SCORE Mentors Reviews 5

My journey with the experience left me feeling like my needs were not met and the program could care less if I succeed or not.

Score business advisors are called mentors and offer their services free forever. There are over 5,000 active Score Mentors, each with a different skill set. You can have multiple mentors if you wish or ask one mentor to bring in a co-mentor of a particular issue.

I’ve given SCORE (Orlando Branch) a few tries, but I didn't learn anything I didn’t already know. My “mentors” didn’t seem to know anything about my business field. I’ve managed quite well figuring things out myself and using Google. During our first phone meeting, my mentor didn't bother to call at the scheduled time. When she finally did call, I could have gotten better advice from my next-door neighbor. On the bright side, I'm relieved they’re volunteers and not government-paid—what a waste of tax dollars that would be. Under no circumstances should be called a"mentorship program"

They provided both of my email addresses to Price Waterhouse Cooper who continues to send me spam almost daily.

SCORE is now on the bandwagon of racializing and genderizing their services for catering to everybody - except white males. This is a weird environment because many of their mentors are white men and white women executives that must feel guilty about their white privilege. At the same time a lot of that white privilege has for the most part evaporated with the course of Affirmative Action.

With that said, SCORE’s identity politics are losing support from the Small Business Administration, so their mentoring has been cheapened and downgraded. Many of their mentors are leaving due to weak management and pandering to identity politics.