Ideas for Cities: Mentor Matchmaker
- Posted by: GOOD
- on November 3, 2009 at 6:05 am
Mentor Matchmaker
A matchmaking algorithm and profiling system could connect people as cohorts in learning, as well as with mentors, tutors, curriculum options, and learning and career/apprenticeship opportunities. Almost anyone can be a mentor. A 3rd grader can mentor a 1st grader, a 20-year-old can mentor an 80-year-old. There would be something and someone for every learner through the matchmaker system.
This is part six of a continuing brainstorm on the future of cities, inaugurated at the Velocity conference in September 2009. We’ll post a new idea each day until we run out, at which point we’re counting on you to come up with something smart. Do you have a good idea for improving your city? Add it in the comments below, or tweet it to @GOOD with hashtag #cityideas—we’ll publish the best ones. Tomorrow’s idea: Served to Serving.
DISCUSSION: 1 Comment
This sounds like an organization named LIFT (formerly known as National Student Partnerships) that harnesses the resources college students have at their finger tips and uses those talents to mentor and teach community members outside the campus gates… http://www.nspnet.org/index.php