Youth Organizations Join Forces
March 11, 1999 | Read Time: 1 minute
Big Brothers Big Sisters of America and Boys & Girls Clubs of America will work together to match 300 children with adult mentors in five cities across the country over the next two years.
The pilot program, called “Up 2 Us,” is being financed with $1-million from the Pillsbury Company.
Local Big Brothers Big Sisters organizations in Minneapolis; San Antonio; San Francisco; Tampa, Fla.; and Wilmington, Del., will recruit, screen, and train adult volunteers and pair them with youths from single-parent homes.
The children and their mentors will meet in Boys & Girls clubs, and will participate in many of the clubs’ programs.
Pillsbury, which is based in Minneapolis, decided to finance the program as part of a commitment it made to help youth in the wake of a national summit on volunteering, held in Philadelphia in 1997.
