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June - 2008

Mentoring for All Act of 2008 Introduced in Senate
June 27, 2008: Sens. Kerry (D-MA), Specter (R-PA), Sens. Akaka (D-HI), and Coleman (R-MN) introduced the Mentoring for All Act of 2008 (S. 3200), which creates a competitive grant fund of $50 million to strengthen and grow Mentoring Partnerships nationwide, and includes millions in additional grant monies for support of direct service mentoring programs.   More...

Archived News

Child Protection Improvements Act Passes Important Milestone
June 6, 2008: The Senate Judiciary Committee has passed the Child Protection Improvements Act of 2008 (S.2756) authored by Sens. Biden (D-DE), Hatch (R-UT) and Specter (R-PA). More...

May - 2008

MENTOR's Caregiver's Choice Issues First Voucher
May 7, 2008: Last week, MENTOR's Caregiver's Choice program issued its first voucher for mentoring services to a family from Bend, Oregon. More...

April - 2008

MENTOR Offers Online Debate Platform
April 3, 2008: MENTOR has partnered with Helium, the leader in online citizen journalism, to connect different voices in the mentoring community, and to raise awareness of quality youth mentoring in the United States. More...

March - 2008

Big Brothers Big Sisters of America Urge Hispanics to Mentor
March 19, 2008: An ambitious Big Brothers Big Sisters of America (BBBS) pilot program has reaped a 29 percent increase in the number of Hispanics youth served over the course of the last year. More...

MENTOR's SafetyNET Serves as Model in Proposed Congressional Bill
March 14, 2008: The SafetyNET program, created in partnership with the Boys & Girls Clubs of America, the National Council on Youth Sports, the FBI, and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, will serve as the model for a permanent system available to all youth-serving organizations as embodied in the Child Protection Improvements Act of 2008 after almost five years of field testing. More...

February - 2008

MENTOR Offers Match Program for Children of the Incarcerated
February 21, 2008: MENTOR is pleased to announce the launch of Mentoring Children of Prisoners: Caregiver's Choice, a nationwide voucher program providing children of incarcerated parents with expanded access to mentoring services. More...

January - 2008

White House Leads Mentoring Roundtable
January 31, 2008: The White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives (OFBCI) convened a Compassion in Action policy roundtable in January, highlighting the efforts of America’s dedicated mentors. More...

MENTOR Launches New 2008 Public Service Announcements
January 17, 2008: Launched during National Mentoring Month - an initiative of the Harvard Mentoring Project, MENTOR, and the Corporation for National and Community Service - January 2008, MENTOR has created dynamic print and broadcast public service announcements (PSAs) urging readers/viewers to go to www.mentoring.org to find out more about what it takes to be a mentor, the different types of mentoring venues, real-life mentor-mentee stories, local programs, and most importantly, how to volunteer. More...

MENTOR Observes Martin Luther King Day and 40 Days of Nonviolence
January 15, 2008: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. sought to forge the common ground on which people from all walks of life could join together to address important community issues. More...

December - 2007

Federal Government Rings in the New Year with Strong Support of Mentoring
December 28, 2007: With vigorous grassroots and MENTOR-led advocacy on Capitol Hill, Congress has allocated $100 million in funding to benefit mentoring organizations throughout the country in fiscal year 2008. More...

Research in Action Series
December 12, 2007: MENTOR is pleased to announce the release of an innovative series - Research in Action - that translates the latest scholarly research on mentoring into tangible strategies for mentoring practitioners. More...

MENTOR Rolls out MentorPRO
December 4, 2007: MentorPRO® is the first of its kind: an online data tracking and analysis tool that allows organizations to access and track data to better manage Programs, monitor Relationships and evaluate Outcomes. More...

November - 2007

Mentors of the Year Celebrated at Back to the Bull Party
November 27, 2007: On November 15, 2007, five very special individuals were honored with the Corporate Mentor of the Year Award in recognition of the time, talent and energy that they have put into their relationships as mentors for New York City's youth. More...