About the Big Give Back Challenge
The Big Give Back is a community based fundraising challenge that invites you to support Mentoring Programs for children and youth at-risk in Greater Victoria. Teams, made up of family members, friends, colleagues, or corporate partners, raise money towards their collective team goals through individual donations, team fundraising events, or activities.
The Big Give Back Story
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Victoria has been hosting individual fundraising events in support of mentoring programs for children and youth for more than 30 years. While these events have generated much-needed resources, people often ask, ‘Can you host a gala dinner…a 50Km walk…a date night…a garage sale?’
The truth is that we really need your support, we want you to connect to Big Brothers Big Sisters, and we want you to be involved in something that you really love to do. So, we thought we’d invite you to join the Big Give Back Challenge, a team-led and hosted event or activity dedicated to the mentors in each of our lives who have made a positive difference. 
Team Captains work with team members, plan an activity or event, and seek and collect pledges or donations. Teams may vary in size from 1 to 20 members. Team activities start as early as May 1st and can take an hour, an afternoon, a day, or longer to complete - you choose the activity, you choose the time and day.
Big Brothers Big Sisters staff will support teams and provide fundraising ideas, pleadge sheets, brochures, challenge updates, and mentoring stories to share with team members and supporters.
All team members are invited to join Big Brothers Big Sisters at Kinsmen Gorge Park on June 22, 2008 for a BBQ, team recognition, and celebration of mentoring.
The Big Give Back for In-School Mentoring Programs
We have asked you to join us for a reason. We need to introduce new In-School Mentoring Programs to two inner-city schools in 2008, and we need your help to make sure that the children in these schools get the mentors they want and need.