Our Mission:
Provide children facing adversity with
​strong and enduring, professionally-supported
one-to-one mentoring relationships that
change their lives for the better, forever.

Our Story:
In 1904, a young New York City court clerk named Ernest Coulter was seeing more and more boys come through his courtroom. He recognized that caring adults could help many of these kids stay out of trouble, so he set out to find volunteers. That marked the beginning of the Big Brothers movement.

Around the same time, the members of a group called Ladies of Charity were befriending girls who had come through the New York Children’s Court. That group would later become Catholic Big Sisters.

Both groups continued to work independently until 1977, when Big Brothers Association and Big Sisters International joined forces to become Big Brothers Big Sisters of America.

More than 100 years later, Big Brothers Big Sisters remains true to our founders’ vision of bringing caring role models into the lives of children. And, today, Big Brothers Big Sisters currently operates in all 50 states—and in 12 countries around the world.

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Greater Richmond Headquarters
1707 Summit Ave, #200
Richmond, VA 23230

804-261-4940
South Hampton Roads
500 E. Main St. #1540
Norfolk, VA 23510

757-392-5155
Tri-Cities
1231 Mahone Avenue
Fort Lee, VA 23801

​804-319-5198