About Us

We care about the future of our children. As the largest one-to-one mentoring organizations in the Southeast, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metro Atlanta (BBBSMA) currently serves over 3,390 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:  Butts, Cherokee, Clayton, Cobb, DeKalb, Douglas, Fayette, Fulton, Gwinnett, Henry, Paulding and Rockdale. Our staff of approximately 45 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 Prisoners (MCP) 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.

Our Mission

The mission of Big Brothers Big Sisters is to provide children facing adversity with strong and enduring, professionally supported one-to-one relationships that change their lives for the better, forever.

Child Protection


Big Brothers Big Sisters makes child safety our priority. We have zero tolerance for abuse or exploitation of any kind. Big Brothers Big Sisters has designed our child protection systems in collaboration with experts including the Centers for Disease Control, the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children and the Nonprofit Risk-Management Center.

Our volunteers and staff undergo thorough screening and background checks. Big Brothers Big Sisters’ professional mentoring support staff have ongoing and regular communication with volunteers, mentees and their families and are trained to immediately make law enforcement and child protective services authorities aware of any reports of abuse or exploitation.

We remain committed to improving children's odds for overcoming adversity, succeeding in school, breaking negative cycles and having higher self-esteem and aspirations. Safety and security are the foundation of the service we provide.

The integrity of our program is extremely important and to achieve the highest quality standards possible, we work to constantly review and strengthen our screening and background check systems as new best practices in the industry emerge.