The Big Bang Foundation was formed by a group of individuals who are very well familiar with the community which they are reaching out to. By being familiar with the area, the foundation has acquired the ability to relate to the youth because of the fact that they share similar experiences. Not everyone experiences the same obstacles in life and that alone is what makes the foundation so credible and reliable. When you have a group of young people who come from single parent households based around poverty you think of disaster; but the Big Bang Foundation thinks of strength and courage . It’s not as if the foundation condones in these types of conditions, but the individuals who make up the foundation were those same youth running our streets today living through those same struggles. What better way to address the importance of choosing a righteous path than by giving the youth positive role models that they can relate to.

The Foundation came together more quickly than expected. The initial idea of creating a organization to help better the youth in the community came about with the concept of one single piece of literature; a book. With all of the violence in the area in which the founders grew up, they decided to come together, take a stand, and promote the idea of reading versus that of gun violence. As the pace began to pick up the group started receiving local recognition through social media, the news and even that of the police chief; who would go on to present the group with citizen recognition medals. The attention and success, that the spontaneous acts of good will, brought upon the group only motivated them to keep pushing to do more. Since headlining in the news the Big Bang Foundation has acquired over 1000 books donated from various donors, collected over 250 pounds of trash and compost through a well established neighborhood clean up and and even assisting in the neighbor garden with Jennifer, Vice President of the Wellington Heights Community.

At the beginning of the journey, the group was going by the title of ‘Big Homies’, with an optimistic concept that Home is where the heart is. The name seemed to have been accepted by most despite the obvious controversy that it holds based off of urban culture, but it would soon change for the better. After speaking with the President of the Wellington Heights Community and obtaining vital information in regards to an upcoming vacancy of title , the group then decided that it was time to follow through with the necessary paperwork to establish the non profit organization that everyone has come to know today as the ‘Big Bang Foundation.’