Pride Month Vegan Challenge Mentor Sign-Up
The Pride Month Vegan Challenge encourages LGBTQ+ folks and our allies to “Eat the Rainbow” for the month of June. Participants receive daily information and inspiration as well as access to special events and opportunities to connect with each other. If they choose, participants also are matched with an LGBTQ+ vegan mentor. That's where you come in...
As a volunteer mentor, your role will be to encourage the participant(s) with whom you are matched. This might take the form of answering questions, sending encouraging notes, or just being willing to chat about your own experiences of going and staying vegan.
Participants in vegan challenges are much more likely to complete the whole challenge, and to remain vegan afterward, if they have a mentor. Friendships between mentors and participants often spring up. We know many people who still keep in touch many years after being matched in a vegan challenge.
Not every participant asks for a mentor, but all can be helped by encouragement. Whether or not you are matched with a particular participant, you can help out by being active on the discussion forum for the challenge, replying to posts and starting conversations with your posts of your own.
As a volunteer mentor, you will also receive encouragement and support as well as access to all of the events and opportunities offered to challenge participants.