Member Agencies

Through Our Next Generation, mentors meet on-site with neighborhood youth ages 6-18 to focus on achieving academic success. Mentors work one-on-one with a given child, helping with homework, building a relationship, and participating in recreational activities.

Through the Each One Reach One Girls Program, girls ages 10-15 are exposed to the resources they need to achieve their personal goals for the future. The girls are encouraged and supported in assuming leadership roles such as serving in an elected office, starting a group, or initiating an activity in their school, church, or community. Female mentors provide their matches with advice on post-secondary education, career exposure, and job shadowing opportunities, in addition to serving as positive role models and caring adults.

Kinship volunteers work with youth ages 6-17 from single-parent homes. Mentors meet with their matches in the community to provide life-enriching experiences and support while serving as positive adult role models.

Mentors who volunteer with The Mentoring Connection work one-on-one with youth ages 4-15 who have an incarcerated parent. Mentors meet weekly with their matches in the community to assist in improving school attendance, academic performance, and self-esteem, all while having fun!

Milwaukee Youth Mentoring Network provides one-to-one mentoring for youth ages 7-16 who are at risk of dropping out of school. Mentors meet with their matches in the community and focus on enhancing educational motivation and achievement, improving self-esteem, and developing social skills.

One on One brings together caring adults and middle school students, ages 11-14, in a structured after-school mentoring program with an academic focus. Mentors and their students meet in a group setting for 1½ hours per week at supervised sites throughout the city. The program uses a specialized literacy curriculum called HOSTS to improve students' reading levels.

Volunteers with the Real Time Mentoring Program serve as mentors for foster children ages 16-18 who will soon exit the foster care system due to their age, a process otherwise known as "aging out of the system". Mentors provide youth with stable adult role models to support and guide them through their transitions into adulthood. The Real Time Mentoring Program is in collaboration with Homestead High School's Kids for Kids Program.

Mentors provide adult friends for group home and alternative school youth ages 6-17 without family resources. Mentors visit with their matches, help them with homework, and enjoy activities in the community with them.

Sponsor-A-Scholar mentors meet with academically motivated MPS high school students ages 14-18 who have the dream of attending college. Mentors provide personal and professional support within the community to help their students achieve their dreams.