Bowl for Kids' Sake at AMF Town and Country Lanes is a fun and easy way for you and your company, friends, or family to support the life-changing work of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Missouri.
If you care about kids and can spare an hour to have fun with your friends, then Bowl for Kids' Sake is for you!
It's easy to get started!
1. Click here to start a fundraising team.
2. Personalize a fundraising page that's set up just for you.
3. Form a team of up to five people. Invite your team to set-up their personal fundraising pages as well!
4. Fundraise by asking for donations using your online fundraising page and by collecting offline donations including cash, checks, and pledges. The team fee for the bowling party is $350, but top fundraising teams raise over $1,500.
5. Come bowl! After you have secured your donations, it’s time to have fun. You and your teammates are invited to join us at AMF Town and Country Lanes on March 3rd to celebrate your fundraising success. Click here to register your fundraising team to bowl at the BBBSCMO Bowling Party!
About Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Missouri
The 2018 Bowl for Kids' Sake benefits Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Missouri.
By supporting Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Missouri, you are helping children facing adverse experiences gain the skills and support system necessary to become healthy, productive members of our community.
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Missouri serves children of single parent families, children with an incarcerated parent, children of active and fallen military, children in longer term foster care, and those who are referred to us by school or other agency personnel. Over 500 youth are served yearly in our community, school, and site based mentoring programs.
We partner with parents/guardians, volunteers, and others in the community and hold ourselves accountable for each child in our program achieving:
- Higher aspirations, greater confidence, and better relationships
- Avoidance of risky behaviors
- Educational success
Locally and nationally, we know that the Big Brothers Big Sisters method of mentoring works in the short and long term:
Short Term- Looking at the impact Big Brothers Big Sisters has in our local community:
- Among our current Littles, there is a 0% drop out rate compared to Columbia Public Schools' rate of 2.5% in 2015, Mexico Public Schools' rate of 4.4% and Moberly Public Schools' rate of 2.9%. In the past year, none of our Littles have been referred for crimes to juvenile authorities, compared to Boone County's juvenile referral rate, which is around 4.7%, Randolph County's rate which is around 4.8%, and Audrain County's which is around 2.5%.
- 95% of Littles are mostly sure or very sure they will finish high school compared to 75% who said that when they started the program.
- 90% of Littles are mostly sure or very sure they will go to college compared to 75% who said that at baseline.
- Our Littles report a higher prevalence than their peers of believing that underage drinking, illicit and illegal drugs use are not okay.
Long Term - Harris Interactive surveyed adults who had a Big Brother or Big Sisters as a youth and compared them to adults from similar demographics that didn't have a mentor and found that Little Alumni were:
- More likely to have a college degree
- More likely to make more money
- More likely to be involved as a volunteer in their community.
