What Is America Mentors?
America Mentors is a mentoring solution aimed at helping first-generation, low-income college students persist to graduation. This micro-mentoring program enables guided interactions between students and mentors using a proven curriculum designed to foster strong relationships through timely and relevant conversations. Students at more than 100 universities nationwide have used the program over the past six years, with impressive results.
Get Results
America Mentors partners with universities and others to increase student success and alumni engagement through its highly successful micro- mentoring program.
An America Mentors pilot has already produced promising gains in student retention and persistence, through over 1,200 mentoring matches. Graduation rate increases from 60% to 80% are projected as a direct result of mentoring. Click here to see the Case Study.
Get Started for Free
To empower first-generation, low-income college students to persist to graduation and embark on successful careers, The Business of Good Foundation supports educational institutions’ use of the America Mentors curriculum and technology platform at NO COST.
MentorcliQ
Ohio-based mentoring software company MentorcliQ provides the technology to make this vision possible. No more Excel spreadsheets! Instead, America Mentors offers a full-featured micro-mentoring solution that makes it easy to launch a program, match participants, support those relationships, and measure results.
Launch
Engage students and alumni or other local professionals in your mentoring program. Each program is customized to optimize retention and can be aligned with alumni outreach and development strategies.
Match
Healthy relationships are key to a successful mentoring program. America Mentors facilitates the matching of mentoring pairs — without using a single Excel spreadsheet ;).
Learn more about MentorcliQ’s powerful and flexible mentor matching technology.
Support
This is where the magic happens! America Mentors uses a proven curriculum that enables guided interactions between mentor pairs, fostering strong relationships through timely and relevant conversations. Mentors commit to 1-2 hours a month and connect with their mentees primarily by text, phone or email. This relatively small time commitment produces a big impact.
Measure
There’s an old saying: “What gets measured, gets done.” America Mentors incorporates assessment tools to help its education partners measure their program’s impact and enable continuous improvement.