Big Brothers Big Sisters

Big Brother Big Sisters provides children facing adversity with strong, enduring, professionally supported mentorship. The organization believes that all children can achieve success when given the proper tools and resources—and volunteer mentors are among the most important of those resources.

Since 1958, the organization has delivered one-to-one mentoring in the Bay Area, providing community-based, site-based, and career-connected learning programs to help children develop higher aspirations. Mentors support students in building self-confidence, avoiding risky behaviors, and achieving educational success.

Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Bay Area serves nine counties—Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, Santa Clara, San Francisco, San Mateo, Solano, and Sonoma—and helps more than 2,000 children every year.

Mission Statement

The mission of Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Bay Area is to create and support the one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth. Our vision is a Bay Area where all youth achieve their potential.

Services

For more than 100 years, Big Brothers Big Sisters has operated under the belief that inherent in every child is the ability to succeed and thrive in life. As the nation’s largest donor and volunteer supported mentoring network, Big Brothers Big Sisters makes and monitors meaningful matches between adult volunteers (“Bigs”) and children (“Littles”), ages 8-18, in communities across the country to develop positive relationships that have a direct and lasting effect.

Accomplishments

2024 Platinum Transparency Seal (Candid)
Charity Navigator 4-Star Seal
2024 BBBS Growth Award

History

Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Bay Area has been providing Bay Area kids with professionally supported one-to-one mentoring relationships since 1958, gradually growing to represent all of the Bay Area regions, at large.

With the first major Bay Area merger in 2006, three separate Big Brother Big Sister organizations — San Francisco & Peninsula, East Bay, and Santa Clara County — integrated into Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Bay Area to more efficiently serve the community and meet the increasing demand for services.

In 2017, we merged with Big Brothers Big Sisters of the North Bay, which had been serving children in Marin, Sonoma, Napa and Solano Counties since 1970, to further streamline resources. Effectively reaching the entire Greater Bay Area as a unified organization, we now serve children from nine counties in the Greater Bay Area: Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, Santa Clara, San Francisco, San Mateo, Solano, and Sonoma.

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