Little Brothers – Friends of the Elderly

Little Brothers – Friends of the Elderly is a network of non-profit,[1] volunteer-based organizations located in the United States that are committed to relieving isolation and loneliness among the elderly.[2]

Chapters are located in the following US cities: Boston,[3] Chicago,[4] Cincinnati,[5] Hancock, Michigan,[6] Omaha,[7] Philadelphia,[8] San Francisco[9] and Minneapolis.[10]

Little Brothers – Friends of the Elderly is a member of the International Federation of Little Brothers of the Poor (French: Fédération Internationale des petits frères des Pauvres) with sister organizations in France, Germany, Poland, Switzerland, Spain, Ireland, the United States of America and Canada.

History

Little Brothers – Friends of the Elderly was founded 1959 as Little Brothers of the Poor by Michael Salmon in Chicago.[11] It is an offspring of a French non-profit organization called Les petits frères des Pauvres that was founded in Paris in 1946 by Armand Marquiset.[12]

References
  1. See non-profit approval: http://www.mass.gov/Eoaf/docs/hrd/policies/leave/nonprofit/approved_nonprofit_category.doc
  2. See also: http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&orgid=10177
  3. website: http://boston.littlebrothers.org Archived 2010-03-27 at the Wayback Machine
  4. website: http://chicago.littlebrothers.org Archived 2010-04-13 at the Wayback Machine
  5. website: http://cincinnati.littlebrothers.org
  6. website: http://houghton.littlebrothers.org
  7. website: http://omaha.littlebrothers.org Archived 2009-09-13 at the Wayback Machine
  8. website: http://philadelphia.littlebrothers.org Archived 2009-02-10 at the Wayback Machine
  9. website: http://sanfrancisco.littlebrothers.org Archived 2010-01-05 at the Wayback Machine
  10. website: http://minneapolis.littlebrothers.org Archived 2008-07-05 at the Wayback Machine
  11. See also
  12. More details "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-03-08. Retrieved 2010-02-26.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)


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