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March - 2010

Recruitment and Screening Webinar to be held on March 29
March 12, 2010: MENTOR to Host Webinar on Recruitment and Screening from the new Elements of Effective Practice for Mentoring.   More...

Mentoring Funding - Your Help Needed
March 10, 2010: On March 9, 2010, House Mentoring Caucus Co-chair Rep. Susan Davis (D-CA) began collecting signatures on our annual mentoring funding request letter for FY11.   More...

February - 2010

Register for Elements Webinar
February 19, 2010: Join us for an upcoming webinar on MENTOR's newly revised Elements of Effective Practice for Mentoring™, third edition.   More...

Archived News

January - 2010

President Obama Celebrates NMM
January 22, 2010: President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama celebrated National Mentoring Month by emphasizing the importance of being a caring adult in the life of a child at an event held at the White House on January 20, 2010. More...

Watch Live - President Obama Speaks on National Mentoring Month
January 6, 2010: Click on the link below to watch the live video. More...

December - 2009

Dropout Prevention Webcast on December 3, 2009
December 2, 2009: More...

November - 2009

Background Checks Legislation Needs Push
November 20, 2009: The Child Protection Improvements Act (S. 1598/ H.R. 1469), which was introduced in both the House and Senate this year, needs your help. Time is of the essence. More...

Vote for L'Oreal Paris Women of Worth
November 11, 2009: L'Oreal Paris has awarded mentor, Rhonda Ulmer, the prestigious honor out of being one of ten women honored as the 2009 L'Oreal Women Of Worth nominee for her volunteer efforts in educating and mentoring families in her community. More...

October - 2009

Disney Parks Hopes to Inspire 1 Million Volunteers
October 5, 2009: Disney Parks has announced a new program that celebrates the spirit of volunteer service with a simple proposition: "Give a Day, Get a Disney Day." More...

August - 2009

Mentoring Funding: A Mixed Outcome, and Our Thanks
August 5, 2009: We cannot thank you enough for the calls that you placed to Senate offices and appropriators and earlier communications to the House of Representatives in an effort to save the U.S. Department of Education's (ED) Mentoring Programs grants. More...

July - 2009

Save Mentoring Funding: Take Action Now!
July 29, 2009: The Senate Labor/Health & Human Services/Education Appropriations Subcommittee provided some good news yesterday on the mentoring front. More...

June - 2009

Fellowship Awarded to MP of Minnesota Director
June 1, 2009: The Bush Foundation has named Joellen Gonder-Spacek, executive director of the Mentoring Partnership of Minnesota, one of its 18 leadership fellows for 2009. More...

May - 2009

OJJDP announces Tribal youth grants
May 20, 2009: OJJDP announces several Tribal youth grants, including one specific to mentoring youth -- although no award ceiling or number of awards has yet been announced. More...

Several Federal Grant Opportunities Have June Deadline
May 14, 2009: MENTOR is sending this e-alert to publicize in brief a number of federal grant opportunities for mentoring programs. Please note that all submissions are due in June. More...

OJJDP Releases New Mentoring RFP's
May 7, 2009: United States Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention Releases RFPs for Mentoring More...

April - 2009

OJJDP Issues RFP for Foster Care Youth Grant
April 30, 2009: US Department of Justice: Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention OJJDP FY 09 Mentoring Initiative for Foster Care Youth Grant More...

New Research Briefs on Preparing Students for College and Work
April 30, 2009: Two new Child Trends briefs draw on research across the fields of college readiness, workplace readiness, and youth development to identify the skills and competencies high school students need to master for future success. More...

OJJDP seeks proposals to evaluate the effectiveness of mentoring
April 27, 2009: OJJDP seeks proposals to evaluate the effectiveness of paid versus volunteer mentors within an existing mentoring program. The evaluator will conduct both a process and an outcome evaluation measuring the success of both paid and volunteer mentor programs in preventing delinquency. More...

Mentoring Children of Prisoners Grants Available
April 22, 2009: A new round of grants for the mentoring Children of Prisoners program had been announced. More...

President Obama Signs Landmark Serve America Act Into Law
April 21, 2009: Today, President Obama signed into law the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act – groundbreaking, bipartisan legislation that will expand national and community service opportunities across the country at a time when volunteer service is more needed than ever. More...

OJJDP issues RFP to support innovation
April 15, 2009: OJJDP has released an announcement for grants as part of its "Field Initiated Demonstration Program" which may be of great interest to youth serving organizations. More...

School-Based Conference Early Bird Rates by April 24
April 6, 2009: The National School-Based Mentoring Conference is the only national conference dedicated solely to school-based mentoring. Held biennially in Kansas City, Missouri, the Conference draws more than 400 mentoring professionals, educators, community leaders, researchers and funders from across the country and abroad. More...

March - 2009

Research in Action Webinar on April 1, 2009
March 27, 2009: More...

Serve America Act: Immediate Next Steps
March 27, 2009: On Thursday evening, March 26th, thanks in part to your continued advocacy, the U.S. Senate overwhelmingly voted 79-19 to pass an amended version of H.R. 1388, the Serve America Act – the largest expansion of national and community service in this country since the 1930s. More...

Lend Your Voice Today to Support Mentoring!
March 24, 2009: Thank you to all of you who placed quick calls to your Members of Congress last week, asking them to pass a landmark national service reauthorization bill. More...

New Policy Brief: Mentoring Opportunities for At-Risk Youth
March 23, 2009: More...

OJJDP American Recovery Act RFP for Mentoring
March 20, 2009: More...

URGENT: Contact Congress to Supporting Mentoring
March 17, 2009: Americans are stepping forward in record numbers to serve, many inspired by the bold vision articulated by President Obama, and all motivated to roll up their sleeves to address the mounting challenges we face in communities across the country. More...

Mentoring Featured in March 15 Parade Magazine
March 16, 2009: More...

Federal Mentoring Grant Opportunities
March 11, 2009: Funding announcements More...

Book by Jean Rhodes explores a baseball superstar's mentoring relationships!
March 11, 2009: MENTOR Receives Portion of Proceeds From Becoming Manny, The Authorized Biography of Manny Ramirez More...

MENTOR Opens Invitation for Reviewers of the Elements
March 6, 2009: MENTOR invites you to review the third edition of the Elements of Effective Practice. First developed in 1990, the Elements serve as national standards to foster the expansion of quality mentoring for youth. More...

February - 2009

National School-Based Mentoring Conference
February 27, 2009: The National School-Based Mentoring Conference – 4th Edition – is the only national conference dedicated solely to school-based mentoring. Held biennially in Kansas City, Missouri, the Conference draws more than 400 mentoring professionals, educators, community leaders, researchers and funders from across the country and abroad. More...

SafetyNET Program Registration Now Closed
February 24, 2009: We are very pleased to report that SafetyNET – the fingerprint based criminal background check pilot conducted in partnership with the FBI and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children – continues to be an important tool for mentoring program directors as they oversee background checks on potential mentors. More...

MENTOR Seeks Reviewers for the Elements of Effective Practice
February 19, 2009: MENTOR invites you to preview the third edition of the Elements of Effective Practice. First developed in 1990, the Elements serve as national standards to foster the expansion of quality mentoring for youth. More...

Experts to Give Economic Recovery Advice at Upcoming Event
February 13, 2009: Sign Up Now! Experts Give Economic Recovery Advice at Free Urban Institute Event. More...

January - 2009

MPNY Mentor Friday's Forecaster on Morning News
January 27, 2009: Young Professionals Advisory Board member and 2008 Corporate Mentor of the Year Jamie Frieder was a featured guest on New York’s PIX-11 Morning News. More...

Citizen Service — including Mentoring — Highlighted on Martin Luther King Day
January 27, 2009: Representatives from MENTOR were among the 12,000 volunteers gathered in Washington, D.C.'s, RFK Stadium making care packages for U.S. troops as part of the National Day of Service. More...

MPNY Featured on Good Morning America
January 22, 2009: The Mentoring Partnership of New York was featured on ABC's Good Morning America during the weather segment January 21. More...

Michelle Obama urges Americans to mentor at-risk youth!
January 15, 2009: President-elect Barack Obama supports National Mentoring Month and issues a call for all Americans More...

President Bush Signs National Mentoring Month 2009 Proclamation
January 6, 2009: The following is a press release from the White House Office of the Press Secretary proclaming January 2009 as National Mentoring Month: More...

December - 2008

Annual Guiding Lights Weekend Conference in Seattle, WA
December 18, 2008: The 4th Annual Guiding Lights Weekend invites you to Seattle, Washington for an amazing "out the box experience" -- a playful, experiential conference on the art of mentoring where you will learn how to motivate, mentor and inspire. More...

National Mentoring Month Web Site Now Available
December 12, 2008: We are delighted to announce that a new, one-stop shop for all things related to January’s National Mentoring Month (NMM) launched today. More...

Early Bird Prices Available for Mentoring Conference
December 8, 2008: Online registration is now available for the upcoming 10th Anniversary Mentoring Conference: The First Decade of Innovation and Excellence to be held January 29 and 30, 2009. More...

November - 2008

2009 National Conference on Volunteering and Service
November 25, 2008: Deadline Extended: Submit A Workshop Proposal for the 2009 National Conference on Volunteering & Service by December 1. More...

CNCS Awards Grants to America’s Promise Alliance & Communities In Schools
November 25, 2008: The Corporation for National and Community Service announced last week that America’s Promise Alliance and partner Communities In Schools were two of three organizations nationwide to receive one of their Youth Development Grants. More...

Pathways to Graduation
November 24, 2008: District leaders in cities such as New York City, Boston, Philadelphia, Portland (Oregon), and Chicago are creating promising strategies to re-engage students who are slipping off-track to graduation and get them on their way to a diploma. More...

Spring 2009 Mentoring Supervisor Certificate Program
November 20, 2008: It’s time to power up and get ready to start your mentoring program now! More...

NDPC/N Radio Webcast on Solutions to the Dropout Crisis
November 13, 2008: The National Dropout Prevention Center/Network Radio Webcast on "Solutions to the Dropout Crisis - Middle College High School: A Meaningful Option" will be aired on November 25, 2008 from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. Eastern Time. More...

2008 Mentor Michigan Statewide Conference
November 7, 2008: The 2008 Mentor Michigan Conference, "Today's Urgent Needs: Tomorrow's Opportunities", will be held Monday, November 17 at the Kellogg Conference Center in East Lansing, Michigan. More...

Teen Trendsetters™ Reading Mentors Goes National
November 6, 2008: This month, 30 teens from 11 southern states will converge in Orlando, Florida for the national launch of Teen Trendsetters™, an award-winning youth mentoring program supported by Volunteer USA. More...

October - 2008

Visit us at MCP Grantee Meeting and Conference
October 28, 2008: The 5th Annual Mentoring Children of Prisoners (MCP) Grantee Meeting and Conference organized by the Family and Youth Services Bureau will be held in Washington, DC on October 29-31. More...

National Mentoring Conference to Be Held in Baltimore
October 28, 2008: Concerned Black Men’s (CBM) 2008 National Mentoring Conference “Become Part of the Solution” will take place on October 30-November 1 in Baltimore. More...

Manza Excellence in Leadership Award
October 1, 2008: The first Manza Excellence in Leadership Award was presented to Joellen Gonder Spacek, the executive director of the Mentoring Partnership of Minnesota. More...

September - 2008

NCY Announces National Children & Youth Policy Agenda
September 12, 2008: The National Collaboration for Youth (NCY) just released a national policy agenda, "Toward a Brighter Future: An Essential Agenda for America's Young People." More...

Washington State Mentors announce grant recipients
September 5, 2008: Fourteen organizations across Washington State will receive grants totaling $75,000 from the Bank of America Mentoring Initiative and Washington State Mentors (WSM). More...

Minnesota Mentoring Conference to be held on October 20, 2008
September 3, 2008: Mentoring Partnership of Minnesota is hosting the 9th Annual Minnesota Mentoring Conference – Building Bridges to Better Futures. More...

MI Governor Urges Participation in Day of Action on Sept. 27
September 3, 2008: As a member of the ServiceNation Leadership Council, Michigan Governor Granholm has taken the lead in getting Michigan citizens involved in this year’s service campaign that will take place on September 27 nationwide. More...

August - 2008

Senior Research Specialist Position Announcement
August 22, 2008: University of Illinois at Chicago
Institute for Health Research and Policy
Visiting Senior Research Specialist Position Announcement More...

National Mentoring Summit - Early Bird Registration Extended!
August 22, 2008: MENTOR, the California Mentor Foundation, the Corporation for National and Community Service, and Evelyn Freed Mentor Center will host the “Mentoring—The Magic of Connections” National Mentoring Summit at the Disneyland Resort, September 18-19, 2008. More...

New Online Course for Youth Programs
August 7, 2008: A new online course, “Youth Impact: Starting and Strengthening Quality Programs,” helps programs find, prepare, and retain members and volunteers who work with youth in tutoring, mentoring, out-of-school time, and other youth-development capacities. More...

Launched: Online Community for Mentors
August 7, 2008: Join the Conversation at MENTOR's Online Community More...

Intel Launches Educational Online Community
August 5, 2008: Intel’s new microsite, Inspired by Education, is a community designed to improve education around the world by highlighting inspirational people, places, and moments in education. More...

July - 2008

Volunteering in America Report is Released
July 30, 2008:
Volunteering in America: 2008 State and City Trends and Rankings is the most comprehensive set of data ever assembled, offering detailed information on volunteering trends and demographics from all 50 states and 163 U.S. cities over a six-year period (2002-2007) More...

Webinar on Reporting Mentee Safety Concerns
July 30, 2008: America Learns will be hosting two upcoming webinars on training volunteers to report concerns regarding mentee safety. More...

Call for Presenters -- School-Based Mentoring Conference
July 30, 2008: Mentoring In Bloom

Cultivate | Expand | Succeed More...

Register Today! National Mentoring Summit
July 28, 2008: MENTOR, the California Mentor Foundation, the Corporation for National and Community Service, and Evelyn Freed Mentor Center will host the “Mentoring—The Magic of Connections” National Mentoring Summit at the Disneyland Resort, September 18-19, 2008. More...

Free Training: How to Find Volunteers to Work with Youth
July 22, 2008: LEARNS is offering a free online training session on creative recruitment “Finding the Right Volunteers to Work with Youth” on July 23 at 11:00 a.m. Pacific (2:00 p.m. Eastern). More...

Federal Grant Available for Mentoring At-Risk Tribal Youth
July 11, 2008: The purpose of OJJDP’s Mentoring Programs for At-Risk Tribal Youth is to support national and tribal organizations that support mentoring activities in tribal communities. Successful applicants will strengthen and expand existing mentoring activities in these communities that seek to increase interaction of tribal youth with adult mentors. More...

Mentoring Resources from National Mentoring Center
July 2, 2008: The National Mentoring Center has revised and updated several of its key publications and toolkits on mentoring: More...

CNCS Seeks Applicants Who Serve Disadvantaged Youth
July 1, 2008: The Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) announced plans to release $3.5 million in grants to national organizations that support youth from disadvantaged circumstances. More...

June - 2008

Columnist David Brooks Speaks to Telemachan Council
June 19, 2008: Last week, New York Times columnist and News Hour analyst David Brooks addressed MENTOR’s 2008 Telemachan Council Newsmaker Dinner at the Asia Society in New York City. Mr.Brooks’ opening remarks specifically addressed mentoring by focusing on recent government efforts versus personal responsibility. More...

Michigan’s First Gentleman Mulhern Encourages Mentoring
June 17, 2008: First Gentleman Daniel G. Mulhern said in his Father’s Day radio address that father figures play an important role in the lives of children, and Father's Day represents the ideal time for thousands of Michigan men to consider becoming mentors. Mulhern made his remarks in delivering a weekly radio address on behalf of Governor Jennifer M. Granholm More...

Kids Count Data Book
June 17, 2008: The Annie E. Casey Foundation's 19th annual Kids Count Data Book is now available. It provides a national and state-by-state profile of the well-being of America's children that ranks states on ten key metrics and provides data on the economic, health, education, and social conditions of America's children and families. More...

Four Federal Grants Available for Mentoring
June 2, 2008: Four new federal grants are currently available for youth mentoring service providers. More...

May - 2008

Informational Conference Calls on Caregiver’s Choice
May 9, 2008: Have you heard about Mentoring Children of Prisoners: Caregiver’s Choice but aren’t sure if it’s a good fit for your mentoring program? More...

New Report On Quality Pre-Teen After-School Programs
May 9, 2008: Recognizing the importance of connecting young people to supportive environments during their critical preteen years, Public/Private Ventures (P/PV) has identified the characteristics of quality preteen after-school programs that are linked to positive outcomes. More...

2008 Summer Institute on Youth Mentoring
May 1, 2008: Portland State University announces the 2008 Summer Institute on Youth Mentoring, a special educational opportunity for experienced mentoring professionals. More...

April - 2008

MI Governor Granholm Promotes 'No Child Left Inside Days'
April 23, 2008: Recognizing the growing gap between today's children and the outdoor activities, Governor Jennifer M. Granholm has designated April 22-27 as 'No Child Left Inside Days' in Michigan. More...

MI Nonprofit SuperConference on May 13-14, 2008
April 22, 2008: This year's SuperConference, Teaming Up for Community Success, will address the need for Michigan nonprofits and nonprofit leaders to collaborate, and encourage our sector to think about how we can work together to support our missions and create community change. More...

2008 National Volunteer Week
April 21, 2008: 2008 National Volunteer Week (NVW) is April 27 to May 3, and is about engaging individuals in service, inspiring a nation to join a movement for change and recognizing deserving volunteers with the President's Volunteer Service Award and other meaningful signs of thanks. More...

Tutor/Mentor Leadership and Networking Conference Announced
April 18, 2008: Chicago's Tutor/Mentor Connection has announced the 2008 Tutor/Mentor Leadership Conference to be held in Chicago on May 29-30, 2008. More...

ECMEF Releases Report on Child Well-Being in the U.S.
April 10, 2008: A report issued last week by Every Child Matters Education Fund (ECMEF), Geography Matters: Well-Being in the States, examines the state-by-state difference in the basic social safety net for children. More...

YSA Releases Effective Practices for Engaging At-Risk Youth in Service
April 8, 2008: Youth Service America (YSA) has released a guide entitled Effective Practices for Engaging At-Risk Youth in Service. More...

March - 2008

National Mentoring Summit to be held September 18-19, 2008
March 25, 2008: Mentoring - The Magic of Connections!
National Mentoring Summit to be held September 18-19, 2008
Disneyland Resort, Anaheim, California More...

MENTOR Supports Doodle4Google
March 18, 2008: MENTOR urges mentoring supporters and colleagues to encourage schoolchildren to submit a mentor-related Doodle4Google. Google is soliciting schoolchildren from K-12 to submit their "doodles" with a supporting fifty word statement around the theme "What if…?" More...

American Youth Policy Forum: Afterschool at the State Level
March 14, 2008: The purpose of this forum is to showcase how varying state entities are putting systems into place to strengthen their out-of-school time infrastructure statewide. More...

SafetyNET Serves as Model for Bill in Congress
March 14, 2008: March 14, 2008: The SafetyNET program, created in partnership with the Boys & Girls Clubs of America, the National Council on Youth Sports, the FBI, and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, will serve as the model for a permanent system available to all youth-serving organizations as embodied in the Child Protection Improvements Act of 2008 after almost five years of field testing. More...

Your Help Needed: President's Budget Cuts Mentoring Funding in Half
March 10, 2008: CALL OR E-MAIL YOUR REPRESENTATIVE TODAY More...

Caregiver’s Choice: Mentoring Children of Prisoners
March 3, 2008: Last week, MENTOR announced the launch of Mentoring Children of Prisoners: Caregiver's Choice. Caregiver's Choice is a nationwide program designed to bring mentoring programs and children with incarcerated parents together, and to financially support the resulting mentoring relationships. More...

February - 2008

Teen Trendsetters Reading Mentors to Expand
February 27, 2008: Volunteer USA Foundation announced that Teen Trendsetters Reading Mentors would expand from Florida to the southeastern United States. More...

UN Sec-Gen Appoints Chambers to US Special Envoy for Malaria
February 15, 2008: >Source: United Nations Secretary-General United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced today the appointment of Ray Chambers of the United States as his Special Envoy for Malaria. More...

Celtics legend Russell to speak about mentoring
February 14, 2008: Dartmouth - Feb 13, 2008: Boston Celtics legend Bill Russell will be the keynote speaker at an annual benefit dinner for the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth’s Center for Marketing Research on March 27. More...

Washington State Mentors grants $3.5 million to help at-risk youth
February 11, 2008: Seven mentoring organizations have received $3.5 million from Washington State Mentors (WSM) to support at-risk youth in 13 counties. The grants were announced January 27 at the Guiding Lights Weekend conference by WSM Co-Chair, Lieutenant Governor Brad Owen. More...

January - 2008

MENTOR Releases Free Downloadable PSA Media Placement Handbook
January 24, 2008: MENTOR is pleased to announce release of a free downloadable PSA Media Placement handbook to develop strategy for placing public service announcements in your local media – print and broadcast. More...

Thank Your Mentor Day
January 17, 2008: Quincy Jones, General Colin Powell, and Usher lead national campaign to recruit volunteer mentors for at-risk youth. More...

Daniel G. Mulhern Speaks about Importance of Mentoring
January 7, 2008: Hear First Gentleman Daniel G. Mulhern (MI) speak about the importance of mentoring to both mentors and mentees. More...