Plainwell Community Schools committed to mentoring
A boy who was close to failing all his classes turns his grades around. As a sixth grader, a girl has no interest in earning a high school diploma but...
November 8, 2017
Category: Miscellaneous
Blog
Big Brother helps Little turn his life around
Ryan DeNooyer’s face lights up with pride when he talks about his Little Brother Shaquille. He is very proud of the progress his Little Brother has made in the three...
November 8, 2017
Literacy: Key to Littles’ success
“All children achieve success in life” is Big Brothers Big Sisters’ vision statement. But how do we define success and how do we help children achieve this goal? Since every...
November 8, 2017
Category: Miscellaneous
Stryker employees, interns champion BBBS cause
On June 8, the streets of downtown Kalamazoo were full of life-size s’mores. More than 50 Bigs, Littles, board members and staff walked in the annual Do-Dah Parade as a...
November 8, 2017
Category: Be a Big
Annual Benefit Dinner a big success
Event raises about one-third of agency’s yearly budget “Kalamazoo is not the biggest city, but there are a lot of people with big hearts here.” This sentiment from Corey Person,...
November 8, 2017
Category: Events
Teen volunteers despite brain injury.
16 year old named Barry County Outstanding Mentor of the Year It is easy to assume that a teenager who survived a serious accident would scale back all activities to...
November 8, 2017
Category: Be a Big/ Meet the Match
Grab goofy shoes, ball, help local kids
OK, I admit it: I’m not a great bowler. While you might see an occasional strike when I’m on the lanes, don’t expect me to appear on the pro bowlers’...
November 8, 2017
Category: Events
Big’s influence still felt decades later
‘I can’t imagine where I’d be today without him’ In late 2000, now-retired Pfizer employee Bob Short was reviewing resumes when he came across a familiar name. The name matched...
November 8, 2017
Category: Be a Big/ Meet the Match
Bigs plant seeds for Littles’ future careers
Kids get behind-the-scenes view of Bronson Battle Creek If you’ve ever watched a hospital-based television show, you might think the only people who work in the medical field are doctors...
November 8, 2017
Category: Be a Big
Bowl for Kids’ Sake team-building exercise for Fabri-Kal
When the Mad Hatter fell down the rabbit hole – er, bowling lane – at last year’s Bowl for Kids’ Sake in Kalamazoo, it was OK because Alice, Rhett Butler...
November 8, 2017
Category: Events
Big Sister was ‘always there for me’
By the time Deeanne Rogers was 9 in 1974, she had already lived a life that was extremely unhealthy and full of emotional pain causing her to become aggressive towards...
November 8, 2017
Category: Be a Big/ Meet the Match
Match Makers change kids’ lives for the better, forever.
The power of the Big Brothers Big Sisters program is the one-to-one relationship each Big has with their Little. This relationship begins at the Match Date – that is...
November 8, 2017
Category: Miscellaneous