State
FY 2013 budget documents & updates
5-16-12: The Senate Ways & Means Committee announced their budget proposal for FY 2013 this afternoon, and the Mentoring Matching Grants line item (7061-9634) was included at $250,000.
Mass Mentoring is very grateful to Sen. Rosenberg for championing the Mentoring Matching Grants line item (7061-9634) and filing an amendment to increase the funding to $350,000.
Please contact your state senators by 12 p.m. tomorrow, May 17. Ask them to show their support for the Mentoring Matching Grants line item (7061-9634) by contacting Rosalie Adams in Sen. Rosenberg’s office at 617.722.1532 or Rosalie.Adams@masenate.gov and signing onto his amendment.
Advocacy resources
MMP is growing its corps of mentor advocates
MMP is working to expand its current group of mentor advocates, mentors from across Massachusetts who help us advocate for increased funding dedicated to mentoring programs and other policies that would benefit the mentoring field. We need your help: to assist MMP in recruiting more mentor advocates, please email this note to your mentors. For questions or concerns, email Elena Sokolow-Kaufman at eskaufman@massmentors.org.
National
Child protection improvements act
Representatives Adam Schiff (D-CA), Mike Rogers (R-MI) and John Conyers (D-MI) introduced the Child Protection Improvements Act (H.R. 1360) in the House. Earlier this spring, Senators Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Orrin Hatch (R-UT) introduced the bill in the Senate (S. 645). We need your help to pass this legislation and make the goals and ideals of the PROTECT Act Child Safety Pilot, SafetyNET permanent.
As many of you know, the SafetyNET program ended on March 31, 2011.There is now no real protection for the majority of youth-serving organizations.
Please click here to ask your Representative to cosponsor H.R. 1360 today. Please click here to ask your Senators to support S. 645 right away.
Visit MENTOR's site to learn more about the issue and what you can do.
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