Our Impact

Each year, iMentor pairs thousands of youth from underserved communities in New York City and around the country in multi-year, one-to-one matches with college-educated mentors.  iMentor developed its unique research-based and technology-enabled mentoring model to ensure more students graduate high school college-ready and succeed in college.  

Nationally, iMentor partners with non-profits and schools to provide them with everything they need to run a high quality mentoring program in the iMentor model.

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Students Served

iMentor focuses on high school students from underserved communities in New York. In the 2009-2010 Program Year, iMentor matched 1,755 students with mentors.

• 85% of mentees qualify for free or reduced school lunch
• Fewer than 13% of mentees report living with a parent who has a college degree

This academic year, iMentor is matching more than 1,800 mentor-mentee pairs in New York City. 

Results

• During the 2010-2011 Program Year, 83% of mentees in New York City graduated from high school compared to a citywide graduation rate of 65%

• Over 85% of the mentees are matched in multi-year relationships.

• Over 30 organizations in 20 states are currently partnering with iMentor to run high quality mentoring programs in the iMentor model.  These organizations serve over 3,500 mentor-mentee pairs nationwide.

Evaluation

Independent Evaluation (2011-2018)

Starting in the fall of 2011, iMentor will begin a 2,000-participant, six-year independent study of its mentoring model. This evaluation will be one of the largest and most comprehensive studies ever published on school-based mentoring, and seeks to increase the quality and quantity of evidence around iMentor's programmatic impact on participants.

Additional Evaluation (2007-2008)

Since its inception, iMentor has been conducting internal and external evaluations.  In an effort to update and strengthen existing evaluation instruments, iMentor contracted with Kim Sabo Consulting (KSC) in 2007.  KSC's analysis found that participation in iMentor's program had a statistically significant impact on:

• Standardized test scores
• English grades
• School attendance

Honors

• iMentor was awarded as a subgrantee of the inaugural federal Social Innovation Fund (SIF) as part of the Pathways Fund, led by New Profit, Inc.  Run out of the Corporation for National and Community Service, SIF is designed to identify and expand effective solutions to some of the nation's most critical social challenges.

• iMentor was honored at a White House reception during National Mentoring Month (January) 2010.

Learn More

Interested in learning more about iMentor's impact?  Download our full 2007-2008 evaluation results or review our 2010-2011 Program Year highlights.