What: The 2018 Littles’ Recognition Dinner—a celebration of Littles who are graduating from high school as well as of the achievements, progress, academic and personal improvements of non-graduating BBBS of WNC Littles. A dinner of pizza and salad will be provided.…
Archives for March 2018
A Little Brother pursues his dream
Over the course of their match, Nate has been an amazing Big Brother for Edgar— helping him apply for jobs, teaching him how to drive, getting him out of a jam with the police when he drove with just…
AmeriCorps Week 2018
The goal was to have members engaged in service projects to share the impact AmeriCorps members have all over the country each and every day. To really showcase what our members are doing and convey the positive impact they…
Bowl For Kids Sake 2018 Photo Blog
What a swashbuckling event it was! With teams of pirates from all walks: Peter Pan pirates, peg-legged, eye-patched, hook-handed pirates—mateys and tricorn-adorned captains. Dagger-wielding, gold-hoop hanging pirates. Oh, and thanks to Johnny Depp—there was no shortage of “guy-liner-ed” eyes—or faux…
A ‘Great Story’ from Americorps’ Project MARS
Jill is one of my favorite students— but she’s also one of the most reluctant learners I have ever encountered! She has low self-esteem and has conditioned herself not to try at anything—no matter what it is. Jill has…
Thanks to the Asheville Brewer’s Alliance for a great first annual Big Brewery Bowl Off!
With five ABA teams registering—including two from Green Man Brewing, Hi-Wire, Bhramari and The Wedge Brewery, and the amazingly entertaining local comedian Drew McDermott MC’ing—we had a blast, and raised money to support local kids getting the support of a caring…
A ‘Great Story’ from AmeriCorps’ Project MARS
A lot of what I do every day is literacy development. It involves serving either a group of kids, or individual kids ranging from grades K-4. We focus on reading skills – things like comprehension, fluency, pronunciation, etc. This…
