowering Collaborators

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November 2024

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October 2024

The Power of Looking Back While Looking Forward

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September 2024

Joining the Revolution and Breaking Barriers — Firsts Are Important, and They Are Just the Beginning!

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August 2024

The Journey is Beautiful and Heartbreaking, Fast and Slow, and You Never Know What is Around the Bend

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July 2024

Not All Heroes Wear Capes . . .

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June 2024

The Power of Artists + Collaboration: Learnings From Lake Oswego Art Festival, Our Journey Thus Far, and Plans for the Future

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May 2024

Growing Our Impact—with New and Existing Collaborators!

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April 2024

What A Difference A Year Makes – Joys and Heartbreaks

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March 2024

Happy Women’s History month! The Women of OHBD Are Doing Our Part!

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February 2024

Trust + Leaps of Faith = Impact

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January 2024

OHBD 2024 – More Ambitious Goals & BIG DREAMS Realized & Planned

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December 2023

2023 year-end recap: Travel, collaboration, more books & libraries!

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November 2023

Giving, Transitions, and Growth!

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October 2023

Trust + Leaps of Faith = Impact

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September 2023

Increasing Impact through Imagination and Inspiration

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August 2023

Reflections on a Summer’s End, the Fragility of Life and What Keeps Me Going

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July 2023

Celebrating Old and New As We Constantly Learn and Grow!

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June 2023

Seven Years In, Reflecting on Progress and Working on Next BOLD Goals TOGETHER

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May 2023

Celebrating a new library, new titles, and more adventures in literacy!

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April 2023

Back in Ethiopia and Celebrating Our Volunteers This Month

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March 2023

Celebrating Women’s History and Appreciating the Gifts of Strong Women

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February 2023

Celebrating Black History and Lessons from our Etan Collaboration Launch

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January 2023

OHBD in 2023 – our Big Goals need New Strategies to Increase Visibility and Support

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December 2022

Reflections, Dog Years, “Impossible” Goals! Taking Our Momentum Into 2023 to Increase Impact!

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November 2022

Giving Tuesday, new releases and thoughts on gratitude and leaps of faith, inspiring hope and action

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October 2022

New language, new library, new places to find our books and more adventures in literacy!

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September 2022

OHBD goes to Malaysia, new website and more adventures in literacy!

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August 2022

OHBD heads to IBBY International Congress, Ready Set Go books wins honors and awards and more adventures in literacy!

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July 2022

Proudly Printed in Ethiopia, Perseverance, Our New 1MM Book Goal & Teaching STEM Lab Manuals and more

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June 2022

The Power of a Broader Perspective: The Ability to See How Much Is Really Possible!

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May 2022

Giving Big and Managing Ups and Down! Lessons in Resilience, Healing and Life.

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April 2022

April 2022

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March 2022

Celebrating Women’s History Women Providing Healing, Promoting Hope

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February 2022

We Celebrate Black History All Year: Our Collective History & Destiny

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January 2022

2021 Year in Review: It’s Always Day One

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December 2021

Ending 2022 with gratitude and hope! And another Match Challenge

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November 2021

Practice Gratitude and Give What You Can! Help Us Spread Joy and Hope from Far and Near.

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October 2021

Creating More Positive, Impactful Ripples through Collaboration

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September 2021

The Power of Connection

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August 2021

Lessons Learned from Empower Community Weekend 2021

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July 2021

Scaling Your Leadership – Learning from our Virtual OHBD Future Leadership Computer Science Boot Camp

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June 2021

Open Hearts Big Dreams - Five Years Into the Organizational Journey

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May 2021

Today a Reader, Tomorrow a Leader

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April 2021

Celebrating our Invaluable Volunteers

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March 2021

Women Making History – Past, Present and Future!

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February 2021

Black History is Our History and Highlights the Power of Inclusion

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January 2021

Author, Amharic, Africa, Award: My Journey Back to Where I Started

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December 2020

Learning to Let Go and Stay Open – Reflections on Progress and Learnings from 2020

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November 2020

In these turbulent times across both the US and Ethiopia, I am finding gratitude a refuge.

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October 2020

Think big. Then step-by-step work backward.

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September 2020

And then the smoke came: The importance of resilience and perseverance.

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August 2020

All Is Possible with Friendship, Faith, and Funds

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July 2020

The Only Constant Is Change

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June 2020

#WeAreInThisAllTogether

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May 2020

Leading Through A Pandemic Read More

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April 2020

The Ability to Choose Our Response

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March 2020

Representation Matters . . .A LOT!

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February 2020

A Shared History and A Shared Destiny

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January 2020

A Time for Reflection and Setting Intentions

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December 2019

Literacy Has Amazing Power

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November 2019

We've Had A Great Year!

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October 2019

An Accidental Social Entrepreneur

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September 2019

Each Act of Support Ripples Out in Beautiful Ways

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August 2019

The Learning Continues Every Day

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July 2019

Board Members “Are Critical”

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June 2019

We Live in a Fully Connected World

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May 2019

#RelationshipsAreTheTrueCurrency

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April 2019

My Amazing Trip to Ethiopia - by Leyla Angelidis

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March 2019

Meet People Where They Are If You Want to Impact Real and Lasting Change

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February 2019

Books for All 4 Million First Graders

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January 2019

Heading Back to Ethiopia

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December 2018

Collaboration Help Achieve Bold Goals

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November 2018

Stories Have Power

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October 2018

Combining Passions: Increasing Inclusion and Opportunities for Kids

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September 2018

Model Programs Recognize Innovation and Increase Collaboration

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August 2018

Empowering Kids to Transform Their Future.

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