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How Companies Are Making an Impact on Big Brothers Big Sisters

Do you know who your company supports? Or did you ever hear about how your company bought a table at an event supporting a charity that you love and you didn’t have a clue about it? Of course you have! One of the biggest problems with corporate sponsorships is that no knows about them except for the people who are participating.

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Why mentoring is the BEST investment you can make!

So it sounds too simple to be effective, right? Everyone has mentors throughout their life but are they really life-changing? Well think of someone in your life that has helped steer you in the right path. This could be your parents who encouraged you to follow your dreams or someone that you looked up to who shaped what career field you decided to peruse.

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BBBSKC's ACES program helps prepare Littles for college and career success

Big Brothers Big Sisters understands that mentorship is key in supporting the future success of our youth. A mentor can have a tremendous impact in supporting the post-secondary journey. As a community, we have a responsibility to ensure that our students are life ready which encompasses college and career readiness. Although college may not be the best fit for everyone, students should be encouraged to become college and career ready because it also prepares them for the workforce.

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Reflections from a Case Manager

It takes me back to the time I sat at my desk with the exciting and so important task of finding the “just right” child for a volunteer to mentor. It takes me back to a mother’s excited reaction when I get to tell her that I’ve found a Big Brother or Big Sister for her child. It takes me back to pulling my car up to a child’s home to find that child waiting at the door or peeking out of the front window on the day of their match meeting.

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Girls on the Rise

College visits are an important step in the college search process, according to Christie Garton, founder of the 1,000 Dreams Fund. The chance to get a sense of the campus culture helps ensures that students end up at a place where they will thrive rather than wanting to drop out or transfer. However, at an average cost of $1,000-3,000 to visit schools, college visits can be cost prohibitive for many students.

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A Record-Breaking Year for Recruitment

So far this year, 829 Kansas Citians have completed their applications to become a Big Brother, Big Sister or Big Couple. That number eclipses the 763 new Bigs we recruited in 2013. And we have another two months to add to that total!

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Q&A: Auction Talk with Erica Ostroski

When Erica Ostroski, BBBSKC Director of Special Events, began her role at the agency in 2008, The Most Wanted Auction brought in $35,000 and 200 event attendees respectively. We sat down with Ostroski to learn how the event has become one of the hottest charity event tickets in town, bringing in sellout crowds and over $357,000 in 2015. 

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It's our Blog

Welcome to our blog! Here at BBBSKC, we have so many incredible things going on all the time and we want to do our best to keep our volunteers, donors, parents, and supporters informed and inspired by all that is happening. That is why we are beginning a weekly blog post on BBBSKC. In our blog you’ll see things from inspirational stories, event updates, department highlights, CEO stories, fun facts, Match resources, Q&A’s with Case Managers and much more. Our goal will be to teach you something new or inspire you each and every week in bite size pieces.

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