Make a Lasting Impact.
Mentors guide, challenge, and celebrate their students throughout the three crucial years of high school. As a mentor, you'll serve as a caring adult in your mentee's life, offering emotional and consistent support while sharing insights from your own journey to college and beyond. We are proud that nearly 40% of our mentors were first in their family to go to college themselves, and the majority have graduate degrees.
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Mentors
Mentoring with Minds Matter Twin Cities is a high commitment, high reward opportunity. As a mentor you’ll:
Join Saturday mentorship sessions from 12:00 PM to 2 PM in September through May. We usually meet 3 Saturdays per month
Work and communicate with the co-mentor to support your high school students over their three years in the program
Possess a four-year undergraduate degree.
Academic Enrichment:
ACT Prep, Math and Writing Instruction
Join us as an academic enrichment volunteer and help students thrive through focused academic support and test prep. Share your expertise in any of the following subjects: math, critical thinking, reading, and writing.
Lead to Saturday academic enrichment or test prep sessions 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM in September through March
Work with small groups of 4 - 6 students
Tutor math, reading, writing, or a combination of all based on your expertise
Possess four-year undergraduate degree
Volunteer Leadership and Organizational Leadership
Ready to help grow our systems and supports for students? We are always look for volunteers to help with recruitment, event planning, fundraising, and
Organize and manage back-office logistics and planning, from volunteer recruitment to event planning.
Develop relationships across the Minds Matter Twin Cities community and national Minds Matter network
2 - 4 hours per week which includes meetings and project work
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Minds Matter mentors are college-educated professionals and graduate students in the Twin Cities area.
They are compassionate, enthusiastic, and committed to developing a strong mentoring relationship with a high-achieving high school student. Additionally, our mentors are passionate about dismantling the barriers for our low-income students to attend their best-fit college.
Our mentors are paired in a quad, with one other mentor and two students, and spend three years meeting with their mentees (sophomore-senior year in high school) in a structured session each Saturday during the school year. Mentors will support their students by not only being a caring advocate for them but also a resource as they develop their college knowledge, hone their interests, and navigate the college application process.
Want more information?
Come learn more about our various volunteer opportunities! We encourage you to attend one of our upcoming 30-minute virtual volunteer info sessions prior to applying with us.