Recruitment season has ended for the current round.

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Recruitment season has ended for the current round. |

You may still submit an application to be put on our Back-up List. You will be contacted if there is a shortage of mentors and your application meets the area of need. 

If you have any questions, please email us: mentorship@mypi.org

Description of a MYPI Mentor

Are you passionate about making a difference in the lives of the youth?

A mentor is an individual who wants to have a positive impact on a young adult’s life. He/she is a trusted person, who is caring and provides positive solutions and guidance. As a mentor, you will have the opportunity to provide access to people, places, and things outside the mentee’s daily routine and environment. With the unique background and experience of living as Muslims in America, you better understand the struggles these youth face and can provide an unmatched type of support.

As a mentor you will use the Guidance Plan provided by MYPI, a written statement of the mentee’s goals, as an ongoing touch point for your mentoring relationship. Mentors are to support mentees as they strive toward their personal, religious, academic, professional, and/or wellness goals.

  • - Caring
    - Active listener
    - Flexible, open, & approachable
    - Dependable & enthusiastic
    - Nonjudgmental attitude
    - Committed & responsive
    - Resourceful

  • - Be at least 20 years of age
    - 10 month minimum commitment (August to May)
    - Meet with your mentee for two (2) hours every month (in-person highly preferred)
    - Brief weekly check-ins via phone, text, email, etc.

  • - Attend mentor orientation and mentor training sessions
    - Meet with your mentee every month for the duration of the mentorship round
    - Maintain regular contact with your mentee
    - Focus attention on your mentee’s Guidance Plan
    - Submit monthly reports to the Mentorship Program Manager to maintain contact
    - Attend major program events, including the matching event, launch event, and round-end celebration
    - Sincere efforts to participate in quarterly service or group mentoring activities
    - Provide feedback and data for program evaluation 

  • - Position yourself for success both in this world and the next by helping someone else
    - Guide youth towards achieving their education and career goals, while gaining a new friend
    - Experience the fulfilment of watching a MYPI youth grow, develop skill, and gain confidence
    - Enhance growth by modeling good values and judgment
    - Become a part of a new network of change agents
    - Learn more about your community and its diversity and its future
    - Receive welcome kit with MYPI swag
    - Receive a small stipend to help alleviate some incurred expenses

  • - Submit Mentor application online
    - Attend the recruitment season events (info session, networking event)
    - Attend a Zoom interview session with the MYPI Mentorship Committee
    - Pass background check
    - Have satisfactory reference checks
    - Attend the in-person launch event in August
    - Attend the mentor training sessions in the fall

    NOTE: Matching a mentor to a mentee is based on the number of mentees signed up. A mentee assignment is not guaranteed even if the mentor qualifies and passes all requirements.

 Meet the MYPI Mentors

Our amazing mentors are a diverse group of individuals from all walks of life who are selflessly volunteering their time to serve the youth. We are so grateful to have all of them on our team and we pray that Allah (SWT) rewards them generously for their dedicated service. Here we have displayed all of our current and past mentors.

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