Partner Organizations

Meet our iMi Partners

iMentor Interactive (iMi) partners with organizations across the country to provide them with the technology, curriculum, and ongoing support they need to implement their own high-impact mentoring programs. Leveraging the best practices developed through iMentor’s direct service program in New York City, these partner organizations are able to help youth in communities across the country graduate high school college ready, succeed in college, and pursue their personal and career goals.

iMi currently partners with more than 30 organizations that are providing programming in more than 20 states. Read more about some of our featured partners below. Interested in becoming an iMi partner? Find out how!

Featured Partner Organizations

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City Year

Location

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

City Year’s mission is to build democracy through citizen service, civic leadership, and social entrepreneurship. City Year partnered with iMi in the spring of 2011 to launch City Year’s first mentoring program, called cyMentor, serving 10th grade students attending Mastery Charter School in Philadelphia. The cyMentor program matches the Mastery students with supportive adults to help them achieve their academic, personal, and career goals from the time they are paired through high school graduation.These relationships will focus on providing the additional supports needed to ensure these students graduate college-ready. This partnership was launched utilizing funds from iMentor’s Social Innovation Fund grant.

College Now Greater Cleveland

Location

Cleveland, Ohio

For more than 40 years, College Now Greater Cleveland has focused on helping students pursue educational opportunities that empower them to embark on rewarding careers and strengthen their community. 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 freshmen year of college will be matched with Cleveland-area professionals in a four-year match. Mentors and mentees will communicate through curriculum-based emails and interact in-person at College Now staffed events as well as at independent meetings.

College Possible

Location

Saint Paul, Minnesota

College Possible was founded in 2000 with the vision of a day when the future of America’s children is determined solely by their talent, motivation and effort. College Possible partnered with iMi in the spring of 2011 to launch the Idealistic Mentors Initiative. The partnership is an opportunity for College Possible to pilot utilizing high quality mentoring as its college support strategy, leveraging the successful college transition program iMentor developed in New York City. As part of the Idealistic Mentors Initiative, students receive guidance from their mentors through weekly curriculum-based emails and monthly in-person events that are facilitated by College Possible coaches. This partnership was launched utilizing funds fromiMentor’s Social Innovation Fund grant.

DoSomething.org

Location

New York, New York

DoSomething.org is one of the largest organizations in the United States that helps young people advocate for causes they care about. DoSomething.org partnered with iMi in 2010 to develop the Do Something Consulting Program as a resource for potential grant applicants and program alumni to connect with working professionals to support them as they navigate the grant process. DoSomething youth are paired with American Express employees, who support their mentees as they apply for grants and develop their projects and programs.

Family Service Association

Location

Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey

Family Service Association is a multi-service, non-profit United Way agency that serves more than 22,500 children, adolescents, and adults in Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey, annually. Family Service Association partnered with iMi in the fall of 2010 to design and implement a mentoring program that provides mentoring services to underserved high school students in their freshman through senior years. This mentoring model is rooted in providing mentees guidance to become successful personally, academically, and in their career paths.

Hispanic Scholarship Fund

Location

San Francisco, California

The Hispanic Scholarship Fund (HSF) believes that the country prospers when all Americans have access to the opportunities a college education can afford. 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 the summer of 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 a scholarship but did not receive one, were invited to join the First Year Transition Program. Participants are paired with an adult mentor near the college they are attending to help them successfully navigate their first year of college. Most mentors in this program are HSF alumni.

KIPP (Knowledge is Power Program) Through College

Location

New York, New York

At the heart of KIPP NYC’s mission is a commitment to prepare KIPP students for success in college and in life, and KIPP Through College plays a critical role in realizing these outcomes. The KIPP Through College team supports KIPP alumni’s graduation from high school, their matriculation to and graduation from college, and their career preparation. KIPP Through College partnered with iMi in the spring of 2011 to design and implement a mentoring program that matches high school juniors who have attended KIPP middle schools but who do not attend KIPP College Prep High School with volunteer mentors. Student participants receive guidance from their mentors through weekly curriculum-based emails and monthly in-person events that are facilitated by the KIPP Through College staff. The program offers each student a one-to-one match with a mentor lasting for six years, starting in the junior year of high school and lasting through the senior year of college. Mentors will assist mentees with their entire college experience, from exploration and application through college graduation.

Muchin College Prep

Location

Chicago, Illinois

Ten years after Noble Street Charter School opened its first campus, Muchin College Prep opened the eighth campus of the Noble Network of Charter Schools in the heart of the Chicago Loop. Muchin College Prep's mission is to prepare students for success in college and beyond. Muchin College Prep partnered with iMi to launch a new mentoring program with the support of Marsh & McLennan Companies. The Muchin College Prep Mentoring Program pairs students in the 11th grade with adult mentors who support students to graduate high school and transition smoothly to college. Together, pairs focus on academic success, career development, and personal growth. The program includes a combination of weekly curriculum-based email communication and monthly in-person events facilitated by Muchin College Prep staff.

Single Stop at Miami Dade College

Location

Miami, Florida

Single Stop USA is a revolutionary initiative to slash poverty nationally with an approach that is simple, effective, and ultimately paradigm-shifting. Single Stop bridges the information gap separating low-income families from life-changing public benefits, tax credits, and other essential services that remain untapped and inaccessible. Single Stop USA partnered with iMi to match first-year community college students at Miami Dade College with mentors. Mentors will provide students with the additional support needed to assure they complete their two-year degree and are fully prepared to engage in subsequent academic and career pursuits. This partnership aims to increase both the number of students that graduate from college and their engagement with Single Stop’s programming. The program offers each student a one-to-one match with a mentor lasting for two years, beginning in the student’s first year at Miami Dade College. This partnership was launched utilizing funds from iMentor’s Social Innovation Fund grant.

Wi-mentor United Way of Coastal Fairfield County

Location

Bridgeport, Connecticut

Wi-mentor launched in Bridgeport, Connecticut, through a partnership with United Way of Coastal Fairfield County, Bridgeport Public Schools, Board of Education, School Volunteer Association, Bridgeport Public Education Fund and Pitney Bowes. Wi-mentor partnered with iMi in the winter of 2007 to implement a mentoring program to engage underserved high school students in Bridgeport with mentors to who will help them achieve success both in and out of school. The program offers each student a one-to-one match with a mentor lasting for four years, starting in the freshman year of high school and lasting through the senior year.