Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Hearing the Message!

Special thanks to the following Omaha based companies who took a break from work yesterday to hear the TeamMates message! Tom Osborne and a TeamMates mentee presented to a large group. We hope you join the team and become a mentor!

Cline Williams
Koley Jessen
Northern Natural Gas
Security National Bank
Waitt Interactive
Waitt Outdoor
Waitt Investments

Monday, June 14, 2010

Teammates of Crete


TeamMates of Crete celebrate teamwork and the power of mentoring!


Click on the image above to link to the Crete Public Schools website!

TeamMates of York

YORK — The entrĂ©e was a celebration of TeamMates Thursday night at York, with heaping helpings of mentor recruiting and fundraising on the side.

The first of what York TeamMates Program point man Brian Tonniges hopes to be many annual banquets preceded a golf outing Friday.

“We hope to make this into something,” Tonniges said of the two-pronged festival, “just to celebrate TeamMates and as our fundraiser.

TeamMates sponsors a $1,000 scholarship locally for any student who sees his or her mentor/mentee relationship through to high school graduation, then goes on to pursue a degree.

An equal goal, he said, is to “maybe sway some people here to be a mentor or maybe you know someone who would be a great TeamMates volunteer.”

TeamMates, originally started by Coach Tom Osborne using Husker football players for mentors, has grown by leaps and bounds. Today, mentors and their young mentees are seemingly everywhere. Typically, adult mentors are matched with students in sixth or seventh grade. Many of the relationships continue through high school.


That’s exactly the case for mentor Chad Hammer and.....

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