Big Brothers Big Sisters Of Greater Los Angeles Hosts Their Big Launch Grand Opening Celebration Of New Offices At Goodwill Community Enrichment Center
60 YEAR-OLD ORGANIZATION PARTNERS WITH GOODWILL SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
LOS ANGELES, March 24, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Los Angeles (Big Brothers Big Sisters) celebrates the grand opening of its new offices at the Goodwill Southern California (Goodwill) Community Enrichment Center at Fletcher Square with an opening party, Saturday, March 28th from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. (3150 N. San Fernando Road, Los Angeles). The public is invited to share in the family-friendly festivities which will include a host of fun activities including a kids fun zone, game truck, face painting, Clippers and Dodgers ticket giveaways, KIIS FM van appearance with Manny on the Streets, Cousins Maine Lobster and Kona Ice food trucks, farmers market, a live performance by AJ Lehrman and more. Admission is free.
Co-locating with Goodwill affords Big Brothers Big Sisters and our families a host of benefits including workforce development, career training and placement programming. Co-locating will also provide partners with priority access to the Community Enrichment Center's state-of-the-art facilities, allowing Big Brothers Big Sisters to offer trainings, orientations, workshops and events, as well as hold staff and board meetings onsite. None of this would have been possible without our funding partners – The Ralph M. Parsons Foundation, The Rose Hills Foundation, Weingart Foundation and Union Bank – who saw the vision for how this move is leading us to build a stronger and more sustainable future for both organizations.
In 1955, Walt Disney and Meredith Willson founded Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Los Angeles. One of the largest youth mentoring organizations in the country, Big Brothers Big Sisters has served children and families facing adversity. They provide one-to-one youth mentoring services, carefully screening volunteer mentors and matching them with youth, and provide ongoing support for the volunteers, mentees, families, schools, businesses and community partners. Children in the program improve their school performance, avoid risky behaviors and build higher self-esteem and aspirations. These outcomes are substantiated by rigorous independent evaluation methodology. Philanthropedia, a GuideStar company, recently named BBBS as the #1 high impact national nonprofit organization serving at-risk youth. To learn more, visit www.BBBSLA.org, follow on Twitter at www.twitter.com/bbbsla, Facebook at www.facebook.com/bbbsla and on Instagram at www.instagram.com/bbbsla.
SOURCE Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Los Angeles
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