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45 people are interested
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ORGANIZATION: The Mentoring Project
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45 people are interested

Join us as a volunteer mentor to help struggling, low-income college students find success!! Apply at: www.mentoringproject.org. Mentors can provide short-term career information or longer term guidance overcoming obstacles to graduation.
The Mentoring Project is a new e-mentoring program partnering with Seattle Colleges to support struggling college students. Join a small team of dedicated mentors who have these essential qualities:
- Non-judgmental and accepting of differences.
- Reliable, consistent and punctual.
- Good listening and communication skills.
- Ability to take apart complex problems and identify solutions and strategies.
- Degree from a college, university or certificate or training program.
- Willing to share expertise about one’s own career or academic path if and when relevant.
Preferred qualities and experience might include having struggled to stay in college, first-generation in family to attend college, bi-lingual and/or having identified as a part of a minority group while attending college or university. Please meet some of our current mentors and find the application at www.mentoringproject.org. Overall time commitment is about one hour a week with your student and two hours a month for training and chat group with other mentors.
Mentors:
- Commit to working with your student(s) for at least one academic term; or if just for career mentoring typically 1-3 sessions.
- Check-in weekly with the student by email, text, Zoom or other electronic methods.
- Respect the student for "who they are" and strive to better understand and appreciate the student’s background in regard to race, religion, culture or economic circumstances or other differences.
- Listen to student's needs, serve as a resource about campus and community support and services, encourage your student to believe in their own capacity to succeed and check-in on their progress seeking out and implementing solutions to obstacles.
Specifically, mentors:
- Assist your student each academic term to complete or update:
- Determine specific goals to serve as benchmarks for measuring progress, such as:
- Registration for the next term.
- Establish an academic plan, as necessary.
- Submit financial aid applications.
- Engage in campus activities and programs.
- Determine specific goals to serve as benchmarks for measuring progress, such as:
- Identify barriers and establish top goals.
- Provide information and resources about campus and community services.
- Encourage self-advocacy & determination skills.
- Follow-up.
As part of The Mentoring Project Mentor Team, you agree to:
- Attend an on-boarding session and one monthly (one-hour) discussion group with other mentors to review and share information and experiences.
- Submit a brief electronic monthly progress report.
- Consult program coordinator as needed to seek advice or should problems arise.
- Maintain student’s confidentiality.
More opportunities with The Mentoring Project
No additional volunteer opportunities at this time.
About The Mentoring Project
Location:
1500 Harvard Ave., Seattle, WA 98122, US
Mission Statement
The Mentoring Project pairs trained community volunteer mentors with adult low-income students to provide guidance as they navigate their path to postsecondary degree or certificate completion. The 1:1 relationship, conducted on-line, aims to create stability for the student through regular check-ins, good listening and supporting the student’s belief in their capacity to problem solve.
Description
The Mentoring Project is a new program, in partnership with the Seattle Colleges, aimed at improving retention of low-income students. Currently, over half of all students starting at the Seattle Colleges (North, South & Central) will not complete their degree or certificate. Mentors will connect virtually (e.g. by text, email or video conferencing like Zoom) with their mentee once a week to provide support and encouragement to overcome obstacles to degree completion such as food insecurity, lack of funding and confusion about academic direction. This is a great opportunity to do rewarding volunteer work without a huge time commitment- here are some bonuses: Monthly mentor trainings will feature experts in the field who will share their student affairs knowledge and engage in discussion. Topics will include how to advise students about:
- Financial aid, grants and college affordability.
- Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.
- Leveraging campus activities and services.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
This is a Virtual Opportunity with no fixed address.
DATE POSTED
February 3, 2025
SKILLS
- Mentoring
- Life Coaching
- Critical Thinking
- People Skills
- Problem Solving
- Project Management
GOOD FOR
N/A
REQUIREMENTS
- Background Check
- Must be at least 21
- Orientation or Training
- A weekly check-in with a student for an academic term or shorter-term career mentoring for 1-3 sessions. One-hour monthly mentor-peer chat group. Always scheduled from 7:00-8:00pm (Pacific Coast Time) on a Tuesday evening.