Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Illinois Capital Region today will receive a $45,000 grant award from Comcast Inc. for an After School Mentoring Youth Development and Volunteer Expansion Project.
The money will be distributed over a three-year period.
The primary goal of the initiative is to serve 354 children in Sangamon and Logan counties. With the help of teachers and school counselors, Big Brothers Big Sisters will identify the children with the greatest need and match them in a professionally supported one-to-one mentoring relationship to enhance academic performance and social skills development.
The secondary goal will be to provide leadership development training to the volunteer Big Brother/Big Sister high school and college students to develop them as mentors to make the greatest impact on the children they are matched with and increase the number of male and black mentors.
By Staff Report
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