About ACP's Nationwide Mentoring Program
ACP’s Mentoring Program connects veterans (Protégés) with corporate professionals (Mentors) for a yearlong mentorship. Paired based on their career objectives and professional experience, Mentors and Protégés define the goals of the mentorship together, and create and implement an action plan to achieve them through monthly discussions.
All applicants are interviewed by phone in order that ACP staff can learn more about their military and/or professional backgrounds, career-development goals, and preferences in a Mentor/Protégé (e.g., industry, age, gender).
Ideally, over the course of a year, all matched pairs will have twelve significant discussions regarding the Protégé’s career objectives. These can focus on topics ranging from résumé building and interview skills to networking and small business development.
National Pairing
To offer the opportunity of a mentorship to veterans across the country, we ask Mentors to be flexible regarding the location of their Protégé. Mentors and Protégés in national, long-distance mentorships communicate by phone, email, and/or videoconference. We recommend national pairs use videoconferencing during the first month of the mentorship to establish a personal connection. ACP expects nationally matched pairs to communicate every two weeks.
Local Pairing
While we cannot always guarantee a quality local fit, ACP has large concentrations of Mentors in the following cities:
Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas/Ft. Worth, Denver, Hartford, Houston, Los Angeles, Minneapolis/St. Paul, New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Raleigh/Durham, San Antonio/Austin, San Francisco, Topeka/Manhattan, and Washington, DC.
Mentors and Protégés who live in one of the above-mentioned cities may notify ACP staff of a strong preference for a local, in-person pairing. Locally matched pairs will be asked to commit to at least twelve in-person meetings, to be arranged by the Mentor. Mentors may attend all of the meetings personally or arrange for colleagues to meet with their Protégé.
Protégé Eligibility
Veterans who have served on active duty in any branch of service since 2001, and spouses of those wounded or killed in action, are eligible to apply for Protégé openings. Preference is given to those with service-connected disabilities.
Mentor Eligibility
Individuals associated with our Participating Institutions are eligible to apply to be ACP Mentors.
