Esquivel and Giving Children Hope Team Up with support from Dockers This article is originally written for Forbes. Find the whole article here! https://www.forbes.com/sites/dockers/2019/11/19/dockers-teams-up-with-forbes-under-30-summit/#7d0325b47531 The road to success isn’t always paved with gold. Sometimes, our beginnings are humble and far removed from our goals. Challenges are twice as tough and the vision of a […]
Qualified Charitable Distributions
Qualified Charitable Distributions Did you know that if you meet certain criteria you may be able to gift money directly from your IRA to Giving Children Hope? To do this you must be over 70 ½ years old, the distribution must be a required minimum and cannot exceed $100,000. The advantage? The Gift satisfies your […]
Giving Children Hope is proud to support the Sixth Annual Quiñceanera banquet
Giving Children Hope is proud to support the Sixth Annual Quiñceanera banquet held at the Muckenthaler Cultural Center, by providing gift bags with jewelry, make-up brushes, deodorant, feminine products, and more. “These young women have dealt with more in their young lives than most of us have in our adult lives,” – Adam England, Cheif […]
Tender Care Community Outreach Program makes dreams come true in 2019!
Giving Children Hope wouldn’t be able to serve thousands of children across the street and around the world without the support of deeply committed individuals who sacrifice their time and utilize their networks to bring hope. Among our greatest supporters, the Tender Care Community Outreach Program is a group from the Jain Center of Southern […]
Lost. Homeless. Depleted. Meaningless.
These words offer a description of the experience of millions of people around the world. Fathers and mothers, sons and daughters, whose identities have been stripped and transformed into statistics that at our most calloused we easily scroll past. They have lost their families, homes, and their jobs, because of imminent and life-threatening dangers. They […]
Point-In-Time Count Reveals increase in Homelessness
Every other year Orange County surveys the number of homeless individuals residing within its borders. This year’s recently released Point in Time count revealed that there are 6,870 homeless individuals across the county. This represents a 43% increase from the previous survey released in 2017. This number includes 466 families, with 966 children living in temporary shelters […]
A Walk towards Hope
As the father of three teenage sons most conversations at my house these days begin with “Dad, I need…” followed by an urgent request that is almost always a “want” and rarely a “need”. I recently returned from the Venezuelan border where I spent the week with the “caminantes”, or walkers, whom the entirety of […]
Giving Children Hope’s Volunteer Spotlight: The Hope Raisers
We are proud to present The Hope Raisers as the Volunteer Spotlight for the month of May. The Hope Raisers is an amazing group of women who more than live up to their name; they are providing hope to not only the families in our We’ve Got Your Back program, but also to the staff […]
Giving Children Hope’s Volunteer Spotlight: Dale Harder
We are proud to present Dale Harder as the Volunteer Spotlight for the month of April, Harder is a handyman extraordinaire here at GCHope. When he isn’t volunteering, Harder loves traveling with his best friend – his wife, Judy, – and their kids. Giving Children Hope is extremely blessed to have such amazing and supportive […]
Celebrating 25 years of Across the Street & Around the World
What started in 1993 with the adoption of a child in Eastern Europe has grown into the Giving Children Hope that now serves thousands of children and families across the street and around the world every week. This year, we celebrate our 25th anniversary and we invite you to celebrate with us. Giving Children Hope […]