Big Brothers Big Sisters Bowl For Kid's Sake

11/29/2017 (Permalink)

SERVPRO Bowling Team

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Kansas City hosts their Bowl 4 Kids Sake every year and we had the pleasure of participating in the 2017 campaign! We were lucky enough to have two representatives of BBBS, Erica and Tahir, come and speak with us at our monthly SERVPRO employee breakfast in June. While they spent a lot of the time discussing what it means to be a big brother or big sister to a child in need in the Kansas City area they also spoke to us about their upcoming event and we got a lot of interest from the employees! We decided to have try outs to see which 4 would make the cut and represent us trying to raise the team goal of $1,200 with a fun little game of “Chem-sponge Bowling”. The object of the game was similar to bowling, where you would try and throw a dry chem-sponge down a lane and knock down as many empty spray bottles as you can, sounds easy right? Not when the sponge is rectangular and doesn’t roll! We had so many participants we decided to form two teams making our goal double to $2,400. With only a few short weeks we pulled all of our resources and with days left till the event we over shot our goal and raised $2,500 for our first year! Not too bad!

On July 20^th our two teams and a hand full of cheerleaders went to the Bowl 4 Kids Sake event at Park Lanes in Shawnee, KS. It was such a great time spent with other amazing companies all coming together to help raise money for Kansas City youth. After the weeks long event concluded they announced the record breaking year of raising more than $826,000! We are so proud to have been a part of that and look forward to participating for years to come.