Mentor Relationship

Mentors provide invaluable guidance and support during the ILD program year.

Each participant is paired with a primary development mentor; a “seasoned” leader in our local nonprofit community. Mentors have experience in a variety of settings and with all aspects of development.

Participants and mentors meet at least once following each class session to discuss curriculum and lessons learned. Meetings are planned by the participant to meet their personal goals.

This is a perfect chance to brainstorm, ask questions, bounce ideas, and build your skill set.

ILD participants also have access to the full mentor pool so as to gain the broadest possible range of development skills.

“It is very gratifying to pay forward the good mentoring I received, and I, too, learn alongside [my mentee] as she takes on interesting challenges.”  -- ILD Mentor, 2013

Pictured: (left to right, top) Megan Scremin, ILD Class of 2015 & Mentor, CEO, Special Olympics Colorado; Sydney Weiss, Class of 2022, Donor Experience Manager, Denver Zoo;

(left to right, lower photo) Jazmin Brooks, ILD Class of 2019 & Mentor, Senior Director of Development, Jessica Carbone and Sarah Jeno, Class of 2022, Kelly Hall, ILD Class of 2015, University of Colorado Boulder