See http://t.co/f93u23MXkn & http://t.co/qwGpSAfY19- we are a Mentor Engagement Campaign closing the gap between youth needing mentors and caring adults.
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MPM Board Member Jim Scheibel in MinnPost: Let's work together on improving Minnesota education - http://bit.ly/91bCH5
MEN: Please take this survey - http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/R7FXSYR. Results will be used to better recruit male mentors.
24 hrs to give to MPM's Strive for Five campaign for mentoring programs! Give just $5, you might win a Mauer baseball! http://bit.ly/c6hKeX
Strive for 5! We need $5 from YOU to help raise money for MN mentoring programs who want to improve program practices! http://bit.ly/c6hKeX
The next donor to give to our Strive for Five campaign for mentoring programs wins a $20 gift card to Landmark Theatres http://bit.ly/c6hKeX
MPM needs your help-we need 2428 more people to give just $5 to meet our goal of raising $12,500 for mentoring programs http://bit.ly/c6hKeX
Strive for Five! Please consider giving just $5, and ask your network to do the same. Plus win a Mauer-signed baseball! http://bit.ly/c6hKeX
Announcing Strive for Five: MPM's campaign to raise money for MN mentoring orgs committed to quality practices. http://bit.ly/c6hKeX
Read about the "Waiting for 'Superman'" buzz (Guggenheim documentary about American public ed system problems): http://bit.ly/aJGIck
"We Want You Back:" Mayor Rybak, Brother Ali, Slug, Superintendent Johnson, All Want Youth Back in School - http://bit.ly/ba0wVc
Find learning opportunities (including STEM-related ones) for youth in this great resource from the U of M: www.k12.umn.edu.
With help from engineering mentors, MN high schoolers place 3rd in Real World Design Challenge - congrats! http://bit.ly/bkIjmk
A projected 30% of all US kids will be immigrants/children of immigrants by 2015. Train for the mentoring implications. http://bit.ly/a4J42I
2010 Summer Institute on Youth Mentoring will explore technology's influence on mentoring relationships & programs - http://bit.ly/cSfGFS
John Hopkins University and Washington University studies find tutoring has positive health impact on the mentors, too- http://bit.ly/cxH8EH
U of MN students act as role models for FIRST Robotics to encourage STEM education: http://bit.ly/bxRZDb
Obama extends Child Safety Pilot, SafetyNET, which lets mentoring programs inexpensively run federal background checks: http://bit.ly/bsWmXP
Best Buy @15 is offering $1million in scholarships for college-bound high schoolers - http://bit.ly/783fHO.