Tag: MENTOR

Business mentors needed to help drive Net Zero

Stuart Mitchell

An organisation leading the drive toward net zero is looking for more business and industry mentors to help the next generation develop carbon cutting solutions. Fuel Change is an organisation working with businesses and schools to enable apprentices and new graduates to help develop solutions to the climate crisis. Its Challenge Programme forms project teams of young people from businesses and organisations and sets them real world carbon reduction challenges. The challenge tasks are set by industry and worked on over a 16 week period after which findings are presented…

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Channel 4 launch new initiative to help mentor off screen disabled talent

Stuart Mitchell

Channel 4 announces the launch of a new mentoring initiative for mid and senior level disabled talent working in TV production. The broadcaster is looking for six deaf, disabled and/or neurodivergent off screen freelancers working in TV production to become mentees. Only then will mentors be selected according to the person they are supporting, to make sure they are a good match and have the skills to really make a difference. The scheme is called RISE and has been devised in partnership with TripleC/DANC (Disabled Artists Networking Community) who support…

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MENTOR Launches Resource to Tackle and Unpack Toxic Masculinity

Stuart Mitchell

MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership released a research-backed, youth-informed guide to unpack a timely and critical topic: Toxic masculinity. Conversations About Masculinity: How Mentors Can Support Young Men of Color was released during MBK Rising!, the Obama Foundation’s My Brother’s Keeper’s Alliance first national convening of the growing network of MBK Communities working to provide boys and young men of color safe and supportive communities and pathways to opportunity. The guide, a one-page summary, and other resources are now available at www.mentoring.org/masculinity.  Informed by research and practice, including the experiences of young men from JPMorgan…

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Serena Williams Celebrates the Glorious Diversity of Women in New Nike Film

Stuart Mitchell

In 2017, Serena Williams solidified her status at as the greatest ever by winning the Australian Open while eight weeks pregnant.  Throughout her career, the 23-time Major winner has used sport as a platform for progress. It’s no surprise that with Serena’s return to the court for her first tour-level match next week at Indian Wells, the tennis icon is using the moment to once again stand for equality. “I want people to understand there is no wrong way to be a woman. We shouldn’t be made to feel like…

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Nike Launch 2018 EQUALITY BHM Collection

Stuart Mitchell

Nike has a long history of speaking up for causes that reflect its values. That continues today with EQUALITY, Nike’s ongoing effort to encourage people to take the fairness and respect they see in sport and translate them off the field. The EQUALITY initiative is centered on using the power of sport to inspire people to take action in their communities, with Nike leading by example with its partnerships with world-class organizations dedicated to advancing this work. Supporting these values, EQUALITY delivers on the brand’s ongoing partnership with MENTOR (the…

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