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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.
Entrepreneurs can support causes through direct contributions, partnerships, mentorship or allocating a portion of product sales to impactful initiatives.City of Hope combines advanced medical...more
Jacob Hill made headlines as a 19-year-old when he set up a company called The Lazy Camper selling tents and all the equipment people need to go to music festivals.He was named Yorkshire's Young...more
Emmanuel Asante was awarded the Early Career Kirk Robson Award for Community Arts and Cultural Development at the 2024 Creative Australia Awards.The award recognised his contribution to running art...more
The Merata Mita Fellowship was created a decade ago to provide an Indigenous woman-identified filmmaker from anywhere in the world with a cash grant, mentorship, and year-round creative development...more
The Refugee Youth Mentoring program at Catholic Charities Atlanta is part of a larger effort to welcome new neighbors to Georgia.Anna and Deloise like being out and about together, visiting the...more
Riviera Beach police launch youth mentorship program to build trust.Police hope program will build trust with young people in the community.Police say it will help build confidence and build...more
Simkins was deeply moved, not only by UNICEF's impact but also by what a fantastic group of people can achieve in just two hours.The Australian author, professional mentor, and philanthropist has...more
Funding will advance several initiatives: recruiting and training specialized therapeutic foster families.Establishing support systems for foster families and children, including access to...more
Keynon Lake is the founder of KL Training Solutions and My Daddy Taught Me That (MDTMT), a nonprofit organization dedicated to mentoring young men in Asheville, North Carolina.The program provides...more
Foundation: Luzerne Foundation, Wayne County Community Foundation
The University of Scranton welcomed a new cohort of students into its Nonprofit Leadership Certificate Program in January.The program seeks to support and advance nonprofit organizations through a...more
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