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The Florida Mentoring Online Toolkit has been developed to assist local mentoring programs and leaders to have ready made ideas and ways to improve your local schools, and students’ lives through mentoring. This toolkit is available only online as it is focused on bringing the newest and brightest ideas forward.
Encourage your local leaders to be CHAMPIONS for MENTORING
There is nothing more important to the success of mentoring than getting leaders involved. Great mentors are naturally great leaders and we’ve got some super examples. Take Mayor Rick Baker of St. Petersburg. He’s our statewide Chair of the Municipal Mentoring Initiative (For a full list of cities involved, click here) and his mentoring effort is a full partnership between the city and the school system. His mentoring effort endorses the best mentoring programs in the city, raises funds for scholarships for mentored students, gives out local awards, and is a key ingredient in ensuring that the city is seen as an advocate for children and their local educational system. We think Rick has got a great idea. Learn more at: http://www.stpete.org/mentors.htm
One of the most tried and true methods we know of to encourage local business leaders to get involved is our Corporate Honor Roll program. This program honors those businesses that formulate a written policy to encourage mentoring. And, for those CEO’s, like JM Family Toyota’s Pat Moran, who mentor themselves, they can join the prestigious A-plus Corporate Honor Roll, available only to companies whose CEO or Chairman serves as an active mentor. If you’d like to encourage your local rotary, chamber, or your own business to get involved, see our brand new Corporate Honor Roll site where you can sign up to support mentoring.
Click here for the Corporate Honor Roll listing
And, talking about leaders who are mentors, we know, from experience that a Mentoring Advocacy Council can have a huge impact on local mentoring programs. Invite local leaders to be a part of your advocacy council. Think big. This council should support all types of mentoring in your community. We think our Mentoring Advocacy Council has been really innovative, but we’d also love to hear about yours.
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