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2010 Annual Report 2010 Annual Report Leadership Letter Dear Friends, What a great year for Big City Mountaineers youth! Thank you for your partnership in delivering successful, life-changing wilderness mentoring expeditions that instill critical life skills in our young people. Demonstrated by our measurement tool, the 40 Developmental Assets Profile, BCM programs achieved a deeper impact than ever before. These results continue to validate that BCM makes a significant difference in our kids’ lives and futures. Volunteers are the crucial element of our work with under-resourced kids. We are only able to change lives with this committed corps of adult mentors who provide encouragement, set high expectations, challenge and inspire our youth. Our mentors teach by example, share their knowledge and invest in our kids by listening. It’s a tall order for BCM mentors, and we appreciate your investment of time, talent and experience. Our team showed remarkable leadership and implemented many cost saving measures, allowing BCM to move through challenging economic times and emerge stronger. We extend sincere appreciation to the team for managing change with integrity and courage in service to the mission. We know this… The community need is great, and BCM has a big wait list. In fact, we have more youth agencies, kids and volunteers than we are able to serve with current resources. Our Board of Directors has a strong vision to transform the lives of thousands of under-resourced urban youth by instilling critical life skills needed to be successful in life. With your help, we can and will deliver life changing expeditions to significantly impact more youth in the coming years. Together, we make big things happen for our kids. With sincere thanks, Jeff Weidman Lisa Mattis President Executive Director Big City Mountaineers is a volunteer-driven nonprofit organization delivering transformative wilderness mentoring expeditions to under- resourced urban youth to instill critical life skills. Working with community-based partner organizations and adult volunteers who act as mentors, our programs improve integrity, self-esteem, responsibility, decision-making abilities and communication skills. BCM results show that our programs improve our kids’ lives with: Increased likeliness to stay in school Reduction in violence Reduction in drug use Delivering programs to more than 1,200 program participants and leading expeditions with 170 kids in four regions, including the Rocky Mountains, the Midwest, the Pacific Northwest, and the San Francisco Bay Area Mentoring kids, with a dedicated community of hundreds of volunteers logging more than 23,000 hours in the field and in partnership with two-dozen youth agencies to instill critical life skills Quantifying impact with BCM kids reporting significant positive impact in areas like integrity, responsibility, decision-making and conflict resolution “I learned a sense of responsibility. Before BCM I never helped at home. Having to cook and set up my tent and carry a pack made me want to get up and go to school, do my own dishes and make my bed at home. My BCM trip made me want to take care of myself.” Said, Age 17 / Partner Agency: Bridge Project, Denver, CO Our Adult Mentors Guiding Youth Who Need It Most Caring adult volunteers are a central strength of BCM programs - talented, diverse community volunteers with excellent outdoor experience and a passion for youth. BCM recruits, trains and coordinates hundreds of volunteers each year to mentor our kids. Youth agency leaders, who know our kids well, facilitate relationship building. On a BCM expedition our job is to mentor and empower kids. Our goal is to see students strengthen their character and self- confidence, to instill critical life skills and return each young person to the community with newfound capabilities. Many of our teens have never ventured outside their neighborhood and the wilderness may feel like a supernatural world fraught with challenges. Adult mentors guide our youth to overcome challenges and illuminate the meaning of their accomplishments. This relationship, between youth and mentor, is a special one. Our kids realize that caring adults are making an investment in individual kids – a significant commitment for our young people. This 1:1 relationship opens lines of communication and mutual respect. Mentoring and the wilderness act as catalysts for BCM youth to experience empowerment and learning occurs. The most important task of the mentor is transference of learning to our young people. Our mentors, caring adult volunteers, help BCM kids apply the learning of an expedition journey to daily life back at home. “Presenting youth with dedicated and positive role models helps to overcome life obstacles. Big City Mountaineers is a wonderful program. My only wish is that we do this everywhere it’s needed. We all really appreciate the work BCM adult mentors do to help our kids thrive!” Liz Fisher Partner Agency: East Oakland Boxing Association Oakland, CA Measuring the Impact Big City Mountaineers Expeditions Big City Mountaineers uses the nationally standardized and recognized measurement instrument 40 Developmental Assets Profile as the primary means of quantifying our program outcomes, which include both change in learning and change in behavior. Created by The Search Institute, this mechanism categorizes skills development in 40 areas that constitute the building blocks which help kids grow up healthy, caring and responsible. Youth who participate in BCM expeditions consistently show growth that is proven to lead to future success. The major categories of skills and competencies exhibited through shifts in thinking and behavior include: Internal Assets: External Assets: • Positive Values • Empowerment • Social Competencies • Support • Positive Identity • Boundaries & Expectations • Commitment to Learning • Constructive Use of Time Big City Mountaineers results show that change and learning take place in each of these areas after an expedition. And, when learning occurs in each of these asset categories, the Search Institute results prove that youth exhibit thriving behaviors, including: Increased likeliness to stay in school Reduction in drug use Reduction in violence “This BCM expedition really made a difference in my life. I realized my potential. I want to graduate and go to college. I want to look up and see that I reached my goal.” Hajia / Age 18 Partner Agency: Mercy Housing, Denver, CO Our 2010 Results Stronger Than Ever Before In 2010, Big City Mountaineers programs achieved a deeper impact in under- resourced, urban youth than ever before. BCM expedition youth showed statistically significant improvement in all categories of skill development as measured by the 40 Developmental Assets Profile. In fact, 2010 results showed the highest levels of improvement exhibited to date by our youth. This evidence proved particularly higher than other years in the area of Positive Identity, which is a strong area of focus in our programs. BCM volunteers, program instructors and youth agency leaders invested tens-of-thousands of hours mentoring our kids. Program curriculum gained focus, volunteer training was more robust and the delivery of our week-long wilderness expeditions increased in strength of learning. Our 2010 results showed improvements in every category because we did a better job of mentoring our kids. All four of the measurement areas consistently show particularly strong results with our kids and are the areas in which we pay particularly close attention. These areas are the critical life skills we strive to impact most with youth – the skills that change the course of a life. Positive Values Social Competencies Positive Identity Commitment • Integrity • Decision making • Self-esteem to Learning • Honesty • Resistance skills • Personal power • Achievement motivation • Responsibility • Conflict resolution • Sense of purpose • School engagement • Restraint • Interpersonal • Optimism for future • Homework • Caring competence • Bonding to school • Social justice • Cultural competence • Reading for fun Participating Midwest » Addison Trail High School (Chicago) Youth Programs » Carole Robertonson Center (Chicago) » Christopher House (Chicago) Colorado » Enlace Community Education (Chicago) » African Community Center » McCormick Tribune YMCA (Chicago) » Denver Kids, Inc. » Neighborhood Boys and Girls » “I Have a Dream Foundation” of Boulder Club (Chicago) County » Urban Ventures (Minneapolis) » Mercy Housing » Youth Guidance (Chicago) » The Bridge Project » Youth Outreach Services (Chicago) » The Matthews House California » Alameda County Health Department » East Oakland Boxing Association Pacific Northwest » East Oakland Youth » BOLD Development Center » Caldera » Girls Incorporated » Project YESS (Portland) » Real Options for City Kids » Youth Employment Institute Working With Communities In Need BCM and our partner organizations work with under-resourced, racially diverse youth, mostly between the ages of 13 and 18, who often have no experience outside their neighborhoods. The BCM expedition is the first experience with the wilderness. 83% 71% 62% 80% are from are from single have never have parents families living parent or traveled with no below the gardian-led beyond their more than a poverty line households county of high school residence education BCM Hispanic/ Latino 36% Weeklong African Expedition American 25% Caucasian 7% Participation Participant Asian/Pacific Ethnicity Islander 10% Native American 1% Mixed Race 12% Other 2% Not
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