Faith-rooted youth development since 1984
Since 1984, opening doors for East Palo Alto youth.
From TK to college, we walk with East Palo Alto kids the whole way. Tutoring, robotics, camp, and mentors who stay.
Rooted in Christian faith, Hope Horizon welcomes and serves East Palo Alto families of every background.
Four ways in
Find your way in.
The difference, in numbers
Four decades.
One neighborhood.
Kids who go the distance.
Forty years in one place. The proof is in the numbers, and the kids behind them.
Open a door today
Your gift keeps a kid’s afternoon open.
Every dollar goes to programs for East Palo Alto students. $250 sends one child to six weeks of camp.
The gap we close
Give our students the opportunity, and they rise to it.
In a district where about 1 in 8 students meet state reading standards, 80% of Hope Horizon students improve their reading over the school year.
Local district English proficiency compared with Hope Horizon students' reading growth during the school year.
district students meet state reading standards
of our students improve their reading over the school year
Our work
One student, TK to college, with us the whole way.
Academic Year Program
Tutoring, homework help, and enrichment for TK–8 students, with one-on-one reading support in TK–3.See the program →
Robotics
The Churrobots, East Palo Alto's competition team, and our elementary and middle school robotics pathway. Teamwork and a path to tech careers.See the program →
Camp Hope Horizon
Six summer weeks of academics, field trips, and STEM. $250 for the full session, scholarships available.See the program →
Open Door Scholarships
Scholarships and mentorship that get our students to college and bring them back to lead.See the program →
Spiritual Life
A caring adult who walks with a student for years.
Faith offered with an open hand, always invited, never required.
The Churrobots · FRC #8048
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students on the team in a single year, a 70% jump
East Palo Alto's competition robotics team.
This is East Palo Alto's team, and its pride.
Our elementary and middle school robotics pathway runs alongside it, so more local kids can build toward it.
Years, not seasons
We don't meet kids for a season. We walk with them for years.
The same neighborhood, the same caring adults, from a first reading group to a college send-off, and often back again to lead.
Grades TK–2
Learns to read
One-on-one reading help, four afternoons a week, until it finally clicks.
AcademicsGrades 3–5
Finds their thing
Robotics, summer camp, and a mentor who shows up.
LeadershipMiddle school
Steps up
Leads the younger kids and grows in confidence and faith.
SpiritHigh school
Competes and leads
Helps captain the Churrobots and lines up college.
LeadershipCollege
Heads to college
An Open Door scholar, often the first in the family.
CollegeComes back
Builds the next ones
Returns to volunteer, mentor, and coach the next generation.
Gives back
Alumni story
She came back to coach the next generation.
A Hope Horizon alum, Class of 2021, finished her computer science degree and came home to coach robotics and STEM, the same programs that gave her a first taste of coding. “It's been cool to see everything come full circle.”
Class of 2025
Where our newest scholars are headed.
Twelve Open Door Scholarships this year, and graduates who come back to mentor the students behind them.
What's coming up
Upcoming events
Through the year we host volunteer mornings, family nights, community gatherings, church partner events, and evenings for the supporters behind this work.
Save the date
- Sep 24 Open House Save the date
- Oct 10 Beautiful Day: Landscaping Save the date
- Oct 23 Harvest of Hope Save the date
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With gratitude
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