MentorPRO for Youth Programs

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

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.

Step Up put its mentoring on one app: young women find mentors, set goals and message on their own schedule.

Step Up is a national mentorship nonprofit that guides girls and young women to their own definition of success. Step Up's Mentoring App, powered by MentorPRO, lets young women ages 18 to 29 find professional mentors, message them directly and track their goals. Mentors are working women ages 30 and up. Step Up runs its other programs, such as Power Talks and career coaching, alongside the app.

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 in the pilot, and said it expects better graduate outcomes than under the traditional model, though it is too early to measure them. 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.

A staff pilot became a rollout: each Foróige program manager now runs their own matches on one platform.

Foróige, Ireland's largest youth organization, runs its Big Brothers Big Sisters of Ireland mentoring on MentorPRO. Volunteer mentors and young people connect through the app, and program staff supervise matches and report outcomes from one place.