AT&T Employees Mobilize to Mentor!

Onsite Mentoring

Building on the success of AT&T's job shadow program, employees and students team up for a couple of hours during the regular business workday.

• Employees share life experiences and career advice through project-based activities.
• Students are guided by employees to learn how to problem-solve in a team setting.
• Employees encourage students to take the pledge not to text and drive through AT&T's It Can Wait movement and teach them how to manage their own digital footprint.

Offsite Mentoring

Employees mentor students on academic and career skills in learning environments at schools and throughout the community.

• With AT&T Skills to Go, employees work directly with educators and community leaders to mentor students at schools and community centers with pre-set curriculum. The curriculum focuses on topics such as decision making, financial literacy basics, communication skills and career planning.
• In addition to mentoring academic and career skills, employees encourage students to take the pledge not to text and drive and be part of AT&T's It Can Wait movement.

Online Mentoring

Utilizing technology, employees in several cities across the country are piloting the online option to share career and academic knowledge with students at risk of dropping out of high school.

• Employees meet with students in person several times throughout the school year and engage in weekly online mentoring, covering various academic and career topics.
• Employees help students track their progress throughout the year, and help connect classroom learning to future career success.

Aspire Mentoring Academy's Non-Profit Team

AT&T is working with multiple educational non-profit leaders on Aspire Mentoring Academy.

Junior Achievement USA is the nation's largest organization dedicated to giving young people the knowledge and skills they need to succeed. AT&T and Junior Achievement are building on the success of providing Job Shadow opportunities to more than 100,000 students in four years. Aspire Job Mentoring includes project-based activities to enhance the mentoring experience for thousands of students and employees across the country.

Inspired by LEAD is a national organization that unites the world's top colleges and universities with corporations and businesses to enable high school students to explore careers in business, science, engineering and technology. AT&T is working with the LEAD Program, in partnership with the Make It Happen Foundation, to activate nearly 1,000 AT&T employee-mentors to expand the LEAD Program's "Inspired By Lead " (IBL) skills-based mentoring program, serving 1,000 students at risk of dropping out of high school in Bedminster, NJ, Atlanta, GA, Durham, NC, Dallas, TX, Chicago, IL and Washington, D.C.

The We Teach Science Foundation was founded in 2008 to assist K-12 students in their math and science education through Remote Tutoring and Mentoring (RTM). AT&T is teaming with We Teach Science to deliver e-Mentoring in which employees will help thousands of students one-on-one, over five years, across the U.S.

Big Brothers Big Sisters is the nation's largest donor and volunteer supported mentoring network. AT&T and Big Brothers Big Sisters are utilizing Mentor2.0, Big Brothers Big Sisters' technology-enriched high school youth mentoring program, with a pilot in Dallas, TX. This online mentoring initiative aims to provide high school students with the support and guidance they need to graduate high school and succeed in college and the workforce.