Big Brothers Big Sisters of New Hampshire

The mission of our organization is to create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.

Our primary goal is to provide all New Hampshire youth in need of a mentor with a caring, professionally-supported role model. We serve more than 1,000 children across the Granite State, and we constantly work to serve more children.

By partnering with parents/guardians, schools, and other community organizations, we hold ourselves accountable for each child in our program achieving: higher aspirations, greater confidence, better relationships, avoidance of risk behaviors, and educational success.

Providing high-quality one-to-one youth mentoring is all we do. We use an evidence-based model with proven results, and we are the premier youth mentoring organization in the Granite State. With child safety as our top priority, we make life-changing mentoring relationships a reality children facing adversity.

Our matches are strong and long-lasting. Volunteers and youth in our program agree to meet 2-4 times a month for 1-3 hours, and commit to at least a year in our program. Our average match length consistently remains about 3 years, proving that through rigorous volunteer screening and consistent, high-quality, support we are building and sustaining mentoring relationships that we know will have the most positive impacts on the children we serve.

All of our energies are focused on making and supporting one-to-one mentoring matches. With highly-trained and passionate professional staff members handling every step of the process and supporting matches through the ups and downs, our matches are strong and long-lasting and our youth outcomes speak for themselves.

After merging to form a statewide organization in 2015, BBBSNH has achieved financial stability and improved our overall quality of our service to Granite State children and volunteer mentors. We've opened a satellite office to serve the Lakes Region, and are working hard to ensure that our services are available to all New Hampshire children.

Now, as we look to the future, we're poised to achieve meaningful, sustainable growth that will allow us to serve more children throughout the state. We know we can do it, and we know that every community will benefit from the positive impacts of youth mentoring for generations to come.