MentorNet is The National Electronic Industrial Mentoring Network for Women in Engineering and Science. It pairs women who are studying engineering or science at one of the participating colleges or universities with professional scientists and engineers working in industry, and helps them form e-mail based mentoring relationships. MentorNet is a nonprofit initiative sponsored through grants from the AT&T and Intel Foundations, the U.S. Department of Education Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education, IBM, Cisco Systems, Ford Motor Company, Microsoft, Hewlett Packard, IEEE Foundation, SPIE, Texaco, SAP Labs, and Los Alamos National Laboratory.