Your Generosity Goes a Long Way.
Your investment is needed to give a child a mentor and to provide the professional support necessary to ensure a quality relationship. We're experts at mentoring and we're efficient with your dollars. We use volunteers and partner institutions to stretch your dollar further. Your support returns many times the investment and is good for our community.
Your donation means fewer kids in trouble in Miami-Dade. More children with a "Big" in our community means:
- More Miami-Dade children graduating high school
- More of our community's children making positive life choices
- More children doing better in school
- More kids who get along better with their families and friends
- Fewer children resorting to violence as a way to solve their problems
Big Brothers Big Sisters was selected by Forbes Magazine as one of its top ten charities.
With your dollars:
- We recruit volunteers and carefully screen each volunteer before pairing him/her with a child.
- We interview each potential Big, and each Little and their family.
- We maximize child safety.
- We provide each "match" with close support by a professional social worker.
- We provide family support, direct assistance, referral and intervention services.
- We sponsor cultural / educational / recreational enrichment activities to expose children to healthy new experiences.
- We provide volunteers with orientation, training and enrichment opportunities to help them be more effective mentors.
- We organize group mentoring activities for children who are waiting to be paired with a Big Brother or Big Sister.
- We support our Mentoring Resource Center, which serves over 50 local mentoring agencies through volunteer recruitment, referral and trainings.
In its 2003 survey of 200 large charities, Forbes Magazine selected Big Brothers Big Sisters as one of its top ten charities, making the publication's "gold star" list of charities which it believes are worthy of donor consideration. The magazine rated these non-profits on how efficiently they collect and distribute dollars, focusing on three critical categories: charitable commitment, fundraising efficiency, and donor dependency.
This year, Charity Navigator once again gave Big Brothers Big Sisters the 4-star "exceptional" rating (the highest possible) for its efficient financial management and growth. We are proud of these accomplishments and strive to build on our success, with your support.
