With just one month left until the 40th Annual Bowl For Kids’ Sake, things are shaping up — but there is plenty to do yet AND plenty of room for you to get your BFKS team together!

It’s a milestone year for Bowl For Kids’ Sake – 40 years of having FUN to HELP KIDS! Form your own bowling team and join us for some FUN to HELP KIDS! Each team of up to five (5) bowlers is asked to raise a minimum of $300.

Congratulations to our newest One-To-One match: Little Sister Gabby and Big Sister Judy! The pair met last night for the first time.

We’re only about two months out from our 40th Annual Bowl For Kids’ Sake and hope you can join in the fun!

We are excited to introduce you to February’s match of the month, Little Kaleb and Big Kyleigh. Kaleb and Kyleigh are one of our school-based matches from our Students and Mentors Achieving Results Together (SMART) program at the Oley Valley Elementary site. Kaleb is new to the program this year, while Kyleigh has served as a Big since the 2019-20 school year.

She wants to be a doctor when she grows up. In the meantime, our COUL Little of the Month for February 2022 — Little Sister Lorena — likes to draw and watch horror movies.

The 40th Annual Bowl For Kids’ Sake is approaching, and we have multiple opportunities for community-minded companies to step up as DEFENDERS OF POTENTIAL in our Berks County Littles. Prime Sponsor Tompkins VIST Bank invites you to join their efforts, as partners in empowering our youth.

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Berks County, PA, has been renewed as an EITC-eligible organization. Pennsylvania’s Education Improvement Tax Credit program allows EITC-approved companies to donate a large portion of certain state taxes to one or more EITC-eligible agencies.

We are celebrating 40 years of fun to help kids, and we hope you will join us at this year’s Bowl For Kids’ Sake! Sponsored by Tompkins VIST Bank, the 40th Annual Bowl For Kids’ Sake takes place April 19th at Hiester Lanes and April 23rd & 24th at Berks Lanes.

Congratulations to our newest match, Little Brother Julien and Big Brother Alex!

We know…it’s cold out; there’s still snow on the ground; and MLB Spring Training doesn’t start until February 26th — but that’s not stopping us!

You’ve seen our Little of the Month. Now, as part of our celebration of National Volunteer Month in January, we introduce our newest monthly feature…the Match of the Month! For our first Match of the Month, we introduce you to Little Brother Rusty and Big Brother Dudley.

What do you need to know when you are going into a job interview? What should you wear? How should you present yourself?

These are questions discussed with some of our Teen Program participants during this Throwback Thursday edition.

Sunday, January 23rd, is BBBS Day at the Reading Royals! Join is for a fun-filled day, as the Reading Royals take on the Trois-Rivieres Lions. Game time is 3 pm.

Each year, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Berks County honors those who have stood out in our agency — and we had a great pool of candidates to consider for the 2021 Annual Awards.

For our final Throwback Thursday of 2021, we look to the past as we prepare for the start of the Bowl For Kids’ Sake season — and a special year it will be in 2022, celebrating 40 years of having fun to help kids! These two have been involved with Bowl For Kids’ Sake for a large majority of those 40 years.

Former Board member and current BFKS Committee member Howard Trout and his wife Jill sure seem to enjoy it on the lanes. These days though you can find them at the BFKS Pledge Table each year.

Congratulations, Little Brother JaLoni and Big Brother Dwayne! You are our newest One-To-One match and we expect great things from your mentoring relationship!

LB JaLoni and BB Dwayne were matched, as of yesterday. Their first match activity is already planned: going to make home-made pizza, play some board games, and look at some Christmas lights. Hmmmmmm…yummy food, fun games, and timely sight-seeing. Sounds like a great time for their first time out!

Meet Little Brother Noah, our December 2021 Little of the Month!

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Berks County has been chosen as the December Charity of the Month by Blue Marsh Insurance.

For every referral received by Blue Marsh Insurance during that month (whether they write the insurance or not) $10.00 is donated to Big Brothers Big Sisters.