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MENTORING MATTERS
For Those Who Care About Kids
March 2009 
Mentoring Matters Conference Honorees
 
Five individuals were recently recognized at the Mentoring Matters Conference held at Long Island University, C.W. Post Campus, as winners of the 2009 Mentoring Achievement Award. MPLI salutes these five Program Coordinators and Mentors for their outstanding contributions to the Long Island Mentoring Community. 
 
The five honorees are:
 
Coordinator Category
 
Dr. Courtney Herbert
Assistant Principal
Frank J.Carasiti Elementary School (Rocky Point SD) 
 
Mrs. Jeanette Roberto
Program Coordinator
Marion Vedder Elementary School (North Babylon SD) 
 
Mentor Category
 
Mr. Donald Hayes
Volunteer Mentor
Davison Avenue Elementary School (Malverne SD) 
  
Mr. Michael Lyng
Volunteer Mentor
Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Long Island
  
Mr. Fred Skolnik
Volunteer Mentor
Walnut Street Elementary School (Uniondale SD)
 
The Mentoring Partnership has awarded each of the mentoring programs represented by these honorees with a cash stipend of $500. In addition, each of the five honorees will be added to the MPLI Mentoring Hall of Fame. 
 
This year we received so many outstanding nominations for the Mentoring Achievement Award. While we were unable to award stipends to each and every program represented by a nominee, MPLI did want to recognize the following individuals who like the five actual Mentoring Achivement Award winners will also be added to the Mentoring Hall of Fame on the Partnership's website. Congratulations to all of these Certificate of Merit awardees:
 
Ann Marie Anderson, Mentor, Brentwood North Middle School
 
Kiersten Carrieri, Mentor, Tremont Elementary School
 
Angela DeLessio, Mentor, Catholic Charities Regina Maternity Mentoring Program
 
Gregg Kelly, Mentor, Baldwin Senior High School
 
Beverly Lee-Wo, Mentor, EAC Chance to Advance Mentoring Program  
 
Jenette Bon, Coordinator,  EAC Chance to Advance Mentoring Program
 
Aghostino Fernandes, Coordinator, Brentwood Freshman Center
 
Susan Samaroo, Coordinator,  Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Long Island
 
Dorian Segure, Coordinator, ABG Shultz Middle School
 
Angela Staton, Coordinator, California Avenue School
 
Join Us on May 1 at Brooks Brothers
 
Don't miss our annual Benefit at Brooks Brothers at the Americana in Manhasset. This year's event will be held on Friday evening, May 1st and will honor OSI CEO Dr. Colin Goddard. Invitations were mailed in February.
 
If you have not already received an invitation, call our offices and we will get an invitation in the mail to you immediately or simply click on the highlighted link entitled  Invitation in the previous paragraph. It's a wonderful evening and a unique chance for many in our mentoring community on Long Island to celebrate and share. Hope to see you there.
Grant Opportunity Through IMentor
 
REMINDER  
 
IMentor Offers E-Mentoring Grant Opportunity
 
IMentor is offering a grant to make it's innovative e-mentoring system available to qualifying mentoring programs on Long Island. The IMentor grant is available only to mentoring programs serving High School age youth.   
 
The Mentoring Partnership of Long Island has vetted the IMentor system and it comes highly recommended as a way of strengthening mentoring programs and individual relationships within those programs. 
 
For more information about this pass through grant opportunity, simply visit the IMentor interactive blog and scroll down to the entry dated February 2nd which will direct you to the appropriate detailed information about the grant.
 
 

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