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Mentoring is in the Air – and On the Air!

By Lee Ann On January 27, 2012 · Leave a Comment

National Mentoring Month is a wonderful opportunity to get out the word that there are children in our community who need and want mentors, and that there are myriad mentoring opportunities in our community. Mobius is so grateful to our local media, who continue to be enthusiastic in promoting National Mentoring Month and mentoring, in [...]

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Extraordinary Thank Your Mentor Breakfast!

By Lee Ann On January 20, 2012 · Leave a Comment

There is nothing like a room full of mentors to warm up a cold Vermont morning. And warm it was, warm and very moving! It was great to see so many people who share a serious passion for mentoring together, sharing stories about their mentees. Mentors sat together with other mentors from their programs, and [...]

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Collaboration is Key

By Lee Ann On January 13, 2012 · Leave a Comment

A nod of the head, a flick of the wrist, a breath – for a piano quintet those gestures communicate. They signal more than tempo and “let’s begin.” They confirm a unified effort, an agreed upon interpretation of the music being played. A fine chamber music performance reaches the highest levels of human collaboration. The [...]

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300 is the Magic Number

By Lee Ann On January 4, 2012 · Leave a Comment

We made our goal for 2011! With the help of many wonderful volunteers, a great board, steadfast donors, and many new business partners, Mobius successfully recruited 151 volunteers who were referred to mentoring programs in our community in 2011! The challenge is now on for 2012, and 300 is the magic number. [...]

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Chief Schirling Sees Mentoring in the Big Picture

By Lee Ann On December 20, 2011 · Leave a Comment

At the Mobius office we literally ring a bell when really good things happen. Usually it is the recruitment of another new mentor, but when Chief Michael Schirling said yes to becoming the National Mentoring Month Spokesperson for Mobius, we rang the bell a good long time. We asked the Chief to be our Spokesperson [...]

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Bullying, Sexuality, and Trauma are Tricky Conversations

By Lee Ann On December 9, 2011 · Leave a Comment

The greatest challenges to mentors include difficult discussions with mentees – about bullying, about sex and sexuality, about dealing with trauma. It was only natural for Mobius to address those difficult conversations as a part of the Mentor Support Series. Dr. Diane Gottlieb and her colleague Linda Wackerman offered great counsel for a group of [...]

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The Continuous Loop of Mentoring

By Andrea On December 6, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Do you know what happens to a Mobius loop if you cut it in half lengthwise? It doubles, and the two loops are connected! Our dear friends Gail and Bob Neale showed us that little trick. You can easily do this at home with a strip of paper, a piece of tape, and a pair [...]

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It’s Coming Fast!

By Lee Ann On December 2, 2011 · Leave a Comment

It’s coming fast, like a freight train, but a freight train full of wonderful things! All over the country and even much of the world, people are counting down to the holidays, to the end of the year, to New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day. December is full of shopping, planning, parties, and travel. [...]

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We are Thankful!

By Lee Ann On November 22, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Mobius has much to be thankful for. For the funding from the government, foundations, businesses, and individuals, we are grateful. It makes the work we do possible.

We are very thankful to:

Senator Patrick Leahy and his fine staff for their hard work on behalf of mentoring. our funders of grants [...]

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The Boys Are Back!

By Lee Ann On November 18, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Pizza and ‘getting-to-know-you’ were on the menu for the first meeting of the new Just For Boys program at the King Street Center. Just For Boys, a site-based program at the King Street Center, is officially underway again after a brief hiatus due to lack of [...]

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Vermont Mentoring News
- Proposed State Mentoring Organization Model Now Available November 19, 2011
  Last week, we wrote to share some updates on the work our task force had been doing (10-26-11 Meeting Notes pdf). We are writing today to share with you our proposed model (pdf). We see this as a workable, collaborative model for a state mentoring organization. Please realize it is not a concrete, finished product, but an […]
- David Shapiro Named CEO of Mentor November 19, 2011
  David Shapiro to lead mentoring movement nationally as CEO of MENTOR David Shapiro, president and CEO of Mass Mentoring Partnership (MMP), will leave his position at the end of the year to become the CEO of MENTOR, the National Mentoring Partnership. MENTOR works to promote and expand quality mentoring in collaboration with state mentoring partnerships such […]
- Everybody Wins! VT program at Thatcher Brook Primary School Featured in the News! April 20, 2011
  On Thursday, March 31, The Waterbury Record published an article on the successes of the Everybody Wins! VT mentoring program at Thatcher Brook Primary School in Waterbury. The Thatcher Brook program, although only in its second year of operation, already houses nearly 30 mentors who volunteer time each week to read and engage in other […]