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Youth mentoring: the motivation of volunteering and the validity of the volunteer function inventory

February 22, 2020/0 Comments/in Mentoring Research /by Ariel Ervin

Teye, AC, Peaslee, L. (2020). Why mentor? A validation study of the volunteer functions inventory for use in youth mentoring. Journal of Community Psychology, 1– 19. https://doi.org/10.1002/jcop.22326 Summarized by Ariel Ervin Notes of Interest: Examines the validity of the Volunteer Functions Inventory, as well as the functional motivations of youth mentoring program volunteers 473 participants/mentors were […]

Sustaining the volunteer base for mentoring programs

September 20, 2018/0 Comments/in Contributors, Practice /by Cyanea Poon

By Meanie Ervin, Director of Communication, Adopt A Class A repost from National Mentoring Resource Center Hi Friends, It’s Melanie Ervin, Director of Communication of Adopt A Class. I am here to share our work and 3 lessons we’ve learned that has sustained our program year over year. But first, What is Adopt A Class? Adopt […]

Volunteering can be a multigenerational family affair

April 12, 2017/0 Comments/in Contributors, Mentoring in the News /by Justin Preston

By Chris Farrell, Next Avenue Contributor Fiftysomething Linda Meadows, a volunteer with the AmeriCorps Reading Partners program, is tutoring students at the library of Cherry Hill Elementary in south Baltimore, a low-income, mostly African-American neighborhood. “I like to encourage young people. They need to be told they can do it,” she says. For Meadows, Reading […]

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