Research

Finding community resources

Kids 

- Young Men's Mentoring Program
- Luthercare for Kids
- Benchmark program

College Students

- Treehouse Mentor
- Score
- Mentor-- The National Mentoring Partnership
- Lancaster Young Professionals
- MentorCliq
- Case Foundation
- MU MMAP (v inactive)

Both

- Lancaster Young Professionals

- Treehouse Mentor
- Score
- MU MMAP

Good fits for partnering:

Tree house mentor for independent students wanting to pickup a tech related skill such as coding. This could probably only be useful as a recourse. I don't think there's much potential for partnership or mentor recruitment from treehouse mentor.

Score will likely be one of our strongest if not our strongest connection to a solid source of mentors. They offer free services which is also ideal for our target audience: students. Students an get just. About any level of mentoring they need on and offline.

Psychology research

On the Journal of Advanced Academics, I read into the scholarly article "Psychology of Mentoring: The Case of Talented College Students."

Notable information includes....

1. Not many tests are done on the actual psychology of a mentor/mentee relationship. Most research focuses on the benefits.

2. Students didn't feel mentored if they didn't feel the need for one in the first place. This obviously means the contrary is true where, if student feel the need for the mentor, they'll find it more valuable and report the experience as more successful. 

3. Students who were able to identify a career they were certainly interested in were reporting higher success rates with their mentors than students who were unsure of what they wanted to do in the future. 

** With that being said I think that the mentor program should maybe be optional.... or if kids express substantial disinterest maybe lets not waste their time and a mentor's time too much. Also, #3 is kind of weird to me because being that we are an Entrepreneurial Program... our student's career choices are mostly going to be to be their own boss and stuff. Just seems kind of ironic. I guess "Entrepreneur" is a career path in a way! Just blew my own mind.