“Who are the real heroes?” Fredrick Marx believes it’s the men who are mentoring and initiating teen boys.
Mentoring and Volunteering
Seven Steps Schools Can Take to Close the Gender Gap
Boys are being shortchanged in schools. How can we fix this?
Remembering Sensei
Who owns the memory of a great man?
New Rites of Passage for Young Men
How to create meaningful rites that young men want to experience.
What Coach Chuck Merino Taught Me
More than twenty years ago, popular Boy Scout troop leader Chuck Merino came out as gay. What did an average teenage boy learn from this exceptional coach?
The Function of Adrenalin in Boys’ Rites of Passage
The young generation can be a threat to the status quo, or an energy source that needs direction, depending on how we meet the challenge.
Urinals, Graffiti, and Boys Being Seen
Being invisible in a high price to pay for being a teenage boy.
Gardening for Others
Scott Terry learned compassion for the hungry from a childhood of hunger. Now he gardens an urban plot to feed others.
Reimagining Mentorship
The building blocks of society are its adult citizens. What kind of society do we want to build?
The First Rule of Mentorship: Be Present
If you want to be there for someone, there’s just one thing you have to do.
Children Will Listen
Greg White spent a summer teaching a ten-year-old nephew to run, and changed both their lives.
Thank ALL the Veterans this Holiday Season
It’s easy to forget that living veterans from all wars and conflicts before 9/11 are still suffering from the effects of their service as well.
Letter to J., Who I Used to Mentor
Michael Copperman finds that the right moment to mentor usually comes on the way to somewhere else.
Boys in the Friend Zone
How can we mentor boys in dating and relationship skills?
What Is the True Measure of a Man?
We can’t choose our fathers, but we can find our own role models, says Donald D’Haene, who found inspiration in the real and scripted lives of Sidney Poitier.
Incarcerated Youth Write the Stories of Their Lives
A writing and mentoring program in Los Angeles for incarcerated and formerly incarcerated youth is changing their lives from the inside out.