June 2017


 
TEXAS MENTORING PARTNERSHIP NEWS
Dear Mentoring Advocates and Organizations, 

The Texas Mentoring Partnership is pleased to bring you our statewide newsletter. This newsletter will serve as a way to highlight your mentoring programs as well as mentoring news and research from across the country that you may be interested in. Please send us your stories and photos and share this information with other mentoring advocates. Let us know what ideas you have for future topics.

Belinda Saldana Harmon
Texas Mentoring Partnership Lead
 
 
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BBBS Mixer in San Antonio
Big Brothers Big Sisters of South Texas will have their next monthly Big Mixer on Tuesday night, June 20th in San Antonio at El Machito restaurant. Please bring a friend who might want to learn more about BBBS. RSVP today. 


Closure Activities
The Seedling Foundation in Austin offers these suggestions for mentoring closure activities for your mentoring matches.   Continue Reading


Stephen Curry: Three Mentors share their story.
NBA Champion Stephen Curry credits his mentors for contributing to his journey towards success.  Continue Reading  
Register Your Mentoring Organization on the Mentoring Connector
Listing your program in the Mentoring Connector helps you recruit more youth mentors and greatly increases visibility for your organization. Thousands of prospective volunteers visit  mentoring.org and our many partner sites each month to connect with mentoring opportunities in their own communities. Continue Reading
Submit Your Proposal for the 2018 National Mentoring Summit
MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership is seeking proposals for workshop presentations at the 2018 National Mentoring Summit taking place January 24-26, 2018 at the Renaissance Washington, D.C. Downtown. Read the full Request for Proposals.  Continue Reading 

Free Webinar- Partnerships Drive Success: Using Cross Sector Collaborations to Build Capacity in Youth Agencies
Partnering with local organizations, other mentoring and/or youth agencies and businesses can help mentoring programs expand their services beyond the current program model, recruit more qualified mentors and maximize their fundraising efforts. Join this webinar...   Continue Reading