What is Boys Hope Girls Hope? - A residential poverty intervention program for motivated student scholars from at-risk families. A home for promising students in families struggling with things like food and housing insecurity.
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Mission: The home gives the students the emotional, intellectual, nutritional, and academic support they need to be successful in high school.
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Connection to Saint Ignatius—Boys Hope Girls Hope provides a home for up to 12 Saint Ignatius High School student scholars.
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Who Donates Dinners—Each school that BHGH provides a home for its students, including Saint Ignatius and Walsh Jesuit, provides a weekly dinner for the student scholars.
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Family Service Day—Make and Donate a Meal. This is a great way to do a family service day! Consider picking a Sunday for your family to make a main course together to donate for a Monday Boys Hope Girls Hope dinner!
WAYS TO DONATE:
Donating Individual Items
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You do not need to prepare and donate a whole dinner!
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Donating Sides/Toppings/Snacks—The meal sign-up is broken down into small items like bags of salad, shredded cheese, containers of sour cream, tortillas, and snacks.
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Every little donation helps!
Donating Main Course Items
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Make Extra to Donate - Check the signup for the meal list and plan your Sunday dinner to make leftovers to donate on Monday for BHGH.
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Pre-made Items - You can also just purchase pre-prepared items from Costco,GFS, grocery stores, etc. If you sign up to donate Mac & Cheese, soup, or chili,for example, you can just purchase trays of Stouffer’s Mac & Cheese or pre-made bags/containers of soup or chili from places like GFS or Costco.
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Pre-Cook - Pre-cook items that take a long time to bake so they can just be reheated.
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Containers - If you make homemade soup or chili, for example, drop it off in throw-away tupperware containers.
Boys Hope Girls Hope Meal Sign Ups:
Sign Up HERE
Drop-Off Details: Location: Drop off at the Arrupe House located at 2071 W 30th St Cleveland, OH 44113. Located by Ignatius - the last house on the left at the end of the small side street between the Breen Center and Wendy’s.
Time: Drop off between 8am and 12noon on Monday.
Containers: Please mark items with Boy Hope Girls Hope or BHGH and use disposable containers. Inexpensive disposable containers can be purchased from Target, Walmart, Marc, Dollar Tree, Dollar General, or grocery stores.
Pre-Cook Food: Please have food pre-cooked and prepared to just be reheated.
With all of us doing a little, we can really provide great meals and afternoon snacks for the scholars. Thank you!
Jessie Bartlett m.jbartlett@parents.ignatius.edu
Ashley Taseff d.ataseff@parents.ignatius.edu
Social Concerns Co-Chairs