David Shapiro

A purpose-driven workforce.  A stronger community. Common Impact is a nationally-focused nonprofit strategy consulting firm. We create talent and skills-building programs to develop and engage corporate employees, while partnering with successful nonprofits to use this talent to advance their missions. Our skilled volunteering and employee engagement programs strengthen local communities in which we live and work. We envision a society in which all individuals and businesses invest their unique talents toward this shared purpose.

MENTOR is the unifying champion for quality youth mentoring in the United States. Our mission is to expand the quality and quantity of mentoring relationships nationwide. Potential is equally distributed; opportunity is not. A major driver of healthy development and opportunity is whom you know and who’s in your corner. 30 years ago, MENTOR was created to expand that opportunity for young people by building a youth mentoring field and movement. The result: a more than 10-fold increase in young people in structured mentoring relationships. Today, we are the expert voice representing a movement that is diverse and broad and seeps into every aspect of daily life – meeting young people everywhere they are from schools to workplaces and beyond. Rated as a 4-star organization by Charity Navigator.

Since 1960, AFP has inspired global change and supported efforts that generated over $1 trillion. AFP’s nearly 30,000 individual and organizational members raise over $100 billion annually, equivalent to one-third of all charitable giving in North America and millions more around the world.

A purpose-driven workforce.  A stronger community. Common Impact is a nationally-focused nonprofit strategy consulting firm. We create talent and skills-building programs to develop and engage corporate employees, while partnering with successful nonprofits to use this talent to advance their missions. Our skilled volunteering and employee engagement programs strengthen local communities in which we live and work. We envision a society in which all individuals and businesses invest their unique talents toward this shared purpose.

Friends of the Children was founded in 1993 in Portland, OR with just three Friends—salaried, professional mentors—and 24 children. Today, we are a national network with 26 locations across the country, and we are a $50 million network. Friends of the Children was founded by Duncan Campbell, a successful business entrepreneur whose own troubled childhood inspired him to found the organization. Our innovative model pairs children who are in foster care or in high-poverty schools with a Friend. Each child selected for the program has a Friend by their side from kindergarten through high school graduation—12+ years, no matter what. Research has shown that to break the cycle of generational poverty, children need long-term, relationship-based support to graduate from high school, remain free from involvement in the criminal justice system, wait to parent until after their teen years, and pursue opportunities through post-secondary education, serving our country or finding living-wage employment. Third-party evaluation of program graduates shows that: • 83% of our youth graduate with a high school diploma or a GED; • 93% remain free from juvenile justice system involvement; • 98% wait until after their teen years to become parents; and • 92% go on to enroll in post-secondary education, serve our country, or enter the workforce. Our successful model is now in 22 locations, including four sites in Oregon (Portland, Gresham, Klamath Basin, Lane County and Central Oregon); three sites in California (Antelope Valley, Los Angeles, and San Francisco); three sites in Washington (Tacoma, Seattle, and Southwest Washington); Austin, TX; Boston, MA; Charlotte, NC; Detroit, MI; Fargo, ND and Moorhead, MN; Harlem and the South Bronx, NY; Salt Lake City, UT; Tampa Bay, FL; and Cornwall, United Kingdom.

Mass Mentoring Partnership (MMP), is committed to ensuring that all young people in Massachusetts have the mentoring relationships they need to develop into thriving, engaged adults, resulting in vibrant communities.