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 February 29th to celebrate your fundraising success. Click here to register your bowling team to bowl at the BBBSCMO Bowling Party!

About Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Missouri

The 2020 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 400 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- Not only does Big Brothers Big Sisters change the life of individual youth in the program but there is also a significant impact to our whole community.

• Among our current Littles, there is a 0% drop out rate compared to Columbia Public Schools' rate of 2.3% in 2018, Mexico Public Schools' rate of 3.1% and Moberly Public Schools' rate of 2.0%. 

  Compared to when they started the program, after one year of participation:

  -71% of Littles report improved grades in school.

  -24% more Littles say they planned to finish high school.

  -30% more Littles have plans to attend and graduate college.

  -36% more Littles say it isn’t ok to use illegal/illicit substances, skip school, break school rules or hit someone.

  Additionally, Littles are less likely to become teen parents, less likely to use drugs, less likely to commit a crime, more likely to graduate high school and more likely to attend college than their peers. 

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.