Mentoring in the News

Legendary Baseball Player Cal Ripken Jr. To Headline National Mentoring Summit

from Mentoring.org  Cal Ripken Jr., known as baseball’s all-time Iron Man playing 21 seasons with the Baltimore Orioles and earning a record-breaking career, will be the featured opening speaker at the 2014 National Mentoring Summit. Ripken Jr. was powerful at the plate, graceful in the field, and had unrivaled perseverance. He earned American League Rookie […]

Sarah Schwartz, Ph.D. is the “Connected Learning” Editor

Sarah Schwartz is the newly appointed MacArthur Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in Connected Learning. As editor of this new column, she will share with the mentoring community the many new research projects and ideas that are emerging from the Connected Learning Research Network and beyond. Within this context, Sarah will highlight her new research on youth […]

Sesame Street Workshop Helps Kids with Incarcerated Parents

reprinted from Youth Today September 04, 2013 Kharon Benson reads letters from his imprisoned father. At age 10, Benson found out that his father was not in the military as his mother had told him his entire life, but in prison serving a sentence for second-degree murder. (Photo by Gwen McClure / JJIE)  As he […]

Mentoring teenage girls: ‘Watching them develop in confidence is amazing’

An initiative by teachers to connect teens with successful female mentors is already paying off – but it needs more cash by Janet Murray reprinted from The Guardian, Monday 2 September 2013 14.45 EDT Educated in a run-down part of Portsmouth, Becca Dean thought little would surprise her about teaching at an inner-city girls’ school. But taking […]

iMentor in the news!

ENTREPRENEURS | 5/02/2013 @ 11:17AM |2,773 views Mentoring: A Commitment To The Next Generation Reprinted from FORBES Ashoka, Contributor Morgan Stanley CIO Steve Sparkes makes a case for how mentoring can ensure more students graduate high school and succeed in college. (Photo: iMentor) A college education is key to finding a job and building a successful […]

Youth-initiated mentoring in the news

from Digital Journal UMass Boston Research Highlights Value of Youth-Initiated Mentoring PRWEB.COM Newswire Boston, MA (PRWEB) August 23, 2013 Jean Rhodes, director of the UMass Boston/MENTOR Center for Evidence-Based Mentoring, and her colleagues have demonstrated the value of Youth-Initiated Mentoring (YIM) in three new peer-reviewed studies. In the YIM model, young people select their own mentors from […]

Support the Transition-to-Success Mentoring Act

School-based Mentoring Program Would Provide $50 Million to Support Students By Abbie Evans MENTOR Director of Government Relations August 1, 2013 (reprinted from mentoring.org) Today, Representative André Carson from Indiana’s 7th Congressional district introduced the Transition-to-Success Mentoring Act to establish a national competitive grant program targeted at at-risk youth in middle school. The bill would […]

The Short Course@UMB: Mentoring Youth in the Foster Care System

The MENTOR/UMass Boston Center for Evidence-Based Mentoring is thrilled with the success of its first Short Course @ UMass Boston. The goal of this intensive 1.5 day course was to provide practitioners with a series of expert lectures and group discussions aimed at deepening their capacity to train and supervise volunteer mentors working with youth […]

Register for the 14th Annual Minnesota Mentoring Conference “The State of Mentoring”

It’s time to register for the 14th Annual Minnesota Mentoring Conference “The State of Mentoring” Date: October 17, 2013 Location: Crowne Plaza St. Paul – Riverfront Hotel in downtown St. Paul, MN Cost:  $125 Early Bird/$75 Student and AmeriCorps/$150 Standard Registration after Early Bird deadline of September 16, 2013. Keynote Speaker: Dr. Kent Pekel, President and […]

Donating My Bone Marrow to Dad

  Editor’s Note: Thank you to MENTOR’s Ellen Christman for passing this beautiful piece along which appeared in the Huffington Post. Written by America’s Promise’s David Park, it is a powerful reminder of our deep, connections and the importance of acceptance. David Park Executive vice president, mission advancement, for America’s Promise Alliance. Donating My Bone […]