Our fall campaign
Help their next chapter grow.
For forty years, this corner of Beech Street has been a place where a student who is behind can sit down next to an adult who is not in a hurry. This fall we are raising $200,000 by October 23 to strengthen the people, the programs and the places that make that possible.
Every gift goes through our Harvest of Hope giving page. Gifts of any amount count toward the goal.
Pablo's story
Over three summers, Pablo joined a mission trip led by one of our church partners in partnership with Hope Horizon. On his first trip, he struggled with homesickness. As he returned, he grew in confidence. He worked through challenges, including bullying last summer, and found a sense of belonging. Eventually, he brought his younger brother and a friend with him. A place that had once felt unfamiliar had become a community he wanted to share.
A space becomes important because of the people who fill it.
Pablo's story is a picture of what we want for every Hope Horizon student: caring adults who keep showing up. It rarely comes from one person. It comes from the circle around a young person, family, Hope Horizon staff, church partners, mentors, and neighbors who notice them and stay. For Pablo, that circle included a church partner walking alongside Hope Horizon, and a community he came to call his own and then shared with his younger brother and a friend. Keeping that circle strong for every student is what this campaign is for.
Pablo's story, shared by Josie at the town hall.
Photos supplied by Hope Horizon.
The relationships
Two students, both anonymous here as they are in the stories we have published. Each one started with somebody making room for them.
Alumni story
It's been cool to see everything come full circle.
Hope Horizon alum, Class of 2021
Her first taste of technology and coding came here, as a high school freshman competing in the Technovation Challenge with the EPA Chica Squad. She finished a degree in computer science and engineering, came back, and now coordinates three programs at once: Lego Robotics, the high school FRC team, and a hands-on STEM workshop for younger students.
Read the full story
Student story
Other teams were surprised there was even a team from East Palo Alto...
A Hope Horizon student
In March 2024, East Palo Alto's FRC team 8048 won the Silicon Valley Regional. Getting to the World Championships in Houston meant raising $40,000 for flights, hotels, food and equipment, and the community did it in under a month. The team draws students from more than ten different high schools, and the City of East Palo Alto honored them with a proclamation.
Read the full storySupport the person who stays, and the project that sparks curiosity.
Support the next chance to try.
Spaces for discovery
Flexible furniture, organized supplies and teaching tools can help a classroom adapt to tutoring, reading and hands-on projects. Staffing and training help educators use those resources well, turning a prepared room into an engaging learning experience.
Spaces for belonging
Help renew the large gathering room for student showcases, celebrations, family gatherings, worship and reflection. Flexible seating, presentation tools and thoughtful storage can support the staff and programs that bring these moments to life.
The same campaign covers a welcoming office for lesson planning, staff preparation, and conversations with families and volunteers. The adults who serve students need somewhere to get ready, and refreshed halls and student artwork can make the walk to class feel more welcoming.
The room is only the beginning. What fills it, and who is standing in it, is the rest of this campaign.
Your partnership
A student is held up by three things at once: the adults who know them, the program that meets them where they are, and a room that is ready when they walk in. This campaign invests in all three.
Staffing and consistent support for students, so the adult a child trusts is still here next semester. And training and professional development, so that adult keeps getting better at the work.
Improvements to what we teach and the materials students learn from, across reading support, tutoring, after-school, robotics and camp.
Learning rooms, gathering spaces and the campus improvements that support them, inside the building and out on the Field of Hope.
We will discuss the purpose of your gift, the relevant budget and timing, and a payment schedule that works for you. We will also agree on updates that keep you connected to the work you support.
Scope, budget, timing and any designated gift are agreed with you, not set in advance on this page. Gifts to this campaign are unrestricted across people, programs and places unless you tell us otherwise.
Questions
Into the three areas on this page: people, programs and places. We file a Form 990 every year and will send a copy on request, along with our financial statements.
Hope Horizon East Palo Alto is a registered 501(c)(3), EIN 77-0151434. Gifts are tax-deductible to the extent the law allows. We are not tax advisors, so check specifics with yours.
Yes, all three. Our ways to give page has the details, or email Eric and he will walk you through it.
Yes, and it is the steadiest kind of support there is. The Open Door Circle is our monthly giving community.
Introduce us to one person, or come volunteer. Both are worth real money to this organization and neither costs you any.
The event
It finishes with all of us in one place.
Harvest of Hope is where the campaign lands, 6 to 8 pm on Friday, October 23. The activities and how to RSVP are still being set by our program team, and we will publish them here as soon as they are confirmed rather than guess at them now.
It happens on the Field of Hope, which opened in October 2021: a basketball court, a turf field, a picnic area, a walking path and a gathering circle around a campfire ring. More than 230 neighbors came to the opening, the California State Senate recognized it that November, and the Jeremy Lin Foundation covered a majority of the cost of the court. It is a good example of what this campaign is for, because it was built by a lot of people who each did one part.
The month ahead
From September 23 to October 22 we are telling this story one week at a time, and finishing together at Harvest of Hope on October 23.
Where this started, who planted it, and the ground it grew in: 1984, this block, and the Field of Hope out front.
What steady care actually looks like. The rooms, the programs, and the adults who keep showing up on an ordinary Tuesday.
Families, volunteers, churches and neighbors. Nobody does this alone, and this is the week we say so out loud.
What the next forty years need from us, and the invitation to be part of building it.
Last updated 2026-09-23
One more thing
Give to the campaign, or tell us about one person who should know this place exists. Both move it forward.
