In the United States alone, there are some 25 million youth growing up fatherless. This is a personal tragedy and a collective epidemic. Countless statistics tell us that children from fatherless homes are more likely to: drop out of school, become teenage parents, join gangs and experiment with drugs. The fatherless story is not ending well. We believe this can change... The Mentoring Project's President, John Sowers, often says, "This generation has been wounded the most in relationships - it is in relationships where the healing must begin." We believe that mentoring is a way to rewrite the fatherless story. At The Mentoring Project, we recruit, train, inspire, equip and match leaders to become mentors. We conduct live mentor trainings, advocacy events and a yearly conference - Long Live Mentoring. We provide communities across the world with access to world-class mentor training through our small group Mentor Toolkit (available at thementoringproject.org). We provide individual mentors with training via our individual Mentor Toolkit and continuing leadership development via our national Mentor Collective. Offices in Portland, Oregon and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.