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Magnify Mentoring supports a global community of people who are motivated to have a positive impact with their careers and lives.

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What problem is Magnify Mentoring working on?

Following its 2019 consultations with women, non-binary and trans people of all genders, Magnify Mentoring identified mentorship as the most promising approach to inspire, support, and connect people who are motivated to have a positive impact with their careers and lives. Due to its success in its first years, the organisation has since expanded its reach to others seeking such mentorship, although it still targets people from traditionally underrepresented groups.

What does Magnify Mentoring do?

Magnify Mentoring supports a global community of people who are motivated to have a positive impact with their careers and lives. Its team and expert advisors pair mentees who are interested in pursuing high-impact careers with more experienced mentors for a series of one-on-one meetings. On average, mentees and mentors meet once a month for 60–90 minutes. To facilitate discussion, Magnify Mentoring provides optional prompt questions. Learn more about what the programme is like for both mentors and mentees.

Through its Slack and multiple networking events, Magnify Mentoring offers mentees access to a broader community with a wealth of professional and personal expertise. It also runs training led by external professionals on topics such as public speaking, building networks, and setting professional and personal boundaries — all catered to its mentees' needs.

What information does Giving What We Can have about the cost-effectiveness of Magnify Mentoring?1.

We don't currently have further information about the cost-effectiveness of Magnify Mentoring beyond it doing work in a high-impact cause area and taking a reasonably promising approach.

Please note that GWWC does not evaluate individual charities. Our recommendations are based on the research of third-party, impact-focused charity evaluators our research team has found to be particularly well-suited to help donors do the most good per dollar, according to their recent evaluator investigations. Our other supported programs are those that align with our charitable purpose — they are working on a high-impact problem and take a reasonably promising approach (based on publicly-available information).

At Giving What We Can, we focus on the effectiveness of an organisation's work -- what the organisation is actually doing and whether their programs are making a big difference. Some others in the charity recommendation space focus instead on the ratio of admin costs to program spending, part of what we’ve termed the “overhead myth.” See why overhead isn’t the full story and learn more about our approach to charity evaluation.