MentorPRO announces 2026 expansion with new partnerships and multi-year renewals across North America
MentorPRO, the only evidence-based, research-validated mentoring platform, today announced a major expansion of its work with youth- and student-serving organizations across the United States and Canada. In 2026, MentorPRO is launching new partnerships with national coalitions, higher education leaders, and National Guard Youth ChalleNGe programs, while renewing multi-year collaborations with mentoring organizations focused on girls and young women, foster youth, and first-generation and underserved students.
New 2026 partnerships
New collaborations launching in 2026 extend MentorPRO’s reach into Canada, National Guard Youth ChalleNGe programs, higher education leadership initiatives, and one of the longest-standing professional mentoring models in the country.
In Canada, MentorPRO is partnering with Mentor Canada through the Connected Futures project to adapt MentorPRO Academy’s evidence-based training into a localized experience for Canadian mentors and program staff. By aligning content with Canadian language, context, and program design, the collaboration will make research-backed mentor preparation accessible across Mentor Canada’s national coalition and lay groundwork for new research and knowledge exchange.
Across the National Guard Youth ChalleNGe community, MentorPRO is deepening its support for post-residential mentoring. New partnerships with the Governors Summer ChalleNGe program, the Keystone State ChalleNGe Academy in Pennsylvania, and the Michigan Youth ChalleNGe Academy and Michigan Job ChalleNGe will give staff and mentors a shared, mobile-first platform to track engagement, monitor match health, and sustain gains as cadets transition home, back to school, and into the workforce.
In higher education, MentorPRO is partnering with the Strickland Women’s L.I.F.T. Fellowship at High Point University to support a growing community of undergraduate women leaders through structured matching, engagement tracking, and evidence-based mentor support using MentorPRO and MatchPRO. The collaboration will position the Fellowship to answer strategic questions about leadership development, alumni engagement, and equitable access to mentoring.
MentorPRO is also partnering with Friends of the Children-Boston, a national leader in long-term, professionalized mentoring. Friends-Boston will use MentorPRO to bring structure, visibility, and multilingual supports to its twelve-year mentoring model, and will serve as an early implementation site for MentorPRO’s expanding multilingual experience, informing how technology can strengthen family partnership and sustain engagement over many years.
In California, a new partnership with Big Brothers Big Sisters of Orange County will use MentorPRO to support a grant-funded Workplace Mentoring initiative for college-age mentees across Orange County and the Inland Empire. By pairing BBBS Orange County’s relationship-building expertise with MentorPRO’s outcome tracking and early-warning tools, the collaboration aims to translate mentoring relationships into meaningful, measurable career outcomes.
Renewed multi-year collaborations
In addition to these new partnerships, MentorPRO is renewing and extending several key collaborations with organizations that have helped shape the platform and its evidence base.
Step Up, the national mentoring nonprofit that supports girls and young women, is entering a third year of partnership with MentorPRO through a new multi-year agreement that includes full access to MentorAI. MentorAI will provide timely, evidence-informed prompts and resources for mentors and staff, while keeping human relationships at the center of the model and strengthening Step Up’s capacity to learn what works for different cohorts of young women.
City Year New Hampshire is entering its second year using MentorPRO to support AmeriCorps members’ mentoring relationships with students in high-need schools. In Year Two, the site will pilot new ways of using platform data in team meetings and coaching conversations, deepening a shared focus on academic engagement, social-emotional growth, and college and career readiness.
Salem State University and the SDSU Alumni Association are each renewing for a second year, expanding structured mentoring for business students at Salem State and for San Diego State University students and graduates through alumni mentoring. Salem State will use the expansion to study differential impacts across courses and student subgroups, while SDSU will use MentorPRO data to support targeted outreach to underrepresented students who may benefit most from alumni connections.
On the North Shore of Massachusetts, LEAP for Education is renewing its partnership for a second year, continuing to use MentorPRO to support underserved students pursuing college, career, and economic mobility. In Year Two, LEAP will use platform data not only to monitor match health and goal progression but also to inform family outreach, college advising, and local employer connections.
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Utah is entering a second year of collaboration focused on one-to-one youth mentoring relationships across the state. The next phase of work will explore how MentorPRO can better support rural matches and guide training for new staff. Silver Lining Mentoring, which serves young people impacted by foster care, is also renewing for a second year, with a focus on using platform data to inform advocacy and practice changes aimed at stability and support for youth in care.
Shared commitment to evidence and scale
Across these new and renewing partnerships, MentorPRO will continue to build on peer-reviewed research showing that structured, technology-supported mentoring is associated with stronger academic and career outcomes, greater sense of belonging, and improved mental health and well-being for young people in transition. The 2026 portfolio is designed not only to strengthen individual programs, but also to generate new practice insights and data that can inform the broader mentoring, education, and youth development fields.
