About Us
Welcome to the Mentor Iowa Web Site! The mission of Mentor Iowa is to provide trained volunteer mentors to abused, neglected, and delinquent children who are under the jurisdiction of the Juvenile Court. We will do this by working in partnership with the children, their families and the community.
Upcoming Events
Sunday, October 11th – The Pumpkin Ranch (Winterset)
Ways You Can Help & Updates
VARIETY – the Children’s Charity grant award
Mentor Iowa is a recent recipient of a grant award from Variety – the Children’s Charity of Iowa! This funding award from Variety will help sponsor six group events (Back to School Bash – August, Smash Park – September, Pumpkin Patch – October, Iowa Wild – January, “Cats” performance – March, Iowa Cubs – May), Jeans for Teens/Clothes for Kids program, Mentor Activity Fund and Mentee Assistance Fund. These funds are instrumental for Mentor Iowa to provide a wide range of fun activities for our match pairs to participate in at no expense to our mentors.
Variety – the Children’s Charity is dedicated to improving the lives of children who are underprivileged, at-risk, critically ill or living with special needs. Funding is provided to programs and initiatives that directly impact the well-being of children throughout Iowa. For more information on how you can be a part of Variety’s work, please visit www.varietyiowa.com.
Thank you so much to Variety for their many ways of support to Mentor Iowa!
Mentor Iowa’s annual Adopt-a-Family Program
Mentor Iowa will be conducting their annual Adopt-a-Family Program this holiday season. If you are interested in adopting a child in our program please contact Marty Lester at 515-277-9797 or marty@mentoriowa.org.
O’DONNELL & FRIENDS CHARITIES
Mentor Iowa is honored to keep this post on our home page as this is our largest one day check we have received in our history. We would like to thank O’Donnell & Friends Charities for selecting Mentor Iowa as the charity of choice from their golf outing in 2016. As a result of their hard work and efforts, Mentor Iowa received $103,198.25 to help create the Dan & Dee O’Donnell scholarship. This scholarship will benefit Mentor Iowa mentees who are in their Sophomore, Junior and Senior years in college.
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