BIG SISTER ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON TO BE AWARDED BY MASSACHUSETTS CONFERENCE FOR WOMEN

Come join Mansfield's big sisters for this event.

Big Sister Association of Greater Boston, a non-profit organization dedicated to helping girls realize their full potential by providing them with positive mentoring relationships with women, will be honored with the “Be the Change” award by the Massachusetts Conference for Women (MCW) on December 8^th, 2011. The award ceremony will take place during the annual conference for women at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center.

This year, the MCW has expanded the award to honor three Massachusetts non-profit organizations whose mission aligns with the Conference — helping women and girls achieve their full potential and exemplify compassion and commitment to improving the lives of the people in their communities.

“We are honored that the Massachusetts Conference for Women has selected us to receive this award,” said Deborah Re, CEO of Big Sister Association of Greater Boston. “It has been an amazing year for our organization—in 2011 we celebrated 60 years of mentoring girls in Greater Boston. As we look back on all that we have accomplished, we also look forward to a bright future of continuing to embody everything that the “Be the Change” award represents.”

Big Sister Association was founded in 1951 with the stated purpose “to unite into an organized body individuals interested in the welfare of girls who need understanding, friendship, counsel, and skillful guidance for the purpose of fostering such growth in the individual girl that she will have the quality of vision and spirit to sustain her in the future.” Big Sister Association of Greater Boston serves 69 cities and towns that make up Greater Boston and creates professionally supported mentoring relationships between women and girls. In the one-to-one mentoring programs, a girl (Little Sister) between the ages of seven to 15 is matched with a woman (Big Sister) who has been carefully interviewed and screened to determine suitability and readiness.

For more information, visit: www.bigsister.org