Member Organizations

American Corporate Partners (ACP) has joined with iMentor to bring the iMentor Interactive (iMi) platform to its existing mentoring program.

To begin, the ACP’s staff will customize iMi’s online applications to meet the unique needs of their program participants and generate strong matches. Once participants are matched, ACP will be able to take advantage of iMi’s e-mentoring component, connecting mentors and protégés through email communication, regardless of their physical location. Finally, ACP’s staff will monitor participant satisfaction via iMi’s survey tools and run reports on this data throughout the course of the program.

BQLI AHEC is teaming up with iMentor Interactive to connect high school and college students interested in careers in the healthcare sector with healthcare professionals. The students and professionals will email using relevant writing prompts in iMi and then meet up in-person for internships, job shadowing, and career panels. The BQLI AHEC staff will be able to measure the impact of their program on the occupational outlook of the students through the use of surveys and reporting tools.

The Communities In Schools of NJ (CISNJ) Mentoring Success Center is an exciting partnership between Communities In School of New Jersey and the Nicholson Foundation to provide coordination, training and support for mentoring programs in the Newark/Essex County area. The participating programs include Street Warriors, Newark Public Schools, the Port Authority of NY & NJ, and Protestant Community Centers.

Using iMentor Interactive, all of the Mentoring Success Center’s partners will have instant access to mentor/mentee email communication, complete with writing prompts to structure their conversations. In addition, each partner will be able to track their participants’ usage and CISNJ will be able to evaluate outcomes across the network, using this data to push for increased mentoring opportunities throughout Newark.

Currently, Crossroads has contact with its teens through events, phone calls, emails and Facebook approximately once a month. This contact is primarily done through the organization’s five year-round staff members dedicated to these programs. Due to time constraints, Crossroads is not able to contact their youth as frequently as they would hope. With iMentor Interactive, the organization’s youth will have much more frequent contact, allowing them to enjoy the following benefits:

• Discuss social issues that the youth are facing with their peers or families on a more regular basis.
• Keep at-risk teens engaged in a positive relationship with a caring adult, measured through the number of contacts made (a minimum of once per week).
• Improved attendance and grades in school due to supportive relationship with caring adults via iMentor Interactive
• Review their college application process and scholarships available on a more individual basis.
• Become a more environmentally-friendly organization by communicating via email about upcoming events.
• Track the teens’ involvement in extra-curricular activities including community service.

Discoveries Unlimited facilitates the mentoring process by pairing mentors with students on the iMentor Interactive platform. A semester-long pilot program will launch in January 2010, focused on 6th grade female students who have an interest in a STEM field. In addition to weekly iMi emails focused on career and educational mentoring, each mentor and mentee will be encouraged to connect via the iMi calendar. In-person events will include company tours, job shadowing, attending science/technology events or industry networking meetings, participating in team service projects, and college visits.

Fordham is expanding the capabilities of its mentoring program by adding iMentor Interactive to the mix. Now, the program’s administrators will be able to easily collect applications and make great matches using iMi’s matching algorithm. And once their pairs are matched, they’ll be able to offer email and calendar tools to facilitate and structure communication. Lastly, they’ll be able to take advantage of iMi’s survey function to gather feedback and measure the impact that mentoring is having on Fordham’s students and alumni.

FUTURE 5 has partnered with iMentor to launch its groundbreaking mentoring program. Using iMentor Interactive, the organization will be able to pair each mentee with five mentors, both 1-on-1 and via full-community groups. Mentees and mentors will be encouraged to discuss career, academic, and personal development through the use of writing prompts integrated into their email system. And ultimately, the program’s administrators will be able to monitor and report upon the results of the program.

The Jewish Home & Hospital Geriatric Career program was created in 2006 as an experiential youth work force development program providing disadvantaged high school students with academic support, intergenerational mentoring, college preparation, job training and skills that prepares youth to enter the healthcare field.

The Health Professional Youth Mentoring Program will be a new component of the Geriatric Career Program that will use iMentor Interactive to match youth in their program with health care professionals to help support them with academics, college and career counseling, and personal development. Jewish Home will create several new important partnerships including the New York Academy of Medicine’s Hartford Partnership for Aging Education whose mission is to train and grow the national workforce of social workers who specialize in aging; Columbia University’s School of Social Work and the Mailman School of Public Health; Mentoring in Medicine, a New York based program whose mission is to help ensure diversity in the health care workforce by mentoring and exposing underrepresented students to health careers; and The Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Mentors will also be recruited from other schools of medicine, nursing, social work, and allied health as well as the Jewish Home's own health professional staff and board members.

Legal Outreach is using iMentor Interactive to match their participants with lawyer mentors from around the New York City area. Once matched, they’ll communicate once a week using iMi’s writing prompts and meet up each month, taking advantage of iMi’s shared calendar system. Ultimately, iMi will be used to measure participant satisfaction throughout the course of their three-year relationships.

Medgar Evers College and the Young Adult Borough Center at Thomas Jefferson High School in Brooklyn have teamed up with iMentor to launch a new mentoring program for their students. Using iMentor Interactive, the program’s staff will be able to get the initiative off the ground quickly, drawing on iMi’s sophisticated matching algorithm and built-in writing prompts. And the online applications and applicant-screening tools will enable them to easily open the mentoring experience to college students at Medgar Evers.

Mentor Plus is using iMentor Interactive as an additional communication tool for those mentors/mentees who ordinarily meet in person. Mentor Plus e-mentors can help students explore the Web and learn to e-mail while at the same time discussing common interests related to academics and assisting with assigned projects that help connect school work to the real world. Mentees spend at least 30 minutes a week emailing on the platform under the guidance of classroom teachers and/or parents, while adults send and receive e-mail messages at their place of work or at home. All students and e-mentors have at least one face-to-face meeting per month, scheduled through iMi’s calendar system.

National research on successful e-mentoring programs shows substantial benefits to both students and e-mentors. Students involved in e-mentoring show improvements in reading, writing and computer skills, as well as increased interest in schoolwork. Adults with the potential to be good mentors but lacking the time for regular school and home visits find e-mentoring to be an ideal way to make a difference for a young person. Whether on a business trip or a tight deadline, the volunteer can maintain regular contact with a student online. Like all Mentor Plus volunteers, e-mentors complete a volunteer application and are carefully interviewed, screened and trained to work with young people. Training sessions are free of charge and offered regularly.

iMi will enhance Mentorville’s existing programs by allowing staff to effectively alert members to community service projects, volunteer opportunities, employment opportunities, and educational activities such as college fairs and college tours. Community partner events and lectures related to preparing for and financing an education can be shared with Mentorville’s students, parents and educators. Having such a cohesive, measurable, and effective tool in place will attract corporations, sponsors, and potential funders. They will see a system that is easy to incorporate into their community outreach efforts and one they can introduce to their employees and shareholders as their way of giving back.

Millennial Mentoring Youth Academy has partnered with iMentor to help launch two mentoring programs in the Eastern Virginia area. The first program will serve incarcerated men looking to improve their fatherhood skills and the second will serve their children. Both programs will take advantage of iMentor Interactive to create online communities and track participation. In addition, the program administrator will use this technology tool to report on specific outcomes for federal grant-making agencies.

The Partnership has joined with iMentor for three reasons:

1) Matching - All three programs currently feel that this as a very time consuming and tedious process. As such, iMi’s matching algorithm would have an immediate impact on the efficiency of their programs.

2)) Tracking - This will allow mentorship coordinators to determine if some matches need support or nudging to continue and deepen their relationship.

3) Reporting - Again, this is a tedious and sometimes inefficient process. All three programs felt this would be an incredible addition to their existing programs.

iMentor Interactive’s application, evaluation, matching, prompts, and reporting features were exactly what the Office of Special Education and Transition Services at the Nisonger Center was looking for to set in motion the mentoring component of the OSAA. The National Science Foundation requires annual reports regarding its funded projects and iMi’s features will facilitate ease in this reporting task. Project staff will use iMi to monitor the mentoring interactions, train mentors and students and facilitate in-person meetings. Ultimately, it will allow OSAA to continue to strengthen and build a successful mentoring program for students with disabilities while achieving success in STEM careers.

RIMP has joined with iMentor Interactive to bring e-mentoring to the mentor/mentee relationships it oversees across Rhode Island. Now, in addition to in-person meetings, mentors and mentees will be able to communicate via email, using age-specific writing prompts to jumpstart their correspondence. And the in-person events will also be supported, using iMi’s shared calendaring system. Finally, RIMP staff will be able to measure the impact of mentoring in Rhode Island through customized applications and follow-up surveys, capturing the positive changes brought about by these relationships.

SAYC will use iMentor Interactive to enhance the quality of services for children in its programs. It is actively working with Big Brothers Big Sisters to start a full-time mentoring program for 200 youth. iMentor Interactive software will help the organization track and maintain the mentoring program it’s establishing.

SHIELD is using iMentor Interactive to provide the infrastructure for its mentoring program. Mentors and mentees will apply to the program via customized online applications. They’ll be matched together using iMi’s compatibility algorithm. And they’ll email using writing prompts that iMentor has developed, as well as new ones that SHIELD will create. At the end of the day, SHIELD will then be able to use iMi’s reporting tools to measure their participants’ progress towards the program’s goals.

Starwood Capital and Stamford Academy have partnered to bring e-mentoring to their employees and students. Starwood is generously sponsoring the program and providing the mentors while Stamford Academy is providing the mentees and operating the day-to-day program activities. Both mentors and mentees will be using iMentor Interactive to connect and develop their relationships.

On iMentor Interactive, the mentors and mentees will be able to communicate via special email accounts that can be reviewed by the program's administrators. In addition, the email communication will benefit from writing prompts that add structure to the dialogue. And, as the mentoring relationships grow, the program’s staff will be able to review the site’s usage, ensuring that a powerful and positive experience is had by all

In 2008, Boston Scholars was fortunate to see all of its students in the first class graduate from the high schools where they were placed. Secondly, they went on to college at a rate of 100%. One of the key goals of using iMentor Interactive is to maintain a level of stability in the access and support that they get in their one-on-one mentoring relationships while they embark on their new lives as college undergraduates. Boston Scholars’ goal is to make them all first generation college graduates.

UBS, Stamford Public Schools, and iMentor have come together to bring e-mentoring to A.L.T.A. program participants. UBS has generously sponsored the program and is providing nearly 50 mentors while Stamford Public Schools is partnering with the Yerwood Center, a Stamford-based community center, to provide computer access for the students. Once online, the mentors and students will benefit from iMentor Interactive, iMentor’s e-mentoring platform.

On iMentor Interactive, the mentors and mentees will be able to communicate via special email accounts that can be reviewed by the program’s administrators. In addition, the email communication will benefit from writing prompts that are used to structure dialogue and promote effective communication skills for aspiring college students. The program's staff will be able to monitor the site's usage ensuring that a supportive and positive exchange develops between mentors and mentees.

Veterans Across America launched a "Champion Mentors" initiative because the organization believes it is the single most powerful program they can deploy to arm unemployed and under-employed veterans with the tools they need to compete for quality employment, or start businesses. The Champion Mentors initiative is an integral part of the "Six Months to Success" veterans employment plan, which uses business mentors, education programs and employment conferences/boot camps to jump start veteran employment. The Champion Mentor program will use iMentor Interactive to team up an unemployed or under-employed veteran and a mentor with a special focus on veterans who are wounded, disabled or homeless. The Champion Mentor program will have their mentors put their personal "networks" at the disposal of the veteran mentees, so that the veteran job-seekers or entrepreneurs can follow smart "networking" leads and find their own paths to success.

Wi-mentor links Bridgeport high school students with professionals in the greater Bridgeport community to forge personal relationships and explore college and career ideas. iMentor’s technology and targeted curriculum facilitate the matching and communication process, maximizing time for both students and mentors to connect through its safe, secure network.