In 1904, a young New York City court clerk named Ernest Kent Coulter was seeing many boys come through his courtroom.
At around the same time, the members of a group called Ladies of Charity were befriending girls who had come through the New York Children's Court.
[10] In the wake of the 2013 audit, Big Brothers replaced its management team and implemented policies governing the use of federal grant funds to bring the organization back into compliance.
As part of a settlement with the Justice Department, BBBSA paid $1.6 million and agreed to institute a strict compliance program that requires the organization to engage in regular audits, establish a compliance team, an employee code of conduct, whistleblower policies and a disciplinary policy for employees who engage in or fail to disclose abuses of federal grant funds.
The organization also provides regular employee training on these policies and employs risk assessment tools to detect abuses that might otherwise go undetected.