iMentor
Mission:
iMentor's mission is to improve the lives of young people from underserved communities in New York City through innovative, technology-based approaches to youth mentoring and education. iMentor creates and supports one-to-one mentoring relationships between high school-aged youth (mentees) and caring adult mentors. Every mentor-mentee pair cultivates their relationship using iMentor's pioneering combination of weekly email correspondence and regular in-person meetings. iMentor uses mentoring to bridge the divide between New York City's eclectic communities, creating unique and dynamic relationships that would not have been possible without the program.
Contact Information
Address: 40 Exchange Place, Suite 1202, New York, NY 10005
Telephone: (212) 461-4330
Website: http://www.imentor.org
Location
General Information
Type: Web-based/ E-learning, Volunteer, Other
Target audience: Students, Parents, Teachers, Administrators, Schools, New York Professionals
Number of employees: 6-20
Year founded: 1999
Tag words: Mentoring
Programs/Services
NYC Mentoring
Description: To enroll student participants, iMentor partners with NYC schools. This allows iMentor to assure that all students have weekly access to email and the internet, which is necessary for program participation (as well as in-person support for their participation). Over the last seven years, iMentor has partnered with more than 20 NYC public schools, spanning four of New York’s five boroughs (Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens and the Bronx). The iMentor program has always been free for all participating schools, mentees and mentors. iMentor (to-date) has raised more than $5,000,000 on behalf on New York City high school students. During the 2007-08 school year, iMentor will partner with 14 schools or after-school programs in New York City, making and supporting 800 one-to-one matches.
Fees for services: Brooklyn, Bronx, Manhattan, Queens
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Contact person: Kimberley Ednie - kimberley@imentor.org
iMentor Interactive
Description: A product of iMentor's seven years of experience, iMentor Interactive (iMi) is an online social network designed specifically for mentoring and available to schools and youth development organizations around the world. iMi provides each organization with its own independent and secure social network, while providing participants and staff with all the tools and expertise necessary to run a quality mentoring program, instantly. Over the next five years, iMi aims to make and support 10,000 new mentor-mentee matches.
Fees for services: National
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Contact person: Dana Saxon - dana@imentor.org
