Showing Mentors and Youth some Love before Valentine’s Day
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After Christmas and Hanukkah, I can imagine how people might feel a little pinch when it comes to finding a little disposable income. By now, they’ve already scoured the couch cushions and the space in between the car seats and floor of the car for whatever might have accumulated there over the year. I just made a rather painful payment on my own credit card.
However, thanks to the generosity of the Grizzlies we are able to show a little love prior to Valentine’s Day to adults and kids participating in mentoring programs who have “Teamed Up” with the Grizzlies Foundation.
January is National Mentoring Month as I mentioned in a previous blog, and since the Grizzlies Foundation is making its debut at http://www.teamupmemphis.org I wanted to show some love not only to our new website but also those we welcome to our second “Mentoring Night” game this season, Monday, January 25th.
We are happy to welcome over 450 mentors and mentees from the Exchange Club, MCS CONNECT, Youth Villages, Grizzlies Academy, Project Aware Mentoring, Girls Inc., Urban Youth Initiative and STREETS Ministries.
Additionally, every Monday game this season we have also highlighted someone who has been an enthusiastic advocate for mentoring. Monday we were happy to host Shonta Hunt and her mentee Najwa. Shonta has mentored Najwa for nearly a year with the Project Aware Mentoring Program which serves youth who have a family member incarcerated.
We aired a couple of our new PSAs and you will be able to watch them soon here at teamupmemphis.org. I’ll let you know when they are up.
In the meantime, we are proud of our new website, but continue to check http://www.grizzlies.com for news about the team. If you want to show a little heart this year, contact us or fill out an interest form so that we can contact you to talk about how mentoring works and opportunities available that can fit anyone’s schedule.
To revisit the introduction of this entry, you may be a little short on change right now, but we are not asking for your money, just your time. Youth in Memphis need the encouragement, perspective and thoughts of a caring mentor.
