Women of Tomorrow Mentor & Scholarship Program

Our mission is to inspire, motivate, and empower at-risk young women to live up to their full potential through a unique group mentoring program with highly accomplished professional women and scholarship opportunities. Through sustained, caring mentoring relationships we aim to help at-risk girls stay in school, improve academic performance, and gain practical skills that will help them mature into resilient, responsible members of the community.

Our program methodology is based on sustained mentoring relationships that extend through a girl's entire high school career. Each school year, Women of Tomorrow reaches more than 1,000 at-risk girls in 50 public high schools across Metro Detroit. More than 80% are minority students and 82% qualify for free or reduced lunch. We introduce at-risk girls to distinguished female community leaders who volunteer as mentors. Our mentors are top-tier professional women who represent a wide variety of careers. By connecting these outstanding professionals with small groups of at-risk girls, we provide access to beneficial relationships, knowledge and learning experiences that otherwise would likely be out of reach for these girls. Each group is composed of a diverse group of girls, thus exposing them to peers who are not in their daily circle and encouraging tolerance and healthy social development. School-based mentoring sessions are scheduled monthly over the course of their high school career. Mentoring session topics include study skills, career goals, time management, stress and anger management, resume writing, job interview skills, financial literacy, health and nutrition, college admissions, scholarships and more.

We conduct career-focused field trips and college campus visits that open new doors to ideas, opportunities and life paths ordinarily unavailable to these girls.

Our scholarships, separately funded, serve as an incentive for mentees to stay in school and improve their grades.