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Phone: 408.296.4405

1275 S. Winchester Blvd.
Suite E
San Jose, CA USA 95128

www.MentorNet.net

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Mission

MentorNet Mission Statement:

- To further the progress of women and others underrepresented in scientific and technical fields through the use of a dynamic, technology-supported mentoring network.

- To advance individuals and society, and enhance engineering and related sciences, by promoting a diversified, expanded and talented global workforce.

Key Facts

Target demographics:

MentorNet is a ten year-old web-based program for mentoring women and minority protégés in university engineering, science, mathematics, and technology programs. We match protégés with mentors and guide and cultivate their extended relationship.

Results to date:

We have matched and guided over 22,000 mentor-protégé pairs. We have evaluation results that show:

<> More than 75% of protégés are satisfied with their mentors.

<> Approximately 70% believe that their mentor was a good match.

<> More than 65% feel that the MentorNet experience was well worth their time.

- - One year after participating, 66% of protégés agreed that MentorNet was a good use of their time.

- - Three years after participating, almost 50% of protégés believed that MentorNet was a valuable experience.

<> More than 60% characterize their mentoring relationship as “highly successful or successful.”

<> As a result, about 60% of protégés have recommended MentorNet to a friend.

Direct beneficiaries per year: Last year we successfully engaged more than 3000 mentor-protege pairings with mentors representing 880+ corporations. The number has grown steadily of the life of the organization

Indirect beneficiaries per year: There are more than 22,000 members in the MentorNet community.

Obstacles:

We need to spend a lot of time in securing funding to help underwrite the cost of college participation to keep our fees low.

What your donation will allow us to do:

To help underwrite college participation and support protégé outreach.

Your donation of $10,000 fully underwrites a campus participation enables us to:

Provide e-mentoring opportunities to every student in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics programs across the whole institution.

Your donation of $100 enables us to:

Send an ‘outreach package’ containing MentorNet recruiting information, post-its, and brochures to a partnering campus of your choice!

Description

MentorNet (www.MentorNet.net) is the e-mentoring network for diversity in engineering and science; award-winning One-on-One programs pair thousands of engineering and science students with professionals for e-mail-based, structured mentoring relationships.

Programs

MentorNet addresses the severe underrepresentation of various groups, particularly women and people of color, in engineering and science, and has set the standard for high-quality, large scale e-mentoring. MentorNet was founded in 1997 to provide many more opportunities for students who could benefit from the motivating influence of those already out in the working world. MentorNet connects students with working professionals to encourage more of them to stick with their studies and make successful transitions into the workplace. MentorNet has evolved beyond just a one-on-one mentoring program; an online community with features including topic-based online discussion groups, a newsletter, training and coaching materials, a resume database, and more. While mentoring is an effetive strategy to retain more students in engineering and related sciences, in the past this type of support has been limited to relatively few students and mentoring professionals because of time constraints, location, and/or lack of programs available. By leveraging electronic communications and new technologies, MentorNet eliminates many of these geographic and time barriers, and offers the opportunity to be mentored, or to mentor, to a far greater number of students and professionals. Furthermore, by serving students from many universities nationwide, MentorNet offers deeper and richer pools of potential mentors for students, and economies of scale in operations. Achievements to date Between its start in 1998 and December 26, 2007, MentorNet's One-on-One program matched 20,769 pairs of proteges and mentors for structured, email-based mentoring relationships. Ongoing external evaluations show that, through the mentoring relationship, students gain increased understanding of their chosen field of study and related occupational choices in industry. In addition, they report increased self-confidence and likelihood of persisting in scientific and technical fields. Mentors, in turn, benefit from increased understanding and awareness of their own organizations and fields, networking with newly-emerging professionals, recruiting future colleagues and successors, and also by gaining mentoring, management, and communications skills. MentorNet includes mentoring programs for students in community colleges, undergraduate and graduate colleges and universities. In addition, MentorNet community members may take part in online, topic-based discussion groups.