Donor Honor Board! And, Agape!

Because of you, HHI reached the full potential of our matching grant from The Greenbaum Foundation!  WOW!  And thank you so, so much!  We are honored by your commitment, encouraged by your  faith, humbled by your generosity for our work in the world.

To The Greenbaum Foundation – Thank you!  Your generous matching grant, your early belief in a scrappy non-profit, your years of committed support in time, expertise, connections, and advocacy have ensured HHI’s dream of “nurturing children and empowering women” (and so much more) has come to life for more than 186,000 moms/dads, health workers, orphanage staff and vulnerable babies.  There is no way we can ever adequately express our appreciation in words… thank you.

And, to our incredible community of donors – your donations are creating a more nurturing, healthy, safe and supportive world for those same 186,000+ people.  Your individual gifts of funding, your volunteered time and talents, your enthusiasm, kindness and on-going commitments to HHI are inspiring!  So many of you wrote us personal notes and cards with your contributions, which we proudly display and read again and again to remind us of our shared visions for the world and gratitude for each other.

The ancient Greeks had six different words for “love”.  My personal favorite and one that best explains HHI’s mission is this:

 4. Agape, or love for everyone

“The fourth love, and perhaps the most radical, was agape or selfless love. This was a love that you extended to all people, whether family members or distant strangers. Agape was later translated into Latin as caritas, which is the origin of our word “charity.”

C.S. Lewis referred to it as “gift love,” the highest form of Christian love. But it also appears in other religious traditions, such as the idea of mettā or “universal loving kindness” in Theravāda Buddhism.”  (full story)

I have read numerous articles recently of “growing evidence that agape is in a dangerous decline in many countries. Empathy levels in the U.S. have declined sharply over the past 40 years, with the steepest fall occurring in the past decade.”  I am not sure what to make of this, because of you, our community, we swim in agape everyday.  I witness your capacity to not only care about others, but to actively work to better the lives of others you will never meet.  Again, “thank you” seems to fall far short in expressing our appreciation.

Our Gratitude to:

The Greenbaum Foundation

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So Hum Foundation

David Pyle & Sarah Newhall

Hayden Hamilton

Sara B. Cooper

Don & Roberta Peterson

Melissa Bloom

gDiapers

Covenant Presbyterian Church

Gary & Patricia Arrington

Tom & Janet O’Reilly

Dennis & Deborah Engers

Gun Denhart

The Easton Koehler Family Fund

Schwab Charitable Trust, Anonymous

Oregon Community Fund

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