MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership
http://www.mentoring.org/
Charity Category:
Children & Youth
National Mentoring Partnership (MENTOR) is the unifying champion for quality youth mentoring relationships in America. Our mission is to fuel both quality and quantity and to close the mentoring gap.
They work to close what is considered the “mentoring gap”. MENTOR focuses on three main strategies to bridge this gap:•Building and supporting critical infrastructure at the state level, through supporting state Mentoring Partnerships, which continue to produce inspiring, reality tested solutions for mentoring’s great challenges. •Leveraging knowledge and leadership through the National Mentoring Institute (NMI), a forum for the nations leading experts on mentoring. The NMI delivers many products and services to the mentoring field, including a research agenda and the Second Edition of the Elements of Effective Practice, the guide to running high quality mentoring programs. •Generating support for thousands of programs that run mentoring initiatives and need additional resources to broaden their reach. Thanks to innovative programs such as SafetyNET- a fast and efficient background checking system- and record levels of federal funding, the resources available to mentoring programs have never been greater.