Our Work

OUR MISSION

We nurture and guide motivated young people in need to become well-educated, career-ready men and women for others.

We know that access to quality education, opportunity, and a network of support changes everything for a young person. That’s why Boys Hope Girls Hope makes sure our scholars, collegians, and alumni can count on us for the long term. We partner with them and their families to offer pathways that provide the right support at the right time.

Our scholars seek out the program and come to us with a hunger to learn, grow, and BE the hope. They have the ability. We supply the opportunity.

WHY YOUNG PEOPLE NEED HOPE

WHAT WE DO

We spend years with each scholar—from middle school to college and career launch—attuned to their individual needs, helping them to leverage their strengths, and reach their potential.

We provide dynamic family-like environments, goal setting and mentoring, college and career preparation, life skills, financial literacy, as well as emotional, social, and spiritual support.

We instill in our scholars the value of being a person for others—to serve in their community, to recognize and reflect upon social issues they care deeply about, to believe they can be a change maker, to lead with confidence, and to pay it forward.

WHO WE SERVE

We select motivated young people in need.

Need can include a variety of factors, such as financial hardship, severe stress on the family, parent/guardian illness, neighborhood violence, or an underperforming school—most anything that would create significant barriers to a young person realizing their potential.

REFER A YOUNG PERSON

young people served across our Network

%

are girls and young women

%

are first-generation college students

%

are from low-income households

%

are from underrepresented minority groups

HOW WE HELP

We have one program with two unique but complementary pathways to meet young people’s needs.

OUR IMPACT

OUR PATHWAYS

Residential

In each Boys Hope Girls Hope home, six to twelve scholars are cared for and guided round-the-clock by professional team members. Scholars are enrolled in college-preparatory programs at top-rated area schools, do homework together, meet with tutors, share chores, attend their preferred religious services, eat, and grow up together. Scholars visit their families on a regular schedule of weekends and holidays.

Academy

Academies apply our long-term, intensive programming to young people who can live at home. Academy scholars receive time, attention, and resources to meet their personal needs and to set their individual goals and action plans. The Boys Hope Girls Hope Academy takes place in a variety of settings. Some are on Boys Hope Girls Hope campuses with Residential homes. Others take place in partner schools.

Support for Collegians & Alumni

Boys Hope Girls Hope not only prepares scholars for college, but continues to provide emotional, financial, independent living, and educational support for collegians, including exclusive university scholarship opportunities. Alumni have networking, mentoring, career assistance, service, and leadership opportunities available to them.

OUR ALUMNI COMMUNITY

NETWORK PROGRAMMING & INITIATIVES

Boys Hope Girls Hope uniquely offers young people the benefits from a strong combination of deep local impact as well as activities, interactions, travel, diverse perspectives, and unique experiences through signature Network programming and initiatives that build curiosity, purpose, and perseverance.

SCHOLAR AND COLLEGIAN PROGRAMMING

WHY NOW MORE THAN EVER

Boys Hope Girls Hope has been around for 45 years, and our mission is critical now more than ever. Too many young people face intense barriers to their healthy well-being and personal development. Learning disparities, trauma, food insecurity, and depression, especially among teens, are on the rise. Educational costs are escalating. The Covid-19 pandemic has left even more young people facing grief or parents who are chronically ill. And all of this is more prevalent in communities of color. Boys Hope Girls Hope’s mission, program model, and approach are just as relevant today as when we started in 1977. Through studying research, performing regular evaluations of our work, and building new strategic partnerships, we’re staying true to our mission, adapting to these ever-changing times, and finding new ways to help more young people thrive.

OUR COMMITMENT TO SERVE MORE YOUNG PEOPLE

OUR STANDARDS

our scholars receive the best care possible
our donors’ dollars are used responsibly and effectively
programming is delivered according to our research-informed. best practices and Boys Hope Girls Hope standards

Our progressive learning and growth are driven by continuous quality improvement through our Performance Management Tool (PMT).

Developed by Network Headquarters, the PMT includes a semi-annual assessment across six organizational domains. Each affiliate’s local board of directors and leadership team performances a self-study of its compliance, outcomes, and standards of excellence. Every two years, there is input from outside stakeholders, other affiliates, and Network Headquarters.

Affiliate and Network leaders identify growth areas and develop strategic and tactical improvement plans for implementation over the two-year cycle. Top-performing affiliates in key progress indicators (KPIs) share promising practices with other affiliates through facilitated discussions.

Progress is continuously reviewed, and Boys Hope Girls Hope utilizes this internal evaluation to remain effective and impactful in our work.

FAMILIES ARE INTEGRAL

Our partnership with parents, guardians, and families is collaborative and supportive. We work together and include parents in goal-setting and decisions related to their scholar. Program participation is voluntary and expands the scholar’s network to include other Boys Hope Girls Hope scholars, collegians, alumni, team members, and mentors from the community.

Know of someone you’d like to refer for the program? Here’s why you should consider:

Our program is designed to help motivated young people who need the space to thrive with a sturdy foundation for success. We enhance the education of our scholars by providing individualized guidance and maintaining stability and structure in a nurturing environment. Each scholar participates in many enrichment opportunities to support academic and personal development. The Boys Hope Girls Hope experience is a long-term, voluntary, and holistic program.

Between the ages of 10 and 14 when applying

Ambitious and motivated, and have positive goals and a cooperative work ethic

Capable of thriving in an academically rigorous setting and completing challenging coursework; free from behavioral or substance abuse issues and learning disabilities

Willing to adapt to Boys Hope Girls Hope’s value-centered, family-like environment and embrace high expectations in showing concern for others

From a family that is willing to collaborate with the program team and accompany their child on the journey to academic achievement and personal growth

In need of access to a quality education, with family or community factors that impede academic and personal success

START THE PROCESS

We have affiliates in major cities across the US, and in two countries in Latin America.

OUR NETWORK

We lead, support, strengthen, unify, and mobilize our local affiliate teams.

OUR NETWORK HEADQUARTERS

HERE IS HOW YOU CAN PROVIDE HOPE

Working to nurture and guide motivated
young people in need to become well-educated,
career-ready men and women for others