How Small-Business Mentorship Programs Drive Impact You Can Measure
Learn how top programs meet the challenge of telling a great story backed by metrics and data — and get the exact one-page format we use to prove our own programs, built on outcomes from 400,000+ entrepreneurs.
AUGUST 25th • 5:00–5:30PM EST
Who This Is For:
Program Managers & Directors
Supplier Diversity & Supplier Development Executives
Small-Business & Community Entrepreneurship Leaders
CSR, Foundation & Impact Officers
CFOs and the finance partners who fund these programs
If you run, fund, or answer for a program that supports small businesses, this session was built for you.
The Mentorship Program Challenge Today
In today's economy — program cuts, shifting priorities — even the most effective mentorship programs are struggling to:
Defend their budgets and their work to finance leadership
Maintain entrepreneur engagement through real-world threats
Share measurable outcomes with the people that matter
The feedback from entrepreneurs was overwhelmingly positive — and our team thoroughly enjoyed collaborating with MicroMentor.
— Program partner
With my mentor's support, I transformed my passion into a business — scaling our services and creating a B2B offering.
— Mentored entrepreneur
I stopped seeing myself as a patient trying to work and started seeing myself as a resilient entrepreneur.
— Mentored entrepreneur
Over 15 Years in Global Mentor Program Leadership
Programs delivered across four continents, measured the whole way. A few of the numbers this session is built on:
2x
revenue growth for mentored vs. non-mentored entrepreneurs
revenue ROI per $1 invested ($7.81 in livelihoods ROI)
$4.01
formed a sustained mentoring relationship
58%
average income increase in one national program, focused on women-led businesses
18%
Questions you're probably asking
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No. MicroMentor comes up twice: once as "why we have this data," once in the closing minute. The rest is the conversation and the format — no platform walkthrough, no fake urgency.
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No — we're not a consultancy. We're showing you how we prove our own programs, and handing over the one-page format we use. What you do with it is up to you.
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Doesn't matter. If your program supports small businesses — grants, training, coaching, supplier development — the proving-it problem is the same, and the format applies. We'll show what we've measured, including where structured mentorship moves outcomes.
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Register anyway. The replay and the template go to every registrant. The open conversation at the end is the only part that doesn't survive to the replay.
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30 minutes, hard stop. We know what your calendar looks like.
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A nonprofit that has connected 400,000+ entrepreneurs with 100,000+ mentors worldwide, delivering mentorship programs with partners like card networks, development banks, and foundations. We measure everything — that's what this conversation is about.
Your hosts
Anita Ramachandran
CEO, Micromentor
Anita has led MicroMentor from 5,000 to over 400,000 entrepreneurs and 100,000+ mentors worldwide, and created the Mentoring-as-a-Service model this conversation is built around. Before this, she ran operations for Xerox's channel marketing and eCommerce division — and she brings that same business discipline to social impact today.
Tatiana Pérez Petrone
Chief Program & Impact Officer, Micromentor
One of the architects of Mentoring-as-a-Service — the person who's had to prove mentorship works across Indonesia, Ethiopia, MENA, and Latin America, to funders who don't take outcome data on faith. Twenty years in economic development, including Ashoka, sit behind the one-page format she'll walk through live.
Bring your renewal question. Leave with the format to answer it.
August 25th · 5:00–5:30PM EST · Free