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.
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