iMentor

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iMentor builds mentoring relationships that empower students from low-income communities to graduate high school and college. Students work with their mentors one-on-one, in-person, and online, to develop strong personal relationships, nurture a college aspiration, navigate the college application process, and build critical skills that lead to college success. The organization provides its curriculum, technology, and best practices to help nonprofits run effective programs in the iMentor model. iMentor NYC is a school-based mentoring program that connects public high school students in New York City in one-to-one relationships with college-educated mentors. iMentor partners with public schools to ensure every student at these schools receives a mentor and to augment existing guidance and college counseling programs. Mentor-mentee pairs are matched for three to four years and exchange weekly emails and meet monthly in person. iMentor Partner Programs is a national partnership program that brings iMentor’s mentoring model to communities nationwide. iMentor Interactive provides programmatic support, curricula, technology tools, and consulting to non-profits so they can implement their own effective mentoring programs in the iMentor model. iMentor partners with organizations and schools that share its goal of empowering young people. It has partnerships with 11 organizations, including Big Brothers Big Sisters Lone Star, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Pittsburgh, and the Hispanic Scholarship Fund. iMentor has been recognized through funding by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Lumina Foundation, the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, and the Robin Hood Foundation. It is a sub-grantee of the federal Social Innovation Fund. iMentor was founded by John Griffin, Richard Buery, and Matt Klein in 1999 and is based in New York, United States.