About us

Border Youth Tennis Exchange

BYTE is a multinational youth development organization that combines sports, art, tech-based education, and job readiness training for kids and adults. BYTE specializes in programs that span the US/Mexico border and custom sports enrichment for populations in locked facilities, such as migrant and child-welfare shelters, state and municipal prisons, and facilities for adults and youth with developmental disabilities.

BYTE is a leader in trauma-informed community coaching and in 2020 received the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation National Sport Award for interventions in the fields of Sport for Humanitarian Aid and Sport for Public Health.

BYTE is a National Junior Tennis & Learning chapter, supported by the US Tennis Association Foundation.

The urban area of greater Nogales is historically a single culturally linked community, split by the US-Mexican border between the states of Arizona (US) and Sonora (Mexico). Nogales, Arizona and its sister city Nogales, Sonora are still commonly referred to as "Ambos Nogales"—meaning "both" or "together." Although separated by physical barriers, communities in Ambos Nogales share similar social and public health concerns, such as higher than average poverty rates, underfunded municipal agencies, and close proximity to illicit networks.

BYTE partners with a Mexican Community Foundation called Fundación Empresariado Sonorense (FESAC). FESAC oversees a network of over fifty Mexican non-profit organizations, providing both strategic and financial support.