Program Listings Click on each county button link above to find mentoring programs in your area. Contact programs directly for questions or to inquire about volunteering. We encourage you to research each program thoroughly. Bay Area Mentoring neither endorses nor certifies the programs listed.   Being a mentor is a rewarding experience -- start today!

Terminology Type of program "Community-based" means mentors and mentees meet on their own time out in the community "School-based" and "site-based" indicate that mentors and mentees meet primarily or exclusively at a particular site and at a particular time. Focus of Program Relationship means that programs focus on building relationships between youth and volunteers. Tutoring/academic means that the program is academically focused. Mentoring ratio Group mentoring means that one mentor meets with a group of mentees or youth. Team mentoring means that one or more mentor(s) meet with a group of youth. 1:1 means that one mentor meets with one mentee. Time Commitment/Length of Commitment We encourage prospective mentors to think about what kind of time commitment they are ready to make. Choose a program whose time commitment you are comfortable with. At the same time, remember that longer mentoring relationships can make longer-term impacts!

If you live outside of the Bay Area, visit www.mentoring.org to search the MENTOR/National Mentoring Partnership's database of organizations throughout the country