2022 Year in Review
View MENTOR’s annual impact through the
4 pillars established in our 2022 Strategy:
Watch MENTOR make it possible below!
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.
24 local MENTOR Affiliates provided services in 23 states, the District of Columbia, and across the country.
3 emerging Affiliates in development in Texas, Illinois, and Florida.
50% of Affiliate organizations led by BIPOC leaders.
$415,000 distributed to Racial Justice Innovation Grants for Affiliates
- Starbucks Social Justice Capacity Building Grants- $135,000
- Citi Foundation Racial Justice Innovation Grants- $100,000
- NFL DEI Capacity Building Grants- $180,000
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 $102M in FY22.
9,769 individuals took action by completing 10,019 searches for mentoring opportunities and connecting with local mentoring programs 6477 times nationwide through the Mentoring Connector.
2,149 people representing all 50 states and 13 countries registered for the 2022 National Mentoring Summit.
Celebrated 30 years of the mentoring movement at the Amplify Mentoring Celebration with over 400 leaders and supporters.
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 13,804 hours of technical assistance to 603 organizations that serve at a minimum 167,851 young people in mentoring relationships through OJJDP’s National Mentoring Resource Center.
45,000+ 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.
8 companies influenced by our workplace mentoring resources— includes trainings, design labs, toolkits, and other engagements that informed how entities engaged in workplace mentoring.
10 New School Districts and 13 Community Organizations Engaged with Relationship-Centered Schools in 2022.
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. So far we are at 709,512 young people reached!