icouldbe.org is an award-winning online mentoring program connecting middle and high school students from diverse communities with mentors from across the country, cultivating meaningful relationships to explore interests and dreams for the future. Since 2000, icouldbe.org has used a research-backed curriculum to help over 19,000 students discover their passions and take action to realize their career and educational goals.

How Online Mentoring Works icouldbe.org partners with schools to integrate mentoring into their existing curriculum, giving mentees and e-mentors college prep and career planning activities to focus the online conversation. Additionally, mentees have access to the larger icouldbe community through discussion boards. Unlike traditional mentoring programs, icouldbe’s online platform provides students a multitude of opportunities to connect with mentors, depending on the student’s interest, regardless of geography, eliminating transportation, physical and time barriers. Additionally, online mentoring provides safety for mentees and a forum to find their “voice,” as young people are experienced online communicators and may be less intimidated by gender, age and cultural issues that impact face-to-face interactions. E-mentors are also able to give feedback to improve a mentee’s written communication skills, including spelling, grammar and style.

(See “Making the Case for Online Mentoring”)

As a mentor at icouldbe.org, you can work with individual middle and high school students as they explore their educational and professional futures. With a one-hour per week commitment, you can make a real difference in the life of a student who attends a public school in a struggling community. And, because this is an online mentoring program, you can volunteer whenever your schedule allows!

 Throughout 2011, we will work to engage 1,000 new mentors – the first goal of 300 to be met in honor of January’s National Mentoring Month. Then, a follow up campaign will begin in February to recruit the remaining 700 new mentors throughout the winter and spring.

Please join us to meet our goal of serving at-risk students. Simply click the following link: www.icouldbe.org/standard/reg_mentor/join_mentor.asp

• When

It’s flexible! We’ll work with your schedule.

• Where
  
  25 East 21st Street
  New York, NY
  10010
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• Skills
  • Online Communication