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Positive youth development research has long demonstrated that youth benefit from close, caring relationships with adults who serve as positive role models. Today, 8.5 million youth continue to lack supportive, sustained relationships with caring adults. Mentoring - which matches youth with responsible, caring mentors, usually adults - has been growing in popularity as both a prevention and intervention strategy over the past decades.
Mentoring provides youth with mentors who can develop an emotional bond with the mentee, have greater experience than the mentee, and can provide support, guidance, and opportunities to help youth succeed in life and meet their goals. Mentoring relationships can be formal or informal with substantial variation, but the essential components include creating caring, empathetic, consistent, and long-lasting relationships, often with some combination of role modeling, teaching, and advising.
Source: youth.gov
Foundation and philanthropic support for mentoring programs from around the Web.
When Big Stone Gap, Va., native Tyler Hughes was 13, he attended a music camp his grandparents held. "That time made a lasting impression," he tells the Bristol Herald-Courier. "That means...more
The National Association of Volunteering Works is now accepting applications for its grant and mentoring program, which aims to "empower and inspire the next generation of leaders," NAR President...more
Foundation: United Nations Foundation
"We are proud to invest in grantees who share our passion and vision for creating meaningful change in our core focus areas," says Gloria Schoch, executive director of the VF Foundation, the private...more
"We stand for service." That's what WSFS Financial Corporation's charitable giving arm, the WSFS CARES Foundation, says in a press release about its grants and donations to community...more
"Through this program, girls explore their own potential to lead, enhance skills, and expand their knowledge of what it takes to be a leader." So says Amanda Cordano, executive director of Ms....more
The Ohio State Bar Foundation has awarded $644,685 in grants to 16 nonprofit organizations through its Fall Grant Cycle. Each project supports the OSBF's mission to promote the pursuit of justice...more
Foundation: Greater Morgantown Community Trust
A West Virginia couple who want to remain anonymous have donated $25,000 to create a fund to honor past, current, and future volunteer leaders of the Your Community Foundation of North Central West...more
Foundation: Bloomberg Philanthropies
Jocelynne Rainey, president and CEO of the Brooklyn Community Foundation, says the foundation's Invest in Youth initiative is making long-term investments in Brooklyn's youth. "These long-term...more
La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia, is getting a boost from the government of Australia, specifically, the National Foundation for Australia-China Relations, in the form of more than $1...more
New York University announced last month it was suspending admissions to its undergraduate music education program, Inside Higher Ed reports, and students were shocked. They weren't worried about...more
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