Big Brothers Big Sisters receives Best Buy community grant

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Cedar Rapids and East Central Iowa was awarded a $5,000 grant from the Best Buy Children's Foundation to help fund the Character Building Project for teen matches.

The Best Buy Children's Foundation selects non-profit organizations that provide positive experiences to help teens excel in school, engage in their communities, and develop leadership skills.

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Cedar Rapids and East Central Iowa, BeABigCR.org, provides children facing adversity with strong and enduring, professionally supported one-to-one relationships that change their lives for the better, forever.

Most children served by Big Brothers Big Sisters are in single-parent and low-income families or households where a parent is incarcerated.  As the nation's largest donor and volunteer supported mentoring network, Big Brothers Big Sisters makes meaningful, monitored matches between adult volunteers (“Bigs”) and children (“Littles”).

Big Brothers Big Sisters seeks to facilitate the success of children living in our community by encouraging education and school attendance through providing focus in three competency areas:  Connectedness, Attendance, Resources, Extra Curricular (C.A.R.E.).  Big Brothers Big Sisters has already seen that the Character Building Project is a springboard for greater success for the children served.  The Character Building Project is an initiative of Big Brothers Big Sisters to help children grow as individuals through education and exposure to a variety of competency areas.

For more information, please contact Big Brothers Big Sisters at (319) 377-8993.