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Recruiting Male Volunteers: A Guide Based on Exploratory Research

The Corporation for National Service offers recommendations for recruiting male volunteers, who are underrepresented in volunteer organizations that work with youth.

Play Well With Others: Leveraging Local Partnerships for Program Success

The U.S. Department of Education offers strategies to outreach to community businesses and organizations to secure funding for mentoring programs.

Mentor Resources

Find tips on how to have a better success rate with your coaching or mentoring. This site also allows you to join webinars on different topics within mentoring.

Mentoring Resources from UDayton

A list of mentoring resources provided by the Women’s Center at University of Dayton. The website includes guides, handbooks, and various pages for both mentors and mentees.

Mentoring Coalition of San Diego County

The mission of the Mentoring Coalition of San Diego County is to encourage, develop, strengthen and sustain quality mentoring relationships in our region.

Making the Grade: A Guide to Incorporating Academic Achievement into Mentoring Programs

The U.S. Department of Education offers a comprehensive guide to shifting mentoring programs’ emphases to academic achievement.

Helping Young People Succeed

This report offers suggestions to improve and sustain relations between youth development organizations and schools. Additionally, it outlines aspects of positive youth development, such as physical development, intellectual development, psychological and emotional development, and social development.

Elements of Effective Practice for Mentoring

This guide offers information for starting a mentorship program. Elements include mentor/mentee recruitment, mentor training, matching participants, and monitoring outcomes.

Eight Principles for Managing Mentors

This fact sheet provides programs with a check list to ensure they are meeting the 8 principles for managing mentors.

Educause

Find information on helping pick your perfect mentoring style and situation, mentoring functions, and a step-by-step walk through the different phases your mentor-mentee relationship will go through.

Education Northwest: Resources

With hundreds of resources, you can search by a specific topic or focus area.

Change 2 Lives—Become a Mentor

This blog, sponsored by Youth Mentoring Connection (YMC) out of Los Angeles, informs you on programs and activities the YMC have executed successfully. If you are stumped on new activities to positively impact your mentees, head over to this blog and start brainstorming.