Amanda Gorman inspired the nation when she recited her poem “The Hill We Climb” at Biden and Harris’ inauguration in January. Inspired by Gorman and NPR’s recent collaborative poem, we wanted to flex our matches’ poetic abilities while also honoring Black History Month. We posed the prompt: ‘what does Black History Month mean to you?’ to our community based matches. They took the challenge and ran with it! We collected poems from Bigs and Littles, and then turned them all into a collaborative poem.
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We had a great group of organizations on the line for our quarterly Youth Coalition Meeting. In the February meeting, we hosted a panel discussion on Social Justice and Youth Activism. Thank you to our incredible panelists for your openness and dedication to the community!
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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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