Imagine a world where every young person is empowered to shine, pursue their dreams, and craft an extraordinary future.
The Mentoring Edge: A Healthy Relationship + Pathway to Skills
We see mentoring relationships as both an end in itself, and a means to an end. A healthy and nurturing relationship can support a young person's social and emotional development, and provide them the safe space and confidence they need to navigate the world. At the same time, a mentor can support in the development of special skills that a young person may need help with at different critical periods of time in their lives. This could help in supporting the journey to various academic and career goals a young person may dream of.
Our Values
Youth
Centric
Keeping youth at the
centre of what we do
Impact
Driven
Pursuing impact as an
organisation
Team First
Approach
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Invigorating
Workspace
Creating a refreshing environment for
everyone in the team
Framework of
Mentorship
Mentoring centers on the creation of a safe and healthy relationship between a mentor and mentee.
Our mentoring framework identifies 4 critical stages every mentor and mentee goes through
STEP 1
Connect
Our first relationship stage helps mentor and the mentee establish trust, consistency and reliability in the relationship.By the end of this stage, mentors and mentees feel comfortable around each other.
STEP 2
Level
In the second stage, we remove implicit and explicit power differences between our mentors and mentees. We establish a mutual or two-way relationship, where mentor and mentee both contribute to the relationship and learn from it.
STEP 3
Empower
In this stage, mentees work on those facets of their lives that they would like to empower through the mentoring. Mentors and mentees practice different life skills that can help them achieve their goals.
STEP 1
Evolve
In this final stage, mentees work on their future life choices. Mentors help mentees in their decision-making. Mentors and mentees also reflect on their mentorship and decide the next stage of their own journey.
Our Milestones
Mentor together summit
Mentor Together is formally registered as a Trust in November 2009
2009
Our first action research paper, ‘Mentoring India's
Youth’ is published.
2012
Mentor Together's in-person programs for school youth scales up to
5: Bengaluru, Mumbai, Delhi, Pune, and Chennai
2015
A randomised control trial of our school program highlights the positive effects of mentoring on school and wellbeing outcomes.
2018
Mentor Together creates the Mentor To Go app for students in Universities to access mentoring using just their phones
2019
Brookings Institution publishes a policy brief on Mentor To Go highlighting the role of digital mentoring for young women in India
2021
Mentor Together is featured in Ashoka's
Leading Social
Entrepreneurs Book
2023
The Mentor To Go app sees 40000 mentee and 15000 mentor registrations