2023 Year in Review
View MENTOR’s annual impact through the
4 pillars established in our 2023 Strategy:
Advancing Local Field Leadership
Supporting the effectiveness of new and existing MENTOR Affiliates to scale MENTOR’s geographic footprint and deepen the impact of the mentoring field.
25 local MENTOR Affiliates provided services in 23 states, the District of Columbia, and across the country.
2 emerging Affiliates in development in Illinois, and Florida.
48% of Affiliate organizations led by BIPOC leaders.
$100,000 distributed disbursed to Affiliates in Social Justice Innovation Grants in 2023
Expanding the Movement
Motivating civic leaders, employers, and individual stakeholders to prioritize and invest in ensuring all young people have access to mentoring relationships.
MENTOR co-led advocacy efforts to successfully increase federal funding for youth mentoring to $107 million in FY23
Prospective mentors took action by completing 27,189 searches for mentoring opportunities and connecting with local mentoring programs nationwide through the Mentoring Connector.
Prioritizing Quality
Identifying, promoting, and driving the implementation of evidence-based practices combined with community wisdom to increase the quality of mentoring relationships for young people.
MENTOR facilitated the delivery of a record-breaking 14,282 hours of Technical Assistance, through 608 requests from 484 Mentoring Programs across the nation that serve 73,446 youth collectively through OJJDP’s National Mentoring Resource Center.
36,000+ total downloads of MENTOR’s resources and publications.
Top 5 Downloaded Resources
- Elements of Effective Practice for Mentoring™
- National Mentoring Month Resources
- Becoming a Better Mentor: Strategies to Be There for Young People
- Peer Mentoring Supplement to the Elements of Effective Practice for Mentoring™
- Workplace Mentoring Supplement to the Elements of Effective Practice for Mentoring™
Influencing Systems
Creating and guiding innovative solutions that integrate relationship-centered practices and policies while driving resources for the adoption of mentoring structures and mindsets within youth-serving systems.
386 individuals trained through Connect|Focus|Grow.
2 New Workplace Mentoring Toolkits focused on prioritizing mentoring in the workforce in 2023.
Looking Ahead
In 2021, MENTOR launched a refreshed strategic plan with a goal that over the next 3 years, MENTOR will advance the movement such that 1 million more young people aged 8-24 will have access to improved, quality, mentoring relationships that support their thriving. In 2023 we have exceeded our goal and reached 1,179,627 young people!