Top

Celebrate Women’s History Month

February 28, 2023
Read More

Join us for Bowl for Kids’ Sake

February 28, 2023
Read More

February is Black History Month

January 26, 2023
Read More

Empower Potential Awards Reaches its Goal

October 21, 2022

Thank you to everyone who came out to our Empower Potential Awards Celebration last Thursday! That evening we were able to raise our goal of $20,000 in the room! A special thanks to our event sponsors Bangor Savings Bank, M&T Bank, and Central Maine Power, and matching donation sponsors and donors, the volunteers who helped […]

Read More

Bears & Cubs Program Update

October 12, 2022

Our Bears & Cubs matches are reconnecting! Bears & Cubs is a site-based program that connects youth with a Bowdoin College student mentor to share activities and friendships on the College campus!

Read More

Read About our Bigs Shortage and How You Can Help

January 24, 2022

Volunteer shortage leaves kids waiting for mentors in Bath and Brunswick Two dozen local children are waiting to be matched with adult mentors, partly because of a pandemic-driven shortage of volunteers, according to Big Brothers Big Sisters of Brunswick/Bath. Volunteer Shortage Leaves Kids Waiting for Mentors in Bath and Brunswick– The Forecaster Addysen Malkoch, 9, […]

Read More

LL Bean Provides Winter Gear

December 17, 2021

Snow is in the forecast! We are excited to now have winter gear – sleds, snow shoes, and adjustable youth ice skates – available for Bigs and Littles to borrow for winter outings! Big thanks to LL Bean for supporting our matches with a grant to purchase these items, and to our Program Director Aurora’s […]

Read More
photo of Pheonix and Sue

The 2021 Big and Little of the Year

November 5, 2021

Sue and Pheonix will be honored at BBBS’ Empower Potential Award Celebration.

Read More

Literature for Littles

April 5, 2021

Thanks to funding from the Stephen and Tabitha King Foundation and Alfred M. Senter Fund, BBBS was able to purchase and deliver 133 books for 28 Bigs and 43 Littles from Mockingbird Bookshop in Bath! The goals of this project are to offer matches a different type of match activity and connecting point during Covid-19, […]

Read More

Distanced Mentorship

April 22, 2020

By Hannah LaClaire, The Times Record – April 19 BRUNSWICK — When the coronavirus pandemic forced Katie Sellers to stop meeting with her “little brother,” Fenton, for their weekly tennis matches, trips to the pool or games at the bowling alley, she wasn’t sure what their time together would look like. Katie Sellers and her […]

Read More