Friends for Youth, Inc.
1741 Broadway, first floor
Redwood City, CA 94063
Telephone:
650-482-2867
Fax: 650-368-4475
Website: www.friendsforyouth.org
Contact: Jonathan Cowgill
E-mail: mentor@friendsforyouth.org
Since 1979, Friends for Youth has been dedicated to supporting youth-in-need through quality mentoring by creating
and cultivating friendships with adult volunteers, providing opportunities for enrichment and growth, and focusing on ways
to help youth achieve their potential.
Program type: Community-based
Mentoring focus: Social-emotional support
Mentoring ratio: 1:1 mentoring
Mentee ages: 8 - 17
Mentee genders: male and female
Time commitment: 2 hours
per week
Length of commitment: 12 months |
Spark
251 Rhode Island
St. Suite 205 San Francisco, CA 94103 Telephone: 415-626-5470
Fax: 415-354-8491
Website: www.sparkprogram.org
Contact: Nathalie Wade
E-mail: nwade@sparkprogram.org
Spark is a youth empowerment program engaging students with apprenticeships, interactive field trips, and personal
development. Spark's mission is to inspire middle-school youth to pursue their interests, create bonds with their communities,
and develop a lifelong interest in learning. We are always looking for volunteer mentors to work with students as Apprentice
Teachers, opening their workplace to students who dream of working in their profession. Spark is offered as both a full-day
summer program and a twice-weekly after-school program for middle-school youth in Redwood City and San Francisco.
Program type: Community-based
Mentoring focus: Career development
Mentoring ratio: 1:1 mentoring
Mentee ages:
12 - 13 (7th and 8th grades)
Mentee genders: male and female
Time commitment: 2 hours per week in fall and spring;
6 hours per week in summer
Length of commitment: 4 weeks in summer; 10 weeks in fall and spring |
Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Bay Area
731 Market Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
Telephone: 925-918-2657
Fax: 415-495-5704
Website: www.bbbsba.org
Contact: Dolores Santa Cruz
E-mail: dsantacruz@bbbsba.org
Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Bay Area helps build responsible, independent children and youth by matching each
with a supportive and caring adult role model. Our mission is to help children reach their potential through professionally
supported, one-to-one relationships that provide measurable impact.
Program Type: Community-based; school-based,
site-based
Mentoring focus: Social-emotional support
Mentoring ratio: 1:1 mentoring
Mentee ages: 6 - 18
Mentee genders: male and female
Time commitment: 4 - 12 hours per month
Length of commitment: 12 months
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Children's Empowerment, Inc. Mentoring
480 Collins Ave., Suite J
Colma, CA 91014
Telephone: 650-994-4200
Fax: 650-994-6798
Website: www.ceisf.org
Contact: Spencer Holeman
E-mail: sh@ceisf.org
Children's Empowerment, Inc.'s goal is to empower all students, regardless of income level or ethnicity, to succeed
in secondary education and continue on to higher education.
Program Type: School-based
Mentoring focus: Tutoring/academic
Mentoring ratio: 1:1 mentoring
Mentee ages: 12 - 14
Mentee genders: male and female
Time commitment: 1 hour
per week
Length of commitment: 12 months
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Building Futures Mentoring Program Urban Services YMCA
1426 Fillmore
St., Suite 204
San Francisco, CA 94115
Telephone: 415-561-0631x102 E-mail: nwightman@ymcasf.org
The Building Future mission is to help at-risk youth
overcome personal, social, and family challenges through a positive adult-child relationship. Building Futures offers 1-to-1
mentoring to at-risk youth in San Francisco/Marin/San Mateo/Alameda counties. We help children develop tools to cope with
issues such as low self-esteem, family and peer conflicts, academic underachievement, and decision-making skills. We are
unique in that we provide a 15-hour paraprofessional training to all mentors before matching, which prepares them to work
successfully with at-risk youth by developing relationship-building skills, exploring issues facing at-risk youth, and strategies
to handle difficult situations. Thorough ongoing support is provided by the coordinator who is a Marriage and Family Therapist
Intern. Program
Type: Community-based
Mentoring focus: Social-emotional support; Tutoring/academic; Sports/recreation
Mentoring ratio: 1:1 mentoring
Mentee ages: 6 - 18
Mentee
genders: male and female
Time commitment: 1 - 3 hours per week
Length of commitment: 12 months |
BUILD
2176 Bayshore
Palo Alto, CA 94303
Telephone: (510) 629-6939 Fax: (510) 271-7944
Website: www.build.org
Contact: Sarah Snyder E-mail: ssnyder@build.org
BUILD is an innovative four-year business development program which connects under-resourced high school students
with adult mentors and professionals around the Bay Area. Our mission is to provide real-world entrepreneurial experience
that empowers youth from backgrounds that are under-represented in college to excel in education, lead in their communities,
and succeed professionally. To date, 100% of BUILD graduates have been accepted to college. Program Type: School-based,
site-based
Mentoring focus: Career development
Mentoring ratio: Team mentoring (2 mentors:3-5 mentees)
Mentee ages: 14 - 18
Mentee genders: male and female
Time commitment: 1.5 hours per week (3:30 - 5:00 pm or 5:30 - 7:00 pm) Length of commitment:
9 or 11 months
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Boys
& Girls Clubs of the Peninsula
BGCP Be Great Graduate and Mentoring
Program
401 Pierce Road
Menlo Park, CA 94025
Telephone: 650-646-6131 Fax: 650-322-9042
Website: www.bgcp.org
Contact: Paitra Sharp
The Boys & Girls Clubs of the Peninsula Be Great Graduate and Mentoring Program is based on
our philosophy of guiding and inspiring the youth of our communities to develop the attitudes and life skills they need to
thrive. Program Type: School-based, Site-based
Mentoring focus: Relationship, Tutoring/academic,
Career development, Sports/recreation
Mentoring
ratio: 1:1 mentoring (1 mentor for every 1 mentee)
Mentee ages: 10 - 18
Mentee genders: male and female
Time commitment: 1 hour per week
Length of commitment: 12 months |
Jeremiah's Promise, Inc.
PO Box 1393
Palo
Alto, CA 94302
Telephone: (650) 967-1047
We train, equip, and supervise adults who mentor foster youth, ages 17-24, in the areas of decision
making, academic support, and career guidance. In essence, we "love, challenge, and equip foster youth for a better future!"
Program
Type: Community-based
Mentoring focus: Social-emotional support, tutoring/academic, career development, sports/recreation
Mentoring ratio: 1:1 mentoring
Mentee ages: 17 - 24
Mentee genders: male and female
Time commitment: 1 hour
per week
Length of commitment: 12 months or longer |
Mixed
Roots Foundation
Adoptee Mentor Program (AMP)
795 Folsom St., 1st Floor
San Francisco, CA 94107
Telephone: 800-659-6958 The Mixed Roots Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization and is the first and only global
multicultural adoptee-led foundation (all board members are adopted) that cross-sects the international, domestic, and foster
care adoption experience. Our mission is to promote and support organizations that serve as a resource to the adoptee community,
create more awareness of the adoption experience, and inspire the next generation of adoptees to become leaders in the community.
For the past four years, the Adoptee Mentor Program (AMP),
Mixed Roots charter program, matches youth who are adopted with adult adoptee mentors that serve as positive role models that
promote cultural understanding and acceptance of being adopted as well as participate in educational and multicultural program
events and activities. Program
Type: Community-based
Mentoring focus: Relationship, Tutoring/academic, Career development
Mentoring ratio: 1:1 mentoring (1 mentor for every 1 mentee)
Mentee ages: 7 - 17
Mentee genders: male and female
Time commitment: 2 - 4 contacts per month
Length
of commitment: 12 months |
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