Kids Hope USA
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| Founded | October 1994[1] |
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| Type | Educational organization |
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| Focus | Education, mentorship, students, youth |
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| Coordinates | 42°48′33″N 86°01′23″W / 42.809129°N 86.0231209°W |
Region served | United States |
Key people | Karen Pearson (President) |
| Revenue | $2.08 Million[2] |
| Employees | 23 |
| Volunteers | 11,652[3] |
| Website | www |
Kids Hope USA is a national, non-profit organization that facilitates mentoring relationships through a church-school partnership. The nonprofit aims to equip churches to make a lasting community impact. Kids Hope USA connects the local church with a local elementary school and helps operate a school-based mentoring program. In a Kids Hope USA mentor program, students meet once a week for one hour with a mentor—someone who is there just for them. This one-on-one adult attention in a student’s life makes a difference.
Kids Hope USA was founded in 1994. After asking experts in law enforcement, education, religion, and health and human services how churches could address the needs of a growing number of children, a unanimous answer was given: Churches that mobilize and train their members to form one-to-one relationships with children can make a profound difference in their lives. Responding to this, in February 1995, Kids Hope USA initiated three partnership sites in Michigan. These programs sparked interest in many other communities, where church and school representatives soon requested program information.[4]
