Mentorship Opportunities
Share your talents, grow your network, and empower the next generation of writers and leaders.
Apply for a mentorship that meets your schedule and interests: Yearlong, short-term, event based, or on-demand.
Program Year Pair Mentorship
(Yearlong Intensive)
Mentor Collaborators—ages 25 to 95 from around the United States and across industries—are passionate about passing on their knowledge, experience, and craft to support the next generation of writers. As a mentor in the coming year, you make a commitment to your partner and to the community at large from September 2023 to June 2024, spending a minimum of three hours per month. Our one-to-one mentoring relationships last for at least one year and often for life!
Mentor for the Day
(Event-Based Mentorship)
Podcast Interviews
Provide a selected mentee the opportunity to hone their interviewing skills by serving as a Podcast Interviewee. Podcast Interviewees are interviewed by one or more Girls Write Now mentees over their unique experience and insight into a specific topic. After a brief guest introduction, the host will ask the Mentor for the Day questions to guide the conversation around the episode’s topic, working to unpack their stories and lessons.
Creative Think Tank
* To schedule this event, you are committing to a company-led event, with volunteer participation led by employees from within your ERG.
Take Girls Write Now behind the scenes of a Creative Think Tank with your employees as they share their individual, departmental and organizational approaches to industry strategies in marketing, program or product launch, fundraising, event production, or wherever you believe the value of multigenerational, multiracial and multicultural voices are essential to bring a vision to life. Mentors for the Day will coach mentees on how to gather multiple viewpoints, implement into the creative design process and create a final product that everyone feels they had a personal touch in.
Talent Development Event
* To schedule this event, you are committing to a company-led event, with volunteer participation led by employees from within your ERG.
Does your company host internships? Are you getting ready to begin the hiring search for some entry level positions? Girls Write Now has promised a direct pipeline of diverse talent to our Corporate Partners and now’s the chance to bring it to life. Mentors for the Day coach mentees on resume/cover letter development for upcoming internship opportunities, host a mock interview roundtable or sit with a mentee and help curate a winning portfolio to submit to your company’s next hiring round.
Content Expert Conversations
Panel Discussions / Creative Q&As
Mentors for the Day participate in a structured conversation that brings together multiple experts or stakeholders to explore a specific topic, share their perspectives, and engage in lively discourse. A GWN moderator or presenter facilitates the discussion, dissecting the questions. Mentors for the Day share their opinions, experience and expertise from various perspectives in response to questions from the moderator.
In our Q&A style workshops, mentees will have the chance to ask content experts questions regarding their area of expertise, after a GWN staff member leads the Q&A with a series of agreed upon topics.
College and Career Chats
College & Career Chats give young women and gender-expansive youth access and exposure to industries in need of their talents, while creating opportunities for youth to build their professional networks. Mentors for the Day have the opportunity to pass on your passion and wisdom as guest speakers in our intimate College & Career Chats. Acting as ambassadors for your alma maters or industry, you will share your personal and professional journeys, and offer tips for college as it relates to your given field. Most importantly, we discuss topics that go beyond how you’ve achieved success into how you survived and now thrive where you are.
Software Trainings
* To schedule this event, you are committing to a company-led event, with volunteer participation led by employees from within your ERG.
Mentors for the Day provide mentees with the opportunity to learn new information, hear about expert tips and tricks to work more efficiently, use new features to increase productivity, meet new people and build relationships, all while developing software hard skills that will be utilized to complete required program projects.
Editors for the Day Event
Editors for the Day and Girls Write Now meet for an intergenerational exchange to help young writers take their manuscript—essay, personal statement, short story, and otherwise—to the next level! Editors for the Day come prepared to answer questions about their professional journey and work with mentees to strengthen their manuscripts in small group breakout rooms. Girls Write Now will fully prepare you to offer constructive feedback on drafts, or partial drafts, of personal statements using our Active Listening exercise, a tried and true methodology. Don’t miss this opportunity to make an impact while enjoying an intergenerational gathering of insight, networking and wisdom with youth writers!
Learning Journey Mentorship
(Short Term Intensive)
What is a Learning Journey Mentor?
Career 360 Mentorship
This 4 month program engages our career-ready mentees in interview practice, resume and cover letter creations, networking practice and other workshops that revolve employee engagement and sustainability in any work environment. We are looking for mentors ages 27+ who will individually coach our mentees through the application process for internships or full time positions. For more information about the program, visit Girls Write Now Career 360 Program.
College 360 Mentorship
Beyond engaging college-ready mentees in securing their application materials, this 4 month program allows mentors to assist in assuring that mentees are making the right higher education decisions for them. Finalizing college lists, discussing higher education paths from community college to normalizing gap years, we recognize high education is not a one size fits all. We are looking for mentors ages 23+ who want to prepare mentees to be successful on whatever educational path they choose- discussing time management, prepping for dorm life, finding your community on campus and helping mentees identify scholarship opportunities and ensuring a degree is well within their reach with the right support and resources.
Mentor on Demand
(Ad-Hoc by the Hour)
Mentors on Demand are there to guide mentees as needed. We are looking for eager volunteers who would like to spend an hour occasionally speaking to our mentees about college, career, writing or digital media feedback and assistance.
With the assistance of a Girls Write Now staff member, mentees may request to schedule a session with you for one of the following:
1. Provide resume feedback, interview support or job application protocol.
2. Provide insight on college selection and application process.
3. Provide scholarship writing samples or application portfolios.
4. Lend a supportive ear and advisor to navigate campus or work culture scenarios.
5. Provide apractical advice and useful examples regarding grammar, style, structure, content and more on specific writing pieces, submissions, essays, etc.
6. Give feedback and advice on visual and digital media projects.