Making a guest appearance on a recent edition of NBC Connecticut’s early morning Saturday news program were Big Sister Natalie Pertz and her Little Sister Serenity. Natalie and Serenity were interviewed by anchor/reporter Shannon Miller. Discussed during the interview: Nutmeg Big Brothers Big Sisters, the match between Natalie and Serenity, National Mentoring Month (held each […]
Andy Fleischmann, President and CEO of Nutmeg Big Brothers Big Sisters, recently accepted a $10,000 donation from the Bob’s Discount Furniture Charitable Foundation. Presenting the donation was Cathy Poulin, Director of Public Relations/Outreach at Bob’s Discount Furniture. The donation will be used to transition children in need off Nutmeg’s waiting list and into productive match […]
Nutmeg BBBS is pleased to announce that mentor2.0, a school-based “e-mentoring” program for high school students, will launch in great Hartford in the Fall of 2018. Mentor2.0 helps prepare students for college and career. Like all of Nutmeg’s programs, mentor2.0 fosters enduring, […]
The Bank of America Charitable Foundation has generously donated $7,500 to Nutmeg Big Brothers Big Sisters. The donation is designated for the organization’s community-based program. At the check presentation were, from left, West Hartford resident Jill Hutensky, Senior Vice President, Marketing Manager at Bank of America; and Andy Fleischman, also from West Hartford, President and […]
More than 100 “Bigs” (adult mentors) and “Littles” (the children they mentor) from across Connecticut will take to the alleys at Spare Time Lanes in Vernon on Saturday, March 25 to celebrate Bowl-for-Kids’-Sake, an event held every year since the late 1970s by Nutmeg Big Brothers Big Sisters – Connecticut’s premier youth mentoring organization. This […]
The apple falls close to the Director family tree, a sweet fact for Middlesex County. As Nutmeg Big Brothers Big Sisters lauds David Director at its Children’s Champions Awards next week, his father — the group’s founder — will join him in spirit. The first Arthur Director Memorial Award will be given to his son […]
Nutmeg Big Brothers Big Sisters, Connecticut’s premier youth mentoring organization, announced that it has tallied the results for its 2016 “Start Something Big” Gala, and that the event surpassed its goals. “The evening was a great success on many levels,” said Andy Fleischmann, President and CEO of Nutmeg Big Brothers Big Sisters. “We surpassed our […]