January is National Mentoring Month, but do you know why mentoring is important? Data show that young people who were at-risk for not completing high school but who had a mentor reported higher educational aspirations and matriculation into post-secondary education, as well as greater engagement in positive activities. These young people were: 55% more likely…
We appreciate everything our volunteers do to help students in our local schools who need a caring adult in their lives. Our 142 volunteer tutors and mentors spent over 4,600 hours with 423 students last year. To recognize their efforts, we held a Volunteer Appreciation party on January 21 and over 40 tutors and mentors…
2016 marks the 20th Anniversary of Mentor Tutor Connection! Hard to believe that it’s been twenty years since members of the Los Altos Rotary Club created a project called Partners for New Generations. Twenty years of growth and we now serve students in each of the schools in the three school districts in Mountain View…
Mentor Tutor Connection provides crucial outreach for struggling teens As Nikoo and Connie put it, their relationship for the last three years is phasing out, but their friendship is something that will endure into the future. Back when they first met, Nikoo Parsizadeh was 15 and had just emigrated from Iran to join her family…
MTC In The News Moving from role models to friendsMentor Tutor Connection provides crucial outreach for struggling teens by: Mark Noack Mountain View Voice Originally Published: December 23rd, 2015
Mentor Tutor Connection was featured in an article by The Los Altos Town Crier, the organization behind the LATC Holiday Fund. MTC is one of the beneficiaries of this fund. The article focused on MTC’s mission, current statistics, and highlights during 2015. View the article on the LATC website.
