MENTOR

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MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership

Abbreviation	MENTOR
Founded	1990; 31 years ago (1990) (as One to One Partnership)
Founder	Geoffrey Boisi and Raymond Chambers
Type	non-governmental organization
CEO	David Shapiro
Website	www.mentoring.org

MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership is an advocate and resource for mentoring in the United States. It is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, with headquarters in Boston, Massachusetts.

Background[]

MENTOR shares information, national standards, and best practices about mentoring. It works with organizations that directly match and oversee the mentor-mentee pairs, and helps coordinates the pairing of mentors with students.^{[citation needed]} MENTOR co-founders and Ray Chambers each received the from the for a lifetime of outstanding service to children.^{[citation needed]}

See also[]

• Youth mentoring
• StudentMentor.org
• The Mentoring Partnership of Southwestern Pennsylvania
• Boys & Girls Clubs of America
• Big Brothers Big Sisters of America

References[]

External links[]

• MENTOR official website
• Video of celebrities promoting the need for mentoring^{[permanent dead link]}.
• Speech by former mentee Ean Garrett April 2008