2021 Year in Review
View MENTOR’s annual impact through the
4 pillars established in our 2021 Strategy:
Watch MENTOR CEO David Shapiro Recap 2021
Advancing Local Field Leadership
Supporting the effectiveness of new and existing MENTOR Affiliates to scale MENTOR’s geographic footprint and deepen the impact of the mentoring field.
25 local MENTOR Affiliates provided services in 24 states, the District of Columbia, and across the country
2 emerging Affiliates in development in Texas and Illinois
60% of Affiliate organizations led by BIPOC leaders
$1 million dollars distributed for Racial Justice Innovation Grants to Affiliates
Expanding the Movement
Motivating civic leaders, employers, and individual stakeholders to prioritize and invest in ensuring all young people have access to mentoring relationships.
MENTOR co-led advocacy efforts to successfully increase key federal investment in mentoring to $100 million in FY21.
20,210 individuals took action by completing 51,305 searches for mentoring opportunities and connecting with 1,337 local mentoring programs nationwide through the new and improved Mentoring Connector.
2,149 people representing all 50 states and 13 countries registered for the 2022 National Mentoring Summit.
Prioritizing Quality
Identifying, promoting, and driving the implementation of evidence-based practices combined with community wisdom to increase the quality of mentoring relationships for young people.
MENTOR led the delivery of a record-breaking 11,871 hours of technical assistance to 378 organizations that serve at a minimum 73,201 young people in mentoring relationships through OJJDP’s National Mentoring Resource Center.
40,000+ total downloads of MENTOR’s resources and publications.
Top 5 Downloaded Resources
Influencing Systems
Creating and guiding innovative solutions that integrate relationship-centered practices and policies while driving resources for the adoption of mentoring structures and mindsets within youth-serving systems.
1,631 individuals including supervisors, mentors, and young people in the workplace were trained through the Connect-Focus-Grow curriculum, designed to help create a mentoring mindset for industry professionals.
MENTOR piloted the relationship-centered schools campaign with 6 school districts across the country.
Looking Ahead
In 2021, MENTOR launched a refreshed strategic plan with a goal that over the next 3 years, MENTOR will advance the movement such that 1 million more young people aged 8-24 will have access to improved, quality, mentoring relationships that support their thriving