Male Recruitment Resources

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Michael Garringer
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One of the topics discussed on the recent webinar on mentor recruitment and screening conducted by MENTOR was recruitment of male volunteers. Obviously, this can be a tricky population to reach for mentoring programs. Here are a few resources that can get your program thinking about ways to reach out to men:

Mentor Michigan's Men in Mentoring Toolkit (this was discussed during the webinar):
http://www.michigan.gov/mentormichigan/0,1607,7-193--211411--,00.html

"Putting the Men Back in Mentoring" Newsletter (this is from the National Mentoring Center):
http://educationnorthwest.org/webfm_send/238

Be sure to check out the interview I did with Richard Rowe, where he talks about some of the unfortunate ways we discourage men from mentoring.

Marketing for the Recruitment of Mentors:
http://educationnorthwest.org/webfm_send/178

This last resource is not male-specific, but it does provide tips and tools for customizing your message to target any specific audience. It was written by a former staff member of ours who had a marketing background, so it really covers branding, messaging, and other marketing-specific techniques that could easily be applied to the recruitment of male mentors.

Anyone else have additional male-specific resources to share? If anyone has developed a handout or set of talking points for men, please feel free to share. These Forums do allow for attachments, so please share any materials you have.

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Kristi Zappie-F...
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Re: Male and general Recruitment Resources

Hi Mike:

There are many resources out there to support mentoring programs in their recruitment efforts. Here is another geared toward recruiting men:

Recruiting Male Volunteers: A Basic Guide on Exploratory Research (PDF). Author: Stephanie T. Blackman. Published by Corporation for National Service, July 1999.

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Kristi Zappie-F...
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Male Mentor Recruitment Video

Check out this Big Brother Big Sisters of Southwest Idaho video:

Has your program created recruitment materials specifically to recruit men? If so, what has been the impact of the materials?

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Kristi Zappie-Ferradino | Vice President, Products & Online Services
MENTOR
1600 Duke Street, Suite 300 | Alexandria, VA 22314
Phone: 703-224-2234 | Fax: 703-226-2581 | Web site: www.mentoring.org
E-mail: KZFerradino@mentoring.org
MENTOR is the lead champion for youth mentoring in the United States.