MENTOR Announces 2025 National Corporate Mentoring Honor Roll Class

This year's National Corporate Mentoring Honor Roll class has a firm commitment to supporting the well-being of new and young employees through the creation of workplace mentorship opportunities.

BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS / ACCESS Newswire / April 3, 2025 / 84 corporate companies have been recognized by MENTOR, a national nonprofit that leads, expands, and strengthens the mentoring movement, building capacity to make high-quality relationships accessible to all young people as honorees of the 2025 National Corporate Mentoring Honor Roll.

This year's class includes long standing partners of MENTOR like Bank of America, Fidelity Investments, and The Starbucks Foundation who have affirmed their commitment to fostering mentoring opportunities and relationships within their companies and invested in the mentoring movement.

"At MENTOR, we are proud of the work and intentionality of this year's National Corporate Mentoring Honor Roll class. This group of industry leaders has prioritized and aligned their human resources and capital to connect and support young people and the communities they serve; it's making an impact - stronger relationships and better opportunities for more people," MENTOR CEO Jermaine Myrie said.

Each year the National Corporate Mentoring Honor Roll recognizes outstanding for-profit corporations across the United States that support the youth mentoring field in a variety of ways. Launched in partnership with former First Lady Michelle Obama in 2011, the National Corporate Honor Roll first began by challenging corporate companies to support their employees to become volunteer youth mentors.

All companies named to this year's list are repeats from the 2024 National Corporate Mentoring Honor Roll class alluding to the long-term growth companies are working to build to create a culture of holistic mentoring relationships within the workplace.

MENTOR has continued to prioritize building relationship-centered workplaces that have impacted workplace culture assisting with higher employee satisfaction, helping to build on employee's sense of meaningful work thus helping corporate companies to have a lasting impact in the communities where they work and serve.

To be eligible for the National Corporate Mentoring Honor Roll presented annually by MENTOR, companies must support high-quality mentoring in at least one core way. Most notably this includes supporting local mentoring programs and initiatives, partnering with MENTOR for technical assistance and mentorship training and/or by instituting an internal high-quality mentoring programs in their respective company.

Since MENTOR's Honor Roll's inception, corporate engagement in youth mentoring has grown steadily over time as have opportunities for mentorship increasingly for youth from under resourced-backgrounds within the workplace. MENTOR research has also linked an increase in job retention and an overall increase in building a young person's network with professionals.

MENTOR also provides support to corporate companies looking to engage in mentoring. To learn more please utilize our Workplace Supplement to the Elements of Effective Practice for Mentoring resource which includes a helpful checklist.

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About MENTOR: MENTOR leads, expands, and strengthens the mentoring movement, building capacity to make high-quality relationships accessible to all young people. 35 years ago, MENTOR was created to expand opportunities for young people by building a youth mentoring field and movement. The result: a more than 10-fold increase in young people in structured mentoring relationships. Today, MENTOR is the primary resource and expert for the youth mentoring field, representing a movement that meets young people everywhere they are - from schools, to workplaces, and beyond. MENTOR operates in collaboration with 25 local Affiliates across the country.

To learn more about MENTOR, visit our website: www.mentoring.org or find us on social media. Follow on X at @mentornational | Facebook: MENTORnational | Instagram: @mentornmp | LinkedIn: MENTOR

SOURCE: MENTOR