Our Mission is to aid in the development of confident, responsible and caring individuals, by providing professionally supported mentoring services and programs to Jewish children, their families and the diversified clients of Bellefaire JCB.

JBBBSA’s Programs and Services provide high quality mentoring services to children and youth.

Programs Include:

Community-Based Mentoring provides a one-to-one mentoring match between an adult and a child between the ages of 6 and 18. The children are Jewish children from single-parent families, recently resettled immigrant children and families with special circumstances.

School-Based Mentoring is an on-site program that matches high school volunteers with children in a group setting while still maintaining a one-to-one match. Volunteers meet with a child between ages 8 and 12 at the elementary school. Matches meet once a week for approximately one hour after school. Staff supervised activities range from tutoring to arts and crafts to a group community service project.

Put a little MAGIC into a child’s life! A 'Big' provides the 'Little' with an increased sense of self-confidence and belonging, and often leads to enhanced communication skills and improved performance at home, school, and in the community. 'Bigs' encourage 'Littles' to realize their potential and help them develop into competent, confident, and caring adults. Bigs and Littles have fun together, and ultimately, the volunteer also benefits while truly making a difference in the life of a child.

Annual fundraising events: Our Bowl For Kids’ Sake (BFKS) event, held each fall (November) is our primary fundraiser. We also hold a raffle each spring in which we sell tickets to win a variety of prizes. 100% of the funds raised each year are utilized Furthermore, we have an annual fund, “Our Children – Our Future Fund“. If you are interested in making a donation in honor of somebody, making a contribution to “Our Children – Our Future Fund“, donating a prize or learning more about how you can participate in BFKS, please contact us at 216.320.8310. You may send donations (made payable to JBBBSA) to JBBBSA, 22001 Fairmount Boulevard, Shaker Heights, Ohio 44118.

Group Outings JBBBSA offers seasonal group outings for our matches. Group outings have included: Our annual Hanukah Party, our annual Bellefaire Buddies Holiday Event, roller skating, fall fun at the farm, Six Flags community service event, snow tubing, rock climbing, a mystery bus ride, Crunch soccer clinic, summer picnics, hikes, Whirlyball, Browns stadium tour and many, many more fun and social events!

Partnership Opportunities: The Jewish Big Brother Big Sister Association has a great opportunity for your company. We are partnering with synagogues, churches, groups, clubs and businesses with the goal of identifying potential volunteers to become Big Brothers and Big Sisters. The partnership requires a limited amount of your time and can be highly beneficial for your place of business. Once the partnership is established, a liaison is identified in your company, in order to communicate with us about potential and active matches. As a partner, we will feature you in all of our newsletters and promotional materials. This is an opportunity for you to partner with an organization that has provided services to children in our community since 1919.

The Jewish Big Brother Big Sister Association of Cleveland is a charter member of Big Brothers Big Sisters of America. Our goal is to one million children by 2010. Your support brings us one step closer to reaching that goal.

To learn more about our programs and/or if you would like to hear more about how you could benefit from a partnership with JBBBSA, please contact Rachel Mandel at 216/320-8310 * E-mail - mandelr@bellefairejcb.org