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Mentor a First-Generation College Student!
ORGANIZATION: Peninsula College Fund
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The Peninsula College Fund is recruiting volunteers to serve as one-to-one mentors to a new class of talented first-generation college students. Mentors are supportive professionals that provide guidance, support, networking, and positive role modeling to a student throughout their entire college career. Learn more about this life-changing experience at: https://www.peninsulacollegefund.org/volunteers/mentoring/
Mentor Requirements:
- Have a minimum of 3 years of professional experience and a Bachelor’s degree
- Commit to supporting a first-generation college student from an historically underrepresented community (e.g Undocumented, DACA, LGBTQ+, etc).
- Commit to a mentoring relationship for four years, or until graduation
- Provide an average of 1 - 2 hours/month of meaningful social/emotional, college, and/or career support
- Practice cultural humility and understand your positionality
- Submit a quarterly update to PCF
- Participate in at least one training every year and stay abreast of scholar support offered by the Peninsula College Fund
- Adhere to a strict confidentiality agreement
- Attend New Mentor Orientation June 2025 TBD
- Attend PCF Awards Ceremony June 2025 TBD
- Participate in PCF's career exploratation fair July 12th 2025
About the Recruitment Process:
- Complete the Mentor Application: PCF reviews this information to learn more about you and your desire to mentor (and may use this information for matching purposes). You will be asked to submit contact information for 2 references, who will be automatically contacted via email for their submission. Deadline to apply: April 15th 2025
- Interview: Candidates selected to advance in the process will be invited to a one hour virtual interview
- Application Review & Background Check: PCF reviews all application & interview materials. Candidates selected to advance in the process will be contacted to begin a background check.
- Final Status: Once PCF has received background check results, staff informs the candidate of their final status in the application process
- Matching: Mentor recruitment happens on a rolling basis, however, matching will occurs in May/June 2025
Questions? Email us at raj@peninsulacollegefund.org or visit www.peninsulacollegefund.org
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About Peninsula College Fund
Location:
526 Valley Way, Milpitas, CA 95035, US
Mission Statement
Our mission is to empower low-income, first generation college students to graduate and obtain a job that aligns with their career goals.
Description
Our comprehensive program includes four key components:
Scholarships: Each student receives a scholarship of $3,000/year for all four years of college. Our goal is to provide scholars with the necessary funds to allow them to attend the college that is the best fit academically, financially, and socially.
One-to-One Mentoring: We carefully match each scholar with one caring adult who provides support, counsel, friendship, networking, and positive role modeling to help each student complete college. We provide our mentors with on-going training and continuously evaluate and improve our mentoring program. Our goals are to help fill the gaps in knowledge about the college experience that first-generation college students often experience, and provide the support and example that enable our scholars to overcome the challenges on the path to graduation.
Summer Internships: We identify and develop paid and volunteer summer internships for our scholars. Our goals are to expose our students to different career opportunities, help them network for post-graduation careers, and earn income to assist in financing their education.
College Success Workshops: We provide all students with targeted, in-depth workshops to give them the tools for college completion and career readiness. Our goal is to build knowledge and peer support to prepare scholars in each year of college.
CAUSE AREAS
Children & Youth,
Community,
Education & Literacy
WHEN
We'll work with your schedule.
WHERE
Sobrato Center for Nonprofits526 Valley WayMilpitas, CA 95035
(37.427563 ,-121.915726 )
DATE POSTED
December 2, 2024
SKILLS
- Mentoring
- Youth Services
- Community Outreach
- Relationship Building
- Professional Development
- Basic Computer Skills
GOOD FOR
N/A
REQUIREMENTS
- Background Check
- Orientation or Training
- An average of 1-2 hours monthly time commitment for at least four years, until graduation.