Location: New York, New York

Website: http://www.legaloutreach.org

Member Since: August 2009

Legal Outreach prepares urban youth from underserved communities in New York City to compete at high academic levels by using intensive legal and educational programs as tools for fostering vision, developing skills, enhancing confidence, and facilitating the pursuit of higher education. They use law to attract junior high school students to academic programs that inspire and motivate them to strive for academic success. From the 8th through 12th grades, students work after school, on weekends, and during summers to build the skills and confidence they need to achieve their goals. Once in college, students who wish to pursue law school are eligible to participate in the College to Law School Pipeline Diversity Program. Legal Outreach has been transforming the lives of students from underserved communities for 25 years.

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.