2022-409-E-Social Svc-Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Triangle-outside agency award

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Program information P a g e 4 o f 1 1 AGENCY INFORMATION Please provide the following information about your agency: 1. Date of Incorporation (Month/Year): 10/1998 2. Agency’s Purpose/Mission (no more than a few sentences): Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Triangle’s mission is to create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth. Our vision is that all youth achieve their full potential. We partner with parents and guardians, volunteers, and community members to give our youth aspirations, greater confidence, better relationships, educational success, and tools to avoid risky behaviors. 3. Please provide a brief description of your organization’s past achievements in carrying out similar projects and evidence of successful record of meeting proposed budgets and timetables (no more than 100 words). For over 100 years, our national organization has remained true to its founders’ vision of bringing caring role models into the lives of children. We are the oldest and most respected mentoring agency in the country. As a local affiliate for the past 23 years, prior to the pandemic we consistently met goals and stayed on schedule. We continuously work to diversify our funding and put over 80% directly towards programming. 4. Living Wage: Does this agency pay permanent employees a minimum living wage? (Yes / No) Yes If yes, is this agency an Orange County Living Wage Certified Employer? No If no, please briefly explain. The agency just completed a compensation review and adjusted all salaries to meet the living wage qualifications. We have not gone through the certification process with Orange County Living Wage. Schedule of Positions: # of FTE – Full-Time Paid Positions: 10 # of FTE – Part-Time Paid Positions: 2 NEW THIS YEAR Consistent with our commitment to equity and inclusion, the Towns of Chapel Hill and Carrboro and Orange County Government are taking steps together to center racial equity in the Human Services Funding Program. Over the course of the next year, the Towns and County will conduct a comprehensive racial-equity analysis of the program and we are requesting basic information about your organization’s racial equity work. a. Please describe how you have involved the intended beneficiaries of the proposed project in the planning and design process (in 100 words or less). BBBST involves the youth throughout the entire process of our program. Youth must want to be part of the program to be involved, are asked their preferences, and must approve their mentor before being matched. We train our mentors to build development assets in youth to empower them to ignite their potential. Throughout the match our staff speak to each kid monthly and ask about their interests, goals, and any activity ideas they would like the agency to host. Last year we had a financial literacy workshop based on a request of one of our kids. DocuSign Envelope ID: 5F504DF7-674E-4C84-BE84-9F2F9146F185