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You will find below a wealth of mentoring information, organized by topic with the three most recent articles in each area. We're adding to it regularly to keep you up-to-date on the latest in mentoring information.

Program Planning & Design

Designing and Planning a Mentoring Program: You're ready to embark on the very important work of designing and planning the who, what, when, where and how of your mentoring program. By taking time to carefully think through all aspects of your program, you will ensure that...

Elements of Effective Practice: Newly revised and updated to reflect the latest in quality mentoring research, policies and practices. Convenient resources to help you implement the Elements into your program.

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Managing Your Program

Partnering For Success: Whenever possible, consider collaborating with organizations within your community that share a similar mission. Mentoring programs that develop partnerships with other organizations enjoy many benefits, including the ability to: Expand services to reach a wider audience; Develop a greater understanding...

Marketing Your Mentoring Program Online: More and more people are spending more of their lives online. They access Web sites to find information, use automated tools to find products and services, and use the Internet to research organizations to donate time and money. All of...

Marketing Your Mentoring Program: Establishing and implementing an effective public relations/communications plan is important to assure that you can effectively recruit and retain mentors, increase public awareness of and support for mentoring and raise sufficient funds to keep your program running. Funders, policy makers,...

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Operations

Energizing Your Volunteers: This PDF document (315KB) is an overview of a MENTOR Online Forum--"Sustaining and Energizing Your Volunteers: Retention Strategies for Mentoring Programs." This ongoing forum shares resources and best practices for retaining mentors and focuses and key features of successful mentoring...

Attracting Volunteers: This PDF document (265KB) is an overview of a MENTOR Online Forum--"Attracting and Connecting Volunteers." This ongoing forum shares resources and best practices for recruiting mentors from the general public and the business sector for school and community based programs....

Reaching Closure: Mentoring relationships may change over time and may end for any number of reasons. A mentor and mentee pair may not get along; Either the mentor or the mentee drops out of the program; Life circumstances may make it difficult...

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Evaluation

2005 National Poll: In 2005, MENTOR commissioned a new poll on mentoring to measure our progress in closing the mentoring gap. Mentoring in America 2005: A Snapshot of the Current State of Mentoring reports on the findings of that poll.

2002 National Poll: National Poll Finds 57 Million Adult Americans Are Willing to Mentor Far more Americans are willing to mentor – both formally and informally – than previously thought, according to the results of a National Mentoring Poll sponsored by the AOL...

Building a Credible Measure of Success: The ultimate success of your program depends on how well you are able to assess its effectiveness, address any weaknesses and demonstrate that it is meeting goals and objectives. Therefore, as you create an evaluation process for your program, be...

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Research Corner

Strategies For Recruiting And Retaining Volunteers: Although most people view mentoring as a worthwhile pursuit, far fewer actually step forward and volunteer. In this column, Dr. Jean Rhodes will discuss promising strategies for recruiting adults into programs and keeping them engaged.

Fostering Positive Outcomes: Each year, over a quarter of a million children are removed from their homes and placed in foster care, usually as a result of abuse or neglect. In this column, Dr. Jean Rhodes will examine the role of mentors in the promoting better outcomes for these young people.

Mentoring Immigrant Youth: Today, one in five children in the United States is a child of immigrants. In this column, Dr. Jean Rhodes will explore the challenges facing today's young immigrants and the ways in which mentors can help.

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After School Resources

After School Web Resources: We've pulled together some resources specifically designed to help you plan, design, manage and evaluate your efforts. Academic Tutoring and Mentoring Literature Review by M. Anne Powell, M.S.W. Includes evaluation data on BBBS programs and an extensive bibliography. Academy for...

Adding Mentoring to an After-school Program: The Afterschool Alliance released results from America After 3 PM, the most in-depth study to explore how America's children spend their afternoons, showing that our nation is failing to give its children safe, supervised activities during the often-dangerous afternoon hours....

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