SAYes Mentoring is a non-profit that offers young people free e-mentorship, matching them with professionally trained and supported volunteer mentors from around the world.
No young person should face their future alone. We offer free e-mentorship programmes for under-served young people (mentees), connecting them with trained volunteers (mentors) from around the world, in support of positive life outcomes and a stable intergenerational future.
Mentors inspire young people to develop a deep and honest vision for their lives, guiding them to set and achieve personal and professional goals, and advocating and supporting real growth and social change.
You will learn how to live, how to plan your own life and manage setbacks, how to make better decisions and develop powerful new practices, and how to improve in every area that matters to you and to all of us.
SAYes has provided over 50,000 hours of one-to-one mentorship, engaging thousands of mentors and mentees.
BE THE CHANGE
TWO PATHS TO END SOCIAL POVERTY
“It has been the best experience for me and I hope other young people get to experience that too. They are committed and won’t let you down. Go for it, you only get one life.”
In 2023 we secured support through the Mayor of London’s Propel programme to extend support to many groups of under-served young Londoners. We have also worked with business partners and key funders to extend our mentorship offer to young people throughout the UK.
In COVID, our support went online through weekly video calls, enabling us to match South African mentees with mentors from all over the world as well as to reach many other groups of young people seeking mentorship.
“The SAYes mentorship programme will make you a better mentor, coach, manager, and frankly speaking, person.”
DAAN LAMMER, NIKE EMEA MARKETING DIRECTOR, NETHERLANDS
To learn more about how we measure impact, click here.
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52% “life-changing”, 38% “much positive
impact” and 9% “some positive impact”.
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45% “life-changing”, 44% “much positive”,
11% “some positive”.
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74% “I love SAYes”, 18% “Really good
feeling”, 8% “Good feeling”.
To learn more about how we measure impact, click here.
SAYes achieved similar results in 2020 / 2021 Annual Reports.
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31% “Extensively”, 63% “A lot”, and 6% “a little”
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Personally: 33% “Life-changing”, 60% “Much positive”, 7% “Some positive”.
Professionally: 31% “Life-changing”, 28% “Much positive”, 31% “Some positive”
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Within a leadership self-assessment, mentors scored their ability to motivate others to act strategically as most impacted (92%)
To learn more about how we measure impact, click here.
SAYes achieved similar results in 2020 / 2021 Annual Reports.
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A VISION OF THE WORLD POSSIBLE THROUGH MENTORSHIP
Mentorship is a powerful pathway to a more creative and compassionate world. Our vision is to provide a mentor to every young person who wants one.
Why SAYeS?
Relationships are at the heart of human flourishing. Most social change interventions fail because they fail to consider how powerfully social human beings are.We have found that the best way to create lasting and meaningful change is through positive relationships.
We’re part of a new vision for philanthropy, a growing global community committed to generosity at scale, to fund massive social change, focused on the world’s most pressing problems.
We are inspiring businesses, governments, and individuals to make social change investments that matter. This allows us to offer world-class training and support to thousands of young people, totally free.
Our aim is to usher in a new era of mentorship – a world where there is universal access to high-quality relational support, regardless of chance differences of background, geography or circumstance.
