Big Brothers Big Sisters to Expand Latino Volunteer Recruitment and School- Based Mentoring Nationally Via $750,000 Cargill Grant. Communities in California, Virginia, Kansas, Tennessee, Indiana and Wisconsin to Receive Funds

“To expand its assistance to Hispanic youth and its school-based mentoring program in multiple states, Big Brothers Big Sisters has received a $750,000 three-year grant from Minneapolis-based Cargill.

Since 2004, the Big Brothers Big Sisters Hispanic Mentoring Initiative has increased the number of Latino mentors matched with Latino children by more than 50 percent. Cargill’s $450,000 investment in this initiative will help recruit, enroll, train and support Hispanic matches in and around Los Angeles, Harrisonburg, Va., and Wichita and Dodge City, Kan. With increasing Hispanic populations in these communities, local agencies in these states will produce Spanish materials, recruit and train Spanish-speaking staff and build strong community connections to provide one-to-one relationships with Hispanic youth.

Cargill’s $300,000 investment in the Big Brothers Big Sisters Bigs in Schools program will allow this program to expand in and around Wichita, Kan., Memphis, Tenn., Indianapolis and Milwaukee. Bigs in Schools matches adult volunteers with young people during the school day, typically for one hour each week during the academic year. Since the program’s launch in 1999, Big Brothers Big Sisters has more than tripled the number of children it has served in schools throughout the United States.”

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