HISTORY
For over a century, Big Brothers Big Sisters has helped children reach their potential through professionally supported one-to-one relationships with proven results.
In 1904, a young court clerk named Ernest Coulter was seeing more and more boys come through his courtroom. He recognized that caring adults could help many of these kids stay out of trouble, and he set out to find volunteers. That marked the beginning of the Big Brothers movement.
The Big Brothers Big Sisters program reached the Inland Northwest in 1965. Following the death of his son, Bill Matthews founded the local agency with the hope of preventing negative outcomes in children.
Since then, Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Inland Northwest has grown to serve 753 children and volunteers in 2007, making it the largest and most effective one-to-one youth mentoring program in the Inland Northwest, serving both Spokane and Kootenai counties.
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