‘‘(iv) provides affordable and acces-
sible mentoring training and technical as-
sistance; and 
‘‘(v) collects and tracks mentoring 
data; 
‘‘(C) is not a mentoring program; and 
‘‘(D) does not provide direct mentoring 
services to youth. 
‘‘SEC. 167A. MENTORING CAPACITY-BUILDING GRANT PRO-
GRAM. 
‘‘(a) DEFINITION OF ELIGIBLE MENTORING PART-
NERSHIP.—In this section, the term ‘eligible mentoring 
partnership’ means a State mentoring partnership or local 
mentoring partnership that has an interest in— 
‘‘(1) significantly increasing the number of 
mentors within the partnership’s State or local serv-
ice area, respectively; and 
‘‘(2) supporting all types, models, and brands of 
youth mentoring. 
‘‘(b) PROGRAM AUTHORIZED.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Corporation shall es-
tablish a capacity-building grant program to award, 
on a competitive basis, 3-year grants to eligible men-
toring partnerships to enable the mentoring partner-
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ships to carry out the activities described in sub-
section (d). 
‘‘(2) AMOUNT
OF
GRANTS.—The Corporation 
shall determine the amount of each grant under this 
section based on— 
‘‘(A) the demonstrated need for service 
within the partnership’s proposed service area; 
‘‘(B) the scope of the activities proposed to 
be funded under the grant; and 
‘‘(C) the likely impact of the proposed ac-
tivities on increasing the percentage of children 
with mentors, and the quality of mentoring pro-
grams, within the partnership’s proposed serv-
ice area. 
‘‘(c) APPLICATION.—An eligible mentoring partner-
ship that desires to receive a grant under this section shall 
submit an application at the time, in such manner, and 
containing such information as the Corporation may rea-
sonably require. 
‘‘(d) USE OF FUNDS.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—An eligible mentoring part-
nership that receives a grant under this section shall 
use— 
‘‘(A) not less than 80 percent of the 
amounts provided under the grant to award 
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subgrants under paragraph (2) in order to sup-
port mentoring programs within the partner-
ship’s service area; and 
‘‘(B) not more than 20 percent of such 
amounts to carry out 1 or more partnership ac-
tivities identified in the service area mentoring 
plan as described in paragraph (3), in order to 
provide expanded, high-quality services within 
the service area. 
‘‘(2) SUBGRANTS FOR LOCAL MENTORING.— 
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—An eligible mentoring 
partnership that receives a grant under this 
section shall make subgrants, on a competitive 
basis, to eligible entities to enable the eligible 
entities to support all of the components of pro-
viding high-quality mentoring services. 
‘‘(B) APPLICATION.—An eligible entity de-
siring a subgrant under this paragraph shall 
submit an application at such time, in such 
manner, and containing such information as the 
eligible mentoring partnership shall reasonably 
require. 
‘‘(C) PRIORITY.—In awarding subgrants 
under subparagraph (A), an eligible mentoring 
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