Champions of Mentoring Breakfast
On Wednesday, June 4th, Mass Mentoring Partnership (MMP) hosted its fourth annual "Champions of Mentoring" Breakfast in the State Street Pavilion and EMC Club at Fenway Park. More than 300 guests attended the breakfast, which raised more than $150,000 to support Mass Mentoring's mission to expand quality mentoring opportunities for youth. MMP honored three outstanding supporters of mentoring: marketing and advertising firm Conover Tuttle Pace for their pro-bono support of MMP and their involvement with Everybody Wins Metro Boston; The Standard-Times (New Bedford) and The Herald News (Fall River) for their continued promotion and support of the SMILES mentoring program; and Janara Ambramsen and Leslie Lawrence for their successful partnership with Springfield School Volunteers.
NESN Red Sox Studio Host Tom Caron emceed the event and moderated a question and answer session with Red Sox Manager Terry Francona and Tampa Bay Rays Manager Joe Maddon. Francona and Maddon spoke about their success in managing their experienced and young teams respectively, and about their own professional and personal mentors. Red Sox Pitching Coach John Farrell joined Francona for the live auction, where they led a lively bidding session which raised over $26,000 and offered one-of-a-kind items, like a pitching lesson with Farrell and a hitting lesson with Sean Casey.
That evening, MMP and the Red Sox teamed once again up to host "Mentoring Night at Fenway Park," where more than 700 mentors and mentees from across Massachusetts were in the bleachers for the Red Sox vs. Rays game.
Thank you to all of our sponsors and our Champions of Mentoring Committee!
Champions of Mentoring Sponsors
Presenting Sponsor
Citi
Champions
Bank of America
Boston Red Sox
Herb Chambers Automotive
KeyBanc Capital Markets
State Street Corporation
MVPs
Citizens Bank
Comcast
Conover Tuttle Pace
Genuine Interactive
John & Tammy MacWilliams
Staples
All-Stars
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts
Boston Private Bank & Trust Company
Chris Bartel
Ernst & Young
Frontier Capital Management Company
Players
Capital IQ, Division of Standard & Poor's
Crystal Capital
Franklin Sports
Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, PC
Tri Wire Engineering Solutions
Event Committee:
Chris Bartel,
Fidelity
Karen Brooks,
Comcast
Todd Carver,
Citi
Laura Cipriano,
State Street
Jennifer Flynn,
Boston Red Sox
Josh Franklin,
Crystal Capital
David Gesmondi,
KeyBanc Capital Markets
Adam Grossman,
Boston Red Sox
Peter Kuechle,
Frontier Capital Management Company
Michael Mahoney,
The Rockport Company
Brian Napoli,
Entercom Communications/WEEI
Anthony Schweizer,
Smith Barney
Andrea Solomita,
Trinity One Marketing
Alicia Verity,
Bank of America
Monne Williams,
Boston Red Sox
If you have any questions please contact Liz Britt,
lbritt@massmentors.org.