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- EIN 74-1148915
- 713.271.5683
- 6437 High Star Houston TX 77074 USA
- www.bbbstx.org
- houstonbbbs
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Big Brothers & Big Sisters, Children & Youth, Education, Primary & Elementary Schools, Secondary & High Schools
Mission: Our vision is that all children achieve success in life. Our mission is to provide children facing adversity with strong and enduring, professionally supported 1-to-1 relationships that change their lives for the better, forever.
Target demographics: children and youth facing adversity
Direct beneficiaries per year: 1,997 children in the Greater Houston Area
Geographic areas served: local communities
Programs: meaningful, monitored matches between adult volunteers ('Bigs') and children ('Littles'), ages 6 through 18, in communities across the country. We develop positive relationships that have a direct and lasting effect on the lives of young people. Professionally trained Big Brothers Big Sisters staff members work with our partners in the education and juvenile justice communities to find children facing adversity and assess how our programs can have the greatest impact. Big Brothers Big Sisters targets the children who need us most, including those living in single parent homes, growing up in poverty and coping with parental incarceration.
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