Community Partners
Do your community a service. Start a community partnership with Big Brothers Big Sisters. In making an impact on area kids, community partners make an impact close to home. Plus, they can build member teamwork and loyalty in the process.
To find out more about a community partnership, please contact Melanie Chasteen, VP, Marketing and Communications, at mchasteen@bigmentoring.org or 512-807-3609.
Thanks to Our Partners
Because of you, thousands of kids across the country have a renewed outlook on life and the potential to achieve their dreams. So, thank you:
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1 Hour for Kids, an initiative from United Way, is a collaboration between seven Texas nonprofits that focuses on finding mentors and tutors for middle school students in the Austin Independent School District (AISD) and Manor Independent School District (Manor ISD). These eight Texas nonprofits include: Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Texas, Girl Scouts of Central Texas, Manor ISD Project Mentor, River City Youth Foundation, Con Mi MADRE, Communities in Schools of Central Texas and BreakThrough. Mentors and tutors are asked to give at least one hour each week to their student. 1 Hour for Kids recognizes middle school as a key intervention point and discovered research that states that a middle school student with adult support is twice as likely to graduate.
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Through this partnership, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Texas and BuildASign.com work together to fulfill our agency's signage needs. BuildASign.com's giving program enables BBBS to secure no and low cost signage for events as well as recruitment and fundraising efforts.
Click here to visit the BuildASign.com website. |
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Austin Sunshine Camps are owned and operated by the Young Men's Business League of Austin. Founded in 1928, the Camps seek to teach life skills, self confidence, trust and teamwork, while providing outdoor fun through traditional activities like hiking, swimming, canoeing, and sports. The Austin Sunshine Camps serve more than 850 high-potential, low-income youth every summer, and their year-round leadership and mentoring programs serve many more. The Camps provide an overnight summer camp experience at no cost to the children's families. |
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Big Brothers Big Sisters has teamed up with Keep Austin Beautiful and the Adopt-a-Street program to adopt one of Austin's most well-known streets. BBBS "owns" Sixth Street between Congress Avenue and Lamar Boulevard and works with volunteers and Littles a few times a year to keep it litter free. |
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Ignite a Dream has a mission to ignite the desire of at-risk youth communities in Austin to become lifelong leaders by actively engaging them in safe and structured sports activities through tennis, soccer and other athletic programs. Ignite a Dream will achieve its mission by providing all underprivileged children with athletic opportunities that will teach them valuable life skills as well as provide them with tools, resources and the passion necessary to excel. |
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StorageMart is working with Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Texas on our storage needs. The company offers non-profit storage rates and donations to many non-profits as well as a scholarship program for higher education which is available to graduating seniors and adults returning to school. |
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I Live Here, I Give Here’s mission is to deepen and expand the culture of personal philanthropy by inspiring Central Texans to invest more money in our community. We educate and connect individuals and non-profits so more Central Texans experience the personal benefit of increased philanthropy. |
Community Partners Supporting Big Brothers Big Sisters of America
African Methodist Episcopal Church
Alpha Phi Alpha
Kappa Alpha Psi
Omega Psi Phi
United Methodist Church General Commission on United Methodist Men
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