About Us

PLEASE NOTE OUR FOUR-DAY WORK WEEK

In an effort to reduce operating costs, LBFE has moved to a four-day, 10-hour/day work week.  Although staff will be working 10-hour days, the official office hours will be 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM Monday through Thursday.  All email and voice messages left on Friday will be answered on Monday.

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Since 1971 Little Brothers–Friends of the Elderly (LBFE) has been pairing volunteers with older adults to combat the isolation and loneliness that often comes with aging.  

“Because above all, people need love” was the reason that LBFE founder Armand Marquiset entered the lives of the lonely and isolated in France in 1946. After witnessing the suffering and hardships of older people after World War II, Marquiset began visiting and delivering hot meals with flowers to the elderly poor in Paris.  

What began as the work of one man continues today through tens of thousands of volunteers in nine countries. The Twin Cities branch of LBFE is the second largest and second oldest of the nine branches founded in the United States in 1959. Only the Chicago branch is larger and older.  

LBFE is nondenominational but maintains the name “Little Brothers” to remind us of the spirit of familial fellowship to our older generations.