#MentoringMonth Week 2 – Start Mentoring!

This week the theme is START MENTORING! Last week you learned about how effective and impactful mentoring is across our lives. This week is focused on signing up as many new mentors as possible: Try our mentor nomination form and nominate a friend or co-worker?

First things first: we need your help in amplifying #mentoringmonth to your volunteers, staff, and mentors. Here is a template email that your CEO, ED, or Volunteer Manager could send to your organization:
(PLEASE COPY, PASTE, and MODIFY THIS EMAIL TEMPLATE)

Dear [your agency mentors and employees here],
We are excited to let you know that we are promoting “#MentoringMonth” — a province-wide celebration and recruitment of mentors just like you in conjunction with the Alberta Mentoring Partnership
We wanted to let you know that we appreciate all that you do for our agency, and everyday you make a difference in the life of a young person in our community.
We also know that the number one source of new volunteers are the friends and family members of current and past mentors. As such, we wanted to ask that you nominate a friend or a family member (anywhere in Alberta) to become a mentor. (https://albertamentors.ca/mentoring-month/start-mentoring/nominate-a-mentor/)You can suggest that they volunteer at our agency, but there are lots of other featured partners looking for volunteers. Don’t worry. They will only receive one message letting them know that they were nominated.
We also wanted to let you know about all of the different resources, videos, documents, webinars, podcasts and much more posted on www.albertamentors.ca/mentoring-month — Check it out!
Happy #mentoringmonth! Your efforts change lives and we celebrate each of you as mentoring champions. Please flood social media with your powerful stories on “I am a mentor day” January 12th (#iamamentorday), January 17th International Mentoring Day (#MentoringMonth), and January 19th “Thank your mentor day” (#ThankYourMentor).
Sincerely,
Your Name here
Your agency here


During #mentoringmonth WEEK 2, START MENTORING WEEK we will be highlighting a number of resources:

  • January 9th our resource of the day is our FEATURED PARTNERS INDEX
  • January 10th learn about our free ONLINE MENTOR TRAINING
  • January 11th is our ONLINE MENTEE TRAINING
  • January 12th is our CORPORATE MENTORING TOOLKIT (how to convince an employer or 3rd party to support mentoring in your community)
  • January 13th is our AMP PODCAST
  • January 14th is our STRENGTHS BASED RESOURCES

Read the Mentoring Month Toolkit for a full overview plus all the details of our month-long campaign.

EVENTS THIS WEEK

Get ready for “I am a Mentor Day” (#ImaMentor #MentoringMonth) January 12th!

METRICS OF THE WEEK

Each week we will share with you our #MentoringMonth campaign metrics such as:

  • Last week we had 281 Page views.

HOW CAN YOU HELP

Subscribe, friend and tweet out all of our content this month. This is our one big push for the year so let’s make it count! Help AMPlify our voice in your local community and through your social media!
Host your own local mentoring month event and tell us about it
Share your own stories with us on social media, sign up as a featured partner, or nominate 5 friends as Mentors!

MENTORING CHAMPIONS

If you would like to be listed as a Mentoring Champion, please email your photo and a quote to mentoring.support@albertamentors.ca

Follow the AMP:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/AlbertaMentors
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Alberta-Mentoring-Partnership
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/albertamentors/
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1jzKjk121I6JjmvwOpPQow
MentoringMinute Podcast: https://albertamentors.ca/podcast