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December 1, 2002 | Program Result Report
The National Mentoring Partnership Incorporated developed and implemented a project designed to discourage high-risk urban youth from engaging in health-damaging behavior and to encourage them to pursue activities geared toward a productive future.
July 1, 2000 | Program Result Report
Starting in January 1997, the National Council on the Aging, Washington, implemented the first initiative in the country to match older adults with young people in a pregnancy prevention project.
February 1, 2004 | Program Result Report
From 1998 to 2002, project staff at the Center for Health Communication at the Harvard School of Public Health mounted a national media campaign—the Harvard Mentoring Project—to recruit large numbers of qualified mentors to build supportive relationships with at-risk youth.
June 1, 2004 | Program Result Report
The California Mentor Foundation worked to hire additional staff and build its communications and research capabilities.
January 1, 2008 | Book
This chapter examines the research on mentoring and Foundation-funded programs that encourage it.
May 29, 2013 | New Public Health Post
Girl Up, developed by the UN Foundation, empowers young girls to create a life for themselves and their families well beyond poverty and illiteracy. They are now accepting nominations for teen advisers.
National Program
Program to support a three-city demonstration project designed to connect at-risk urban youth with responsible adults in activities after school.
January 25, 2013 | Program Result Report
Experience Corps engages older volunteers to tutor - with a focus on reading - and mentor low-income kindergarten through third-grade students. It expanded and became an independent nonprofit organization.
July 30, 2012 | Program Result Report
Project L/EARN is an intensive, paid 10-week summer internship in health-focused research for diverse undergraduates underrepresented in the field. It includes instruction, a research project, and one-on-one faculty mentoring.
October 8, 2010 | Program Result Report
The Brotherhood/Sister Sol delivered a comprehensive array of services designed to promote the health and stability of young Black and Latino males in the Harlem neighborhoods of New York City.