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Summary of Mentoring Experience

Paul Signorelli
1032 Irving St., #514
San Francisco, CA 94122-2200
Tel: 415.681.5224
E-mail: paul@paulsignorelli.com

Paul Signorelli has more than 20 years of experience working in positions requiring mentoring.

As executive director and fundraiser for a nonprofit theater group in the San Francisco Bay Area, he was mentored through the local chapter of the National Society of Fundraising Executives, then served as the chapter’s co-chair for that mentor program to match experienced fundraisers with those who would benefit from their experience and he served as a mentor.

As Director of Volunteer Services and Staff Training for the San Francisco Public Library, he has helped match librarians with graduate students earning their Master of Information and Library Science degree and informally mentored students in that program.

Serving as President-Elect of the Mt. Diablo Chapter of ASTD (American Society for Training & Development), he has been co-chair of a successful one-year pilot program matching experienced trainers with trainers in search of effective mentors, and he served as a mentor (August 2008 - July 2009).

He delivered a two-hour workshop, "Best Practices: Creating and Managing Mentoring Programs," under the auspices of the American Library Association's training group (the ALA Learning Round Table) during the Association's annual conference in Chicago (July 2009).

Among the tools he has has developed: