May 24, 2010 — Mass Mentoring Partnership, a nonprofit based in Boston dedicated to providing mentors to youth across Massachusetts, raised $200,000 at its recent annual Champions of Mentoring Breakfast to support the organization’s goal of doubling the number of mentoring relationships to 40,000 by 2013.

Mass Mentoring Partnership expects the total to increase as results from an online auction, which ends June 2, are still to be tabulated.

The recent event at Fenway Park marked the sixth time the breakfast was held, and coincided with Mentoring Night at Fenway Park the same evening.

The goal of doubling mentor relationships was formalized through a strategic plan that was developed two years ago, according to Lauren Dean, the organization’s manager of communications and public awareness. She said that while money raised in previous similar events had supported the strategic plan, this year was the first time the goal was linked in the event’s messaging.

About 350 people from attended the event. Notable pro-bono support was provided by Conover Tuttle Pace, a marketing agency that designed our event collateral pro-bono. The event itself was presented by Citi, and lead sponsors were Hill Holliday, Raytheon, the Red Sox, State Street and Verizon.

As the umbrella youth mentoring organization for more than 165 mentoring programs around the state, Mass Mentoring works to ensure that the programs are of high-quality to meet the needs of youth statewide, Dean said.

“As the only organization solely dedicated to the strategic expansion of mentoring in Massachusetts, we deliver and facilitate training, technical assistance, networking, advocacy, and resources to mentoring programs,” she explained.

Mass Mentoring is seeking to close what it describes as the “mentoring gap,” which encompasses scores of thousand of Massachusetts youth, ages 7 to 18, who live in a single-parent household in poverty.

The breakfast event honored Suffolk County Sheriff Andrea Cabral; Don Rodman, president of the Rodman Ride for Kids; and State Sen. Stan Rosenberg, all recognized as champions of mentoring.

The breakfast coincided with the annual Mentoring Night at Fenway Park, where the Red Sox and Mass Mentoring hosted more than 700 mentors and mentees from across the state at the game against the Minnesota Twins.