e-Mentorshipprogramme Nike

In 2022, the Nike Social & Community Impact (SCI) team partnered with SAYes Mentoring to design, deliver and support a virtual volunteering opportunity linking 25 mentors (Nike employees) with 25 mentees (young adult ‘change-makers’, leaders and coaches from Johannesburg South Africa) on a highimpact, one-to-one, e-Mentoring programme. The partnership was and is inspired by a shared mission to empower and celebrate communities of mentors and coaches (especially from non-dominant and undersupported groups) who are personally committed to creating a better, more inclusive, more supportive version of themselves, of each-other and of the social impact organisations they champion. The interest from Nike employees for the programme was overwhelming, with nearly 100 mentor enquires from 22 nationalities across the EMEA region. Likewise, we received many mentee applications from impressive young coaches at a variety of Sport for Development Partners (including Altus Sport, Grassroots Soccer, Judo4Peace, Girls Skate, SoDopeDance, Soweto Canoe Club), as well as from many independent students, interns and artists also committed to focused social change. The programme, at all levels, was exceptionally well received, and we very much look forward to working with Nike to support many more mentorships, in many more regions, into the future.