Abbreviation MENTOR Website www.mentoring.org | CEO David Shapiro | |
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Founded 1990; 27 years ago (1990) (as One to One Partnership) Founder Geoffrey Boisi and Raymond Chambers Type non-governmental organization Similar Big Brothers Big Sister, VolunteerMatch, Taproot Foundation, Communities In Schools, Volunteers of America | ||
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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.
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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. MENTOR co-founders Geoff Boisi and Ray Chambers each received the Lewis Hine Distinguished Service Award from the National Child Labor Committee (NCLC) for a lifetime of outstanding service to children.
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MENTOR Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA