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 About Us

Our Mission:

To create and support one-to-one adult-to-child mentor relationships guiding youth from a position of risk to one of achieving their highest potential.


Our History:

Dr. Hugh C. Thompson Jr. founded Big Brothers of Tucson in 1963, matching 23 young men with adult mentors in the community. In the four decades since then, one man’s vision has grown into an agency that has helped change the lives of over 10,000 Tucson boys and girls.

In 1981 Big Brothers of Tucson merged with the Big Sisters program, then run by the YWCA, and became Big Brothers Big Sisters of Tucson.

"There comes a time in every boy’s life when there is no substitute for a man who fills the role of a father."

As a renowned pediatrician in the Tucson community for over fifty years, Dr. Thompson knew better than anyone that every child needs a mentor, a positive adult influence in their life. The mission Dr. Thompson began forty-six years ago is carried on in how Big Brothers Big Sisters of Tucson creates matches today, reaching out to make a difference in every corner of our community.

 

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Board of Directors

Kevin Bedient, Advantage Air Mechanical
Casey Bernal, S+S Consulting, Inc.
Jeffrey Farmer (Secretary), Heartland Hospice               Services
Charles Everett, Raytheon Missile Systems
Ramon Gaanderse, Tucson Utility Contractors               Association
John Gibson, Wells Fargo
Sharon Griffin-Monterroza, Travelocity
Joe Kroeger (Chair), Snell & Wilmer LLP
Roger Malkin, Arcadia Home Care & Staffing
Sam Molina, Tucson Electric Power
Toby Parks, T. Parks Consulting, LLC
Joe Rademacher, JJR Partners
Michelle Nolen Senner, Truly Nolen
Heather Shallenberger, Long Realty
Matt Short (Vice-Chair)
Mike Trost, Raytheon Missile Systems
Jake Walker (Treasurer), CP Graphics/Grand               Slam Ventures LLC

Advisory Board

Peter Backus (Chair), PB Trading
David Benson, Pacific Vet Group
Bob Breault, Breault Research
Dawn Chicky, Raytheon Missile Systems
Gary Emerson, GRE Partners, LLC
Jon Fenton, AF Sterling Homes
Dave Gallaher, Tucson Industrial Realty
Peg Kepner (Vice Chair), Disability Advocate Jeannie Horner Mueller, Angel Charity for Children
Steve Huffman, House of Representatives
Arnie Jacobsen, Arizona Sunland Foods
Kola Janoff, Kola Screen Graphics
Fred Killion, Retired
Barbara LaWall, Pima County Attorney
John Lewis, Bank of Tucson
Eric Lamb, Wells Fargo
Steve Postil, Donation Center
Roy "Chip" Tullgren, Gospel Rescue Mission
Will White, Tucson Land Advisors