Boys Hope Girls Hope is very grateful to Intel®, in partnership with World Wide Technology (WWT), for making a major investment in its efforts to reach more young people with whole-person development programming in 13 US cities, Mexico, and Guatemala. The $100,000 Intel RISE Technology Initiative (IRTI) grant is supporting enhancements to the Network-wide curriculum, […]

Kristin Ostby, President & CEO, with Lucas Pinzon, Executive Director of Esperanza Juvenil In March 2020, the Guatemalan government shut down all schools from operating in person.  At the time, Esperanza Juvenil had 100 young scholars living in our residential homes near our schools.  Another 80 scholars, who continued to live with their families in […]

Originally used by gamers to describe their ascent from within a video game’s challenges, “level up” has become a term to mean raising one’s game, changing the way one thinks, applying knowledge, advancing, or changing one’s station in life. Our goal is for all participants to level up to college with the knowledge and skills […]