Mentoring Partnership of Minnesota Releases Data from “State of Mentoring” Study
Mentoring Gender Gap: Minnesota Needs More Male Mentors MINNEAPOLIS, April 16, 2013 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — More than $7.5 million is the total value of time given by mentors in Minnesota, yet...
View ArticleRegister for the 2013 SUMMER INSTITUTE ON YOUTH MENTORING! Deadline extended...
*2013 SUMMER INSTITUTE ON YOUTH MENTORING* *Portland State University* *July 22-26, 2013* Portland State University is proud to present the 2013 Summer Institute on Youth Mentoring. The Summer...
View ArticleMentoring, leadership program key to ending bullying in at-risk teen girls
(April 29, 2013) New research from experts within the University of Minnesota School of Nursing has found teen girls at high risk for pregnancy reported being significantly less likely to participate...
View ArticleFree Webinar Series! Getting to Ready: Equipping our Youth Leaders
Most youth leaders today find themselves time-challenged to scan or take advantage of the myriad resources made available to them, covering an even greater sea of topics. Often, the biggest challenge...
View ArticleChild Trend releases new report on “What works for mentoring”
by: Elizabeth Lawner and Martha Beltz, with Kristin Moore. Executive Summary (from report) Child Trends conducted a synthesis of experimental evaluations of 19 mentoring programs for children and...
View ArticleBBBS Ireland releases evaluation results
Summary of key findings [In this evaluation], (from report) standardised survey measures were used to assess outcomes at 4 time points, or waves, over a 2-year period for intervention and control...
View ArticleMale Executives Are Afraid To Mentor Young Women, And It’s Holding Them Back
Editors Note: Although this story is about women in the workforce, it has significant implications for the young adults who will be entering the work force in the coming years and, more generally, the...
View ArticleWebinar: Exploring the Role of Risk in Youth Mentoring (May 16th)
Thursday, May 16, 2013 1:00 PM – 2:15 PM EDT Register for this event One of the most challenging aspects of designing and delivering mentoring services is determining who will benefit most from...
View ArticleVideo games: An Interesting New Outlet for Mentoring
Games for the 50+: A New Outlet for Mentoring May 13, 2013 by Bob Stephen (posted in AARP) Wizard 101 by Kingsisle helps older players mentor younger ones. Over the past few weeks, I’ve written about...
View Article6/20 webinar: Ensuring Program Sustainability
If more than 30% of your mentoring program is funded by only one source, you are already in crisis mode. The solution: Diversify! Most of us did not enter the mentoring field with expertise in...
View ArticleMENTOR and Center highlighted at Social Impact Exchange Conference
Bridging the Research to Practice Gap: Spreading What Works With Mentoring Meghan Duffy, Grantmakers for Effective Organizations Posted: June 24, 2013 Topics: Annual conference, Evidence base,...
View ArticleAdoption Mentoring program connects undergraduate mentors and adopted kids
From UMass Amherst news office “This program has helped me feel less alone as an adopted person. I don’t feel like the only one on campus who is adopted.” That’s the kind of impact that the Adoption...
View ArticleSubmit your proposals for workshop presentations at the 2014 National...
MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership is seeking proposals for workshop presentations at the 2014 National Mentoring Summit, taking place on Thursday, January 30 and Friday, January 31 at the...
View ArticleMENTOR & Rocket21 Announce a New On-line Platform to Enhance Mentor/Mentee...
MENTOR: THE NATIONAL MENTORING PARTNERSHIP AND YOUTH SOCIAL NETWORK ROCKET21 ANNOUNCE A NEW CUSTOMIZED ON-LINE PLATFORM TO ENHANCE MENTOR – MENTEE RELATIONSHIPS MENTOR: The National Mentoring...
View ArticleThursday, July 18, Men in Mentoring: Mentor Michigan’s Recruitment Toolkit
Thursday, July 18, 2013 1-2:15 p.m Recruiting male mentors is one of the biggest challenges programs report: the majority of mentors are female while the majority of youth in need of a mentor are...
View ArticleDonating My Bone Marrow to Dad
Editor’s Note: Thank you to MENTOR’s Ellen Christman for passing this beautiful piece along which appeared in the Huffington Post. Written by America’s Promise’s David Park, it is a powerful...
View ArticleRegister for the 14th Annual Minnesota Mentoring Conference “The State of...
It’s time to register for the 14th Annual Minnesota Mentoring Conference “The State of Mentoring” Date: October 17, 2013 Location: Crowne Plaza St. Paul – Riverfront Hotel in downtown St. Paul, MN...
View ArticleAnnouncing the Short course@UMB: Mentoring youth in the foster care system
The MENTOR/UMass Boston Center for Evidence-Based Mentoring is thrilled to announce it’s first Short Course @ UMass Boston. The goal of this intensive 1.5 day course is to provide practitioners with a...
View ArticleMentoring Students to Prevent the ‘Summer Slide’
From the New York Times Mentoring Students to Prevent the ‘Summer Slide’ By PEG TYRE Fixes looks at solutions to social problems and why they work. On a July morning at the Academy of American...
View ArticleWebinar on Race, Ethnicity, and Culture in Mentoring Relationships, Thursday,...
Should youth and mentors be matched based on race, ethnicity, or cultural similarity?” is the first question typically asked by researchers and practitioners when considering its role in youth...
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