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Big Brothers Big Sisters is a formal partner in a community collaboration to reduce the area dropout rate and improve graduation rates and 21st century skills of students in the Quad Cities area. Big Brothers Big Sisters will be piloting this new program beginning in January 2010, creating approximately 70 new one-to-one adult-child relationships at four targeted schools in Rock Island and Scott counties. Participating schools will be JB Young and Williams in Davenport, and Washington and Edison in Rock Island. This unique program will match vulnerable children underperformed and disengaged in the educational process with positive adults who will help the student explore various career pathways throughout the Quad Cities. A new Mentor guide tool helping students reflect on their interests and motivations will be supported by the adult mentor in an effort to help the student connect interests with academic selection, performance and life goals. The pilot phase of this program is supported by as grant from the Community Foundation of the Great River Bend. United Way of the Quad Cities, the Iowa and Illinois Quad City Chambers of Commerce, areas school districts, Alcoa, Deere & Company, Scott Community College and the Iowa State Extension Service are all collaborative partners in this initiative.
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 Modern Woodman of America has awarded BBBS a grant in the amount of $7,500 to become a local sponsor of the National Corporation for Community Service AmeriCorps Program. BBBS has served as a local host site for AmeriCorps since 2007. Currently more than 50 community volunteers are serving a one year service contract to assist the organization in supporting and expanding one-to-one mentoring within a 13 county service area. As a sponsor of the program, Modern Woodman is assisting with the local match requirements of the grant and allows members additional training opportunities in leadership, first aid, project management and marketing/public relations. Modern Woodman is the first local organization to step forward to assist BBBS in hosting this program. The addition of the AmeriCorps program has allowed the organization to significantly increase its impact in high need urban and rural areas, as well reduce its overall cost per match. BBBSMV currently impacts over 1,500 children annually through its coordinated one-to-one mentoring programs. BBBSMV is a donor supported volunteer organization that engages community volunteers and matches them in a coordinated relationship with vulnerable children in need of positive adult influences. |
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