01 · Formation
Mentoring & Formation
Small-group and sustained adult-guided development built around belonging, identity, habits and responsibility.
Explore programsBuilding the infrastructure for boyhood
Boys need more than potential. They need formation.
Mentoring, leadership, life preparation, technology, enterprise and real-world learning for boys and young men.
Started in Houston in 2017. Today headquartered in Dallas–Fort Worth, Texas.
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Programs · Mentoring · Skills
For Schools & CommunitiesStart a Boys Lead Charter →
Partnerships · Local delivery · Training
For Funders & SponsorsInvest directly in the work →
Programs · Access · Institutional growth
For Universities & PractitionersExplore BEXT Institute ↗
Training · Research · Professional learning
We build the people, places and pathways boys need to become capable, responsible men.
The formation gap
Growing up is not the same as being prepared.
Technology, work, family life, education and culture are shifting at once. Boys need more than activities. They need trusted relationships, useful capability, meaningful responsibility and environments that deliberately prepare them for adulthood.
The answer is not panic. It is intentional formation.
Our work
Programs that build capability.
02 · Enterprise
Boypreneur
Enterprise, financial capability, pitching, customer thinking and practical problem solving.
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03 · Future Skills
BYTES & Future Skills
Technology, AI literacy, digital capability, creativity and skills for a changing economy.
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Help build a permanent place for boys.
Our goal is $100,000 to launch and operate the BEXT Center for Boys and Young Men in Richardson for one year.
After-school formation
Mentoring & leadership
BYTES technology & AI skills
Boypreneur enterprise
Practical life skills
Family engagement
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Direct support for programs, mentoring, skills and community expansion.
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Bring Boys Lead into a school, congregation, nonprofit or city.
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Boys Lead Radio
Conversations for boys, families, mentors, educators and builders.
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Global Boys Summit
The official Boys Lead Foundation convening for boys-development leadership and action.
Explore the summitImpact & evidence
Say exactly what the evidence supports.
We distinguish reach, participation, sustained mentoring and measured change because attending an event is not the same as experiencing developmental transformation.
Explore Impact20,000+
Boys and young men reached across programs and engagements
2017
Boys Lead started in Houston, Texas
2
Documented 12-week mentoring cohorts: Abuja and Etobicoke
125
Boys in the documented Kabbussa school-club cohort
The work in motion
Across communities.
Dallas · Abuja · Johannesburg · Accra · Peterborough
Accra, Ghana
Johannesburg, South Africa
Peterborough, United Kingdom
Field evidence
Specific programs. Specific claims.
Kabbussa · Abuja
125 boys. 12 weeks.
Weekly mentoring with boys ages 12–18. Internal program measurement reported improvement among more than 69% of participants.
See impact methodologyEtobicoke · Toronto
Weekly mentoring over 12 weeks.
Approximately 20 boys participated in a sustained school-based mentoring program.
See impact methodologyBuffalo · New York
School-based mentoring.
Approximately 30 boys participated in documented Boys Lead school mentoring activity.
See impact methodologyFrom programs to institutions
Build permanence around boys.
Charter Network
The local implementation pathway for schools, congregations, nonprofits and communities ready to establish sustained Boys Lead work.
Start a charterBEXT Institute
Professional learning, research, training and field development for the people and organizations who build boys.
Visit bextinstitute.orgTrust infrastructure
Safeguarding is part of the program.
Boys Lead works with children and young people. Adult standards, screening, conduct expectations, reporting pathways and safeguarding training must therefore be visible, practical and built into delivery.
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If you run a school, congregation, city program or campus, we can help you put mentoring, skills and adult training in one structure.
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