Like many sisters over the last year, Denise Gonzalez-Mendez and Itzel Rivera have had to visit with each other over Zoom. But before the pandemic, their in-person meetings didn’t take place around the kitchen table. Instead, the two sat around a conference room table at Gonzalez-Mendez’s employer, The Marketing Store, where they met through the mentoring program of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metropolitan Chicago.
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Jordan Bond and Omari Rasheed are not related. But they are brothers. Bond is the “big” to Rasheed’s “little.” They were matched by Big Brothers Big Sisters Chicago eight years ago, when Rasheed was in fifth grade. “From the jump, he was really a great mannered guy – confident, great personality, smart, willing to work hard. He was awesome from the beginning.”
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Today is Giving Tuesday, an international day of global generosity. As you're planning out your day of giving, we hope you'll consider 5 reasons why your gift to Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metropolitan Chicago will transform your community and help to defend the potential of youth.
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While this year looks a little different for us all, we hope this holiday season brings new ways to come together and celebrate – starting with a new recipe on the table!
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Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metropolitan Chicago hosted our first Bigs of Color Virtual Happy Hour on Thursday, September 24th. It was the 3rd in our series titled "Representation" which focuses on increasing the diversity of the Bigs in our programs and gives our current Bigs a safe space to speak about issues of race and representation.
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