On November 14, The Hanover Inn at Dartmouth College, Everybody Wins! Vermont (EW!VT), and the Upper Valley Land Trust (UVLT) will host a presentation by Natalie Kinsey-Warnock, an award-winning children’s author from the Northeast Kingdom region of Vermont. The event will take place from 1 – 3:30pm in the Hanover Inn’s Daniel Webster Room. It is free and open to the public, with a suggested donation of $5 per family going to offset the costs of the event.

Kinsey-Warnock grew up on a Vermont da… Continue

The author of No Such Thing as a Bad Kid asked a room filled with more than 200 mentors from across New England Friday, if, in all their experience, they met a troubled child who could say they had an adult who believed in them.

Not a single hand went up.

“When you really believe in a kid you put fuel in the tank,” Charlie Applestein, MSW, said at the first Northeast Regional Mentoring conference held at the Marriott Hotel in Providence. The fuel Applestein was talking about is “hope.” Bringin… Continue

We just had our first all girl pairs retreat last Saturday. The intention of the retreat was to deepen the mentoring relationship between the girls and their mentors in the hopes that the pairs will continue beyond middle school crazies and also to foster leadership development for the mentees.

Planning started more than a year ago, with one of my mentors who works in leadership development collaborating with me (we wer… Continue

Greetings All,

Below is a message from Amy Cunningham, Executive Director of Everybody Wins! Vermont. Amy and a small group of folks are starting a conversation about a Vermont Mentoring Conference in 2010. Here is Amy's email. You can respond directly to Amy or to this blog.

Some energy has gathered around the idea of creating a Vermont mentoring meeting/conference in 2010. This is just a seed of an idea and we could use plenty of input to help it germinate.

If you are interest… Continue

As the article on thriving volunteerism in the July 29th Free Press indicates, Mobius, The Mentoring Movement, notes that Chittenden County mentoring programs are serving more children than ever before. "My mentor taught me to never give up" sums up just one of the many benefits that mentoring offers children in these difficult times.

Mobius, an umbrella organization for Chittenden County based mentoring programs, is pleased to report that 817 local children now have the attention of another ca… Continue