And School of Everything matches mentors with people who want to learn.
They need charismatic mentors with simple messages: "It's wrong to kill people, it's wrong to hate".
The couple employed mentors with an "African background" to connect with Zahara, who was adopted in Ethiopia in 2005.
With initial funding of $2,500 I started a small group that matched techies as volunteer computer mentors with Bay Area nonprofits.
Partial proceeds from the event will benefit the Voices Found project, which pairs writers, artists and volunteer mentors with children and teenagers who have H.I.V. or AIDS.
Among the tasks are researching their potential careers, sending e-mail to their mentors with career questions and drawing a cartoon of their future.
"I'm coming from the new world, and many of the mentors, with all due respect, they are coming from the old world".
Boris Johnson, London's mayor, launched a £1.3m scheme just weeks before last summer's riots to match 1,700 mentors with young male teenagers in some of the capital's most deprived boroughs.
The mentors (with help from "masters", part-timers who impart specific skills) assess the students' progress, and coax them towards certain goals – but the emphasis is on what the students want to study.
Mrs. Oh is the director of mentoring programs at iMentor, an organization in Brooklyn that helps bring together mentors with students from poor neighborhoods in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens.
12. VICTORIA STRAMIELO, left, and ALISON MAGEE, right, both mentors; with SAMANTHA VANDERPOOL, second from left, and her sister SHAMEKA.; May 9: The Institute of Classical Architecture and Classical America held its annual Arthur Ross Awards dinner.
