December Lunch & Learn 2025: Silver Lining: Exploring the Role of Money in Mentoring Relationships

Exploring the Role of Money in Mentoring Relationships

Join a panel of Silver Lining Mentoring (SLM) staff members to explore the ways that expenditures of money by mentors or the mentoring program can positively or negatively impact mentoring relationships. The SLM team will share insights on topics where the organization has direct experience, including: setting policies and maintaining boundaries around mentor expenditures, leveraging free tickets or gift cards to enhance the mentoring relationship, and best practices for mentoring programs that wish to offer stipends/grant funds to mentees during times of financial hardship.

About our Panel Host, Christina:

Christina first became involved with Silver Lining Mentoring as a volunteer mentor in 2015. She joined the organization as a staff member in 2018. As Chief Strategy Officer since 2024, she ensures Silver Lining Mentoring plays a leading role in growing the mentoring movement for youth impacted by foster care, ensuring high-quality, consistent relationships are front and center. Christina spearheads strategic planning for the organization, advises on resource allocation, and shapes innovation toward impact. Earlier in her career, Christina served as Associate Director for Policy and Institutional Outreach of the Harvard Global Health Institute, an interdisciplinary research, and education initiative. She also worked in growth capital for the nonprofit sector at venture philanthropy firm, New Profit, as the Manager of the Reimagine Learning Fund, a capacity-building fund aimed at improving the K-12 education system to better serve students impacted by poverty or trauma. Christina earned a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Marist College and a Master of Liberal Arts from Harvard with a concentration in government. She is a former foster parent, mentor, current volunteer Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) to youth in foster care, and child welfare philanthropist.

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Lunch & Learn Sessions meet the 3rd Tuesday of each month from 12-1pm. This is a time for folks to tune in while eating lunch. Join us to learn more about best practices, stay connected, and keep up with recent research, happenings, and tools. We welcome you as often as you can join us!