Business of Student Success
We equip economically disadvantaged and under-resourced youth with the tools and skills to succeed in all aspects of their lives.
Access to opportunity—not potential—is what most often determines a young person's future.
At BOSS, we believe every young man deserves more than academic support—he deserves a community that believes in his potential, challenges him to grow, and prepares him to lead. We create an environment where scholars are inspired to think bigger, work harder, serve others, and become the drivers of their own futures. Every experience is intentionally designed to strengthen both individual excellence and collective success through the six BOSS Pillars of Excellence: Mental, Emotional, Social, Physical, Economic, and Spiritual BOSS.
Many of the young men we serve possess extraordinary talent but have had limited access to the relationships, experiences, and opportunities that accelerate success. BOSS closes that opportunity gap by surrounding scholars with caring mentors, high expectations, academic support, career exposure, and real-world learning experiences. Through a relentless focus on workforce readiness, STEM, artificial intelligence, data literacy, leadership, communication, and critical thinking, we prepare our scholars not simply to graduate, but to thrive in college, careers, entrepreneurship, and life.
A BOSS scholar experiences:
· Daily academic support, tutoring, and individualized coaching designed to strengthen academic achievement and build confidence.
· Year-round programming that follows scholars from middle school through college and into meaningful careers.
· Hands-on learning in STEM, artificial intelligence, coding, data science, business intelligence, entrepreneurship, engineering, and emerging technologies.
· Career exploration through industry visits, internships, job shadowing, executive speakers, and professional mentoring across fields including engineering, healthcare, business, law, finance, technology, media, and the skilled trades.
· Leadership development, public speaking, financial capability, service learning, and advocacy opportunities that cultivate character, resilience, and servant leadership.
· Summer Academy, BOSS Saturdays, college readiness, family engagement, and immersive experiences that expand horizons, build professional networks, and expose scholars to possibilities they may never have imagined.
The result is more than improved grades or college acceptance letters. BOSS develops confident, capable, purpose-driven young men equipped with the knowledge, character, relationships, and professional skills to create lasting success for themselves, their families, and their communities.
Six Pillars of BOSS
Mentally BOSS
Be coachable & teachable
Observe 4 learning stages
Strive for mastery
Self-care and awareness
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Emotionally BOSS
Become comfortable being uncomfortable
Openness to feelings and values
Stay true to you
Set boundaries
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Socially BOSS
Build connections
Operate with integrity
Strengthen your voice
Step outside comfort zone
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Physically BOSS
Balance diet & exercise
Organize your time
Strengthen mind & body
Set personal goals
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Economically BOSS
Spiritually BOSS
Believe in possibilities
Observe ethical decisions
Stay aligned
Servant leadership
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What We Do
Inspire
Our scholars have endless possibilities within them. BOSS inspires their passion, courage, and confidence to skillfully transcend any limitations placed by given realities or internal doubts. BOSS supports their interests, fuels their dreams, and celebrates their pursuit of greatness.
Equip
Life is very rarely a straight and even path. Through the BOSS program, our scholars develop the necessary skill sets, mindsets, and resources to navigate life’s most difficult twists and turns.
Empower
Empowering our scholars to soar and step forward bravely into the unknown, being guided more by imagination than memory, and ultimately, to reach beyond their fears and failures in all areas.
What Makes BOSS Unique?
– Workforce Development Begins Early. BOSS prepares young people for college, careers, and economic mobility long before they enter the workforce. Beginning in middle school, scholars build the academic, technical, leadership, and professional skills employers increasingly value.
– Whole-Person Development. Academic success is only one measure of readiness. Through the six BOSS Pillars of Excellence—Mental, Emotional, Social, Physical, Economic, and Spiritual BOSS—we develop resilient, confident, ethical young men equipped to lead in every area of life.
– Year-Round, Long-Term Commitment. BOSS is not a seasonal program. We walk alongside scholars from middle school through high school, college, and into meaningful careers, providing consistent coaching, mentorship, accountability, and support every step of the way.
– Real-World Learning. Scholars regularly engage with professionals, employers, universities, and industry leaders through internships, job shadowing, career exploration, workplace visits, executive speakers, and hands-on learning experiences that transform aspirations into achievable goals.
– Future-Ready Skills. Alongside rigorous academic support, scholars develop critical thinking, communication, financial capability, leadership, STEM knowledge, artificial intelligence, data literacy, and other durable skills that prepare them for an increasingly technology-driven economy.
– Relationships That Open Doors. Success is accelerated through relationships. BOSS intentionally connects scholars with mentors, alumni, professionals, employers, and strategic partners who expand networks, create opportunities, and help students envision—and achieve—what is possible.
– High Expectations with High Support. We believe every young man can achieve extraordinary outcomes when surrounded by caring adults who combine unwavering belief with accountability, structure, and personalized support.
– Families and Community as Partners. Parents, caregivers, schools, employers, and community partners are essential members of the BOSS ecosystem, creating a shared commitment to each scholar’s long-term success.
– A Model Designed to Scale. Through strategic partnerships with schools, universities, employers, corporations, and community organizations, BOSS builds an integrated ecosystem that expands opportunity, strengthens communities, and creates pathways to lasting economic mobility.
Boss Achievements
at a Glance
– 7 consecutive years of outperforming LAUSD and LBUSD peers on standardized assessments across all content areas.
– BOSS scholars show 63% higher math proficiency and 30% higher reading proficiency than their LAUSD and LBUSD peers.
– 99% of BOSS high school grads (77/79) are pursuing post-secondary education at institutions that include our home school, CSULB, Cal Poly, Florida A&M, Lincoln University, Loyola Marymount, LSU, Morehouse, San Diego State, Stanford, Tennessee State, Tuskegee, UCLA and Whittier.
– 5 consecutive years of raising the most money, most unique donors, and most peer pages for Long Beach Gives.
– SCE Community Partner Award 2024
– Super Bowl 56 Legacy Champion.
– 2020 People’s Choice Award winner, MIT App Inventor Global Hackathon for Good: Safe Encounter App. US patented. (Click here for a demonstration.)
– Partnership with Microsoft which provides year-round opportunities to learn coding, build video games, etc.
– Partnership with The Alliance, which includes all 11 Southern CA pro sport franchises, providing career exposure and networking and real world experiences beyond the game and playing court, diamond or field.
What Our BOSS Kids
Are Saying
What Our BOSS Parents
Are Saying
Our Boss Leadership Team
Our Board is Composed of People Committed to Helping Kids in Our Community
Potential is universal. Access and opportunity are not.
Every young person deserves the opportunity to realize their potential. Yet too many lack the relationships, experiences, expectations, and support systems that transform talent into educational attainment, workforce readiness, economic mobility, and lifelong leadership.
That’s the gap BOSS was created to close.
Your investment helps strengthen the developmental infrastructure that surrounds young people with the guidance, opportunities, and networks they need to thrive—not just today, but for a lifetime.
Invest in potential. Build opportunity. Change lives.
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