Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southwest Florida

Little Moments. Big Magic.

“Our work is as elementary as putting a friend in a child’s life, and as essential as putting hope in a child’s future.”

The Big Brothers Big Sisters Mission is to help children reach their potential through professionally supported, one-to-one relationships with measurable impact. Our vision is successful mentoring relationships for all children who need and want them, contributing to better schools, brighter futures and stronger communities for all.

Big Brothers Big Sisters is the largest provider of one-to-one youth mentoring services in the

United States

. Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southwest Florida, a United Way agency, has been bringing caring adults into the lives of children for 35 years. We serve children in Lee and Collier Counties, and currently have close to five hundred (500) mentoring matches, which includes both Community-Based mentoring matches and Bigs-In-Schools matches.

Statistics at BBBS SWFL for the past year show great success. In the community-based program, 80% of the children assessed maintained or improved in the area of confidence (self confidence, ability to express feelings, decision making, personal hygiene and appearance, interests and hobbies, sense of future), in the area of caring (relationships with parents and siblings, shows trust, respects other cultures, relationship with adults and peers) and in the areas of competence (school preparedness, ability to avoid substance abuse, ability to avoid delinquency, academic improvement, use of community and school resources, classroom participation and behavior).

Littles in the school-based program maintained and/or showed improvement in the following areas: academic performance by 90%, school attendance by 72%, behavior by 88%. Ninety percent (90%) of students mentored were promoted to the next grade level.

Many people and organizations are involved in Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southwest Florida, Inc. Click below to find out about each one. For additional information about our organization, feel free to review our By-Laws, Strategic Plan and Form 990.

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