When you mix extreme gratitude with sadness, the taste is always described as bittersweet. Saying farewell to Mai-Anh Kapanke as she leaves MENTOR Minnesota (MMN) after 12 years is a bittersweet moment for all of us. Mai-Anh has accepted the role of Executive Director with The Sanneh Foundation (TSF)....
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Mentoring is a “go-to” strategy for improving the educational, career and life trajectories of youth, but a critical perspective is often missing. Can mentoring program researchers and practitioners be truly effective in meeting the needs of youth of color without critical discussions and theories informing that research and practice?...
The Mentoring Partnership of Minnesota is now MENTOR Minnesota! Dear Friends, It is with great excitement that the Mentoring Partnership of Minnesota announces our brand refresh to showcase how we have evolved as an organization over the past 22 years. The Mentoring Partnership of Minnesota is now doing business...
On Wednesday, September 21st, MPM hosted the 2016 Mentoring Caucus, this year’s take on our more traditional conference (inspired by the election season)! To kick it off, Eric Mahmoud, Founder and CEO of the Harvest Network of Schools, spoke about the importance of believing in youth as the key...
There is one big question going around the MPM office this week, “How is it the middle of August already?!” As your program thinks about the rest of 2016, keep in mind that all requests for the 2016 National Mentoring Resource Center training and technical assistance must be submitted...
The Mentoring Partnership of Minnesota (MPM) is in the middle of collecting The State of Mentoring in Minnesota survey results. If you have not signed up for the survey please do so on MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership which is managing the survey for MPM. It will be open...
The Mentoring Partnership of Minnesota was very active for such a short policy session! Our Executive Director, Mai-anh Kapanke, served as co-chair of the GradMN Policy committee this year. In that capacity we looked for policy that aligned with MPM’s goals of supporting Minnesota’s youth through graduation, of which mentoring (both formal and...
For many of you reading this blog post, you have had the great fortune of being in contact with Nicki Patnaude, Mentoring Partnership of Minnesota’s Development and Program Support Manager. Nicki brings a vibrant, lively spark to team MPM. She loves to meet and get to know our program...
For this month’s “Mentoring in the News”, we wanted to highlight one our Expert Partners that received quite a bit of coverage in the news recently. While I was up north visiting family the first weekend of March, I noticed that I was hearing Mentor Duluth’s name at the...