National Mentoring Month

What is National Mentoring Month?

Each year the month of January is celebrated as the National Mentoring Month in the USA. It is an annual mentoring campaign nationwide dedicated to celebrating and elevating the mentoring movement. Participants in the National Mentoring Month campaign include leading nonprofit organizations and numerous governors and mayors who celebrate mentoring and the positive effect it can have on young lives. The goal is to raise awareness of mentoring in its various forms, recruit individuals to mentor, promote the rapid growth of mentoring by recruiting organizations to engage their constituents in mentoring, etc.

The history behind National Mentoring Month

Spearheaded by the Harvard School of Public Health, MENTOR, and the Corporation for National and Community Service, the National Mentoring Month was inaugurated in 2002. Since 2002, President George W. Bush of the USA has endorsed the campaign by proclaiming January as National Mentoring Month. The declaration has been endorsed by both chambers of the United States Congress.

How National Mentoring Month is practiced?

During the National Mentoring Month campaign, people are encouraged to contact their mentors directly to express appreciation, become a mentor in their own community, make a financial contribution to a local mentoring program, or post a tribute on WhoMentoredYou.org. A highlight of the campaign is Thank Your Mentor Day, in which Americans thank and honor their mentors.

In which countries is National Mentoring Month is practiced?

This is particularly practiced in the United States of America.

Want to practice National Mentoring Month?

Post a tribute on WhoMentoredYou.org