About Us

We care about the future of our children. As one of the largest one-to-one mentoring organizations in the nation, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metro Atlanta (BBBS) currently serves over 2,800 youth in one-to-one relationships. Our service to our community extends beyond the city of Atlanta to the 12-county metropolitan area surrounding the city. Our staff of approximately 40 employees supports our city’s children and their families through friendships that are formed with caring adult volunteers.

Please explore our site to learn more about our history, our staff, the services we provide, and our board and advisory committees, and to find out how you can become involved in the most comprehensive one-to-one mentoring program in the city of Atlanta. 

Several programs form the foundation of BBBS’s mentoring objectives:

• Community-based Mentoring is our largest program. Supervised and supported by trained professionals, children and volunteers are matched to build a special mentoring friendship.
  
  
• School-based Mentoring is one-to-one mentoring conducted on site at local schools. Typically, it is the result of a partnership between metro Atlanta corporations, BBBS, and area elementary and middle schools.  Friendships are formed between corporate volunteers and children attending partner schools.
  
  
• Hispanic Mentoring Program (HMP) is a community-based program where a one-to-one friendship is established between an adult volunteer and a child who may come from a home where Spanish is the primary language spoken.
  
  
• Mentoring Children of Incarcerated Parents (MCIP) is the one-to-one mentoring initiative that provides children of incarcerated parents with mentors from the community.
  
  
• Mentoring Towards College (MTC), one of our newest programs, uses a highly directive and specialized mentoring curriculum to ensure that children strive to complete high school and have the cultural, educational, and personal sophistication to apply to, attend, and succeed in college.