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	<description>Innovative career education programs for Pennsylvania&#039;s education and training community</description>
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		<title>Proven Success: Students Who Completed PA eMentoring Program Enjoy Better Self Esteem</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Check out this great write-up about PA eMentoring&#8217;s proven positive impact on self-esteem from the Pittsburgh Regional Compact Quarterly!

 







This year, as part of its relationship with Highmark Healthy High Five, an initiative of the Highmark Foundation, Pittsburgh Regional Compact Member Smart Futures participated in a data collection and analysis process to measure the affects of online [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PA eMentoring Report 2009-2010 School Year</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 17:49:34 +0000</pubDate>
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PA eMentoring Report for 2009-10 School Year:


The Positive Affects of Online Career Mentoring
on the Self-Esteem of High School Students
PA eMentoring Report Full Download 

Prepared By: Elisa Fioritto, Intern and Research Asst., Indiana University of Pennsylvania
David J. Mosey, Executive Director, Smart Futures
 This community report was sponsored by:
The Highmark Foundation

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		<title>Book Spotlight:&#8221;The Mentee&#8217;s Guide to Mentoring&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 15:55:27 +0000</pubDate>
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There is a lot of information about how to be an effective mentor, but what about being an effective mentee? Learning to accept mentoring can be just as strenuous as providing mentoring. The Mentee&#8217;s Guide to Mentoring* is an accessible book that offers practical advice for being a productive mentee. According to Amazon.com editorial reviews:
The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Mentor to Greatness: Coach John Wooden</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 14:06:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This past weekend a great mentor, former UCLA basketball coach John Wooden, passed away. The following is an article published in 2008 about his life as a mentor first and a basketball coach second.
&#8230;Almost every day of the week, Wooden makes his way through those doors…and almost every day, someone is waiting for him. To the people [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Join Us for Transform Pittsburgh on June 1st!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 16:38:55 +0000</pubDate>
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Smart Futures   
Nonprofit Leadership Institute
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Pittsburgh 
Coro Pittsburgh and its community partners invite you to become engaged with these exciting organizations!
 Tuesday, June 1st, 2010
4:30 &#8211; 6:30pm
 McCormick &#38; Schmick&#8217;s Seafood Restaurant, Rivers Room
Southside Works location
2667 Sidney St.
Pittsburgh, PA 15203
 Free and open to the public.
Light hors d&#8217;oeuvres will be served, &#38; drink specials will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New York Times &#8220;Plan B: Skip College&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 15:21:58 +0000</pubDate>
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By JACQUES STEINBERG
Published: May 14, 2010

Short of becoming a reality TV star, the answer is rote and, some would argue, rather knee-jerk: Earn a college degree.
The idea that four years of higher education will translate into a better job, higher earnings and a happier life — a refrain sure to be repeated this month at [...]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 15:14:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8221; Mentoring is a brain to pick, an ear to listen, and a push in the right direction.&#8221;  
-  John Crosby
 
 
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		<title>Vote for PA eMentoring and help us win $50k through the Pepsi Refresh Project!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2010 18:46:06 +0000</pubDate>
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Smart Futures needs your votes!  We have submitted an entry for a $50,000 grant for our PA eMentoring program in the Pepsi Refresh Project for the month of May.  If you haven’t heard yet, Pepsi is giving away $1,300,000 every month to people, businesses, and non-profit organizations that submit an idea that will have a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Check Out Upcoming Trainings at the Mentoring Partnership of SW PA!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 15:24:53 +0000</pubDate>
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Mentoring Partnership of Southwestern Pennsylvania
Upcoming Trainings for Mentors



Saturday, May 1, 2010
Mentoring 101: What Every Mentor Should Know 9:30am-Noon
Mentoring 205: Cultural Diversity 10:00am-Noon
Mentoring 206: Values Clarification 10:00am-Noon
Mentoring 202: Maintaining &#38; Establishing Boundaries 12:30pm-2:30pm
Mentoring 207: Stress in Adolescence 12:30pm-2:30pm
Wednesday, May 19, 2010  
Mentoring 102 Expanded (expanded component &#8211; Communication) 5:00pm-8:30pm
To register and view course descriptions visit: Trainings for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>April Showers Bring Financial Literacy Month!</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartfutures.org/index.php/archives/500</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2010 20:14:56 +0000</pubDate>
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In 2003, The United States Congress officially recognized April as Financial Literacy Month in order to promote healthy financial practices and habits. The need for efficient  financial education is more dire than ever and Smart Futures is proud to be a part of the community supplying the resources.

Smart Futures has partnered with Wells Fargo to develop Financial Literacy 101: [...]]]></description>
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