LATEST NEWS
Hello Future Awarded Multi-year Grant from USA for UNHCR
Hello Future Awarded Multi-year Grant from USA for UNHCR. “The support of USA for UNHCR is a catalytic investment in our program that also sends a clear message about the importance of supporting programs for refugee teenagers -- an age group often forgotten in the humanitarian sector,” said Charlie Grosso, Hello Future’s founder and executive director.
Welcome the Newest Hello Future Board Members
I am excited to introduce the newest members of our Board of Directors and Advisory Council. We simply cannot achieve our mission of bridging the education gap for adolescent refugees without the support and guidance of our talented and compassionate Board members. They are experts in their field, bring a wealth of experience, and will help move us closer to our goal of preventing a lost generation.
Design Workshop at MIT Migration Summit
The MIT Migration Summit focuses on education and workforce development in the face of displacement. As part of the program. Hello Future will present a participatory design workshop and journey mapping from the lens of refugee teens on April 25 & 26.
Hello Future at 2022 Skoll World Forum
On April 8th at 9am EST, we will host a Skoll Ecosystem event, Preventing a Lost Generation: Refugee Teens & 21st Century Economy. The event will focus on the themes of this year’s conference including progress, advancing global solutions, and moving past hardship.
Charlie Grosso on Transforming Youth Refugee Experiences with Hello Future, Featured on Seeds Podcast
Hello Future founder, Charlie Grosso, discusses the ways her upbringing impact her commitment to refugee youth with Steven More host of Seeds Podcast. They explore ways to bridge the gaps in humanitarian work and focus on the good.
Charlie Grosso Featured Guest in Center for Women's Leadership Events
Charlie Grosso featured on panel of successful female founders who forged their own paths in the business world.
Featured in Hechinger Report - Trying to improve remote learning? A refugee camp offers some surprising lessons
The Hechinger Report is a national nonprofit newsroom that reports on innovation in education. In this pandemic year where remote learning is failing across the U.S. revealing both the infrastructure divide and the need for greater investment in education overall. Yet, Hello Future has managed to make remote learning work in the most unlikely location, a refugee camp.
Hello Future Founder, Charlie Grosso, Awarded Luminary x UBS Entrepreneur Fellowship 2020
We are so honored to be recognized by Luminary and UBS for our work. Luminary is dedicated to delivering the resources, tools, connection, and community to support the work of this diverse group of entrepreneur fellows. Luminary, thank you for elevating and supporting our work.
How do we design an inclusive future with refugee teens?
Charlie Grosso is an Edmund Hilary Fellow since 2019. Our collaborative work with DSIL in the Global Youth Hack-a-thon has been featured by EHF as an example of how we must design with all stakeholders for true inclusivity. Read on to see what it’s like to design an inclusive future with refugee teens.
Incase you missed it - Highlight from Meet the Filmmaker Event (Replay)
What a great conversation with Susan McPherson, Alia Malik and our group of US youth and Syrian refugee students on what it’s like to spend the summer together in a virtual summer camp and the making of “I SEE YOU,” a short film for United Nations My World 360 Submission.
Charlie Grosso Keynote Speaker @ TeachSauce
"Despite how much time your teens spend buried in their cell phones and online, the majority of them would fail a digital literacy exam. A digitally native generation is a myth."
Charlie Grosso, founder and executive director of Hello Future, an international nonprofit transforming the refugee youth experience keynotes at TechSauce 2020 on the worrisome trends she's observed in teens worldwide, beyond refugee youth and what we can do about it.
Meet the Filmmakers of "I See You" - Hosted by Susan McPherson and Alia Malik
This summer, Hello Future hosted the ultimate global summer camp for teens.
30 teens from across the world came together and meet online for the first time. Refugee teens from Syrian and Afghanistan, youth from Somaliland, teens from the U.S and Canada.
This collaborative film is a result of their ideas, this global virtual meeting and sharing of their stories.
SXSW EDU 2020 - Selected Speaker: Transforming a Lost Generation
Charlie Grosso has been selected to speak at SXSW EDU, the annual technology, and education conference. The presentation will be centered around how digital literacy’s transformative power for refugee teens and under-serviced youth.
Hewa, Hello Future student speaks on youth panel of peace for Hiroshima 75th Memorial
PEAC and Midheaven Network in remembrance of the 75th anniversary of Hiroshima hosted a 24th Hour Event. Hewa, one of Hello Future’s star students represented the Syrian teens International Peace Bureau Youth Seminar.
Nonprofit Leaders Series: Hello Neighbor x Hello Future
Sloan Davidson, founder of Hello Neighbor, a US-based organization working with resettled refugee families here in the US chat with Charlie Grosso, our founder, about all the challenges and joys of working with refugees.
Hello Future, DSIL Global Kick Off Design-Thinking Hack-a-Thon for Refugee Teens and International Youth
At Hello Future, we believe young people already have the solutions. In collaboration with DSIL Global, Hello Future kicked off a week-long design thinking Hack-a-Thon for teens around the world to create solutions to the problems they face due the COVID-19 pandemic.
We Need a Library in Our Refugee Camp - The Hope Campaign - St. Paul's Cathedral
Hello Future students’ plan to build a library at the Barika Refugee Camp inspires hope through the HOPE Campaign, an initiative by St. Paul’s Cathedral.
Coindesk - At a Refugee Camp in Iraq, a 16-Year-Old Syrian Is Teaching Crypto Basics
How do you explain ethereum to someone who doesn’t know how to use email? What’s the best way to convey how many satoshis add up to a single bitcoin?
Hello Future Founder, Charlie Grosso, Awarded Alcon Grant on Women’s Entrepreneurship Day
Charlie Grosso, the founder of Hello Future, a life long entrepreneur, is honored with a grant from Alcon in celebration of Women Entrepreneurship Day 2019.