چکیده (انگلیسی):

The mission of Minding Our Business (MOB), a service-learning course started in 1997 to meet
community needs, is to advance the personal and vocational development of urban youth through
entrepreneurship education and mentoring. This paper evaluates the long-term impact of MOB
on the personal and vocational development of the alumni mentors participating in the program
from 1997 to 2005. No scholarly research has been conducted to date on the long -term effect of
MOB on mentors and little research has been conducted on the effects of service-learning
participation on alumni service-related attitudes and behaviors in general. Consequently, the
current study extends the existing research stream on the long-term effects of service-learning
participation on alumni service-related attitudes and behaviors. Furthermore, the unique nature
of MOB as a mentoring program in entrepreneurship also allows the researchers to study possible
long-term effects on interest in community service and interest in entrepreneurship as a vocational
option.