What is MentorPlace?

MentorPlace is a volunteer program that brings adult
professionals and students together in online relationships

focused on academics. Employee-volunteers are
   charged with providing students with academic
     assistance and career counseling, while letting
       them know that adults do care about their
          issues and concerns.

            The program was designed and piloted by
              the IBM Corporation as part of its global
              community relations program. Ed Reach,
             a nonprofit organization committed to
            expanding quality online mentoring programs
          around the world, has developed the unique
        software that is being used by MentorPlace
   programs around the world. This work is part of
   their greater work as the leading provider of school-safe email and collaborative technology.

Above all else, MentorPlace depends upon people: committed employee volunteers, teachers and students.

Participants are required to:

Have access to technology;
Participate in comprehensive program and technology training;
Communicate online at least once a week with each other;
Meet each other in person (where possible) at a structured orientation to kick-off the program and at an end-of-the-school year celebration;
Complete evaluation forms about the value of their experience
in the program; and
Adhere to all safety and security rules and regulations of the program.