As the Tennessee affiliate of The National Mentoring Partnership, the TEAM UP Youth Mentoring Partnership and the Memphis Grizzlies Foundation are leading the implementation of MENTOR’s “In Real Life” digital and social campaign for National Mentoring Month (NMM) in January 2016 for Memphis and Shelby County. Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam and Shelby County Mayor Mark Luttrell have all signed proclamations declaring January as National Mentoring Month in Tennessee and Shelby County, respectively.
Concurrently with NMM, MENTOR is launching a longer-term public awareness and recruitment campaign called In Real Life, focusing on the real life benefits of mentoring to young people, as well as real life benefits to mentors themselves.