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Recruitment

Recruiting the right people is an ongoing challenge for mentoring programs. Here you'll find resources to help you design a recruitment campaign, including sample recruitment materials and more.

Recruiting Mentees
Recruiting mentees is part of the intake process for involving youth in your mentoring program. If you're building a mentoring program to serve a specific youth population, such as a school-based mentoring program for students seeking academic or career guidance, you know where your potential participants are. More...

Targeting Your Recruitment Efforts
Identifying a specific "market" is extremely important in recruiting mentors. Examples include college/university students, young professionals, church/synagogue/mosque programs for young adults alumni from a volunteer's school or fraternity/sorority, local businesses that have management training programs, etc. More...

Developing a Recruitment Plan
Developing a Plan A recruitment plan for mentors and participants includes: Strategies that portray accurate expectations and benefits, year-round marketing and public relations, targeted outreach based on participants' needs, volunteer opportunities beyond mentoring, and a basis in your program's statement of purpose and long-range plan.. More...

Recruitment Resources

Additional information, resources and tools are available in the Find Resources section and in the How to Build a Successful Mentoring Program Using the Elements of Effective Practice Toolkit.