Mentor Recruitment and Retention

These articles explore strategies for recruiting and retaining volunteers.

Separating the wheat from the chaff in youth mentoring

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by Jean Rhodes Ron Haskins, the co-director of the Center…

Strengthening quality youth mentoring programs through service fellowships

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by Marty Martinez As practitioners, we are all committed…

Young, empathetic, and interested: A profile for volunteer mentors

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Randle, M., Miller, L., Ciarrochi, J. and Dolnicar, S. (2014).…

On Being Our Brother’s Keeper

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by John Bridgeland, CEO, Civic Enterprises and Melody Barnes, Director,…

FORUM: What does it mean for a mentor to be an “advocate” for a young person?

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Last week, we began exploring the connections between advocacy…

POLL: What are your mentoring program’s biggest professional development needs?

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As a training and technical assistance provider, I’ve spent…

Teaching Youth to Recruit Supportive Adults

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 by Sarah Schwartz The story of 15-year-old Davion Only has…

MENTOR, Pivot TV Pair Pop Culture with Social Action

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October 2013 Joe Halpern, MENTOR Writer MENTOR has begun…

FORUM: Should we be devoting more time and resources to “natural” mentoring?

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There has been a lot of research in recent years examining the…