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August - 2008

Senior Research Specialist Position Announcement
August 22, 2008: University of Illinois at Chicago
Institute for Health Research and Policy
Visiting Senior Research Specialist Position Announcement   More...

National Mentoring Summit - Early Bird Registration Extended!
August 22, 2008: MENTOR, the California Mentor Foundation, the Corporation for National and Community Service, and Evelyn Freed Mentor Center will host the “Mentoring—The Magic of Connections” National Mentoring Summit at the Disneyland Resort, September 18-19, 2008.   More...

New Online Course for Youth Programs
August 7, 2008: A new online course, “Youth Impact: Starting and Strengthening Quality Programs,” helps programs find, prepare, and retain members and volunteers who work with youth in tutoring, mentoring, out-of-school time, and other youth-development capacities.   More...

Launched: Online Community for Mentors
August 7, 2008: Join the Conversation at MENTOR's Online Community   More...

Intel Launches Educational Online Community
August 5, 2008: Intel’s new microsite, Inspired by Education, is a community designed to improve education around the world by highlighting inspirational people, places, and moments in education.   More...

July - 2008

Volunteering in America Report is Released
July 30, 2008:
Volunteering in America: 2008 State and City Trends and Rankings is the most comprehensive set of data ever assembled, offering detailed information on volunteering trends and demographics from all 50 states and 163 U.S. cities over a six-year period (2002-2007)   More...

Webinar on Reporting Mentee Safety Concerns
July 30, 2008: America Learns will be hosting two upcoming webinars on training volunteers to report concerns regarding mentee safety.   More...

Call for Presenters -- School-Based Mentoring Conference
July 30, 2008: Mentoring In Bloom

Cultivate | Expand | Succeed   More...

Register Today! National Mentoring Summit
July 28, 2008: MENTOR, the California Mentor Foundation, the Corporation for National and Community Service, and Evelyn Freed Mentor Center will host the “Mentoring—The Magic of Connections” National Mentoring Summit at the Disneyland Resort, September 18-19, 2008.   More...

Federal Grant Available for Mentoring At-Risk Tribal Youth
July 11, 2008: The purpose of OJJDP’s Mentoring Programs for At-Risk Tribal Youth is to support national and tribal organizations that support mentoring activities in tribal communities. Successful applicants will strengthen and expand existing mentoring activities in these communities that seek to increase interaction of tribal youth with adult mentors.   More...

Mentoring Resources from National Mentoring Center
July 2, 2008: The National Mentoring Center has revised and updated several of its key publications and toolkits on mentoring:   More...

CNCS Seeks Applicants Who Serve Disadvantaged Youth
July 1, 2008: The Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) announced plans to release $3.5 million in grants to national organizations that support youth from disadvantaged circumstances.   More...

June - 2008

Columnist David Brooks Speaks to Telemachan Council
June 19, 2008: Last week, New York Times columnist and News Hour analyst David Brooks addressed MENTOR’s 2008 Telemachan Council Newsmaker Dinner at the Asia Society in New York City. Mr.Brooks’ opening remarks specifically addressed mentoring by focusing on recent government efforts versus personal responsibility.   More...

Michigan’s First Gentleman Mulhern Encourages Mentoring
June 17, 2008: First Gentleman Daniel G. Mulhern said in his Father’s Day radio address that father figures play an important role in the lives of children, and Father's Day represents the ideal time for thousands of Michigan men to consider becoming mentors. Mulhern made his remarks in delivering a weekly radio address on behalf of Governor Jennifer M. Granholm   More...

Archived News

July - 2008

Free Training: How to Find Volunteers to Work with Youth
July 22, 2008: LEARNS is offering a free online training session on creative recruitment “Finding the Right Volunteers to Work with Youth” on July 23 at 11:00 a.m. Pacific (2:00 p.m. Eastern). More...

June - 2008

Kids Count Data Book
June 17, 2008: The Annie E. Casey Foundation's 19th annual Kids Count Data Book is now available. It provides a national and state-by-state profile of the well-being of America's children that ranks states on ten key metrics and provides data on the economic, health, education, and social conditions of America's children and families. More...

Four Federal Grants Available for Mentoring
June 2, 2008: Four new federal grants are currently available for youth mentoring service providers. More...

May - 2008

Informational Conference Calls on Caregiver’s Choice
May 9, 2008: Have you heard about Mentoring Children of Prisoners: Caregiver’s Choice but aren’t sure if it’s a good fit for your mentoring program? More...

New Report On Quality Pre-Teen After-School Programs
May 9, 2008: Recognizing the importance of connecting young people to supportive environments during their critical preteen years, Public/Private Ventures (P/PV) has identified the characteristics of quality preteen after-school programs that are linked to positive outcomes. More...

2008 Summer Institute on Youth Mentoring
May 1, 2008: Portland State University announces the 2008 Summer Institute on Youth Mentoring, a special educational opportunity for experienced mentoring professionals. More...

April - 2008

MI Governor Granholm Promotes 'No Child Left Inside Days'
April 23, 2008: Recognizing the growing gap between today's children and the outdoor activities, Governor Jennifer M. Granholm has designated April 22-27 as 'No Child Left Inside Days' in Michigan. More...

MI Nonprofit SuperConference on May 13-14, 2008
April 22, 2008: This year's SuperConference, Teaming Up for Community Success, will address the need for Michigan nonprofits and nonprofit leaders to collaborate, and encourage our sector to think about how we can work together to support our missions and create community change. More...

2008 National Volunteer Week
April 21, 2008: 2008 National Volunteer Week (NVW) is April 27 to May 3, and is about engaging individuals in service, inspiring a nation to join a movement for change and recognizing deserving volunteers with the President's Volunteer Service Award and other meaningful signs of thanks. More...

Tutor/Mentor Leadership and Networking Conference Announced
April 18, 2008: Chicago's Tutor/Mentor Connection has announced the 2008 Tutor/Mentor Leadership Conference to be held in Chicago on May 29-30, 2008. More...

ECMEF Releases Report on Child Well-Being in the U.S.
April 10, 2008: A report issued last week by Every Child Matters Education Fund (ECMEF), Geography Matters: Well-Being in the States, examines the state-by-state difference in the basic social safety net for children. More...

YSA Releases Effective Practices for Engaging At-Risk Youth in Service
April 8, 2008: Youth Service America (YSA) has released a guide entitled Effective Practices for Engaging At-Risk Youth in Service. More...

March - 2008

National Mentoring Summit to be held September 18-19, 2008
March 25, 2008: Mentoring - The Magic of Connections!
National Mentoring Summit to be held September 18-19, 2008
Disneyland Resort, Anaheim, California More...

MENTOR Supports Doodle4Google
March 18, 2008: MENTOR urges mentoring supporters and colleagues to encourage schoolchildren to submit a mentor-related Doodle4Google. Google is soliciting schoolchildren from K-12 to submit their "doodles" with a supporting fifty word statement around the theme "What if…?" More...

American Youth Policy Forum: Afterschool at the State Level
March 14, 2008: The purpose of this forum is to showcase how varying state entities are putting systems into place to strengthen their out-of-school time infrastructure statewide. More...

SafetyNET Serves as Model for Bill in Congress
March 14, 2008: 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...

Your Help Needed: President's Budget Cuts Mentoring Funding in Half
March 10, 2008: CALL OR E-MAIL YOUR REPRESENTATIVE TODAY More...

Caregiver’s Choice: Mentoring Children of Prisoners
March 3, 2008: Last week, MENTOR announced the launch of Mentoring Children of Prisoners: Caregiver's Choice. Caregiver's Choice is a nationwide program designed to bring mentoring programs and children with incarcerated parents together, and to financially support the resulting mentoring relationships. More...

February - 2008

Teen Trendsetters Reading Mentors to Expand
February 27, 2008: Volunteer USA Foundation announced that Teen Trendsetters Reading Mentors would expand from Florida to the southeastern United States. More...

UN Sec-Gen Appoints Chambers to US Special Envoy for Malaria
February 15, 2008: >Source: United Nations Secretary-General United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced today the appointment of Ray Chambers of the United States as his Special Envoy for Malaria. More...

Celtics legend Russell to speak about mentoring
February 14, 2008: Dartmouth - Feb 13, 2008: Boston Celtics legend Bill Russell will be the keynote speaker at an annual benefit dinner for the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth’s Center for Marketing Research on March 27. More...

Washington State Mentors grants $3.5 million to help at-risk youth
February 11, 2008: Seven mentoring organizations have received $3.5 million from Washington State Mentors (WSM) to support at-risk youth in 13 counties. The grants were announced January 27 at the Guiding Lights Weekend conference by WSM Co-Chair, Lieutenant Governor Brad Owen. More...

January - 2008

MENTOR Releases Free Downloadable PSA Media Placement Handbook
January 24, 2008: MENTOR is pleased to announce release of a free downloadable PSA Media Placement handbook to develop strategy for placing public service announcements in your local media – print and broadcast. More...

Thank Your Mentor Day
January 17, 2008: Quincy Jones, General Colin Powell, and Usher lead national campaign to recruit volunteer mentors for at-risk youth. More...

Daniel G. Mulhern Speaks about Importance of Mentoring
January 7, 2008: Hear First Gentleman Daniel G. Mulhern (MI) speak about the importance of mentoring to both mentors and mentees. More...