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We couldn’t do this insightful work without your investment and thought leadership.  \n• Huge thanks to the Custom Insights team at Pacific Market Research (now Olympic Research and Strategy) for their partnership and expertise on data collection, analysis, and reporting.  \n• Thanks to Dr. Sam McQuillin of the University of South Carolina for his support on survey design and for facilitating Institutional Review Board approval for this work.  \n• Special acknowledgment to Shaun Glaze and Kathleen Perez at Inclusive Data for their invaluable contributions and collaboration on this research, including leading and facilitating the focus group discussions.  \n• Thanks to Cecilia Molinari and Jenni Geiser for their copyediting and desktop publishing skills, respectively.  \n• Finally, special thanks to the individuals who participated in our survey and focus groups. The authors hope that we have accurately conveyed your feelings about mentoring and the impact of caring adults on your lives. We appreciate your honesty and your willingness to discuss your lived experiences with us.  \n WHO MENTORED YOU? 2  \nTABLE OF CONTENTS  \nIntroduction:  \nGoals of the Study ..................................................................................................................... 4  \nMethodology ................................................................................................................................ 5  \nDefining Key Terms .....................................................................................................................7  \nMajor Themes:  \n1  Americans report major increases in mentoring relationships over  the last 30 years........................................................................................................................10  \n2  Unfortunately, today’s young people are reporting increases in  the mentoring gap.................................................................................................................... 21  \n3  Even when mentored, most youth remember times when they wish  they had mentoring.................................................................................................................  29  \n4  Americans attribute much of their success in life to their mentors..................... 37  \n5  Americans’“most meaningful” mentors supported them in a variety of ways......................................................................................................................49  \nPaths Forward and Next Steps as a Movement ......................................................................58  \n WHO MENTORED YOU? 1  \nINTRODUCTION  \nAs the youth mentoring field has expanded and diversified in America over the last 30-plus years, many adults who care about getting these valuable relationships to more young people have asked questions about the scope and scale of mentoring in American society. While young people have always found mentors in their extended kinship networks— through institutions such as schools and faith centers, and in the community among neighbors and family friends — there has long been a need to better quantify the prevalence and importance of these naturally occurring relationships. 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