iMentor Blog: July

iMentor has produced a new video! This year, iMentor was the beneficiary of the 100 Women In Hedge Funds 2007 gala. The gala will took place on November 14th and the video got its official premiere on the big screen.

Watch the Video

Tuesday, November 14th, 2007

iMentor honored @ 100 Women in Hedge Funds Gala

iMentor was honored to be selected as the sole beneficiary of the 100 Women in Hedge Funds' 6th Annual Gala, which took place at Cipriani on November 14th. 100 Women in Hedge Funds is a global association of more than 5,000 professional women serving the hedge fund industry. Each year the group selects one or two charitable organizations to benefit from their gala. The philanthropic focus for 2007 is mentoring and the beneficiary is iMentor! The event was a huge success and a lot of fun. Check out the pictures below.

iMentor Staff @ the Gala

iMentor got dressed up for its big night out.

The event raised over $2MM for iMentor's programming!

100% of proceeds from the gala went to support iMentor. Funding will be used to extend the reach of iMentor's impact by launching its long anticipated national program, iMentor Interactive.

See all the photos from the event

Read the 100 Women in Hedge Funds Press Release

Monday, November 1st, 2007

iMi Goes International

iMentor Interactive is off to the races.

In the first two months since iMi's beta roll-out, the platform is already being used by organizations in Philadelphia, New York, Indianapolis, Washington D.C. and Washington State to support over 500 mentor-mentee pairs. With our new member, NextGEN, we are proudly adding the country of Vietnam to iMi's travelogue.

See all of iMi's Current Members

Monday, October 20th, 2007

iMentor's 2007 Urban Hero

Keisha with her mentor Deborah

In 2005, iMentor was selected to become a member of The Catalog for Giving. For the last twelve years, The Catalog has highlighted the impact of its member agencies by hosting an annual event to honor the young people that they serve. Mentee Keshia accepted the 2007 Urban Hero Award on behalf of iMentor, along with 9 other extraordinary young people who, through tenacity, hard work, and courage, have overcome difficult life challenges to become role models for others in their communities. In accepting the award, Keshia gave a speech to more than 300 attendees, sharing her moving story, the impact her mentor Deborah (and iMentor) has had on her future academic and career goals.

See all the pictures from the event

Learn more about the Urban Hero Awards

Monday, October 1, 2007

Meet the Program Coordinators

In order to provide each mentor-mentee pair with more individualized support, iMentor has increased its Program Coordinator corps for the 2007-08 program year. Program Coordinators are responsible for all aspects of mentor-mentee relationship facilitation, including: matching pairs, running the weekly iMentor Session, planning and staffing iMentor events and working individually with each mentor and mentee to develop the strongest possible relationship. This year, we have been blown away by the talent and dedication of our seven Program Coordinators, led by Senior PC Cat Ang.

Read the bios for all

iMentor Program Coordinators

Monday, September 2nd, 2007

iMentor Goes National with iMi

Why is there a 15 million person mentoring gap in this country?

The benefits of mentoring are well established, yet the vast majority of youth-development organizations do not have the tools or resources necessary to add a quality mentoring component to their programming. We wondered: what if these organizations had access to an online social network built specifically for mentoring, providing participants and staff with the tools and expertise necessary to run a quality mentoring program, instantly? Our answer is iMi.

What is iMi?

iMentor Interactive (iMi) is an online mentoring social network designed exclusively for non-profits. The software provides any organization with all the tools and resources they need to run a quality mentoring program, instantly.

Want to know more? Take a Demo, meet iMi's first Member Organizations and learn about iMi's Supporters & Partners.

Know an organization that can benefit from the program? Nominate a new member organization HERE.

Monday, August 29th, 2007

Meet the Specialists

This year, iMentor has targeted two key areas of its program and deepened staff resources around (1) volunteer management and (2) the curricula mentors and mentees use to develop their relationship. This spring we launched two new specialty positions: Director of Curricula and Volunteer Manager.

Volunteer Manager

For the first time ever, iMentor has a single staff member dedicated to mentor recruitment, screening, training and ongoing development. Ellen Mahoney came to iMentor in the Spring of 2007, after 10 years of working in adolescent education. If you are a new mentor this year, you know Ellen already. In her first four months, Ellen successfully lead the recruitment and training of 800 volunteer mentors.

Director of Curricula

Ever wonder who is behind your weekly writing prompts and in-person meeting activities? Unique Fraser brings years of experience in education curriculum development to her new role at iMentor. This year, Unique will focus on expanding and diversifying mentor-mentee writing prompts, as well as leading iMentor's monthly SCA workshops and running the iMentor Drop-In Center.

Read bios for Ellen and Unique HERE

Monday, July 15th, 2007

Our New Home: iMentor's New Office

In July, iMentor finally moved into its new office space! And just in the nick of time. This summer, iMentor doubled its staff size in preparation for its biggest program year ever. We couldn't be more exited about the new space, which includes a new mentor-mentee Drop-In Center. We're hoping lots of pairs will be coming to visit soon!

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November 16th, 2007

New iMentor Video