Six New Local Partners Join National Mentoring Month 2010

October 20, 2009: January 2010 will be the ninth annual National Mentoring Month (NMM) — a concentrated burst of national and local media activity combined with White House and Congressional involvement and extensive community outreach to institutionalize the nation's commitment to long-term mentoring.

National partners for NMM are the Harvard School of Public Health, MENTOR and the Corporation for National and Community Service.

To date, six organizations — Delaware Mentoring Council, Dime Child Foundation (Chicago), Indiana Mentoring Partnership, United Way Volunteer Center (St. Louis, MO), Volunteer Center of Southern Nevada (Las Vegas) and Oregon Mentors — have become new Lead Local Nonprofit Partners in promoting National Mentoring Month 2010. They are joining the other 39 organizations coast to coast as local NMM partners.

Lead Local Nonprofit Partners agree to build public awareness of NNM through activities such as distributing print and broadcast materials; recruit and refer potential mentors, using their network of mentoring programs community- or state-wide; and collect and track data on the effectiveness of the NMM campaign.

The theme for National Mentoring Month 2010, which includes the Martin Luther King, Jr., Day of Service January 18 and Thank Your Mentor Day™ January 21, will continue to be "Expand Your Universe. Mentor a Child."

For more information about Lead Local Nonprofit Partners or National Mentoring Month in general, contact Cathy Jenkins at cjenkins@mentoring.org.