Mission
Compassionately feeding the mind, body and spirit through whole-heartedly investing in the people of the La Mosquitia region of Honduras by lovingly providing education, meeting physical needs and encouraging spiritual formation.
Ruling year
2010
Executive Director
Katie Volosen
Main address
Po Box 2993
Mckinney, TX 75070 USA
EIN
27-2306632
NTEE code
Secondary/High School (B25)
Christian (X20)
Rural (S32)
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Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Honduras faces several challenges in the area of education including illiteracy in rural populations, low access to secondary education and teacher apathy. The region of La Mosquitia is one of those remote regions where education challenges are seemingly insurmountable. Reach Out Honduras aims to address education challenges through our middle and high school located in the city of Puerto Lempira in the La Mosquitia region. Reach Out Honduras currently offers a holistic education option for almost 500 economically-challenged students. Additionally, Reach Out Honduras has programs tailored to teen moms and dads, as well as, adults.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Abundant Life Institute
Abundant Life Institute exists to provide an excellent education, from a Christian Biblical perspective, to economically-disadvantaged students, while seeking to develop the whole person for the glory of God. We seek to prepare each student spiritually, academically, physically, and socially to love God and their neighbor. (Proverbs 22:6)
New Life Project
This program is designed to reach out and serve young women who are pregnant or who have small children with an option for attending class in a condensed form.
Where we work
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Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Number of program graduates
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Adolescents
Related Program
Abundant Life Institute
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Holding steady
Number of meals served or provided
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Adolescents
Related Program
Abundant Life Institute
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
In 2020 our Feeding Program pivoted to providing core nutrition staples to students' families through quarantine, and in 2021 school was only allowed to return on a part-time modified schedule.
Number of students enrolled
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Adolescents
Related Program
Abundant Life Institute
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
With mandated school closures through 2020 and 2021 amidst the pandemic, many students did not return until 2022. We started 2022 with 515 students, but finished with 486.
Goals & Strategy
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Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
Reach Out Honduras aims to empower and insire the people of the La Mosquitia region of Honduras, through holistic education, to realize their God-given potential to become leaders impacting all aspects of their communities. Reach Out Honduras, through its middle and high school, Instituto Vida Abundante, feeds the mind, body and spirit.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
The strategies of Reach Out Honduras are community partnership, fiscal responsibility, a diversified organizational base, professional development for teachers and key leaders.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
Reach Out Honduras has a staff of indigenous, local teachers and employees. We believe that empowering local leaders leads to long term sustainability. Our North American leadership team focuses their effort on maximizing impact through the development of local leaders.
Reach Out Honduras is innovative and our model is uniquely-tailored to reach results while allowing our parent partners to collaborate in the education of their children.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
Reach Out Honduras has provided 8 college scholarships, culminating in 2 college graduations Reach Out Honduras through Instituto Vida Abundante will graduate 60 students in 2020 from our full-time and GED programs. The Instituto Vida Abundante Feeding Program provides over 900 meals per day to our students.
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Operations
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Board leadership practices
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Board orientation and education
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CEO oversight
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Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Not applicable -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes -
Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? No
Organizational demographics
Who works and leads organizations that serve our diverse communities? Candid partnered with CHANGE Philanthropy on this demographic section.
Leadership
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Equity strategies
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- We review compensation data across the organization (and by staff levels) to identify disparities by race.
- We disaggregate data to adjust programming goals to keep pace with changing needs of the communities we support.
- We employ non-traditional ways of gathering feedback on programs and trainings, which may include interviews, roundtables, and external reviews with/by community stakeholders.
- We have long-term strategic plans and measurable goals for creating a culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.
- We have a promotion process that anticipates and mitigates implicit and explicit biases about people of color serving in leadership positions.
- We seek individuals from various race backgrounds for board and executive director/CEO positions within our organization.
- We have community representation at the board level, either on the board itself or through a community advisory board.
- We help senior leadership understand how to be inclusive leaders with learning approaches that emphasize reflection, iteration, and adaptability.
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