MOOREA DICKASON Executive Director
Welcome to the 2025 One Circle Foundation Annual Report. This year’s theme comes from one of our foundational core values: We Are Relational . We recognize the quality of our relationships with others as the most important aspect of our work, paramount to growth, learning, health, and success. This theme reflects how we navigated the challenges and uncertainty experienced throughout 2025. Like many nonprofits, we found ourselves navigating executive orders and policy shifts issued by a new administration, creating immediate uncertainty across the sector. As the social and funding landscapes continued to shift, relationships proved to be the steady ground beneath our feet. The quality of our connections with one another, with our partners, and with our broader community, shaped how we adapted, responded, and made decisions. OCF made difficult but necessary choices, including two budget cuts and staffing reductions, and leaned into fundraising and grant writing more intentionally than ever before. All along the way, Circles remained at the heart of everything we did. Even in a challenging year, facilitators across the country continued showing up for each other and for young people, creating spaces of belonging, trust, and growth. At the same time, we showed up for facilitators in training rooms and beyond—offering scholarships, support sessions, consultation, and the development of new resources and curriculum. We also turned inward, supporting one another as a team of full-time staff, trainers, and board members, strengthening our internal community so OCF could remain resilient and responsive for years to come. I am constantly inspired by the people who make this work a reality: our staff, trainers, board members, facilitators, training hosts, donors, and other
community partners who bring care, courage, and commitment into every relationship. Your willingness to listen, collaborate, and stay connected—especially when things were hard—made all the difference this year. This mission and this community reaffirm how good-hearted and beautiful humanity can be. As we look ahead, we are building on what we learned in 2025: it’s all about healthy relationships, and connection is the impact. By nurturing our treasured relationships and building new partnerships, we continue to bring Circles to spaces where youth and adults alike can be themselves, listen deeply, share from the heart, laugh, cry, create, and just be. Thank you for being part of this community, as a group of people showing up every day in the hope of a brighter tomorrow. I look forward to showing up with you and for you in the years to come. We are all connected.
With gratitude,
Moorea Dickason Executive Director One Circle Foundation
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ONE CIRCLE FOUNDATION 2025 ANNUAL REPORT
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