City of Philadelphia - File #: 150726

• File #: 150726
• Version: 0
• Type: Resolution
• Status: ADOPTED
• File created: 10/1/2015
• In control: CITY COUNCIL
• Final action: 10/1/2015
• Title: Honoring Big Brothers Big Sisters Southeastern Pennsylvania for 100 years of service to the region.
• Sponsors: Councilmember Henon, Council President Clarke, Councilmember Reynolds Brown, Councilmember Squilla, Councilmember Goode, Councilmember Tasco, Councilmember O'Brien, Councilmember Jones, Councilmember Greenlee, Councilmember Johnson, Councilmember Blackwell, Councilmember Quiñones Sánchez, Councilmember O'Neill

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result	Tally
10/1/2015	0	CITY COUNCIL	Introduced and Ordered Placed on This Week's Final Passage Calendar	Pass
10/1/2015	0	CITY COUNCIL	ADOPTED

Title
Honoring Big Brothers Big Sisters Southeastern Pennsylvania for 100 years of service to the region.

Body
WHEREAS, Big Brothers Big Sisters Southeastern Pennsylvania is a nonprofit organization that provides children facing adversity with strong, enduring, and professionally supported one-to-one mentor relationships. The organization serves children who are living in areas with high poverty rates, high incidences of juvenile arrests, homelessness, familial incarceration, and struggling public schools; and

WHEREAS, Charles Edwin Fox, then Assistant District Attorney of Philadelphia, founded the organization in 1915 as a way to help address the problems young boys were facing. Since that time, the program has grown extensively, serving more than 120,000 children in the Greater Philadelphia area; and

WHEREAS, For 100 years, Big Brothers Big Sisters Southeastern Pennsylvania has been helping to break the cycles of incarceration and poverty by providing children with compassionate and caring adult mentors. Its geographic footprint includes Philadelphia, Chester, Delaware and Montgomery Counties where over 6,100 volunteers and children are engaged in mentoring programs; and

WHEREAS, The mentors for Big Brothers Big Sisters can diminish the risk factors children face and make a lasting impact on their lives. Last year, 98 percent of children in the agency's program advanced to the next grade, avoided being arrested, and avoided using drugs; and

WHEREAS, Big Brothers Big Sisters Southeastern Pennsylvania is the third largest of over 335 agencies nationwide, and voted the number one nonprofit for at-risk youth by Philanthropedia; and

WHEREAS, Over the last Century, Big Brothers Big Sisters Southeastern Pennsylvania has developed a strong reputation for the highest quality of service and expertise in child safety protocols. By steady adherence to the principles of fairness, reliability and integrity, it has become a leader in the community and a m...