Resource Profile: International Mentoring Network Organization

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The International Mentoring Network Organization (IMNO) began when three University students identified the lack of professional mentoring available to the general population. If you did not belong to a university, club, or professional association; you could not access the knowledge, advice, and vision of the alumni in their respective organizations. Chris Deaver, Jetmir Hysi, and Patrick Tedjamulia began to ask "Why?"

After studying the open source methodology, they connected the concepts of open source and professional mentoring and created an opportunity for young aspiring professionals to develop themselves in proactive, powerful ways no matter where they lived, what school they attended, or what organization they belonged to. The idea was to empower individuals with an honorable reason to interview their ideal mentor. The honorable reason is to share the mentor's advice, knowledge, and vision with the rest of the world. Chris, Jetmir, and Patrick labeled the idea "open source mentoring".

n October 2003, the International Mentoring Network Organization was founded to launch the open source mentoring movement, as an official 501c3 non-profit, IMNO membership is free to everyone. Because of IMNO, individuals can interview their ideal mentors and post the interviews on IMNO to make them available to everyone. IMNO gives you an honorable reason to approach your ideal mentor and ask for an interview.

In addition, IMNO has become a neighborhood for powerful, philanthropic mentors to share experiences and vision. Thousands of individuals from over 50 countries have since joined the Network, becoming heirs to an unparalleled opportunity to share their own success stories. Newspapers, magazines, and broadcasting stations have caught on as well, joining in the IMNO mission to creatively inspire aspiring professionals to accomplish meaningful objectives through open source mentoring.