Big Brothers Big Sisters
The Jack in the Box Foundation supports Big Brothers Big Sisters through corporate, employee, franchisee, and vendor donations, as well as fund-raising and volunteering. The Foundation sponsors a national school-based mentoring program and funds 17 such programs in restaurant communities. In addition, The Foundation distributes employee and franchisee donations to support local Big Brothers Big Sisters agencies. The Foundation also sponsors the "First Meal" program, which treats newly matched "Littles" and adult mentors ("Bigs") to a meal together at a Jack in the Box restaurant. Along with providing financial support, the company seeks to raise awareness for Big Brothers Big Sisters by displaying decals in each of our more than 2,000 restaurants.

The Foundation sponsors unique BBBS mentoring programs throughout the country, including "Operation Bigs," a program at Camp Pendleton Marine Corps Base in Southern California. The program provides mentors, primarily from the military, to kids whose parents are deployed overseas. The Foundation also supports "Katrina's Kids," a BBBS program based in Texas that helps children displaced by Hurricane Katrina adapt to their new schools and life away from where they once called home. In San Diego, The Foundation helped establish "Hermandad," a new BBBS initiative that helps youth from the county's growing Latino community reach their potential through supportive, one-to-one mentoring relationships.

Additional Community Support

• Through The Foundation, employees can contribute to charities in their own communities that are selected annually by an employee vote. Some of these charities include Children's Hospital, Make-A-Wish Foundation and Habitat for Humanity.

• The Foundation supports many local nonprofit organizations in the company’s hometown of San Diego, including the YMCA; Junior Achievement; San Diego Hospice; March of Dimes; The Preuss School, which educates low-income youth; and Monarch School, which serves homeless and at-risk youth.

• The Foundation lends community support by encouraging employees to volunteer with nonprofit organizations that strengthen our restaurant communities.

Complementing The Foundation's efforts, Jack in the Box directly supports other community programs and needs, including America's Second Harvest, the nation's largest domestic hunger relief organization. Through a network of more than 200 food banks and food-rescue programs, America's Second Harvest distributes donated food to more than 23 million hungry Americans each year, eight million of whom are children. Jack in the Box restaurants have donated hundreds of thousands of pounds of food, paper goods, cups and plasticware.