January 22, 2025
Press Launch, Nationwide Mentoring Summit
Annually MENTOR, a nationwide nonprofit that fuels high-quality relationship-centered practices for younger individuals, acknowledges mentoring leaders from across the nation that go above and past to positively influence the lives of younger individuals in the course of the annual Excellence in Mentoring Awards presentation.
After one other file setting yr of nominations, this yr’s honorees embrace seven people which have created a profound influence on this planet of mentoring.
“Making a distinction isn’t assigned to at least one sort of particular person, group, or occupation. It’s a common calling. And, with this yr’s group of EIM winners, we see individuals from all walks of life answering the decision – a name to mentor, a name to make a distinction within the lives of these seen and unseen. We congratulate and uplift this yr’s EIM honorees for working of their respective communities every day to create wholesome mentoring relationships that energy alternatives for all,” MENTOR CEO Jermaine Myrie stated.
This yr’s recipients are:
Company Youth Management honoree: Alex Saadé, Enterprise Analyst, Deloitte
- Alex Saadé was chosen as simply considered one of three fellows from throughout the nation named to the distinguished Metropolis 12 months and Deloitte Fellows Program. Throughout his tenure he served 900 hours with Metropolis 12 months earlier than starting a full-time analyst place with Deloitte. Throughout the 2023-2024 faculty yr, Saadé acquired mentorship and assist from Deloitte professionals. Saadé is being honored as an adolescent who not too long ago efficiently accomplished a company mentoring program and continues to indicate nice management potential.
Impactful Philanthropy honoree: Sureel and Bijal Choksi
- Sureel Choksi is at the moment the CEO & President of Vantage Information Facilities, and sits on the board of Trustees on the Strada Training Community, which helps packages, insurance policies, and organizations that strengthen connections between post-secondary schooling and alternative within the U.S. Bijal Choksi has been an energetic mentor for Minds Matter for over twenty years. The couple started volunteering with the group within the late 90s. By her work with the group, she helped discovered the Minds Matter Colorado chapter in 2004. Twenty-one years later the mentors throughout the group proceed to assist high-achieving college students from low-income neighborhoods attain the school of their alternative with a 100% success charge. Up to now, the household has donated over $1 million to assist the group’s development which has included serving to to seed Thoughts Matter Colorado’s first ever endowment, which has considerably contributed to “transformational” development of summer season program actions for Colorado college students. The couple has continued to make a major influence on younger individuals by investing time and funds in mentoring packages and mentoring initiatives.
Lifetime Achievement honoree: Duncan Campbell, Founder, Pals of the Youngsters
- Duncan Campbell’s lifelong dedication to the ability of relationships has instantly empowered 1000’s of younger individuals who face excessive challenges. In 1993, Campbell based Pals of the Youngsters. Since then, Pals of the Youngsters has grown to serve 1000’s of youngsters and households in 41 numerous city, rural, and tribal communities throughout the nation. What started in 1993 with three mentors and 24 kids has grown at this time to a company offering greater than 4,000 youth and greater than 20,000 kids and members of the family with a paid, skilled mentor (known as a “Good friend”) to stroll alongside them of their houses, colleges, and communities. Campbell is acknowledged for dedicating his life’s work to supporting youth by mentoring packages.
Public Elevation honoree: Tyrann Mathieu, Security, New Orleans Saints
- Tremendous Bowl champion and NFL veteran “Honey Badger” started the Tyrann Mathieu Basis in 2017, which seeks “to influence the lives of financially deprived kids and youth” in Kansas Metropolis and his hometown of New Orleans. Since 2023, Mathieu has served as an envoy for Son of a Saint, a number one New Orleans-based nonprofit group that’s devoted to empowering fatherless boys by mentorship and assist. The New Orleans Saints security beforehand earned the group’s nomination for the 2023 NFL Walter Payton Man of the 12 months award. This season he was named one of many Group Champions by the Tremendous Bowl LIX host committee.
Public Service (State & Native) honoree: Memphis Mayor Paul Younger
- Since taking workplace Jan. 1, 2024, Mayor Paul Younger has actively invested in supporting younger Memphians. By the Workplace of Youth Providers, Mayor Younger has been intentional about guaranteeing younger individuals have mentoring and work alternatives that expose them to varied industries within the job sector. By native initiatives, he has demonstrated a continued dedication to supporting our metropolis’s youth. These packages embrace establishing midnight basketball and recreation rooms for teenagers by the Memphis Parks Division, persevering with packages for teenagers, teenagers, and younger adults supplied by Memphis Libraries, and rising the Workplace of Youth Providers finances to develop companies and programming.
Public Service (Federal): U.S. Senate Majority Whip, Dick Durbin (D-Unwell.)
- Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin has faithfully served his dwelling state since 1996 and at the moment serves because the Democratic Whip and the Rating Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, two key management roles in Congress. Sen. Durbin is the unique creator of the Mentoring to Succeed Act, a invoice centered on offering sturdy, sustainable assist techniques by mentoring and increasing profession and workforce pathways for youth residing in communities with excessive charges of violence. As a frontrunner in Congress on youth mentoring, Sen. Durbin has labored tirelessly to advance the invoice and discover inventive methods to develop relational helps for the nation’s younger individuals.
Posthumous Public Elevation honoree: Emmy Award-winning journalist, KCAL-TV anchor and founding father of The Chauncy Glover Venture, Chauncy Glover
- Chauncy Glover, an esteemed Emmy Award-winning journalist, and founding father of “The Chauncy Glover Venture” tragically handed away on November 5, 2024. Earlier than passing on the age of 39, Glover was the most recent member of the KCAL Information Anchor Staff. Recognized for his larger influence on the neighborhood exterior the newsroom, Glover created a mentorship program whereas working for WDIV in Detroit known as “The Chauncy Glover Venture.” This mission started after he witnessed a teen die on the streets. “The Chauncy Glover Venture” gives hands-on mentoring to assist younger males of coloration obtain success. Up to now, this system has despatched over 300 mentees to school and has been acknowledged by former President Barack Obama and the My Brother’s Keeper Alliance initiative.
The Excellence in Mentoring (EIM) Awards are introduced yearly throughout MENTOR’s Nationwide Mentoring Summit in Washington, D.C. This yr’s Summit takes place from January 29-31 on the Westin DC Downtown. The 2 elected officers will obtain their awards in the course of the Summit’s Capitol Hill Day on Wednesday, January 29. All different honorees will probably be introduced on stage in the course of the Nationwide Mentoring Summit all through the three predominant plenary periods over the course of the Summit.
In regards to the Excellence in Mentoring (EIM) Awards: Since 2013, MENTOR has introduced the Excellence in Mentoring Awards on the Nationwide Mentoring Summit. The EIM Awards honor people and organizations which have made large contributions to younger individuals and to the mentoring discipline. Previous recipients of the award embrace entrepreneur, educator, and Tremendous Bowl champion Marques Colston, Rep. Mary Homosexual Scanlon (D-Pa.) and Senate Majority Chief Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.).