Tomorrow's Research Cardiovascular Health Professionals (TORCH) is an integrated 2-year program for health care professionals from diverse disciplines to be mentored toward careers as leaders in translational cardiovascular research, applying discovery to human health.
Arguably, a lot of my time that would have gone toward dealing with investors went instead toward mentoring.
In Westchester, the biggest impact may be at Port Chester High School, which is expected to lose tutoring and mentoring services geared toward helping its surging non-English speaking enrollment.
The men in charge tend to be biased toward mentoring and promoting people like themselves, and biased against women who are assertive or competitive, necessary traits to reach the highest levels of business.
Grantsmanship, departmental politics, team building, gender and family issues, teaching, mentoring, and working toward tenure also received close scrutiny.
The Young Women Leaders Program: A mentoring program targeted toward adolescent girls.
We also have to remember that as adults, we don't come into this somewhat erratic turtle race toward mentoring our kids into size acceptance unblemished.
At my own South Bronx organization, for example, we have been allowed to use only about $10,000 in Ryan White funds yearly toward a mentoring program for youth whose parents have H.I.V.
This pointed toward a mentoring network as a potentially useful intervention.
Special training, mentoring, and funding directed toward disadvantaged groups may violate the "letter" of formal equal opportunity but are justified to bring about greater justice.
Junior faculty members are hired with the expectation that they will obtain tenure, and mentoring committees work diligently toward this end.
