Project Background:
As a Summer Intern with College Mentors for Kids, a non-profit youth mentoring organization, I had the opportunity to research our current performance in mentoring matches. I looked at statistics of how long our mentors and mentees are staying together on average, looked at potential causes, and made recommendations for future improvement.
This graph shows our overall status as an organization in reference to the length of mentoring matches. Specifically, the percentage of matches in our program that fall into each time category.
I next analyzed the percentages of matches separated by each of our chapters against the number of years in that chapters existence to look for any correlation.
I then made a chart to showcase the best and worst performing chapters in each matching category. I then color coded the chapters which showed up multiple times in the chart. This was done to identify the chapters doing well in order to look at why, and then also the chapters under performing and why.
Lastly, I created a chart to display the top 5 performing chapters in each category and began to look at reasons why they are outperforming the other chapters.
Project Conclusion:
After looking into factors that could potentially affect the chapters’ performances, I came to the conclusion that the issue sourced from the soft factors of each chapter instead of the hard factors we were testing against. For example, we tested years in existence of the chapter, mentor demographics, and mentee demographics and all showed no correlation to the matching data. Therefore, I decided the cause was stemming from other factors such as the who the mentors interacted with, the relationships mentors made with each other, and other motivational factors that would increase mentor retention.
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