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Big Brothers receives grants
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Big Brothers Big Sisters of Green County received a grant from the Community Foundation of Southern Wisconsin and the Monroe Fund in support and sponsorship of a bus for the school-based mentoring program in the Monroe school district. Pictured, from left, is Kristine OConnor, CFSW; Karen Tway, BBBS of Green Countys school-based mentoring manager; Dan Bartholf, Monroe Fund chair; Linda Gebhardt, CFSW; Justin Harris Raisbeck, of Lamers Bus Lines; and Shannon Kaszuba, BBBS of Green County executive director. (Photo supplied)
MONROE - Big Brothers Big Sisters of Green County has received a grant from the Clifford and Dorothy Reasa Charitable fund of the Monroe Fund and the Monsignor Thomas F. Campion Special Projects Fund, components of the Community Foundation of Southern Wisconsin, Inc., to support a bus sponsorship for school-based mentoring in the Monroe school district. School-based mentoring provides elementary school children, or "Littles," the opportunity to be matched with high school students, "Bigs," in a supervised mentoring setting. Matches in Monroe will be meeting weekly on early release Mondays from 2:15 to 3:45 p.m. beginning Sept. 9 and will run through the school year.