Tag: Iowa Mentoring Partnership
January Is Iowa Mentoring Month
A Proclamation: Whereas, Iowans serving from all walks of life as mentors to youth across the state has given their time, talents and energy to improve the lives of all youth; and Whereas, Children and youth in mentoring programs greatly benefit from the guidance mentors offer; these programs help raise grades, self-confidence, motivation and school [...]
Iowa Beats Nebraska (In Mentor Recruitment), Mentoring Gap Closed
Gov. Branstad, Lt. Gov. Reynolds, along with the Iowa Commission on Volunteer Service, today announced the closure of the mentoring gap in the state of Iowa. The end of the estimated “mentoring gap” is a result of the “Coaches’ Mentoring Challenge,” an Iowa Mentoring Partnership initiative led by University of Iowa football coach Kirk Ferentz [...]
Iowa Ranks 4th in the Nation for Mentoring
Via the Iowa Mentoring Partnership: For the second year in a row, Iowa has achieved the second-highest volunteer rate in the country with 37.9 percent of Iowans devoting time to help others in 2010. Iowans devoted a total of 93.4 million hours to volunteering in 2010 and provided more than $2 billion in services to [...]
Melanie Beath to Become SOY’s 4th Executive Director
We would like to announce that Melanie Beath has been selected by our board to be our next executive director taking the reigns from Bernie Van Roekel who is retiring on September 30th. Melanie is currently the executive director of Heart of Iowa Big Brothers/Big Sisters in Marshalltown, IA, a position she has held since [...]
