E-MENTORING

[Elizabeth Wicklund]

This article is from the Philanthropy News Digest

<p> E-Mentoring Projects to Expand Reach of Mentoring

  The AOL Foundation (http://www.aolfoundation.org/) has
  announced a strategic partnership with the National
  Mentoring Partnership (http://www.mentoring.org/) and
  PowerUp (http://www.powerup.org/) to mobilize several new
  mentoring efforts at a national level. The partnership
  includes $1.2 million in grants from the AOL Foundation
  to expand the National Mentoring Partnership's Web site
  and to highlight the potential of e-mentoring as a way
  of expanding the reach of traditional mentoring.

  The partnership will also support the Digital Heroes
  campaign, a national initiative involving People Magazine
  and America Online, in association with the National
  Mentoring Partnership, PowerUP, and the Waitt Family
  Foundation (http://www.waittfoundation.org/). The magazine
  has recruited over 100 notable individuals from a diverse
  range of professions to serve as e-mentors to young people
  participating in PowerUP programs across the country.
  More than 100 AOL employees are participating in a
  companion e-mentoring pilot program in which they are
  matched up as mentors with PowerUP youth.

  "Few bonds in life are more important than that between a
  young person and an adult," said Rae Grad, CEO of PowerUP,
  a national nonprofit organization dedicated to helping
  young people acquire the skills, experiences, and
  resources they need to succeed in the digital age. "This
  idea is central to PowerUP's mission, and we are pleased
  to give PowerUP youth this new opportunity to succeed with
  help from influential, respected adult role models."

  "Innovative New Program Expands The Concept of Mentoring."
  PR Newswire 9/27/2000.

  http://fdncenter.org/pnd/current/003683.html

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