Title: MMP Book Club: Leap of Reason Location: Urban Abbey Coffee Shop, 1026 Jackson Street, Omaha, NE Link out: Click here Description: MMP Book Club meetings will be held every month focusing on a particular book that contributes towards the mission of MMP and other organizations with similar cause. The club will discuss " Leap…
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MMP Book Club: How Children Succeed
Title: MMP Book Club: How Children Succeed Location: Urban Abbey Coffee Shop, 1026 Jackson Street, Omaha, NE Link out: Click here Description: MMP Book Club meetings will be held every month focusing on a particular book that contributes towards the mission of MMP and other organizations with similar cause. The club will discuss " How…
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Webinar: How to Recruit Male Mentors
Title: Men in Mentoring: Mentor Michigan's Recruitment Toolkit Location: Webinar To Register: click here Date: Thursday, July 18th, 2013, 12:00 - 1:15 CST Description: Recruiting male mentors is one of the biggest challenges programs report: the majority of mentors are female while the majority of youth in need of a mentor are male. Programs have learned that traditional recruitment…
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Collaborative Webinar Series: June 2013
Topic: Ensuring Program Sustainability Date: Thursday, June 20, 2013 Location: Web To register: Click here Description: This webinar will focus on strategies to ensure sustainability of your mentoring program, highlight the role of your Board of Directors and key stakeholders in the fund development process and offer ideas for developing positive relationships with corporations, foundations and other…
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EEP Training Updates
Over 20 staff from regional mentoring programs joined MMP for a day long training on the Elements of Effective Practice for Mentoring.
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The ABC of peer mentoring – what secondary students have to say about cross-age peer mentoring
Cross-age peer mentoring is a community-based model that utilizes peer relationships in order to promote positive youth development. In order to maintain a greater degree of power imbalance than typical of a friendship there is a minimum of a 2 year age difference between the mentor and mentee, this allows the older youth to help…
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2013 Collaborative Mentoring Webinar Series
The monthly series features webinars focused on sharing ideas for mentoring practice, mentoring research "round-ups," and highlights of innovation in the mentoring field. Date: Third Thursday of every month. Time: 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm CST (1:00 pm - 2:15 pm EST, 11:00 am - 12:15 pm MST, 10:00 am - 11:15 am PST) Location: Online Cost: Free https://www.mpmn.org/Training/MPMTRAINING/WebinarSeries.aspx…
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Special Bonds: Big Brothers Big Sisters relationships remain intact, even after years
Midlands Daily News featured a story on a 40 years long mentoring relationship matched by Big Brothers Big Sisters. Please click here to read the full story.
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Free Exhibit at Joslyn!
Title: Free Exhibit at Joslyn! Location: Joslyn Art Museum, 24th & Dodge, Omaha NE Link out: Click here for more information Description: Free opportunity for mentors and mentees to participate in a unique and inspiring activity at Joslyn Art Museum on Thursday, April 11th. Additionally, the attendees will have an opportunity to participate in the following…
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KETV Chronicle: Mentoring
KETV dedicated March 3rd Sunday Chronicle towards raising Mentoring Awareness and Opportunities in the Greater Omaha area. The chronicle featured mentoring stories along with an interview with Deborah Neary, Executive Director of MMP, and Willie Barney, President of Empowerment Network. Please click here to view the full story on KETV's website.
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