1910
Big Brothers and Big Sisters
Jewish businessman Irvin F. Westheimer, along with several other prominent members of the Jewish community, founded Big Brothers of Cincinnati on December 10, 1910.
It was 7 years earlier on the Fourth of July in 1903, when Mr. Westheimer watched from his office window as an impoverished young boy scavenged for food from a garbage can to feed himself and a canine companion. Westheimer bought the boy breakfast and befriended him, lavishing him with the special care and brotherly tutelage that the boy would otherwise have lacked.
The goal of mentoring boys in need. Later, a girls program followed and the two merged in 1977 to become Big Brothers Big Sisters of America.