 Please join us for an OPEN HOUSE in celebration of
 January 11, 2012
3:00 - 5:30 pm
Science Museum of Virginia
2500 West Broad Street, 3rd Floor
Richmond, Virginia 23220
Join us for snacks, giveaways, resources, photos and to participate in "I Am A Mentor" social media day. We look forward to showing you our new place! |
It's National Mentoring Month! 
How to participate:
- NMM materials are still available. To order, please contact Kim Lammi at (804) 828-1536.
- Write a letter with your mentee to the Richmond Times Dispatch! Send them in by January 17 for inclusion in a special section on January 26 - National Mentoring Day via postal mail (Editor of the Editorial Pages, Box 85333, Richmond, VA 23293) or e-mail letters@timesdispatch.com.
- Mentor Month Challenge: We are challenging Virginia's mentoring community to create Facebook pages and LIKE VMP. Let us share your mentoring stories and successes statewide.
- January 11 is "I Am A Mentor" Social Media Day on Facebook.
- Share your mentoring news with your local press and then send us the links!
- National Mentoring Summit, Washington, DC - January 24-25, 2012.
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Upcoming Trainings
Regional Training Institute:
January 20 & February 10
Registration for the two-day workshop, "Ten Steps to Operating a Mentoring Program" is open until January 13, 2012. Learn more and register here. Orientation to Mentoring for New Mentors!Wednesday, January 26 from 4:30-6:30pm at The Science Museum of Virginia. This training is free and open to the public. Registration is strongly encouraged as space is limited. To sign up, click here. |
Funding Opportunities
CVS Caremark Community Grants:
Next funding cycle Jan. 1 - Oct. 31, 2012 CVS awards funds to nonprofit organizations for programs targeting children with disabilities, programs focusing on health and rehabilitation services, public schools promoting a greater level of inclusion in student activities and extracurricular programs, and initiatives that give greater access to physical movement and play. Could your nonprofit mentoring program or school qualify? Learn more. Bank of America Local Grants: Deadline rolling The majority of Bank of America's local grant making programs have no deadline; applications are reviewed throughout the year at regularly scheduled local market leadership meetings. To be considered for a local grant, your organization should be aligned with the funding priorities in your market. Learn more about funding priorities in your area. |
Thank you to our 2012 Virginia Mentoring Awards
event sponsors.
 Virginia Mentoring Awards Event & Conference: March 2, 2012 (as of 1/5/2012)
Platinum Sponsors
Capital One
Genworth
Gold Sponsors
PricewaterhouseCoopers
Silver Sponsors
Virginia Credit Union
Weinstein Properties
Thank you to the following foundations and corporations.
VMP received grants from the following groups in the final quarter of 2011 to provide training and technical assistance to mentoring programs and mentors:
Bama Works Fund of the Dave Matthews Band in the Charlottesville Area Community Foundation, the Jackson Foundation, Capital One, and Dominion. Thank you!
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| MENTOR Extends Free Trial of MentorPRO
to April 1, 2012
MentorPRO is an online system for tracking, evaluating, and managing mentoring programs. To sign up for the free trial, register your program in the Volunteer Referral Service (if you haven't done so already) and complete the MentorPRO application. Once you have completed these steps MENTOR will review your application and contact you directly.
Click here for more information about MentorPRO 2.0 release. Please contact mentorpro@mentoring.org if you have any questions.
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Child Safety & Protection: A response to the Sandusky Case
Virginia Mentoring Partnership would like to express our sadness to those affected by the child abuse scandal reported late last year at Penn State. As a leader of mentoring in Virginia, VMP promotes and provides guidance on best practices for mentoring and youth-serving organizations that help them manage the risks and prevent such crimes against children.
VMP reminds programs in our network of the importance of screening, but also of training for staff, parents, and mentors on how to recognize and report child abuse. We want to remind you of resources such as SAFE (Screening Applicants for Effectiveness): Guidelines to Prevent Child Molestation in Mentoring and Youth-Serving Organizations, published by Friends For Youth, Inc. and trainings. On January 12, Friends for Youth is offering a free webinar on strengthening youth safety in mentoring programs. Register here. On February 13, SCAN will offer training on how to recognize and report child abuse. Learn more and register here.
Together we can prevent abuses like those perpetrated on the young men in the Sandusky case and also prevent the second offence, the culture of silence surrounding and protecting those who abuse. Thank you for all the steps you take to protect children in your programs.
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