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This is the name of the professional staff member who interviews you and supports the match every step of the way.
Answer: Who is a Match Support Specialist?
In 2018, BBBS transformed its brand, moving away from being "Humble" to being this.
Answer: What is Community-focused?
This is the current CEO of Big Brothers Big Sisters of America.
Answer: Who is Artis Stevens?
This is the minimum age requirement to volunteer as a Big Brother or Big Sister.
Answer: What is 18?
While the national organization started with men, Big Sisters of Greater Rochester was founded to ensure girls had mentors. It officially merged with the boys' program in this decade.
Answer: What is the 1970s (1977)?
To ensure safety, every Big must undergo this mandatory check of their legal and criminal history.
Answer: What is a Background Check?
The current BBBS logo features three lines that form this letter, representing the Little, the Big, and the family.
Answer: What is the letter B?
The Board of Directors is responsible for this "F-word" duty, ensuring the agency has the money to operate.
Answer: What is Fundraising or Fiduciary responsibility?
Bigs are asked to make a minimum commitment of this many months to ensure a stable relationship.
Answer: What is 12 months or one year?
This woman was a legendary Rochester community leader and a driving force behind the "Big Sisters" movement locally, ensuring Black girls were represented.
Answer: Who is Fannie Madison?
The intake process for a Little always includes an in-person or in-home interview with the child and this person.
Answer: Who is the Parent/Guardian?
The 2018 brand refresh changed the organization's tagline to "Defenders of" this.
Answer: What is Potential?
This group of young professionals often supports the main Board through networking and recruiting younger Bigs.
Answer: What is the Young Leaders Council or Junior Board?
National stats show an "alarming lack" of this specific demographic of volunteers, despite the high number of boys on the waitlist.
Answer: Who are Men?
Along with Fannie Madison, this woman helped champion the needs of Rochester’s youth, proving that "Bigs" don't just mentor—they lead movements
Answer: Who is Arline Gant?
This is the formal term for the first time a Big, a Little, and their family all meet together.
Answer: What is the Match Meeting?
This is the year Big Brothers Big Sisters of America was officially founded by Ernest Coulter.
Answer: What is 1904?
The Board ensures the agency follows these "S-words," which are the rules for how matches must be run safely.
Answer: What are Standards?
When a Big is matched with a Little, they aren't expected to be a tutor or a parent, but rather a "Defender of" this.
Answer: What is Potential?
In the early years, the Rochester chapter operated out of the Baden Street Settlement, a hub for Rochester’s Black community founded in 1901 to provide these types of services.
Answer: What are Health and Social Services?
What is the primary purpose of the multi-step screening and training process before a match is made?
Answer: What is, To ensure child safety and create high-quality, long-lasting matches by carefully vetting and preparing volunteers and families.
Research showed that before the 2018 rebrand, 43% of people thought the old logo represented an agency for this, rather than mentoring
Answer: What is Adoption or Child-care?
This U.S. President became a "Patron" of the Big Brothers and Big Sisters Federation in 1925.
Answer: Who is Calvin Coolidge?
This famous artist produced the original sketch that became the iconic symbol for the Big Brothers Association in 1948.
Answer: Who is Norman Rockwell?
This neighborhood on the west side of Rochester, home to the Frederick Douglass monument, has historically been a primary focus for BBBS community-based recruitment.
Answer: What is the 19th Ward?