A staff pilot became a one-year rollout: Foróige is bringing its Big Brothers Big Sisters of Ireland mentoring onto one platform.

From six sites to 21, with 5,064 cadets registered and 3,800 of them using messaging.

ChalleNGe academies use MentorPRO to stay in contact with cadets through the post-residential year, when contact usually fades. The pilot began with six programs in December 2023 and reached 21 Youth ChalleNGe and Job ChalleNGe sites by the end of 2025. RAND's 2026 report on the program found that staff at all six original pilot sites favored staying with the new model. RAND notes it is too early to measure graduate outcomes From January 2027 every academy must track contacts, placements and case management activity for each graduate for 24 months.

MentorPRO is like a box that we've all been wanting to see into so we can see how genuine relationships, mentorships, connections, and social capital are built and maintained in real time.

From one match to 536 in under a year, across six agencies and school programs.

Six Big Brothers Big Sisters agencies and school-based programs run community-based, site-based and mentor2.0 mentoring on MentorPRO, across Montana, Milwaukee, the Wisconsin Shoreline and three Utah schools. The first match activated in April 2025. By March 2026 there were 536. Littles have set 2,319 goals, most commonly finding employment, improving grades, and finding and applying for scholarships. Matches at six agencies have sent 35,000+ messages, set 2,600+ goals, and logged 5,000+ check-ins, with more than 1,200 Bigs and Littles matched on MentorPRO. As of October 2026.