Working document
The Match Criteria Worksheet
A working template for deciding what a good pair means in your program before the first application arrives.
Free resources
Resources for Mentoring Program Coordinators
Practical tools for the parts of the job that take the most time: matching, chasing, budgeting and reporting.
Everything here was built for one reader: the coordinator who owns a mentoring cohort end to end and is measured on whether pairs actually met. That means no theory about the value of mentorship and no vendor tour. It means numbers you can put in a budget request and a worksheet you can fill in before intake opens.
Start with the match criteria worksheet if your next cohort has not opened applications yet. Start with the cost per pair calculator if a budget conversation is coming. The comparison pages are for the season when you have decided the spreadsheet has run out of road and you want to know which kind of tool fits a program your size.
Free tools
Calculators for Mentoring Program Coordinators
Two free calculators built from the numbers coordinators are actually asked for, cost per pair and matching hours.
Comparisons
How MentorPairing Compares
Three straight comparisons for the coordinator deciding what should run the next mentoring cohort.
Main guide
How do I actually match two hundred mentors and mentees without spending my whole month on it?
It settles how to turn a closed application list into a defensible set of mentor and mentee pairs in one working afternoon.
Magazine
The Pairing Desk
Practical reporting for the people who design, match, run and measure women's mentoring programs at US associations and universities.
About
Who writes all of this
Who writes The Pairing Desk, the association and campus mentoring cohorts behind the matching method used here, and why mentor capacity comes up in every answer.
When the criteria are written, run them
Everything on this page stays free whether or not you ever become a customer, because deciding what a good pair means in your program is your work, not ours. When those weighted criteria exist and you want them applied to two hundred applications without losing a weekend to hand matching, a demo is the quickest way to find out if it suits a program your size.