MENTOR

MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership
Abbreviation	MENTOR
Founded	1990; 34 years ago (as One to One Partnership)
Founder	Geoffrey Boisi and Raymond Chambers
Type	non-governmental organization
CEO	David Shapiro
Website	www.mentoring.org

MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership is an advocate and resource for mentoring in the United States. It is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, with headquarters in Boston, Massachusetts.

Background

MENTOR shares information, national standards, and best practices about mentoring. It works with organizations that directly match and oversee the mentor-mentee pairs, and helps coordinates the pairing of mentors with students.^{[citation needed]} MENTOR co-founders Geoff Boisi and Ray Chambers each received the Lewis Hine Distinguished Service Award from the National Child Labor Committee (NCLC) for a lifetime of outstanding service to children.^{[citation needed]}