Start a Business Mentor Program

If you serve entrepreneurs with training or access to capital, MicroMentor's Affiliate Program can empower you to expand your service delivery and improve business outcomes for your clients. Our national network of 3,500+ volunteer business experts offer a diversity of technical and industry knowledge and our support team ensures that entrepreneurs find meaningful mentoring relationships.

We have developed a suite of tools and trainings to help you build a thriving business mentoring program. Our group functionality creates a local hub for your clients and volunteers to connect and share valuable business knowledge. As a Premium Affiliate, you also have access to automated notifications, administrators tools, intensive training, event curricula, and outcomes reporting.

Get in the driver's seat of your own mentoring program.

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Program Benefits

Basic (free)

Access to national network of 3500+ Business Mentors
Ability to create and manage a group page on MicroMentor
Online resources for entrepreneurs and mentors

Premium

Includes all free features, plus

Intensive 3-Month training for program champions
"Don't make me think" automated notifications to trigger support activities
Individualized customer support
Facilitator Guides to host live Mentoring Workshops
Access to an online affiliate portal where you can access participant contact information, match detail, & baseline business data
Client participation and outcomes reports
Co-branded marketing materials to aid in client and mentor recruitment

Want a print version? Download our Affiliate Program Overview to share with your colleagues at your next staff meeting.

StartZone Program Manager Mike Skinner StartZone program manager, Mike Skinner likes that MicroMentor provides a "volunteer program in a box" and is glad that his clients "can tap this resource when they need it and move forward with a mentor at their own pace and in their own way."
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Business Mentoring Works

MicroMentor mentors directly impact individual entrepreneurs and collectively foster sustainable economic development in disadvantaged communities across the nation. Data from our most recent business outcomes report shows the impressive impact of personalized business mentoring and advising, with participating entrepreneurs reporting:

An increase in median annual business sales of $15,390, or 75%.
An 87% business survival rate in comparison to the U.S. national average, which is 66%.
43% of entrepreneurs continued working with their mentors for more than one year. On average entrepreneurs spend 16 hours with their mentors.

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