Prospectus
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Atlantic and Cape May Counties
The mission of Big Brothers Big Sisters is to provide children facing adversity with strong and enduring, professionally supported 1-to-1 relationships that change their lives for the better, forever. Our vision is that all children achieve success in life. In 2015 we are celebrating 50 years of helping local children face the challenges that they experience at home, in school, or in the community.
We recently surveyed some of the children in our program and found that:
- 100% maintained or improved in social acceptance
- 95% maintained or improved in scholastic competence
- 86% maintained or improved in their educational expectations
- 73% maintained or improved their grades
- 86% feel as though they have a special adult, other than their caretaker in their life.
In order to provide the professional support that ensures the “Bigs” and “Littles” in our program are safe, and effective, it costs an average of $1,200 per year, per match. With all non-profits seeing public funding, and national support decline, we depend for the majority of our funds to come from local individuals and businesses. We have four primary fundraising events every year. In the spring we have our Wild Walk for Kids, through the summer and in the fall we have a car raffle, we also have a mini-golf outing in the fall, as well as our annual Rise and Shine breakfast in the winter.
How to make a donation:
Send checks payable to "FUND NAME" and send to: Community Foundation of South Jersey P.O. Box 446 Haddonfield, NJ 08033 For contributions of appreciated securities, please be sure to notify Lee Albright, lalbright@communityfoundationsj.org, 856-528-3385 regarding your gift at the time of transfer. In this way, stocks can easily be identified, retrieved, sold, and directed to your fund without delay. Please direct all stock contributions to: Fidelity Investments DTC Number: 0226 Account Number: X39-154555 Account Name: Community Foundation of New Jersey, our parent organization, for further credit to the Fund. For current year tax benefits, contributions must be received by December 31. Please note that with some brokerage houses we have experienced that security transfers may take 14–21 days for settlement, so please plan accordingly with your year-end giving to your fund. For wiring instructions for cash contributions, please contact Lee Albright, lalbright@communityfoundationsj.org or Patty Heath at pheath@cfnj.org or 973.267.5533, x223 For making a grant from a DAF with another charity organization, make the grant to Community Foundation of New Jersey - Fund Name, EIN 22-2281783, PO Box 446, Haddonfield, NJ 08033, please notify Lee Albright when making the grant at lalbright@communityfoundationsj.org, 856-528-3385 |