25th Anniversary Celebration Founder’s Circle Recognized

By: MENTOR

Events, Recognition

October 2015

MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership (MENTOR) is thrilled to be celebrating 25 years of the youth mentoring movement, along with our network of affiliate Mentoring Partnerships. Our Mentoring Partnerships serve a unique role as local movement builders and hubs of expertise, providing the critical link between MENTOR’s national efforts and local organizations and programs that foster and support quality mentoring relationships.

As part of this celebratory year, we are recognizing a special group of individuals who pioneered the creation of the mentoring movement, MENTOR and our affiliates and helped expand our reach across the nation through critical support. With input from national nonprofit leaders, MENTOR board members, Mentoring Partnerships and other mentoring stakeholders, we bring you the  “Mentoring Founder’s Circle”. Any list like this is simply representative of thousands of mentors, mentoring professionals, policy makers, elected officials, media champions, funders, private sector leaders, community leaders, and young people and their families who make the mentoring movement a reality.

We have deep appreciation for their vision, continued leadership and passion for building the critical backbone of mentoring’s infrastructure in support of our ongoing efforts to close the mentoring gap.

25th Anniversary Founder’s Circle

MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership

  • Willem (Wim) Kooyker
  • Marian Heard
  • J. Douglas Holladay
  • Robin Melvin
  • Tom  Mendell
  • Goldman Sachs
  • Alan Schwartz
  • Dr. Susan Weinberger

Affiliate Network of Mentoring Partnerships

California

California Mentoring Partnership

  • Dr. Andy Mecca
  • Governor Pete Wilson

Colorado

Colorado Mentoring Partnership

  • Joan S. Brennan

Connecticut

The Governors Prevention Partnership

  • Susan Patrick
  • Dr. Susan Weinberger

Florida

Mentor Center of Palm Beach County

  • Leslie Langbert
  • Liz Vanmeek

Illinois

Illinois Mentoring Partnership

  • Sheila Merry
  • Glenn Tilton

Indiana

Indiana Mentoring Partnership

  • Jim Morris

Iowa

Iowa Mentoring Partnership

  • Adam Lounsbury
  • Karen Nussle
  • Sally Pederson

Kansas

Kansas Mentors

  • Governor Kathleen Sebelius
  • Coach Bill Snyder

Maryland

Maryland Mentoring Resource Center  

  • Bishop A. Bryan Claxton
  • Robert Embry
  • Kalman R. Hettleman
  • James Piper
  • Richard Rowe
  • Stuart Simms

Massachusetts

Mass Mentoring Partnership

  • Rev. J. Donald Monan, S.J.
  • Paul O’Brien
  • Ted Kelly

Michigan

Mentor Michigan

  • Governor Jennifer Granholm

Minnesota

Mentoring Partnership of Minnesota

  • Bob Dayton
  • Joanie Dayton
  • Joellen Gonder-Spacek

Nebraska

Midlands Mentoring Partnership

  • Julie Hefflinger
  • Suzanne Hince
  • Dr. Tom Osborne
  • Mike Yanney

New Jersey

Newark Mentoring Movement 

  • Senator Cory Booker

New York

Mentoring Partnership of New York and Long Island

  • James O. Boisi (in memoriam)
  • Joan S. Brennan

North Carolina 

Mentoring Partnership of North Carolina

  • Linda Harrill
  • The Honorable James B. Hunt Jr.
  • Representative Graig Meyer

Ohio

Mentoring Center of Central Ohio

  • Janet Jackson
  • Doug  Kridler
  • Steve Moore

Oregon

Institute for Youth Success at Education Northwest (formerly Oregon Mentors)

  • Ken Thrasher

Pennsylvania

Mentoring Partnership & Resource Center (Southeast Pennsylvania)

  • William Gray III (in memoriam)
  • George M. Ross (in memoriam)
  • Lynda Terrell

Mentoring Partnership of Southwestern Pennsylvania

  • Diana Bucco
  • Charles (Chip) Burke, Jr.
  • George Miles, Jr.
  • Dan Rooney

Rhode Island

Rhode Island Mentoring Partnership

  • Alan Shawn Feinstein
  • John Howell
  • James McCormick
  • Arlene McNulty

Tennessee

Grizzlies TEAM Up Youth Mentoring Partnership       

  • Jenny Koltnow
  • Elliot Perry
  • Alayne Shoenfeld

Vermont   

Mobius, Vermont Mentoring Partnership

  • Theresa Alberghini DiPalma
  • Rick Davis
  • Sascha Mayer
  • Dan Smith
  • Larry Williams

Virginia

Virginia Mentoring Partnership

  • Dr. Cathy Howard
  • S. Buford Scott
  • Dr. Jennifer Smith-Slabaugh

Washington

Mentoring Works Washington

  • Bob Craves (in memoriam)
  • Jim Marsh
  • Lt. Governor Brad Owen
  • Tom Pennella
  • Jim Sinegal
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