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Collective Impact

Collective Impact
By: Whitney Mastin Midlands Mentoring Partnership (MMP) is a collective impact organization that works in cooperation with mentoring programs serving the Omaha metropolitan area.  According to John Kania & Mark Kramer in an article titled Collective Impact, published in the Stanford Social Innovation Review in 2011, “successful Collective Impact initiatives typically have five conditions that…
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2014 Advocate of the Year

2014 Advocate of the Year
Midlands Mentoring Partnership is excited to announce our 2014 Mentor Advocate of the Year, Mutual of Omaha and Mutual of Omaha Foundation, nominated by Youth Emergency Services (YES). According to MMP Executive Director, Deborah Neary, “the Advocate of the Year award honors a business or organization that is committed to helping young people achieve their…
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Midlands Mentor Partnership Announces 2014 Mentor of the Year

Midlands Mentor Partnership Announces 2014 Mentor of the Year
Midlands Mentoring Partnership is excited to announce our 2014 Mentor of the Year: Dakotah Taylor, a mentor with Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Midlands. According to MMP Executive Director, Deborah Neary, “the Mentor of the Year award honors individuals that are committed to helping young people achieve their potential through mentoring. In bestowing this…
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metroMAGAZINE: National Mentoring Month

metroMAGAZINE: National Mentoring Month
Thank you to metroMAGAZINE for highlighting National Mentoring Month and the 5th Annual Mentoring Summit & Youth Development Luncheon. Midlands Mentoring Partnership appreciates the support Omaha gives to quality mentoring efforts. View the 16 page metroMAGAZINE mentoring-focused pull-out here!
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National Mentoring Month with Focus on Quality Mentoring

National Mentoring Month with Focus on Quality Mentoring
Seeing a child’s face light up with excitement, listening to a teen express feelings, laughing while playing a board game, or discussing future academic goals may all be shining moments of a mentoring relationship, but quality, successful matches do not happen with the wave of a magic wand. Midlands Mentoring Partnership (MMP) exists to ensure…
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KETV Features Youth Mentored throughout Foster Care

KETV Features Youth Mentored throughout Foster Care
Midlands Mentoring Partnership supports quality mentoring programs focusing on many different special populations of youth. One such focus is youth in foster care, and MMP is happy to announce the effort's of Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Midlands' new initiative to serve more youth in foster care. Awarded with a grant from MMP, Big Brothers…
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MIDLANDS MENTORING PARTNERSHIP WELCOMES NEW PARTNER MEMBER PROGRAM

By Whitney Mastin In November 2013, Midlands Mentoring Partnership (MMP) welcomed Joslyn Art Museum’s Kent Bellows Mentoring Program as its newest Partner Member.  MMP is thrilled to have this unique, arts-focused mentoring program as a member. The MMP membership process can take a number of months.  In order to become a Partner Member of MMP,…
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MMP 5th Annual Youth Development Summit and Awards Luncheon

March 19, 2014 - March 19, 2014 455 North 10th St Map and Directions | Register Description: Midlands Mentoring Partnership (MMP), in collaboration with the Metro Omaha Educational Consortium, the Buffett Early Childhood Institute and the Iowa Mentoring Partnership, will host the 5th Annual Midlands Mentoring Partnership Summit and Youth Development Luncheon on Wednesday, March…
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