Case Study
Big Sister Association of Greater Boston
Organization Background The mission of the Big Sister Association of Greater Boston is to ignite girls’ passion and power to succeed through positive mentoring relationships with women and enrichment programs that support girls’ healthy development. It aspires to create a mentor-rich community in which every girl has access to the individual nurturing, guidance, and support she needs to become a confident, competent and caring adult. Key Highlight Verified Volunteers allowed Big Sister Boston to easily upgrade to a layered background check, as directed by national Big Brothers Big Sisters of America when it updated its national screening directive in 2016. “We always had our own local screening policy, but it has to meet the basic standards of the national organization,”