MacKenzie Scott gave $122.6 million to Big Brothers Big Sisters of America, the national youth-mentoring charity announced on Tuesday. The gift is the latest of several the billionaire writer has given to large  that carry out their missions through local chapters in neighborhoods throughout the country. With this latest donation, Scott has contributed a total…

Mentors come in many shapes, sizes, and guises. That high school football coach who pushed you through two-a-day pre-season practices in August, shouting, cajoling, and commanding until you and your buddies were puddles of perspiration, taught you toughness and perseverance. That college professor whose inexhaustible pen left a river of red ink on your essays…

In 1941, when the Nazis were ruling Poland with an iron hand, a Krakow tailor with an eighth-grade education and a burning love for his faith founded a youth ministry in his parish. One of the first young men to join this group was a manual laborer, Karol Wojtyla. As he studied with the intense…

A mentorship program to expose young people to career paths in law enforcement has teamed up with select North Orange County, Calif., schools. The Bigs with Badges program, a partnership between Big Brothers Big Sisters and the North Orange County public safety taskforce, aims to expose students to potential careers in public safety and law enforcement. The program matches young participants to one-on-one mentors…