The following is a guest post written by Amber Jones, Customer Relations Specialist at Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metropolitan Chicago, in honor of National Mentor Month.
Working at Big Brothers Big Sisters, we spend a lot of time making our pitch – why mentoring works. You can often find us citing statistics, telling stories and showing pictures.
Those tools can be powerful, but a recent moment on the national stage truly made us reflect on the importance of what we do. In the wake of the...
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Posted by Christine Heim | 1/24/11 12:08 PM UTC | Related: Blog
On Thursday, 2/18/2010, Chicago Youth Center welcomed 11 YLS members to their facility at 3947 S. Michigan Ave. for what turned out to be an exceptional volunteer event.
First, the site coordinators indulged us in a tour of the center, which boasts a host of activity hubs (e.g. swimming pool, basketball court, library, teen lounge, computer lab, cafeteria, etc.) all situated off of a narrow maze of hallways in a building more than 100 years old that, from the street, looks too small to contain more...
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Posted by Jasmine Shaw | 2/20/10 2:17 PM UTC | Related: Blog | Young Leaders Society
