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- Category: The Stamford Mentoring Program
The Stamford Mentoring Program brings college and corporate volunteers into the Stamford Public Schools for weekly one-on-one mentoring sessions with students in grades six through nine. Mentors work through a grade-specific curriculum that focuses on four main objectives including: Goal Setting, Academic Engagement, Extracurricular Involvement, and College and Career Readiness.
For the 2011-2012 school year, the program has expanded to serve students at four schools in Stamford: Dolan Middle School, Cloonan Middle School, Domus Trailblazers Academy, and Stamford High School. Since its launch in February 2010, the Stamford Mentoring Program has demonstrated sustainability leading to the following results:
- 100% of the students set goals with their mentors
- 78% of the students achieved the goals they set with their mentor
- 64% of the students engaged in new positive after-school activities
- 89% of the students engaged in college discussions with their mentors
- 86% of the students researched a career with their mentor
- 65% of the students increased their GPA by the end of the school year
The Foundation recruits mentors from local colleges, universities, corporations and organizations, including UConn Stamford, Purdue Pharma, Norwalk Community College, NAACP, First Niagara, TD Bank, McLagan, and Nestle Waters. Funding partners include Pitney Bowes, Purdue Pharma, Peoples United Community Foundation, First Niagra Bank, United Way of Western Connecticut and New Alliance Bank.