Partner Organizations

Capital Partners for Education (CPE) aims to improve the futures of low-income youth by helping them receive a quality education, graduate from high school, and attend and complete college. CPE provides a proven combination of partnerships with quality high schools, tuition assistance, and a customized array of academic, career, and life skills development, all of which create a college-going culture for our students. CPE partnered with iMi in 2012 to develop a best-in-class approach to mentoring programs (incorporating practices, technology, training and tracking) as a means to expand the scale and impact of its programs. CPE will match 9^th grade students at 29 schools with adult mentors who will support them through high school and until graduation. Pairs will communicate through weekly, curriculum-structured emails and monthly in-person events.CPE will focus on the five key values that are integrated into all areas of their work with students: high expectations, personal responsibility, respect, support, and giving back.

For more than 40 years, College Now Greater Cleveland focused on helping students pursue educational opportunities that empower them to embark on rewarding careers and strengthen their community. Reaching over 20,000 students and adult learners every year, College Now provides college access and success advisement, financial aid counseling, and scholarship services.  

College Now Greater Cleveland partnered with iMi in 2011 to design and implement a mentoring program as a core element of their college success and retention strategy. College Now scholarship recipients entering their freshman year of college are matched with Cleveland area professionals in four-year matches. Mentors and mentees communicate through curriculum-based emails and interact in-person at College Now staffed events as well as independent meetings.

College Track is an educational nonprofit working to increase high school graduation rates, college eligibility and enrollment rates, and college graduation rates among students underrepresented in higher education. College Track engages high school students in a range of college access and readiness programming, and supports students once they enter college through financial assistance, individual coaching, and additional programming designed to ensure that they successfully navigate and graduate from college.

College Track partnered with iMi in 2012 to launch a mentoring program connecting 41 mentees with mentors to support them from their senior year in high school through their first two years of college. Students from College Track’s Oakland, San Francisco, and East Palo Alto centers are participating. Pairs communicate through weekly emails, monthly Skype or in-person meetings, and in-person events during college breaks.

The Hispanic Scholarship Fund (HSF) believes that the country prospers when all Americans have access to the opportunities a college education affords. As the nation’s leading Hispanic higher education fund, HSF works to address the barriers that keep many Latinos from earning a college degree.

HSF partnered with iMi in 2011 to design and implement a mentoring program for first-year college students. First generation college students receiving an HSF scholarship, as well as students who qualified for but did not receive one, were invited to join the First Year Transition Program. Students are paired with adult mentors near the college they are attending to help them successfully navigate their first year. Most mentors in this program are HSF alumni. HSF pairs communicate through weekly curriculum-based emails and will meet in person monthly. Participants are clustered in 7 geographic areas around the country.

The Fellowship Initiative (TFI) is a collaborative effort founded by the JPMorgan Chase Foundation to expand opportunities and facilitate academic, personal, and professional growth for Black, Latino and other young men of color. JPMorgan Chase’s The Fellowship Initiative partnered with iMi in 2010 to match 10^th, 11^th, and 12^th grade students nominated by their high school principals with mentors. Rooted in providing mentees the guidance they need to achieve their personal and professional potential and establish themselves as the next generation of global leaders, the program offers students a one-to-one mentoring match that lasts for a minimum of one year.

Rogers County Volunteers for Youth’s mission is to positively impact the lives of youth in the Claremore, Oklahoma community. Rogers County Volunteers for Youth partnered with iMi in 2010 to design and implement a mentoring program that matches professionals with freshman students at Claremore high school. The goal of this program is to provide mentees with support to improve academically, develop skills to have successful careers and become successful adults. Pairs communicate through curriculum-based emails and have school based in-person meetings at Claremore High School.