BOY WITH A BALL

Our goals including expanding from our current six sites to eight cities by the mid 2017 and to expand to ten cities by mid 2018. Our additional goal is to be in every region of the world by 2020. Our goal is to scale up in the next five years to be impacting ten million people indirectly and 2 million directly.

Our goal within each city is that we would see a grassroots movement begun that would draw young people from every income level in society working together to help young people and their families living in slums developing to the point of exiting the slums and entering mainstream housing and finding gainful employment.

Boy With a Ball Global is an intermediary organization that seeks to develop young people and their familes around the world through:
-Developing innovative methodologies for positive youth, family and community development.
-Founding, equipping and supporting indigenous-led local youth, family and community development organizations.
-Weaving these local organizations into local, national and international communities of development to enhance their effectiveness.
-And by advocating for implementation of best practices in youth development in cities across the world.

Boy With a Ball Global began by developing Boy With a Ball Costa Rica, a local youth, family and community development organization in San Jose, Costa Rica and then expanded to launch local Boy With a Balls in Nicaragua and in San Antonio, Texas. As the organization grew, a separate intermediary organization, Boy With a Ball Global, was established and staffed with Boy With a Ball's founder, Jamie Johnson, a youth developer with more than twenty five years of experience in working with young people, developing youth programs and social entrepreneurship as well as a who's who of some of the organization's brightest talent developed throughout Boy With a Ball's history. Joining Jamie on the BWABG staff is Anna Currie, the former Executive Director of Boy With a Ball Costa Rica and Boy With a Ball San Antonio, Texas. Ms. Currie is the Vice President of Program Development with a specific focus on developing innovative methodologies and directing the organization's support and equipping efforts with local organizations.

Boy With a Ball Global has benefited from the last decade of building local organizations to build significant capabilities and partnerships that now have the organization poised for going to scale. BWABG partnered with the Intel Corporation to develop an online evaluation database to house the data and impact evaluation tools and data for the local organizations. Additionally, the organization began long-term partnerships with the Western Union Foundation and HP in Costa Rica in 2009. BWABG partnered with the US State Department as part of the CARSI initiative to develop a replicable model for doing community development in slums in 2011 that has included over $350,000 of funding and that has strengthened the organization's financial management systems.

BWABG's scientific advisory board includes world-reknowned experts in the world of mentoring and youth development, Dr. Michael Karcher, Dr. Jean Rhodes and Dr. Michael Nakkula as well as community development expert, Dr. Caterina Gouvis-Roman.

Boy With a Ball Global's work to have established a clear logic model and system for developing and supporting indigenous-led local youth, family and community development organizations that are transforming slums is a significant accomplishment that sets our organization up for now for scaling our work up by expanding into additional countries across the world. Here are some of the additional accomplishments that have contributed to this exciting moment in the organization's history:
-Boy With a Ball Global was awarded a third grant within the US State Department's CARSI Initiative for $150,000 in 2014.
-Volunteer hours gave over 27,468 total hours to helping young people in Africa, Latin America and the U.S.
-BWAB currently has 22 staff members worldwide.
-BWABG was named a Regional Winner at the 2012 Classy Awards in San Diego, CA.
-BWABG relocated our global headquarters to Atlanta, GA in July of 2013 in order to expand into Atlanta as well as to be situated in a regional airline hub.