Mentorship Programs:
Resources in this category feature youth mentorship programs and networks from around the world. These programs offer a range of services and support to young people – from school to career transitions, to closing the mentorship gap and driving equity through quality mentoring relationships, to support for young women in business, and more. The YouthLead team is actively seeking information about programs from around the world to share with our network. If you are a young changemaker who has been a part of a local, regional or global mentorship program or network that you would like to recommend to YouthLead, please fill out this form.
- Global Mentorship Initiative - A non-profit organization that provides guidance and business skills to underserved college students through a structured, short-term, online mentorship.
- MENTOR - This platform aims to close the mentoring gap and drive equity through quality mentoring relationships for young people. They are connecting and fueling opportunities for young people everywhere they are from schools to workplaces and beyond.
- African Changemakers Mentorship Program
- C40 Women4Climate Mentorship Programme - C40 contributes to the emergence of the next generation of climate leaders by having mentors share their knowledge and experiences, supporting the mentees to become powerful leaders in their chosen field, including politics, NGOs, business, media, and community groups.
- MicroMentor - A program of Mercy Corps, MicroMentor's online business mentoring program enables the world's largest community of purpose-driven entrepreneurs and business mentors to create powerful connections, solve problems, and build successful businesses together. The program strives to overcome geographical limitations and deliver business resources at scale to underserved communities around the globe through mentoring.
- Cherie Blair Foundation Mentorship Women in Business - The Cherie Blair Foundation for Women’s flagship Mentoring Women in Business programme was born from the belief in the power of mentoring, a realisation of the role technology can play in building connections, and a view that community is a powerful force for change. By forging these elements together, we created a new way to support women entrepreneurs around the world to grow and strengthen their businesses and build their skills, confidence and knowledge.
- Global Changemakers - Becoming a Changemaker is a mentorship programme for 15-22 year olds designed to help you fulfill your potential and create the change you wish to see. As a participant in the programme, you will be paired with a mentor who is an experienced changemaker and who will guide you through our carefully designed five-part mentorship journey.
- The UN Secretariat’s award-winning Together Mentoring Program - Together Mentoring enables staff of all levels and backgrounds to connect and learn from each other. Whether you’re feeling stuck or content in your current position, a mentoring relationship can help you grow. Both mentors and mentees get the chance to reflect on their choices, sources of satisfaction and how to move forward.
- Mentor Everywhere - Mentor Everywhere is a professional mentoring program developed by Automattic, the makers of WordPress.com. Their website provides a great resource for a model program including: sample mentoring agreement, code of conduct, and best practices.
- SAYes Mentoring - SAYes Mentoring wants to end social poverty by helping individuals, business teams, educational institutions and community groups to “do good better”. If you think like them, then meaningful and effective social change is something that you want to do, both for your community and for yourself. Their promise is to support that interest by offering you an authentic, personalised and professionally supported mentorship experience with a young person.
- Mentor Arabia - Mentor Arabia is a regional non-governmental organization aiming at empowering children and youth to lead healthy lives and make sound decisions.