Mentor Together is a registered not-for-profit organisation (No. 372/09-10). We are registered under Section 12AA and under Section 80G of the Income Tax Act, 1961. We have our CSR1 registration and file annual audited returns each year. Mentor Together has also been covered in numerous local, national and international publications like India Today, CNBC, Times Now and the World Economic Forum. For the full press-coverage please check here.

Mentor Together’s programs are largely funded by Corporate Social Responsibility partners. Our partners over the years have included the BT Group, LinkedIn, Amazon, Finastra, Cisco, Microsoft, Fidelity, Fiserv, the Edelgive Foundation, Amdocs, Cognizant, and the Rosy Blue Foundation.

Mentor to Go is a technology-enabled mentoring product and program that helps young people in the age group of 18 – 22, primarily from low-income families, access career mentorship across the country, using just their mobile phones or web-devices. As a technology product, Mentor To Go is an Android and Web app that is designed to allow a mentorship program to be fully remote – in the journey of a mentor and mentee, and in program administration. As a program, Mentor To Go is a national coalition of governments, individual educational institutions, non-profits, and Corporates, across India, that helps students experience digital career mentorship.

Mentoring relationships can provide guidance, support and inspiration to young people, especially when they are in stages of preparation or transition. For example, when they need to decide what to do after high school, or when they need to decide how to prepare for their careers. We wanted to build a scalable solution, through which a young person sitting anywhere can access high-quality mentorship. Mobile technology and internet access have spread widely enough, making this ubiquitous with young people. We believe that by putting mentorship on the phone we can scale the reach and impact of mentoring across the country.

A mentor will need to sign-up on our app, and create a basic profile that includes personal and career details. Once a mentor has created their profile they will have access to our Learning Hub to complete their mentor trianing modules. These modules will help mentors build the knowledge and skills they need to be successful in mentoring. On successful completion of the training modules, a Mentor To Go team member will schedule a 30 mins phone discussion to review the mentor’s application, and address any queries they may have. Post this, mentors get matched to mentees via our app’s matching algorithm, and they start mentoring.

Our mentees are undergraduate students studying mostly in the second or third year of their graduation degree. Our mentees are identified through government partnerships we have, for example with the Telangana Academy of Skills and Knowledge, Government of Telangana. Some of our partnerships are also with NGOs like the Lila Poonawalla Foundation. We host townhalls and webinars for students to learn about the program, and decide if they’d like to sign-up to get a mentor. We prioritise the mentorship program for students who come from low-income families having a family income of Rs 500,000 per annum or lesser.

The Mentor To Go app hosts our unique work readiness mentoring curricula. These structured sessions help mentor-mentee pairs build a strong relationship, and work on different aspects of personal development that relate to work readiness. Topics include understanding one’s personality and values, how to prepare for a job search, how to build and grow a career etc. Each session builds on evidence and practice from fields of mentoring, youth development, and. career psychology.

You will have to bear the costs of any phone calls you make, as well as any data you use while accessing the app. There are no other costs or fees to become a mentor.

Yes! The Mentor To Go programme team comprises of experienced programme managers and mentoring experts. Each mentor and mentee group receives a dedicated ‘Pair/Group Manager’, who will support your mentoring journey from day 1. You will have a dedicated channel to discuss all your questions with them. Additionally, they will review your progress and troubleshoot any problems you face.