Mentoring is win-win partnership. It helps youth athletes, non-profit organizations and the private sector. Successful mentoring requires a
commitment of time and attention, though rewards are numerous. Our volunteer mentors maximize the positive impact of mentoring.
Mentors share ideas, partnership programs, products, services
and success stories. They help you create
successful partnership awareness fundraiser programs. Both parties learn from each other. All mentors are qualified to meet specific requirements.
Experienced mentors can share their professional expert
knowledge with non-profits. They can truly share wisdom with you on an ongoing
basis regarding particular partnership marketing opportunity. All mentors are qualified professionals with extensive experience, serve
as a trusted confidantes, FREE of charge.
Why do they do this?
First and foremost as a way of giving back to their community and to society
at large. They may do it to develop their own skills as a mentor or to promote their business, products or services
direct to non-profits & their memberships. A true mentoring relationship works
in both directions—for-profit mentors learn about new ideas from non-profit
partners just as non-profits learn timeless wisdom from them.
Whatever the benefits to the mentor, the benefits to you, are even greater:
- Where else are you going
to turn? You can turn to a Sport-SOS mentor for advice or direction.
You learn HOW to create a partnership awareness fundraiser that will
increase awareness and help raise funds for your worthy cause. You can get
good reliable advise on the latest partnership opportunities that benefit
your non-profit organization. You learn about available unique products,
services and benefits that you membership wants and needs.
- They've "been there,
done that". You can learn
from others' successes and mistakes. For-profit partners don't have to
have experience in non-profit industry. They don't have to be up on the
latest non-profit trends. Their role is to share with you their business experience
so that non-profits can learn quickly and easily how to create and benefit
from cause-related partnership programs.
- It's FREE. Sport-SOS Mentors are readily available FREE
of charge.
- Expand your social
network. Your mentor, being an experienced businessperson, is likely
to have an extensive network, and can offer you access to far more senior
decision-makers than your non-profit organization currently have. And they
will be far more willing to open that network up to you than some casual
acquaintance from a networking meeting.
- A trusted, long-term
relationship. Your mentor has unique specialty products and services
that your membership wants and needs. That combined with their experience
creates a good foundation. As the relationship develops over time, that
trust can grow even stronger. Also, your time with them becomes more and
more efficient as they become more and more familiar with your non-profit
organization, goals, mission and your membership.
As you can see, the rewards are many, and the risk is
non-existent. You have nothing to lose and everything to gain by finding a good
mentor. Every non-profit sports organization should have a for-profit business mentor.
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