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• 2008 Lewis Hine Awards Nominations
  December 7, 2007: Nominations now being accepted for the 2008 Lewis Hine Awards for Service to Children and Youth The National Child Labor Committee (NCLC) is now accepting nominations for up to two individuals for the 2008 Lewis Hine Awards for Service to... More...


• Updated Plans Announced for National Mentoring Month 2008
  December 7, 2007: New details have been announced for the 7th Annual National Mentoring Month (NMM) campaign, scheduled for January 2008. More...


• Guiding Lights Weekend Registration Is Now Open!
  December 4, 2007: The Guiding Lights Weekend is a three-day experiential conference on the art of mentoring - a one-of-a-kind event where you'll learn creative, concrete ways to mentor, motivate and inspire. More...


• Bridging Strategies to Prevent Child Injury and Maltreatment
  November 29, 2007: This conference offers a highly knowledgeable and experienced faculty who will guide attendees in the exploration of research and practice on important topics More...


• Handbook of Youth Mentoring is on Sale
  November 19, 2007: The Handbook is available right now from Sage Publications for $82.50. More...


• Michigan Mentoring Month Mini-Grants Available
  November 17, 2007: Mentor Michigan is awarding $10,000 in mini-grants to Michigan mentoring organizations during Michigan Mentoring Month January 2008. More...


• Tutor/Mentor Leadership and Networking Conference
  October 26, 2007: The Tutor/Mentor Connection (T/MC) is hosting its fall Leadership and Networking Conference as part of an ongoing effort to improve the quality and availability of tutor/mentor programs. More...


• Youth Programs Resource Center's Audio Conference Series
  September 19, 2007: The audio conference is intended to assist program developers and intermediaries, community organizations and policymakers by sharing information and resources on creating dedicated local and state revenue sources to finance and sustain youth programs and initiatives. More...


• MENTOR's SafetyNET supported by LifeLock and Newsweek
  September 18, 2007: MENTOR, the leading national advocate and resource for mentoring, announced today the co-sponsorship of its SafetyNET program by LifeLock and Newsweek. More...


• General Colin L. Powell Headlines National Mentoring Month 2008
  September 12, 2007: General Colin L. Powell will headline the 7th Annual National Mentoring Month (NMM) campaign scheduled for January 2008, More...


• Request for Proposals: Peer Mentoring for Foster Care Youth
  September 7, 2007: Child Welfare League of America, in partnership with FosterClub, has secured funding from the New York Life Foundation to launch a three-year initiative, Fostering Healthy Connections through Peer Mentoring: Foster Youth Give Each Other a Helping Hand. This is a... More...


• YouthPower Grants
  August 28, 2007: The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention and Youth Service America offer grants of up to $1,000 to support youth-led service projects. More...


• Oregon Mentors works to expand mentoring throughout state
  August 24, 2007: Oregon Mentors works creatively to expand mentoring throughout the small towns and rural landscapes of its sprawling state. More...


• Senator and Mentoring Partnership Advocate for More Funding in Pennsylvania
  August 22, 2007: A champion of mentoring, Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA) spent Thursday, August 16 talking with nearly fifty mentor-mentee pairs who, by simply telling him about their experiences, reconfirmed the Senator's commitment to funding mentoring. More...


• The 2007 National Conference on Safe Schools and Communities
  August 14, 2007: The conference is intended to be an informed and creative conversation and forum for debate about youth development and making schools safer, while encouraging partnerships among public, private, and not-for-profit enterprises. More...


• Check out MENTOR's August 2007 E-Newsletter
  August 8, 2007: Check out MENTOR's August 2007 E-Newsletter Check out MENTOR's August 2007 E-Newsletter.... More...


• White House Faith-Based and Community Initiatives Conference
  August 2, 2007: The White House Conference on Faith-Based and Community Initiatives will be held in Washington, D.C., and will focus on Youth and Education in the Hispanic Community. More...


• Learn how Connecticut Mentoring Partnership procures state funding for mentoring
  July 31, 2007: Connecticut Mentoring Partnership engages local leaders to keep mentoring top on their agendas. More...


• Financing and Sustaining Youth Programs Audio Conference Series
  July 23, 2007: The audio conference is intended to assist program developers and intermediaries, community organizations and policymakers by sharing information on creating and maintaining effective public-private partnerships. More...


• Mass Mentoring Partnership Lays Groundwork
  July 11, 2007: Mass Mentoring Partnership uses research, communication, and careful planning as stepping stones to broaden coverage across the state. More...


• CNCS Announces Summer of Service
  May 25, 2007: MENTOR is pleased to announce a new campaign sponsored by the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS). The Summer of Service seeks to engage more youth in service projects during the summer months by offering “hands-on” tools and information around ways that your mentoring program can plan and implement service-learning projects. More...


• ED Seeks Reviewers for 2007 Mentoring Programs Grants
  May 25, 2007: Have you ever wondered how the federal grant process works? If so, here's your chance to get an inside look at what it takes to create a successful federal grant application. More...


• Mentoring Online Forum Set to Begin May 29th
  May 25, 2007: Join MENTOR for an upcoming online forum on May 29th-June 1st, 2007. The forum, "Mentoring Immigrant and Refugee Youth" will discuss research, program practices, and successful strategies for working with diverse populations of immigrant and refugee youth. More...


• National School-Based Mentoring Conference Slated for June
  April 30, 2007: This is the conference participants call awesome – the must-attend event for school-based mentoring professionals, educators, community supporters, researchers, funders and mentors—anyone who sees the promise of school-based mentoring as a strategy to close the mentoring gap and help young people succeed. More...


• Summer Institute on Youth Mentoring Announced
  April 27, 2007: The Summer Institute on Youth Mentoring will present the latest developments in theory and research on youth mentoring. Sessions will be led by five prominent, nationally recognized research fellows. More...


• CNCS Volunteering in America Report Released
  April 25, 2007: Volunteering in America: 2007 State Trends and Rankings in Civic Life is the second annual study by the Corporation for National and Community Service that gives a detailed breakdown of America's volunteering demographics, habits, and patterns by state and region. More...


• Summer Institute On Youth Mentoring
  April 12, 2007: Portland State University has announced its inaugural summer institute for experienced mentoring professionals to be held July 16-20, 2007. The week-long seminar will present the latest in theory and research in youth mentoring. More...


• ED's Grant Applications Deadline is May 23
  April 12, 2007: The US Department of Education (ED) has just opened up the competition for funding under its Mentoring Programs grants. Nearly $30 million is available for funding this year. This program provides competitive grants to support school-based mentoring programs for children in need of assistance. More...


• MCOP Grant Competition: Applications Due By June 4
  April 6, 2007: The US Department of Health and Human Services has just announced the availability of nearly $20 million in grant funding through the Mentoring Children of Prisoners program (MCOP). More...


• Keeping Baby Boomers Volunteering
  March 12, 2007: The Corporation for National and Community Service has released a new research brief entitled Keeping Baby Boomers Volunteering. The report focuses on the factors that influence Boomers to continue volunteering from one year to the next year (i.e., what could be called "volunteer retention"), and includes a discussion about how Boomers today compare to previous generations. More...


• National Mentor Recruitment Training Announced
  March 9, 2007: National Mentor Recruitment Training Announced April 11 – 13, 2007, Nashville TN "Mobilizing New Mentors through Faith- and Community-Based Collaborations," is in its second year with a national mentor recruitment training that will be held on April 11 – 13,... More...


• Super Bowl PSA To Highlight Importance Of Mentoring
  February 2, 2007: CBS, the NFL and Big Brothers Big Sisters have joined forces to create a 15-second public service announcement highlighting the importance of mentoring to debut during Super Bowl XLI airing on CBS Network Sunday, Feb. 4th. The roughly 90 million viewers who tune in to watch the game will see Indianapolis Colts' Coach Tony Dungy and Coach Lovie Smith of the Chicago Bears underscore the importance of mentoring by referencing their real-life mentoring relationship. More...


• Mentors Working With Adolescents
  February 2, 2007: Mentoring Partnership of Minnesota (MPM), in collaboration with Search Institute, (an independent nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide leadership, knowledge, and resources to promote healthy children, youth, and communities), have worked to develop resources that will help address the various issues involved in mentoring adolescents with a new project, Tools for Mentoring Adolescents. More...


• Denzel Washington's A Hand to Guide Me
  January 29, 2007: Mentoring Book A Hand to Guide Me - Denzel Washington Guiding, Shaping and Inspiring "We're all destined to leave some kind of mark. I really believe that. We're all meant to walk a certain path at a certain time... More...


• Free Hallmark Thank Your Mentor E-Cards
  January 2, 2007: Free Hallmark "Thank Your Mentor" E-Cards January 2008 marks the seventh annual National Mentoring Month celebration—a time to honor all those who take time to mentor young people. During NMM, visit www.hallmark.com to send your mentor a FREE e-card, specially... More...


• National Mentoring Month 2007
  January 1, 2007: National Mentoring Month 2007 QUINCY JONES, MAYA ANGELOU, CLINT EASTWOOD, & STING TO HEADLINE NATIONAL MENTORING MONTH 2007 Music impresario Quincy Jones will be honored as the first-ever “Mentor of the Year” as a highlight of the 6th annual National... More...


• Presidential Proclamation: National Mentoring Month 2007
  December 28, 2006: I call upon the people of the United States to recognize the importance of mentoring, to look for opportunities to serve as mentors in their communities, and to observe this month with appropriate activities and programs. More...


• Mentoring Programs: Please Take Our Survey
  November 28, 2006: Mentoring Training and Technical Assistance Survey MENTOR/National Mentoring Partnership is conducting a survey to better understand the training and technical assistance needs of youth mentoring programs. The survey will help inform the work of a collaborative of federal agencies and... More...


• Congress Passes Legislation for Youth
  October 2, 2006: Congress Passes Legislation for Youth In the early hours of September 30, Congress passed the Federal Youth Coordination Act (FYCA) -- renaming it the Tom Osborne Federal Youth Coordination Act, after its congressional champion. It now moves to the President... More...


• Senator Jeffords Walks The Walk On Education
  October 2, 2006: Senator Jim Jeffords Walks The Walk On Education "Jim Jeffords was the inspiration of a program, a literacy program called Everybody Wins! And Jim Jeffords led a number of us to Brent School here near the Capitol to read with... More...


• Rev. W. Wilson Goode Honored For Mentoring Initiative With Purpose Prize
  September 8, 2006: Rev. W. Wilson Goode Honored For Mentoring Initiative With Purpose Prize Former Philadelphia Mayor W. Wilson Goode was among the first winners of the Purpose Prize--a $100,000 award given to select Americans over 60 who have demonstrated uncommon vision, determination... More...


• SAVE THE DATE: Mentoring's Big Night to be held on January 25
  August 15, 2006: SAVE THE DATE: Mentoring's Big Night to be held on January 25, 2007 About Mentoring's Big Night Mentoring's Big Night is an annual event that honors individuals and organizations who have provided exemplary leadership in support of mentoring, celebrates the... More...


• Indicators of Child Well-Being in Large Cities
  August 14, 2006: American Community Survey More...


• Gov. Jeb Bush Applauds FL Teen Mentors:
  August 8, 2006: While teens across the country are thinking about going back to school in the latest fashions, 225 Florida teens recently gathered in Orlando with a different sort of trend in mind. Florida’s Teen Trendsetters are leading mentoring programs in their communities and recruiting their peers to help elementary school students build their reading skills. More...


• Mrs. Bush's Helping America's Youth Webcast Set For August 4
  August 3, 2006: Mrs. Bush's Helping America's Youth Conference - Webcast On August 4 Mrs. Bush's regional Helping America's Youth (HAY) Conference will be webcast from 9 am to 4 pm (MDT - Denver) on www.helpingamericasyouth.gov. The HAY initiative is a national effort... More...


• Report Examines the Impact of Mentoring on Youth Depression
  August 1, 2006: Recent research shows that mentored youth were less likely to show signs of depression than the youth who were not matched with a mentor. More...


• Florida Mentoring Partnership's Advocacy Council Focuses on Reading Mentors
  July 24, 2006: The Florida Mentoring Partnership's Advocacy Council will meet on July 28, 2006. This meeting coincides with the annual Teen Trendsetters™ Reading Mentors Summit, in which approximately 300 teens will gather to learn leadership skills for the coming school year. More...


• National Mentor Recruitment Training Scheduled for September in New Orleans
  June 29, 2006: National Mentor Recruitment Training Scheduled for September in New Orleans "Mobilizing New Mentors through Faith- and Community-Based Collaborations," a new national mentor recruitment training will be held on September 24-27, 2006, in New Orleans, LA to assist and challenge mentoring... More...


• HHS ACF Grant Opportunity
  June 26, 2006: HHS ACF Grant Opportunity The Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Office of Community Services (OCS), announces that applications will be accepted for new grants pursuant to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Compassion Capital Fund (CCF).... More...


• First National Conference on Mentoring for Youth with Disabilities
  June 8, 2006: First National Conference on Mentoring for Youth with Disabilities Partners for Youth with Disabilities is pleased to announce that Aspire, Achieve, Empower: First National Conference for Mentoring Youth with Disabilities will be hosted in Boston on September 13-15, 2006 with... More...


• A Celebration of the American Spirit of Giving
  May 16, 2006: More than 100 million Americans share the goal of working together to help others, solve social problems, and build strong communities. They are America's Points of Light. More...


• Mentor Recruitment Online Forum Set for May 8-12
  May 4, 2006: Mentor Recruitment Online Forum Set For May 8-12 Join MENTOR for an upcoming forum on May 8-12, 2006 in MENTOR's Online Community (www.mentoring.org/community). The forum, "Mentor Recruitment: Strategies to Increase the Effectiveness of Recruitment Campaigns," will discuss best practices, resources... More...


• The FYSB is Accepting Grant Applications for Mentoring Children of Prisoners
  May 1, 2006: The Family and Youth Services Bureau is Accepting Grant Applications for the Mentoring Children of Prisoners Program The Family and Youth Services Bureau (FYSB) is accepting applications for the Mentoring Children of Prisoners (MCP) program. This program supports the creation... More...


• MentorYouth.com Mentor Recruitment Kit Now Available
  March 30, 2006: MentorYouth.com Mentor Recruitment Kit Now Available The National Network of Youth Ministries, in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Justice, announces the release of the MentorYouth.com Mentor Recruitment Kit. Printed promotional products, online recruitment tools, the Mentor Recruitment Ambassador strategy... More...


• Books Receive Special Recognition From SRA
  March 10, 2006: The Society for Research on Adolescence recently awarded their best authored and edited books for 2006. More...


• OJJDP Announces Three Programs That Address Mentoring
  February 28, 2006: OJJDP Announces Three Programs That Address Mentoring The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention's (OJJDP's) recently posted the following funding announcements related to mentoring. Please note that applicants must register for this funding opportunity by April 10, 2006: Mentoring... More...


• Legacy Mentor Ean Garrett Featured in Imagine Magazine
  February 17, 2006: Legacy Mentor Ean Garrett Featured in Imagine Magazine Ean Garrett is a legacy mentor. Ean has experienced the power of mentoring and has become a mentor himself. His hope is that mentoring relationships will be a reality for every child... More...


• BBBSA and the Ad Council Launch Campaign to Motivate People to Mentor
  February 1, 2006: Big Brothers Big Sisters and the Ad Council Launch a New Advertising Campaign to Motivate People to Mentor Big Brothers Big Sisters and the Ad Council have launched a new advertising campaign to motivate people to mentor. The Public Service... More...


• Governor Bush Touts Record Number Of Mentors In Florida
  January 26, 2006: Governor Bush Touts Record Number Of Mentors In Florida Governor Jeb Bush today lauded Florida's mentoring effort, now totaling a record number of 206,292 active mentors across the state. Despite new demands on volunteerism created by two unprecedented hurricane seasons,... More...


• America Honors Mentors on Wednesday, January 25
  January 23, 2006: America Honors Mentors on Wednesday, January 25 On Wednesday, January 25, many Americans will reach out to honor those individuals who encouraged and guided them when they were growing up, as the nation celebrates the third annual Thank Your Mentor... More...


• Presidents Headline National Mentoring Month Campaign
  January 20, 2006: President George W. Bush, Former President Bill Clinton Headline National Mentoring Month Campaign The 5th Annual National Mentoring Month volunteer recruitment drive is in high gear this month, with President George W. Bush and former President Bill Clinton playing prominent... More...


• Mentoring USA window unveiled at Bloomingdale's
  January 17, 2006: Mentoring USA window unveiled at Bloomingdale's Mentoring USA, the city's largest site-based, one-to-one mentoring program, is celebrating National Mentoring Month and commemorating the organization's long-term partnership with Bloomingdale's. On Thursday, January 12th, for the fifth consecutive year, Bloomingdale's Chairman &... More...


• Governor Bush And Retired General Colin Powell Honor Mentoring
  January 11, 2006: Governor Bush And Retired General Colin Powell Honor Mentoring Governor Jeb Bush, joined by former U.S. Secretary of State Retired General Colin Powell and Florida Secretary of State Sue Cobb, today recognized the 2006 recipients of the Florida Mentoring Partnership's... More...


• PBS Runs Mentoring Mini-Series Country Boys
  January 4, 2006: More...


• MENTOR to Hold First National Mentoring Spotlight Award Competition
  December 20, 2005: Early next year, MENTOR will hold the nation's first "Mentoring Spotlight" award competition. This award will recognize an outstanding mentoring pair and exemplify the powerful impact mentoring can have on the lives of young people. Applications will be available on January 9, 2006. More...


• Double Omega Pins on Sale – Limited Time Only!
  December 19, 2005: Just in time for National Mentoring Month 2006 – stock up on lapel pins featuring the universal icon for mentoring – the Double Omegas! Through December 31, 2005, order the Double Omega pin in either silvertone or goldtone and save 20¢ per pin. More...


• Challenge to Baby Boomers: Share What You Know. Mentor a Child.
  December 14, 2005: Plans have been announced for the 5th Annual National Mentoring Month (NMM) campaign scheduled for January 2006. This nationwide drive to recruit volunteer mentors for young people will target America's 77 million baby boomers. More...


• Male Mentoring Project Recruitment Rally December 7
  December 1, 2005: The Mentoring Partnership of New York has spearheaded an effort to address the growing crisis of a lack of male mentors for New York City’s boys and young men through The Male Mentoring Project. Join MPNY for a year-end rally on December 7th in Jamaica, Queens for an evening of empowerment and inspiration.


• New Mentoring Book Available
  December 1, 2005: Dr. Susan Weinberger, one of the mentoring field's most prominent trainers and consultants, recently published a memoir--Mentoring a Movement: My Personal Journey, which traces her involvement with youth mentoring and the growth of the field.


• Reduced Rate for Building on Success Conference Now Available
  November 29, 2005: The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) has announced that the registration fee for their January 9-13, 2006 national conference "Building on Success: Providing Today's Youth With Opportunities for a Better Tomorrow" has been reduced to $275 until December 9, 2005.


• Mentoring Plan for Central Florida Announced
  November 14, 2005: Lt. Governor Toni Jennings, Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer and Orange County Mayor Richard Crotty recently announced a pilot program--"Focus on Achievement: The Florida Mentoring Partnership's Program for Struggling Schools," aimed at helping Florida's struggling schools improve student performance. City and county mayors are leading the charge to recruit government, corporate and local leaders as mentors to help students within their own communities.


• Call for Submissions for Ethical Dilemmas
  November 1, 2005: Share an ethical dilemma that you or someone you know has faced in a mentoring relationship and how it was handled. Professors Jean Rhodes, Belle Liang and Renee Spencer are working on a book, First Do No Harm: A Call for Ethical Guidelines in Youth Mentoring, which will address ethical challenges mentors face and provide a road map for navigating these challenges.


• Oregon Mentors' Hosts Mentoring Conference
  October 20, 2005: Oregon Mentors' Statewide Conference and Annual Mentoring Awards held in September included a multi-cultural problem-solving simulation and a symposium with a panel of nationally recognized leaders in addition to a luncheon honoring individuals, companies and mentor-mentee matches in Oregon. Learn more...


• MENTOR Featured in Mott Mosaic Magazine
  October 19, 2005: MENTOR was featured in the recent issue of Mott Mosaic, a publication of the C.S. Mott Foundation. The article, "Mentoring Can Make a Difference," highlights legacy mentor--Ean Garrett and mentoring programs affiliated with Mentoring Partnerships in Long Island, Minnesota and Seattle.


• The Extra Mile Points of Light Volunteer Pathway
  October 14, 2005: A new national monument dedicated to the spirit of service in America honoring the heroes of our Nation's service movement. It includes the founders of major service organizations and civil rights leaders in a one-mile walking path near the White House. Ernest Kent Coulter, founder of Big Brothers Big Sisters, is an honoree. The Extra Mile is an initiative of the Points of Light Foundation.


• White House Conference on Faith-Based and Community Initiatives
  September 30, 2005: On Thursday, October 20, 2005 the White House and related agencies will host a conference in Milwaukee to help faith-based and other community organizations learn more about President Bush's Faith-Based and Community Initiative. The conference is free, but pre-registration is required. Visit www.fbci.gov to register online.


• Maryland Governor Ehrlich to Speak at Maryland Mentoring Partnership Conference
  September 21, 2005: Governor Ehrlich, Congressman Hon. Elijah Cummings, David DuBois, Ph.D, MENTOR Vice-Chairman Alan Schwartz and MENTOR Executive Director Gail Manza are some of the highlighted keynote presenters for this Annual Conference. Best practices, diversity and effectiveness of various mentoring models, new approaches to evaluation and more will be included. Learn more...


• Bear Stearns Sends Underprivileged City Kids Off To College With Scholarship Awards
  September 9, 2005: Bear Stearns President and Co-Chief Operating Officer Alan Schwartz and other Bear Stearns mentors recently presented scholarships to 20 underprivileged New York City kids from the Bear Stearns Bound for College mentoring program. Learn More...


• Overview of Principles of Effective Prevention Programs
  August 26, 2005: This new resource (PDF) by Maury Nation, Dana Keener, Abraham Wandersman and David DuBois provides an overview of 10 principles necessary for effective youth mentoring prevention programs.


• Mentoring Partnership of Minnesota to Hold Annual Conference October 3rd
  August 18, 2005: Mentoring…Expanding the Possibilities! will offer a dynamic environment for mentoring programs to explore innovative solutions to the challenges of sustaining programs to serve the next generation of youth through mentoring. For more information, visit the Mentoring Partnership of Minnesota's web site at www.mentoringworks.org.


• Teen Mentors Celebrate with First Lady Laura Bush and Florida Governor Jeb Bush
  August 2, 2005: Florida Mentoring Partnership's Teen Trendsetters™ reading mentors program kicked off a new year in Orlando celebrating 200 Florida teens' commitment to serving as mentors to third-grade students throughout the state this upcoming school year. America's First Lady and the Governor of Florida offered encouraging words to the new and returning mentors. More...


• Mentoring Organizations Featured in August Issue of Lucky Magazine
  July 22, 2005: Lucky Magazine is spotlighting mentoring organizations on its charity page for the August issue. MENTOR, along with Big Brothers Big Sisters and Jumpstart, are highlighted, so take this opportunity to stock up (on such items as Lotta Jansdotter's ceramics, Hollybeth's body cream or Lorelei's tote bag) and support the expansion of quality mentoring.


• Deadline Approaching To Identify The 100 Best Communities For Young People
  July 12, 2005: America's Promise – The Alliance for Youth is searching for the 100 Best Communities for Young People. The first-of-its-kind competition was launched in May by America's Promise Founding Chairman General Colin L. Powell (Ret). Communities have until July 29th to register for the competition.


• Elements of Effective Practice Tool Kit Available Online
  July 1, 2005: How to Build a Successful Mentoring Program Using the Elements of Effective Practice provides a comprehensive guide on how to adhere to the Elements, including over 160 customizable tools and templates, checklists and more.


• Dr. Jean Rhodes to Further Research on Mentoring with Fellowship
  June 24, 2005: Dr. Jean Rhodes, mentoring expert and author of MENTOR's Research Corner, was appointed by the William T. Grant Foundation as one of six Distinguished Fellows, each of whom will receive up to $175,000 to improve the connections between practice, policy and research. Read the full release...


• Funding Available to Engage Boomers in Mentoring Disadvantaged Youth
  May 3, 2005: The Corporation for National and Community Service is encouraging organizations to apply for approximately $1.5 million in grant funds to support "the next generation" of national service programs. Eligible applicants include public and private non-profit organizations, including faith-based and other community-based organizations.


• HHS Announces More Than 30 Million Dollars Available From Compassion Capital Fund
  May 2, 2005: HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt announced today that $31,900,000 is available from the Compassion Capital Fund (CCF). The funds are designed to help faith-based and community groups build capacity and serve those in need.


• Mentor Recruitment Forum
  April 21, 2005: Join us April 26-28, 2005 for an online community forum on mentor recruitment. Topics include: strategies, ideas and resources for recruiting mentors for community- and workplace-based mentoring programs.


• National Volunteer Week
  April 17, 2005: April 17-23 was National Volunteer Week. Inspire by your example. Consider searching for mentoring opportunities in your area.


• Children Today Doing Better Than Those Thirty Years Ago
  March 30, 2005: Overall, children today are doing better than they were in 1975. That's the conclusion of the Brookings Welfare Reform & Beyond Initiative Public Forum, part of The Brookings Institution, which released its index, Measuring Child Well-being: Reducing Risky Behavior. More...


• National Mentoring Month Activities
  March 9, 2005: With National Mentoring Month as the backdrop, State Mentoring Partnerships used the month of January to focus national attention on youth mentoring. Find out about some of the activities that took place in your state.


• Graduated Juvenile Sanctions Cybercast
  March 8, 2005: The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP), in conjunction with The Juvenile Sanctions Center, is sponsoring a Internet cybercast Tuesday, March 22, on Graduated Juvenile Sanctions.


• USA Freedom Corps Recognizes NG Challenge Mentors
  March 7, 2005: National Guard Youth ChalleNGe Program (NGYCP) students met with Members of Congress to share their stories of success. Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of USA Freedom Corps Desiree T. Sayle delivered remarks on the importance of volunteering.


• Girl Scout Week
  March 6, 2005: Girl Scouts of the USA is the world's largest organization dedicated to helping girls build character and gain skills for success in the real world. Starting on Sunday, March 6 and running through Saturday, March 12, Girl Scouts will be celebrating the organization's 93rd birthday.


• Natural Mentors Help Mold Lives of Teens
  March 2, 2005: A recent study shows that natural mentoring relationships positively impact teens, but these relationships do not meet all the needs of at-risk youth.


• Legislation Introduced to Improve Youth Programs
  February 16, 2005: At a Capitol Hill press conference, Rep. Osborne (R-NE) and Sen. Coleman (R-MN) introduced the Federal Youth Coordination Act. This bill aims to ensure that federal agencies better coordinate efforts on behalf of youth.


• Conference Call Series
  February 7, 2005: The U.S. Department of Labor's Center for Faith-Based and Community Initiatives announced a three part conference call series which will cover some basic elements of the Department's Solicitation for Grant Applications (SGA) and program design. More...


• Gov. Perry Closing the Texas Mentoring Gap
  January 26, 2005: In his January 26th State of the State address, Texas Governor Rick Perry urged the state legislature to invest $25 million more in state resources to mentoring programs, hoping to bring mentoring to more young people throughout the state.


• Online Community Forum
  January 24, 2005: New online, What’s Race Got to Do With It? was held February 1-2, 2005. Featuring Dr Jean Rhodes, the forum discussed issues related to cross-race matching, identify promising practices and share best practices on increasing mentor recruitment from minority groups.


• Guiding Lights
  January 19, 2005: Learn about "Guiding Lights" the official book of National Mentoring Month. More...