Male Recruitment Resources

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.