West Trenton. March 9, 2010 The Institute of Wonderful Women Working for Empowerment announces it is recruiting eMentor volunteers. The eMentoring Program offered by the Institute of Wonderful Women Working for Empowerment (IWWWE) and funded by the Princeton Area Community Foundation provides support and encouragement to minority women in the Mercer County community who are at least 25 years old and enrolled in healthcare training in area schools.
The eMentoring Program builds career success in the healthcare field for minority women. The healthcare industry is one of the largest and fasted growing in the country. Successful completion of a course of study paves the way toward a career that offers economic stability. It is an area with great promise for employment. The eMentor program provides a path to achieve career success in the healthcare field.
Requirements of the eMentor? The eMentor should be a professional or retired professional in healthcare or related fields, empathetic, caring and willing to share expertise and networks with a protégé who is currently enrolled in study in the healthcare field. The eMentor and protégé are matched for compatibility by the IWWWE staff, according to information contained in their applications. Requirements to be an eMentor include a willingness to contact the protégé at least 20 minutes per week, have experience in any area in the healthcare field and be willing to share expertise to enable to protégé to graduate and obtain employment.
An information session for eMentoring is being held on March 25, 2010 at 7pm, at the Lawrence Library, Headquarters Branch, 2751 Brunswick Pike, Lawrenceville, NJ 08648. For more information call 609.466.2819 or e-mail iwwweinfo@gmail.com. To complete an application go to our website: www.wonderfulworkingwomen.org. Become an eMentor!! Thanks so much to the Princeton Area Community Foundation and donors of IWWWE for making this program possible.