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High school students and their mentors celebrated a year of successful “iMentoring” on Saturday with games, lunch from Panera, and fun activities like funny dress up and T-shirt making at a picnic in Cadman Plaza Park, Downtown Brooklyn.

Zachary Beaumont-Kelly could have been a comedian, that is if he wasn’t headed to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a Gates Millennium Scholar this Fall.

New York, NY – iMentor announced today it was awarded a $1 million grant from the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation to evaluate and expand its innovative college-readiness mentoring model. This significant two-year investment will allow iMentor to expand its mentoring programs in New York and nationwide, as well as conduct an independent, comprehensive evaluation on how iMentor’s programs can impact college success.

Hedge fund managers helped raise $1.7 million on Wednesday night to benefit iMentor, the New York City based mentoring nonprofit founded in 1999 by John Griffin of Blue Ridge Capital.

Nicole Griffith received the first Ernst and Young Mentor of the Year Award at the second annual Mentor’s Champions Golf Challenge held Sunday, Sept. 9 at Friar’s Head Golf Club in Riverhead, L.I.

(New York, August 6, 2012) – The New York Community Trust and New York Magazine announced today the 10 semifinalists, including iMentor, for the 2012 The New York Community Trust—New York Magazine Nonprofit Excellence Awards. Now in its sixth year, the awards honor outstanding management practices and encourage innovation and communication among New York’s large and diverse nonprofit community. Since 2007, the Nonprofit Coordinating Committee of New York (NPCC) and Philanthropy New York have managed this program, which is open to nonprofit organizations based in New York City, Long Island and Westchester. The 2012 Awards are also sponsored by WNYC.

The College Now organization, formerly known as Cleveland Scholarship Programs, has long invested dollars into Cleveland's low-income students. Now it's seeking to maximize its investment, through a futuristic "iMentor" effort that cleverly avoids many of the problems that I've watched befall many a traditional mentoring program.

DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN — Cadman Plaza Park in Downtown Brooklyn was a sea of celebrating high school students and mentors on Saturday as a year of “iMentoring” reached its successful conclusion.

New York, NY – As the depth and complexity of societal issues escalates, companies are stepping up to rising public expectations that businesses can do more to affect change. In that spirit, leading companies and organizations around the world today recognize International Corporate Philanthropy Day (ICPD), an annual international advocacy day that mobilizes the business community to share best practices, develop partnerships, and engage with employees and other stakeholders for more strategic and effective societal investments.