Prescott- Yavapai Big Brothers Big Sisters has received Big Brothers Big Sisters of America’s 2010 Gold Standard Award for significantly increasing revenues and successfully serving more children last year. The agency is one of 22 of the national mentoring network’s nearly 400 agencies to receive the honor.
“Yavapai Big Brothers Big Sisters represents the best of the best of our agencies, those that made the greatest strides in 2009. Their success is the result of dedicated board and staff members who have worked strategically to engage community backing, allowing the agency to carefully make more mentoring matches and to support the children, families and volunteers they serve for longer periods of time,” said Big Brothers Big Sisters of America President and Chief Executive Officer Karen J. Mathis.
Judging for the Gold Standard Award is based on specific criteria that demonstrate excellence in increasing the number of children served, sustaining long-term mentoring matches and increasing revenues. A national panel of past winners conducted the judging.
This year Yavapai Big Brothers Big Sisters will serve over 1,000 children, matching them with a Big Brother, Big Sister or Family. According to Kathleen Murphy, President & CEO of Yavapai Big Brothers, “The power of a caring mentor – or “BIG” — who offers the simple, yet life-changing gift of friendship is what makes a difference in whether a vulnerable boy or girl is successful and reaches their potential. One-to-one mentoring not only works, it is the single most effective way to positively impact the life of a child.” Research proves that, compared to all other children their age, boys and girls matched with a Big Brother or Big Sister are sixty percent less likely to get arrested, forty-six percent less likely to initiate drug use and fifty-two percent less likely to skip school. Murphy continues, “In this economy, it is more important than ever that we recognize and support what works to help boys and girls stay in school and away from negative influences.”
Yavapai Big Brothers Big Sisters
Yavapai Big Brothers Big Sisters is a volunteer and donor supported organization proven to help the most vulnerable children in our communities succeed through one-to-one relationships. In a world where our social fabric has frayed –children being raised by just one parent or neither, sinking graduation rates, rampant drug and alcohol addiction and decaying values – Big Brothers Big Sisters is a bright ray of hope for a better life, a better future, a better generation.
For over 40 years, Yavapai Big Brothers Big Sisters has served 10,000+ vulnerable children throughout Yavapai County and Sedona. Today, the need for Big Brothers and Big Sisters is more critical than ever before. There are over 400 children, the majority of whom are boys, on a waiting list to be matched with a “Big.”
Learn how you can positively impact a child’s life, donate or volunteer. Contact Yavapai Big Brothers Big Sisters at 928-778-5135 or online at www.azbigs.org.
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