Superemos was founded at the end of 1999 as a non-profit foundation devoted to education and training programs based in the city of Estelí for low-income families in northern Nicaragua. Superemos is registered as a private, non-profit foundation with the Nicaraguan Ministerio de Gobernación (perpetual number #1809). The nine members of the foundation form a general assembly which elects the Board every two years. In 2009 the following members were elected until July 2011: