Get Involved - Become an e-Mentor
eMentoring is a vehicle for young people and mentors to connect. It can also be used as an additional communication tool for those who ordinarily meet in person. Either way, eMentoring shares the goal of face-to-face mentoring: establishing a trusting, nurturing, positive relationship between the mentor and a young person.
The major benefit of this form of mentoring is that it can overcome some challenges associated with traditional, face-to-face involvement, especially the time commitments that prevent many adults from mentoring. eMentoring takes advantage of the ease, convenience and availability of the Internet, so it can also help young people deepen their understanding of the positive potential of online communications.
- Focuses on academic achievement, career exploration and/or development of a supportive and nurturing relationship
- Spans an entire calendar year, school year, or time period of several years
- Asks our online volunteers to send just one or two emails a month or to spend several hours a quarter communicating with youth
- Is a curriculum-based program that matches youth one-to-one with an individual mentor or program that matches entire classrooms of students with mentors from a single workplace.