Learn more about the Mentoring Connector

the only national database of mentoring programs

What is the Mentoring Connector?

The Mentoring Connector is a free service that helps quality youth mentoring programs across the country recruit more local volunteers while greatly increasing visibility for their organizations. Anyone interested in becoming a mentor can search for mentoring opportunities by zip code, ages of youth served, and program type to find and contact programs that interest them. Each year, potential volunteers looking for mentoring opportunities do more than 80,000 searches in this system.

Who is the Mentoring Connector for?

The Mentoring Connector is a free service, designed to connect mentoring programs and
volunteers, as well as potential mentees.

Anyone interested in becoming a mentor can search
mentoring programs in the database by zip code, ages of youth served, and program type.

Programs can request to be added to the Connector, and following a review process will be added to the database and become searchable by interested volunteers.

Individuals looking for a mentor (i.e. youth or young adults) can search for a program to join as a mentee

Why use the Mentoring Connector?

FOR PROGRAMS

● Increased Visibility of your program, taking advantage of the National audience of Connector members and users.

● Enhanced Credibility of your organization, as the Mentoring Connector requires all programs adhere to National Standards (outlined in the image below)

● Data Collection and Analysis to help support better understanding of your program needs, as well as increased support data for funding opportunity requests.

● Positive Impact on your Community by being a go-to, credentialed program that meets a high standard for programming output.
FOR INDIVIDUALS

● With Enhanced Credibility of the programs (as all Mentoring Connector programs are required to adhere to National Standards) you can rest assured that the program you select is one of the best!

● You’ll have Increased options for selecting the program right for you, taking advantage of the National audience of Connector members and users.