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Welcome to the California Mentor Foundation
The California Mentor Foundation (CMF) was founded in 1998 to provide
a unified, collective voice for California’s youth mentoring programs. CMF provides funding, advanced training, quality assurance standards, and technology support to more than 400 mentor programs CMF promotes mentoring as the most effective means of preventing at-risk youth from making poor choices.
CMF focuses on these four critical areas essential to the success of each youth mentoring program:
Building public awareness of mentoring
Securing financial support for grant making capabilities
Commissioning research to document the benefits of mentoring programs
Developing mission-critical tools and training needed to strengthen and expand both regional and local mentoring programs
CMF’s goal is to grow the capacity of statewide mentor programs, and increase mentor recruitment and retention in California to provide a mentor to every child who needs or wants one.
CMF diligently grows an endowment to support sustainable grant opportunities for mentor programs and coalitions.
CMF supports at-risk children whom have been neglected and are a part of California's youth mentoring programs, such as Big Brothers/Big Sisters, Boys and Girls Clubs, CASA, and many local after school mentor programs such as HOSTS.
CMF has also provided assistance and tools to other states to help launch their mentoring initiatives, including Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts, Oregon, Washington and Texas. California was first in the nation to develop a statewide mentoring initiative.
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