“Mentoring is one of the most rewarding volunteer roles and, ideally, involves an enduring commitment to a personal relationship. During such a relationship, both mentors and young people experience many benefits. Together, they achieve realistic short-term goals that address the larger, more complex problems a young person faces”-National Mentoring Partnership.

What is “Virtual Mentoring”?

Virtual volunteering means volunteer tasks completed, in whole or in part, via the Internet and a home or work computer. E-mentoring shares the goal of face-to-face mentoring: establishing a trusting, nurturing, positive relationship between the mentor and a young person.

The Virtual Mentoring Program (VMP) is an extension of our Academic Mentoring Program. College Bound students who matriculate into a college or university are eligible for continued support through the Virtual Mentoring Program. College Bound alumni are assigned a “virtual mentor” who will serve as a resource for students while in their first year of college, supporting a fluid transition and subsequently until graduation from college.