President-elect Obama Promotes Mentoring in The New York Times
December 19, 2008: Today's edition of The New York Times includes a public service advertisement showing President-elect Barack Obama encouraging readers to "Be the change: mentor a child."
The advertisement is a call to action from ServiceNation and National Mentoring Month partners - The Harvard School of Public Health, MENTOR and the Corporation for National and Community Service - and is timed to coincide with January's National Mentoring Month activities. The call to action also is benefiting from the leadership of Be the Change, Civic Enterprises, City Year, and the Points of Light Institute.
Marian Heard, MENTOR's Vice Chair, said, "We are absolutely thrilled that President-elect Obama is taking immediate action on his commitment to deepen and strengthen the country's commitment to service, including service as volunteer mentors for the millions of young people who need them."
Newsweek magazine has agreed to print the Obama ad pro bono, and additional publications are being approached to do the same.
For full text of today's article, go to The New York Times online.
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