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Center for Evidence-Based Mentoring

The research home behind MentorPRO.

Founded at the University of Massachusetts Boston in 2012 and directed by co-founder Jean Rhodes, the Center produces the science. MentorPRO puts it to work.

Expert consultation

Support from the people who study mentoring.

Every license includes consultation from the Center to keep your program on track.

Dedicated client portalEngagement data for your program
Monthly meetingsImplementation and ongoing success
On-demand reportsVisualize and share results
Evaluation servicesMeasure what changed
Megyn Jasman
Megyn Jasman, MADirector of Partner Success
A MentorPRO annual report showing users, check-ins, goals, messages, and meetings for one program
Partner with us on research and grants

Through partnerships with programs and universities, we have helped raise more than three million dollars in grants to build, deliver, and evaluate technology-enabled mentoring.

Apply for a grant with usWe partner with programs and institutions on federal and foundation proposals, including NSF, NIH, and Department of Education awards. We bring the evidence base, the platform, and the evaluation design. You bring the program and the population.Learn more
Run a study on your programPartners have studied retention and graduation, match closure, flash mentoring, and first-generation student well-being with us. Review board approval, data agreements, and authorship are settled before anything begins.Learn more
The MentorPRO survey item bank beside a phone showing a survey question about confidence in future career success
Questionnaires in the app

Ask the right questions, inside MentorPRO.

The Center keeps a bank of validated survey items on belonging, self-efficacy, well-being, and more. We help you choose the measures that fit your goals, load them into MentorPRO as pre and post surveys or brief check-ins, and schedule them so participants answer in the app they already use.

Responses flow straight into your dashboards and reports, so the same data that guides your staff each week also answers your funders at the end of the year.

Partner with us on evaluations

Measure what your program changes.

We agree on the questions and measures with you, join platform data to the outcomes your funders care about, and deliver a report you can stand behind. When findings are strong enough, we help you publish them.