Youth mentoring is enjoying an unprecedented popularity, with a significant growth in new programs over the last 15-20 years. This growth has produced a corresponding increase in funding requests to underwrite mentoring programs.
Today more than ever, funders are focusing on accountability, both for their own funding practices and for the programs they invest in. Mentoring programs that use the national guidelines known as the Elements of Effective Practice.
WHY DO HOOSIER DONORS INVEST IN MENTORING?
Returns on Investment
- Multi-tiered: Targeted investments in mentoring generate positive outcomes that span a range of “giving priorities” such as youth, education, family, community, health, workforce development and substance abuse
- Documented ROI: $1.00 that is invested in a represented mentoring program, generates $2.08 of benefits, per student (Source: The Mentoring Partnership of Minnesota)
Youth & Community Benefits
- A Range of Powerful Youth Outcomes: High quality mentoring is, simply and powerfully, one of the most effective social, academic and human intervention designs we have at our disposal
- Increased support available to the local schools and youth-serving organizations
- Greater community understanding of how to make a difference in the life of a child
Organizational Benefits
- Assurance that your giving is consistent with what our state’s leaders and communities are telling us we need to do in order to achieve more positive academic and life youth outcomes for Hoosier youth
- Knowing that your giving is multiplied – investments in mentoring, by design, leverage investments by other sectors who are equally committed to the state of Hoosier youth (eg. volunteers, schools, business)