Highmark Walk for a Healthy Community
Thank you to all of our friends who participated in the Highmark Walk for a Healthy Community, Saturday, May 22, in Schenley Park! Despite the rain, groups from Pittsburgh Job Corps, Amachi Pittsburgh and Taking Youth Higher's mentoring programs walked the 5k and one-mile fun walk along with many other supporters of mentoring. We registered 76 walkers and raised $1,145 to help fund future mentor training sessions.
Check out photos from the event on our Facebook Page.
Thank you to all who joined us for our first Mentoring Open House on January 21, 2010. Mentors, representatives from mentoring agencies, staff, board of directors and potential mentors all came together to celebrate Thank Your Mentor Day. As part of the festivities we launched the You Tube Non Profit mentoring site we're hosting and taped new messages in our "video booth". We enjoyed great food and fellowship, an inspirational speech from Chairman of the Board of directors Kate Dewey, and together we watched the amazing speech about mentoring that President Obama delivered the day before.
» view event images
Thanks to Comcast's generous support, we will be hosting additional recruitment opportunities for our partner programs around the Pittsburgh area during 2010.
The 2009 Magic of Mentoring Event was a spectacular tribute to mentoring! Heinz Field was the perfect venue for the presentation of the Thieman Award to the Burke Family - Charlie, Patsy, Steve, Gail and Chip - honoring their commitment to mentoring and the support of all children in the Pittsburgh region. Excellence in Mentoring awards were also presented to mentors, mentees and a mentoring program. It was a record breaking night for The Mentoring Partnership in terms of both FRIENDraising and FUNDraising!
» view event images
National Mentoring Month! (2.03.10)
January was National Mentoring Month and all month long millions of people around the country took the time to recognize the mentors in their lives by posting tributes, sending emails and writing tweets. January is over, but you you can still thank your mentor and join in the wave of gratitude that swept the country:
- Send an email to your mentor thanking them and asking them to pass it on.
- Post a tribute to your mentor on the Who Mentored You? website.
- Post a tribute to your mentor on the Who Mentored You? Facebook page and make sure to share the page with your friends.
For more information on National Mentoring Month go to http://www.nationalmentoringmonth.org/
The Mentoring Partnership Launches New YouTube Channel (1.21.10)
For National Mentoring Month, we have launched a new YouTube channel featuring videos that celebrate Thank Your Mentor Day, Jan 21, 2010.
» visit our new YouTube Channel
Comcast Local Edition (1.01.10)
Tonia Caruso interviews Director of Mentor Recruitment Arlene Sparks on starting the new year by making a difference in a child's life.
» watch video
» apply to become a mentor
What is Mentoring? (11.08.09)
For CBS Radio's Pittsburgh Magazine, Tracey Morgan interviews Colleen Fedor, Executive Director of The Mentoring Partnership of Southwestern Pennsylvania and Jack Ligday, Senior Vice President, Citizens Bank and Mentor, Citizens Bank First Tee Program.
» listen to audio clip (www.y108.com)
» apply to become a mentor
The Importance of Adult Role Models for Every Child (10.09.09)
As part of Pace School's "Keeping Pace With Kids" monthly radio program, their Cheif Executive Officer Karen Lamoureux interviews Director of Mentor Recruitment Arlene Sparks on the importance of role models.
» listen to audio clip (www.paceschool.org)
» apply to become a mentor
Becoming a Mentor in Our Area (10.05.09)
On KDKA's Pittsburgh Today Live, Executive Director Colleen Fedor and Gwen's Girls mentor Sarah Antonette explain how the Mentoring Partnership will help find a local mentoring program for you.
» watch video (www.kdka.com)
» apply to become a mentor
UJF joins citywide recruiting effort for mentors (8.06.09)
The United Jewish Federation of Pittsburgh is joining a citywide recruitment effort to get professionals to spend a year mentoring sixth-grade students across Pittsburgh. In Jewish tradition, 11 and 12 are transitional ages, when children begin studying with adult tutors to prepare for their b’nai mitzvot and for the passage into Jewish adulthood. Those ages, it turns out, are pivotal in the development for all children, Jewish or not.
» read article (www.thejewishchronicle.net)
» apply to become a 6th grade mentor
United Way seeks 6th Grade mentors (7.09.09)
After the first month of a citywide recruiting effort, approximately 350 people have volunteered to mentor Pittsburgh Public School students in the sixth grade. Volunteers will be in placed in eight of the middle schools in the Pittsburgh Public School District, whose overall student body, including grades K-12 and is 60 percent African-American.
» read article (www.newpittsburghcourieronline.com)
» apply to become a 6th grade mentor
Mentoring Projects Brighten Young Futures (7.07.09)
On KDKA's Pittsburgh Today Live, Director of Mentor Recruitment Arlene Sparks and the United Way's Wendy Etheridge Smith talk about the new Be a 6th Grade Mentor initiative targeting sixth graders in the Pittsburgh Public Schools. Starting in October, volunteer mentors will meet with PPS students to help them focus on their future career choices and education, and help them navigate through their transition to middle school.
» watch video (www.kdka.com)
» apply to become a 6th grade mentor
Editorial Be a mentor: Sixth-graders are looking for guidance (6.09.09)
City, county and Pittsburgh school officials, with help from the United Way and others, have launched an ambitious program to find a volunteer mentor for sixth-graders in the Pittsburgh Public Schools. This marks another step in the city's effort to improve the education and career prospects of its students.
» read article (www.post-gazette.com)
» apply to become a 6th grade mentor
Role models sought to mentor Pittsburgh's 6th-graders (6.02.09)
The Pittsburgh Public Schools asked the city and its students to each make a promise, but to keep it, education officials are asking private citizens to make their own pledge—to volunteer—to help young people move into productive careers.
» read article (www.pittsburghlive.com)
» apply to become a 6th grade mentor
Gwen's Girls Mentor and Mentee Talk About Their Experience
WTAE Channel 4's Sally Wiggin visits Melanie and Jaquayla at Gwen's Girls in Pittsburgh.
» watch video (www.thepittsburghchannel.com)