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How you can help Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Manchester
Thank you for supporting Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Manchester! There are many ways you can help the youth of Greater Manchester; please take a moment to look at any programs of interest:
Community Based
The Community Based program allows for Bigs to take their Littles anywhere in the community with permission from the parent. This can include things like visiting a park, museum, sporting event, movie, anyplace that sounds like fun to you and your little! The Community Based Program is run 3-4 hours every other week.
Site-Based Program
The Site Based Program allows for the Big to visit their Little in the child's school, after school program, daycare center, or other youth agency. BBBS is affiliated with 25 schools and childcare program's in Greater Manchester as well as 6 additional youth organizations. This program allows for the match to meet in a more structured environment for 1 hour a week. For some volunteers this is a better fit because of the option to have their lunch break with their Little, at the child's school.
DOE Program
This Program is an educationally based program where volunteers meet with a youth in the 4th-8th grade and focus on the educational needs of the child. The child and volunteer also enjoy selecting fun goals to attain like learning a new hobby. This program shows immediate results as the child's grades and school attendance records are closely monitored for improvement.
Mentoring Children of Prisoners
This program is specifically tailored to match children whose parent(s) are incarnated. The mentor meets with the child in the community or site-base venue.
Read to Succeed
The Read to Succeed Program was developed in response to the high drop out rate in Manchester. This program is for children from Pre K- 3rd grade and aims at helping the child to reach his/her reading level. This program runs similarly to the site based program, with an emphasis on reading in a fun environment, and takes place during the child's lunch hour once a week .
Child Waitlist Activities Program
This program is great for volunteers who want to do more, or those who are concerned about time commitment. There are usually about 100 children or more on our waitlist. BBBS of Manchester knows how important it is to help these children feel included in our program. This program is a way of giving the children and volunteers who are not matched, the same opportunity to take part in BBBS events.
Internship Program
Be part of the BBBS of Greater Manchester Team ~ Help the staff to maintain successful matches, market to new volunteers, and to add to your resume an important element of community leadership!
Sponsor A Child
This program allows you or your organization to Sponsor a Child in our program. With your sponsorship you/your organization would receive a photograph of the child, along with a quarterly report regarding the child's development since the match with their Big. This report and photo is a great opportunity to support our programs and have detailed information regarding the impact BBBS has on our youth!
Please call 669-5365 or email valerie@bbbsmanchester.org for more information.
MENtors needed!
 Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Manchester needs men mentors for Community Based and Site Based matches. One out of 10 new volunteers at Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Manchester are men, which means that plenty of young boys are match ready and waiting for some good men to step forward. Being a “Big Brother” requires no special skills – just a desire to be a friend to a child.
Community-Based Mentoring - In the Community Based program Bigs and Littles typically meet 2-3 times a month, for a minimum of one calendar year. We recommend that you keep a consistent schedule and that you see each other on a regular basis. Share an activity that gives you something in common to talk about. You want to select activities that give each of you a chance to learn more about one another. Buy a comic book to read to each other, play a board game, or take a ride in the car with the radio on and discuss the music! For children, playing can be learning. Most important - have FUN!
Site Based Mentoring - Our Site Based program allows Bigs and Littles meet once a week in schools, childcare centers and community after school sites, to talk and have fun. Bigs and Littles typically meet 45 minutes to one hour a week, throughout the school year, to read together, play sports or computer games, or simply talk about life and personal issues – just as friends do!
Please tell a friend, brother, co-worker to give us a call at 669-5365, x201.
Remember, it is all about those Little Moments that create Big Magic!
Our mission is to help children reach their potential through professionally supported, long-term, one-to-one relationships.
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Manchester has been matching children - Littles - with caring, dedicated mentors - Bigs - since 1966. It has been said that what we do is as elementary as putting a friend in a child's life, and as essential as putting hope into a child's future.
Become part of something Big!
If you have a child, or are a child, who could benefit from having a dedicated friend and mentor...
If you are interested in volunteering as little as one hour a week to make a Big difference in the life of a child...
If you would like to support the work done by Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Manchester...
Then you have come to the right place!
Please browse our site - Get a feel for who we are and what we do - Then contact us and be part of something Big!
We are proud to have initiated the First in the Nation relationship between Big Brothers Big Sisters of NH and the NH National Guard Family Assistance program that is dedicated to finding Bigs for the children of our deployed citizen soldiers who are feeling or expressing a need for more support and mentoring during this time. Contact us and find out how you can help!
Matching Gift Search
Many employers sponsor matching gift programs and will match any charitable contributions made by their employees. Go to www.matchinggifts.com/bbbs/ for more information.
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Taking a vacation or business trip?
Turn your trip into a gift!
Make a reservation at a Holiday Inn hotel by using the link above and 9% of the proceeds will go directly to Big Brothers Big Sisters.
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