Mentoring

http://www.ago.state.al.us/mentor/  The Alabama Attorney General's initiative for mentoring in Alabama public schools.

http://www.mentoring.org/  A philanthropic venture started by some successful businessmen, Geoffrey T. Boisi and Raymond G. Chambers, in 1990.  Mentor Alabama is affiliated with this group.  Lots of advice and theory for the "hows" and "why's" of making mentoring work.

http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/chc/wmy2006/index.html  Very interesting site featuring the tributes given by notable celebrities to their most memorable mentor in their early years.

http://www.mentoringgroup.com/home.html  This is a commercial site with products to sell, but it contains very useful articles on mentoring that would be helpful to those of us who will be "amateur" mentors, learning as we go.

http://www.usdreamacademy.org/2002/main.asp  This program was set up initially to help the children who have a parent in prison.  It provides information that is translatable to all at-risk kids and the help they can get from caring adults.

e-Mentoring

http://www.imentor.org/  A New York City  program to reach out to at-risk kids via the Internet.  A perfect match to the goals we are trying to set.

http://www.telementor.org/  A  commercial site which will set up e-mentoring situations for high schools, colleges, and industry.  Developed by one of Buck Locke's colleagues at Hewlett-Packard when he saw the benefits of H-P's program to e-mentor engineering students around the country with H-P engineers.  Good testimonial!

http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/grants/us/programs/tech_teaching/index.html  This H-P website page introduces the grants that are given to schools by Hewlett-Packard for developing mobile technology for teaching.  At first glance, this doesn't seem to be applicable, but Buck, who sits on the committee that gives these grants, says that he has spoken with the company and they would be receptive to grant proposals such as e-mentoring.

http://www.wade.org/e-mentoring.htm  This little article, on a poignant website devoted to the memory of a bright young student who died prematurely, tells of a single school system's program supported by the memorial trust fund.  In this program, any student in middle or high school may contact adults in the workplace to learn about careers and job descriptions. This might be the basis for a similar project that we could support by our contributions to the Class of 1956 Fund in the Sheffield Education Foundation.

http://connections.coe.neu.edu/ementor/moreinfo.html  This is an introduction to the e-mentoring program at Northeastern University in Boston, MA, a program that was started with seed money from the Hewlett Packard Diversity Intensification Initiative.

http://www.nwrel.org/mentoring/panel9.html  A website which presents a sorta' tutorial on the promises of telementoring/e-mentoring for a company that offers e-mentoring set-up services to schools and organizations.  Lots of documents and information on "face-to-face" mentoring as well as e-mentoring in their "Web Resources" link.

http://www.cceconptnr.org/e-Mentoring/index.htm  A website sposored by a California local economic development agency which has sponsored a program to improve the academic performance of high school students by allowing them to have Internet-based contact with health professionals.  A good example of a well-organized program of recruitment and training of mentors via the Web.