Big Brothers Big Sisters In The News

 

Interested in seeing what BBBS is up to in Mid Michigan and on a national level? View the different articles to see how people are making a difference in their own community!

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metro Detroit Launches 8th Annual ‘100 Mentors in 100 Days’

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metropolitan Detroit  has launched a drive to recruit 100 new mentors in 100 days.  BBBS offers the most proven mentoring programs in the US and has found new momentum in the White House initiative started last year: President Obama's My Brother's Keeper, which addresses persistent opportunity gaps faced by boys and young men of color to ensure that all young people can reach their full potential.   Full Article->

Big Impacts: Little Experience Fuels New Big Relationship

Following a yearlong deployment to Afghanistan, Cliff Brown returned home tired, but hopeful and excited about being back. As Cliff searched for a way to fill new time in a productive and meaningful way, he turned to Big Brothers Big Sisters.   Full Article ->

Big Brothers Big Sisters Joins Forces with The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies to Inspire Audiences to “Start Something Epic” 

Irving, Texas (November 17, 2014) – To celebrate the highly anticipated release of “The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies,” the final film in Peter Jackson’s epic “The Hobbit” Trilogy, Big Brothers Big Sisters, the nation’s largest donor and volunteer-supported mentoring organization, has teamed up with Warner Bros. Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures (MGM) and New Line Cinema to inspire audiences to “Start Something Epic.”  Full Article ->