Mentoring Opportunities

As of January 2025

America’s children need your help. Become a difference maker by checking out one of the following resources to help a child in crisis.

Affinity Mentoring - AffinityMentoring.org

Affinity Mentoring is an organization in Grand Rapids, Michigan that partners with local businesses, organizations, and schools to match students in K-8th grade with a caring adult role model to journey alongside them one hour a week.

Affinity’s mission is to facilitate equitable growth in academics, social emotional skills, and self-esteem through mutually beneficial mentoring relationships, cultivating a brave space that amplifies the voices of young agents of change in a diverse and inclusive community.

BeUndividded - BeUndivided.com 

Can you imagine…

300,000 churches serving 100,000 schools

Because churches serving schools can change everything.

Big Brothers Big Sisters - BBBS.org

Since 1904, Big Brothers Big Sisters has operated under the belief that inherent in every child is incredible potential. As the nation’s largest donor- and volunteer-supported mentoring network, Big Brothers Big Sisters makes meaningful, monitored matches between adult volunteers ("Bigs") and children ("Littles"), ages 5 through young adulthood in communities across the country. We develop positive relationships that have a direct and lasting effect on the lives of young people.

Mission: Create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.

Vision: All youth achieve their full potential.

Boys and Girls Clubs of America - BGCA.org

Mission: To enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens.

Vision: Provide a world-class Club Experience that assures success is within reach of every young person who enters our doors, with all members on track to graduate from high school with a plan for the future, demonstrating good character and citizenship, and living a healthy lifestyle.

Christian Community Development Association - CCDA.org 

The CCDA’s mission is to strengthen and inspire Christian Community Development practitioners for community transformation through equipping and connecting.

Mirror Me Inc. - MirrorMeInc.org

Mirror Me Inc. is an organization in Grand Rapids, Michigan focused on developing characteristics of virtue, integrity, and leadership in girls ages 11-18. We help reveal identity by exemplifying the characteristics and nature of God.

Mission: To affirm identity and inspire destiny through empowerment, education, and mentoring. 

National Church Adopt a School Initiative - ChurchAdoptaSchool.org

Change a life through reading with kids one hour a week.

Youth who develop a meaningful mentor relationship with an adult are:

• Five times more likely to graduate high school

• 46% less likely to start using drugs

• 27% less likely to start drinking

• 52% less likely to skip school

Young Life - YoungLife.org

Active in every major city and works through school and community-based partnerships to introduce adolescents to Jesus Christ and help them grow in their faith.

• Going where kids are and building personal relationships with them

• Providing fun, adventurous, life-changing experiences

• Working in community alongside like-minded adults (volunteer leaders, committee members, donors, and staff)

Together, each of us with our own little candle, can set fire to a movement to eliminate persistent poverty in America.