Big
Brothers Big Sisters of America
Big Brothers Big Sisters of America
was founded in
1904 as
New
York Big Brothers by Ernest Coulter, who was influenced by Julius
Mayer, a judge in the New York Children's Court. The idea behind the program was
to find influential men to mentor delinquent boys.
Catholic Big Sisters
was founded in
1905, also in New
York. A similar idea emerged in
1903
in
Cincinnati,
Ohio, where Irvin Westheimer mentored a poor boy.
As
of 2004, the organization serves about 400,000 children across the
United
States.
See also
