April 4, 2025
84 company firms have been acknowledged by MENTOR, a nationwide nonprofit that leads, expands, and strengthens the mentoring motion, constructing capability to make high-quality relationships accessible to all younger individuals as honorees of the 2025 Nationwide Company Mentoring Honor Roll.
This yr’s class contains lengthy standing companions of MENTOR like Financial institution of America, Constancy Investments, and The Starbucks Basis who’ve affirmed their dedication to fostering mentoring alternatives and relationships inside their firms and invested within the mentoring motion.
“At MENTOR, we’re pleased with the work and intentionality of this yr’s Nationwide Company Mentoring Honor Roll class. This group of trade leaders has prioritized and aligned their human sources and capital to attach and assist younger individuals and the communities they serve; it’s making an affect – stronger relationships and higher alternatives for extra individuals,” MENTOR CEO Jermaine Myrie mentioned.
Annually the Nationwide Company Mentoring Honor Roll acknowledges excellent for-profit firms throughout america that assist the youth mentoring subject in a wide range of methods. Launched in partnership with former First Girl Michelle Obama in 2011, the Nationwide Company Honor Roll first started by difficult company firms to assist their staff to turn out to be volunteer youth mentors.
All firms named to this yr’s record are repeats from the 2024 Nationwide Company Mentoring Honor Roll class alluding to the long-term progress firms are working to construct to create a tradition of holistic mentoring relationships inside the office.
MENTOR has continued to prioritize constructing relationship-centered workplaces which have impacted office tradition helping with increased worker satisfaction, serving to to construct on worker’s sense of significant work thus serving to company firms to have a long-lasting affect within the communities the place they work and serve.
To be eligible for the Nationwide Company Mentoring Honor Roll offered yearly by MENTOR, firms should assist high-quality mentoring in at the very least one core means. Most notably this contains supporting native mentoring packages and initiatives, partnering with MENTOR for technical help and mentorship coaching and/or by instituting an inner high-quality mentoring packages of their respective firm.
Since MENTOR’s Honor Roll’s inception, company engagement in youth mentoring has grown steadily over time as have alternatives for mentorship more and more for youth from beneath resourced-backgrounds inside the office. MENTOR analysis has additionally linked a rise in job retention and an total enhance in constructing a teenager’s community with professionals.
MENTOR additionally offers assist to company firms trying to interact in mentoring. To be taught extra please make the most of our Office Complement to the Components of Efficient Observe for Mentoring useful resource which features a useful guidelines.
About MENTOR: MENTOR leads, expands, and strengthens the mentoring motion, constructing capability to make high-quality relationships accessible to all younger individuals. 35 years in the past, MENTOR was created to increase alternatives for younger individuals by constructing a youth mentoring subject and motion. The outcome: a greater than 10-fold enhance in younger individuals in structured mentoring relationships. Right this moment, MENTOR is the first useful resource and skilled for the youth mentoring subject, representing a motion that meets younger individuals in every single place they’re – from colleges, to workplaces, and past. MENTOR operates in collaboration with 25 native Associates throughout the nation.