Big & Little Potluck

BBBS of Erie County and Media Sponsor Kiss 98.5 & Janet Snyder are excited to celebrate Susan O’Sullivan as today’s Women Who Move the City Wednesday Honoree! Susan’s kindness, selflessness and philanthropic nature have inspired the entire Ingram Micro community, as well as Erie County as a whole. The Vice President for the Cisco Business Unit at Ingram Micro and the Ingram Micro Buffalo Campus Champion, Susan encouraged a volunteer program where employees can become involved in countless community organizations including Mikey’s Way at Roswell Park, Ronald McDonald House Charities, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Erie County and Summit Educational Resources. Susan is the type of person who will raise her hand first to volunteer for a new initiative, welcomes new charities with the utmost enthusiasm and overall, works to…

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Erie County is honored to celebrate  Cheryl Bird as this week’s featured Women Who Move the City Wednesday (WWMTC) Honoree! Cheryl joined the Daemen College Center for Sustainable Communities and Civic Engagement in 2002 as Seneca Babcock Community Coordinator, was promoted to Director of Community Relations for the CSCCE, and in 2004 was asked to serve as the Executive Director. The CSCCE partners with three disadvantaged Buffalo neighborhoods, Seneca Babcock, the West Side and Broadway Fillmore, to address educational, economic and environmental needs. They sustain long term collaborations with community agencies in the three neighborhoods to benefit the communities, and Daemen faculty and students. The Center’s partner agencies provide service-learning sites for over 200 Daemen students every semester. Cheryl founded, and serves as,…

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Erie County is honored to celebrate Raziya Hill as this week’s Women Who Move the City Wednesday (WWMTC) Honoree!  A native of Buffalo, Raziya is passionate about alleviating financial hardships experienced by families when needing to provide diaper and wipes on a consistent basis. To address this need, she is the Founder and Executive Director of Every Bottom Covered (EBC), a diaper bank that operates out of the Delavan Grider Community Center.  EBC provides diapers and wipes on a monthly basis at no cost to low-income families in the Western New York area. Since partnering with the Delavan Grider Community Center in May 2017, EBC has enrolled over 800 children, with new clients signing up daily! Additionally, Raziya has worked…

Our Bigs & Littles celebrated the start of summer at our Annual Welcome Summer Picnic sponsored by Wegmans. Guests enjoyed dinner and a number of fun activities including carnival games run by volunteers from Ingram Micro. As part of our Pathways to STEM Partnership with National Grid, the kids mixed and measured just the right ingredients to create homemade “silly putty”. Littles also created handmade bookmarks and received new books for summer reading thanks toMichaels and had a chance to explore a fire truck from the Snyder Fire Department. The highlight of the evening was taking a moment to congratulate our Littles who are moving up to high school and the nine Little Brothers & Sisters who graduated from high school this year. Congrats to…

Our BIG Give campaign has officially kicked off!  The BIG Give is an online fundraising effort of current Big Brothers and Big Sisters to help raise the funds necessary to move more kids off the waiting list into matches with Bigs of their very own.  For every $1,000.00 raised, we can match a new Big & Little together!  Visit The BIG Give page to pledge a Big Brother or Big Sister you know or donate to our general BIG Give fund. Thanks!!

We received a surprise, one-time gift of $20,000 from the General Mills Foundation in honor of General Mills’ 150th Anniversary. The company invited employees worldwide to nominate nonprofits in their local communities for the one-time gift. BBBSEC’s relationship with General Mills has grown over the last several years to include both support from the company’s foundation for BBBSEC’s Site Based Mentoring Program and increased employee engagement. Throughout the year, employees from General Mills have volunteered time with BBBSEC’s Site Based Mentoring Program and Future Littles Waiting List Program to provide fun, hands on activities related to healthy living and engineering. A BIG thanks General Mills for all of the ways they support us!!!