28 Jan January is Mentoring Month
Launched in 2002 by MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership (MENTOR) and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, National Mentoring Month focuses national attention on the need for mentors, as well as how each of us—individuals, businesses, government agencies, schools, faith communities and nonprofits—can work together to increase the number of mentors to help ensure positive outcomes for our young people. This campaign celebrates mentoring and the positive effect it can have on young lives. Its goals are to: Raise awareness of mentoring in its various forms Recruit individuals to mentor, especially in programs that have waiting lists of young people Promote the rapid growth of mentoring by recruiting organizations to engage their constituents in mentoring Data2insight founder, Veronica S. Smith, partners with Million Women Mentors (MWM) as a co-chair with Dr. Jillian Cadwell, Washington State University-Tri Cities professor. MWM, founded in 2014, helps companies and corporations across the nation connect with local girl-serving mentee organizations to provide face-to-face and online mentoring opportunities for their employees. Click on the organization to read more about The National Mentoring Partnership, National Mentoring Month, The Mentoring Gap, or Million Women Mentors. ...