MentorNet Corporation & Agencies FAQ

How does my company partner with you?

Call us at 408.296.4405 x 0 and ask for Candice.

We will explain benefits, features, and sponsor level annual fees or how to work with us through corporate foundation grants.

I want to sell the decision maker on the program. What should I tell her in 1 minute:

MentorNet really works as 54,000 use cases shows. It produces incredible ROIs for costs to hire, speed to productivity, and everyone wins: mentors, protégés, companies, campuses and the professions. And it only takes fifteen minutes a week, by email, under the mentor’s control.

We have special goals for reaching particular majors or campuses. Can you help us?

We can custom-design our matching program and will work with your HR or campus outreach programs.

If you don’t see a campus on our list of current campuses, tell us and your fee can underwrite their program with no extra costs to you.

What happens after we reach a partnership agreement?

We will issue a News Release together

We exchange links on our websites

You assign a Rep who will advertise and shape the program within your organization and recruit mentors

Get your mentors excited

What are Rep responsibilities?

Post information about your company on our website

Recruit mentors

Use your company’s custom MentorNet dashboard to get to tools to launch the program

Use the dashboard to look in on live data on matches, participants, reports, demographics, survey results and tools for communicating with your mentors as they wish

Stay in touch with us at MentorNet and communicate issues

Learn about new features and tools as they roll out.

Invite us to present our programs on best mentoring practices or help launch the program.

Search the resume database and post jobs to our job board.

Contribute as you wish to the MentorNet newsletter

How have companies reaped the most benefits from working with MentorNet?

90% of our companies renew year after year. Over time, some have matched over 1000 mentors and used these relationships as the cornerstone of diversity hiring, intern recruitment, campus outreach and talent development for their own mentors.

How come you’re so sure about MentorNet’s success and effectiveness?

We are a data-driven research-based organization. We survey every mentor and protégé and collect demographic data on every participant (which we keep private and anonymous). As a non-profit, our work and rigorous reporting has been supported by the National Science Foundation.

I’ve heard about your Special Projects. What are they?

Here are just a few:

AT&T sponsored us to reach engineering students at Historically Black Colleges and Universities.

IBM sponsored us to reach engineering students at universities in Africa

The NSF sponsored us to develop a special e-mentoring social network exclusively for women of color in STEM

Texas Instruments, Rockwell Collins and others sponsored our Latinas in Computing mission.

3M, Land O Lakes and Medtronic sponsored us to develop Minnesota MentorNet, binding together the Minnesota State College and University system, private companies and high tech organizations for economic and workforce development in the state.

Texas Instruments sponsored MentorNet access for students at Texas campuses with large Hispanic populations

Intel Foundation promotes MentorNet in New Mexico, Arizona and Oregon.

Did You Know?

Protégés in the MentorNet program consistently report

An increased confidence in their success in science or engineering
An increased desire to pursue a career in their field
A high degree of satisfaction with their MentorNet experience.

Mentors in the MentorNet program consistently report

The personal satisfaction of knowing that they have helped someone else.
Professional development, including better mentoring skills to use within their company.
Increased levels of commitment to their fields and their employers.
Opportunities for self-reflection and self-renewal.