Mentor Group Offers Online Screening Tool

By Nicole Wallace

As part of its mission, the New York charity iMentor has built an online system that allows for safe, guided communication between high-school students and their mentors — an effort that has won praise and interest from similar organizations.

Dana Saxon, director of partnerships at iMentor Interactive, says e-mail messages can intensify the ties between participants that are forged through monthly in-person meetings. Soon after the group's founding in 1999, its leaders