Big Brothers Big Sisters, an organization that provide monitored matches between adult volunteers and kids, received a $40,000 grant from the Indian River Community Foundation.
The Big Brothers Big Sisters of St. Lucie, Indian River and Okeechobee Counties will use the grant to fund a program tagged "Mentoring for Success in Early Childhood" to boost kindergarten readiness for at-risk kids in Indian River County.
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Ganesh Natarajan is the Founder and Chairman of 5FWorld, a new platform for funding and developing start-ups, social enterprises and the skills eco-system in India. In the past two decades, he has built two of India’s high-growth software services companies – Aptech and Zensar – almost from scratch to global success.