The National Corporate Mentoring Honor Roll recognizes outstanding corporations across the United States that support the youth mentoring field in a variety of ways. The Honor Roll was first launched by First Lady Michelle Obama in 2011 as a challenge to companies to encourage their employees to become volunteer youth mentors. Since the challenge was announced, corporate engagement in youth mentoring has grown to reflect a broad range of innovations and strategies all working to connect youth to social and economic opportunities and build a strong 21st century workforce.
ELIGIBILITY
Companies must support quality mentoring in at least one of the following ways to be eligible for the Honor Roll:
- Provide financial support directly to mentoring programs, MENTOR Affiliates, or MENTOR National
- Engage employees as mentors with a youth mentoring initiatives(s)
- Engage employees as mentors of youth in the workplace (i.e. internship programs, summer youth employment placements, Opportunity Youth initiatives)
- Promotes nonprofit board opportunities through a formal board placement program connecting corporate leadership to mentoring programs, MENTOR Affiliates or MENTOR National
- Engage employees in skill-based or pro bono volunteer projects and have regularly supported mentoring initiatives
- Loan executives to a mentoring initiative(s)
- Leverage brand assets to elevate youth mentoring externally (i.e. cause marketing or public policy advocacy)
To join the Honor Roll, companies must fill out a brief questionnaire (click here to see a word version of the questionnaire). This typically takes 10 minutes to complete. Following your submission, the MENTOR team will contact you to confirm your membership and schedule a 30-minute meeting to clarify any outstanding questions and discuss promotional opportunities.
BENEFITS
By joining the Honor Roll, companies receive the following benefits:
- Promotion of the company’s commitment to mentoring via listing on MENTOR’s National Corporate Mentoring Honor Roll webpage (including short corporate profiles)
- Brand elevation through social media posts, MENTOR’s monthly awareness campaigns, e-communications spotlights and/or blog posts.
- Recognition at the National Mentoring Summit, MENTOR’s annual convening of over 1,300 mentoring practitioners, advocates, and philanthropic partners.
- Exclusive opportunity submit a nomination for the Excellence in Mentoring, Corporate Leadership Award. Selected recipient is invited to speak at the Excellence in Mentoring Dinner held annually during the National Mentoring Summit in Washington, DC.
- Exclusive invitations to speak and/or participate in relevant events, webinars, conferences and networking opportunities
To learn more about the National Mentoring Corporate Honor Roll or explore ways your company can get engaged in mentoring please contact Jon Churchill at jchurchill@mentoring.org
Resources to support corporate engagement in mentoring:
- White Paper on AT&T’s Aspire Mentoring Academy (2016)
- The Business Case for Mentoring (2017)
- Workplace Mentoring Supplement to the Elements of Effective Practice (2019)
- Fueling a Relationship Movement – the Critical Role that Employers Play in Growing and Supporting Youth Mentoring in America (2019)
- Philanthropic IMPACT Webinars
- MENTOR Corporate Engagement Opportunities
- Connect – Focus – Grow Corporate Training
2024 National Corporate Mentoring Honor Roll Companies:
- 3M
- AbbVie
- ALKU
- Altria
- AmeriHealth Caritas
- Amgen
- Augmentors
- AT&T
- Bank of America
- Best Buy
- Bethpage Federal Credit Union
- BOA Technology
- Casa Grande Interactive Communications Inc.
- Certilman Balin Adler & Hyman, LLP
- Citi Foundation
- CoLabL
- Columbus Rapids FC
- Cricket Media
- Delaware North
- Deloitte
- Dominion Energy
- Donnelly Mechanical
- Dreami
- Emergent Software
- EY
- Exiger
- Fidelity Investments
- Federated Insurance
- First National Bank of Omaha
- Genentech
- General Motors
- Gensler
- HarborOne Bank
- Hyatt Hotels Corporation
- Innovative Mentoring Software
- Innovative Research and Training
- Johnson & Johnson
- JP Morgan Chase & Co.
- Key Bank
- KieranTimberlake
- Kiewit Corporation
- Kissena Donuts, Inc.
- Lambent Data
- Leading With Pride
- Libra Group
- Los Angeles (LA) Clippers
- Macquarie Group
- Marshalls
- Microsoft
- Milwaukee Bucks
- Mitsubishi Electric US, Inc.
- Nebraska Furniture Mart
- NIKE, Inc.
- Nioyatech
- Orases
- Owens & Minor, Inc.
- Philadelphia 76ers
- Pitney Bowes
- PSEG Long Island
- PreCollege Solutions
- Ross Stores Foundation
- Saphier Events
- Sanofi US
- Sav Me Mindset Coaching
- Schneider Electric
- The Starbucks Foundation
- Taco Bell Foundation
- The Textron Charitable Trust
- The Sherwin-Williams Company
- Toyota Motor North America
- United Technologies Corporation
- Unum
- Urban Health Plan, Inc.
- UBS
- Webster Bank
- WillowTree
- WilmerHale
2024 Excellence in Mentoring Honoree, Corporate Youth Leadership
Given to a young person who participates or recently participated in a corporate mentoring program or initiative and showed great leadership potential
Serena Patel
Serena Patel is a Marketing and Customer Success Specialist at Dreami, a groundbreaking software platform revolutionizing career development, and an MBA candidate at Southern Oregon University. Patel leads a women’s corporate mentoring program that has positively impacted more than 2,000 individuals.