Vision for the Future…
Northside neighbors and broader community partners join with NAZ families and partner organizations to help all kids graduate from high school college-ready.

As these pathways to involvement are built, more opportunities will show up on this site. These will include mentoring, tutoring, home construction projects, recreational activities, and more!

Current Volunteer Needs
The three mentoring organizations aligned with the Northside Achievement Zone (NAZ) are stepping up to guarantee that every eligible child in NAZ can be matched to a mentor. We need YOU to help make this happen.

Mentoring is one of our key strategies to success. The research is clear…. kids from neighborhoods like the Northside have more school success when they are paired with a mentor.

Our three partner mentoring organizations have the following missions based on each focus:

• Kinship of Greater Minneapolis: Kinship of Greater Minneapolis supports kids ages 5 to 15 by carefully creating and sustaining long-term mentoring relationships with caring individuals, couples or families. Kinship is committed to helping kids reach their God-given potential and gain the assets they need to be successful in school and life.
• Bolder Options: Bolder Options is an innovative program focused on healthy youth development. Uniting one-on-one mentoring with goal setting, physical activity, tutoring, and leadership opportunities to build confidence, maximize potential, and encourage healthy life skills in 10–14 year old youth.
• Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Greater Twin Cities: For 90 years, Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Greater Twin Cities (BBBS) has been matching children ages 7–12 with adult mentors to help young people realize their full potential as they grow in self-confidence, become more likely to avoid violence and illegal activities, perform better in school and develop stronger relationships with adults and peers.

Sign up to be a volunteer!
Using the link at the left, sign up to receive more information about becoming a NAZ Mentor with one or more of these partners. We thank you for reaching out to children and youth in NAZ and supporting our overall goal of preparing all kids for college.

To learn more about the NAZ mentoring partners, click here to watch a KARE 11 special on the impact of mentoring.

To be further involved:

Contact our partners for ways to volunteer directly through them to support their work in the Zone, and learn about other ways to engage for allies (people like you looking to support NAZ and the Zone), such as sponsoring a supply drive.