From: Daniel Bassill (tutormentor2@EARTHLINK.NET)
Date: 07/29/03
Tutor/Mentor Connection NEWS
Linking ideas, programs and people to help inner city kids. A Program of
Cabrini Connections.
August, 2003
T/MC REPORT ON-LINE, Issue #11
In This Issue:=20
Chicagoland Tutor/Mentor Volunteer Recruitment Campaign
Tutor/Mentor Leadership Training Workshops
Chicago Bar Association members LEND A HAND to tutor/mentor programs
Links to other tutor/mentor organizations, networks and learning resources
Online volunteer and donor sites
Editorial -=20
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Chicagoland Tutor/Mentor Volunteer Recruitment Campaign.
The goal of this campaign is to build public awareness of tutor/mentor
programs during August that leads new volunteers to join more than 200
different Chicago area tutor/mentor programs as school starts in
September.
Following are updates:
Chicago area programs are working with the T/MC to identify sites where
volunteers can be recruited and strategies that build public awareness so
volunteers and donors will offer their help. Visit
www.tutormentorexchange.net for details about this campaign
The Barnes & Noble store in Geneva, Illinois has offered to host
recruitment planning meetings for tutor/mentor programs located in the
Western Suburbs of Chicago. A reporter from The Sun newspaper attended
the first planning meeting, held on July 10th. A second meeting will be
held at the store on Thursday, August 14th at 8pm. Email
tutor/mentor2@earthlink.net if you can attend, or want to be included on
the email distribution list for these meetings.
The T/MC encourages other cities to duplicate this low-cost, grassroots,
campaign. If you'd like ideas of how you can do this, review the campaign
background at http://www.tutormentorexchange.net or http://www.tutormentorconnection.org, or email tutormentor2@earthlink.net
T/MC offers monthly leader training workshops in Chicago
Many people who attend the Leadership Conference ask for longer sessions
or say there are too many good workshops for them to attend. To address
both comments, the T/MC is hosting 3-hour, single topic training workshops
at its
800 W. Huron location. Here are workshops scheduled for August:
August 5th, 9:30 am - 12:30 pm - Volunteer Recruitment Strategies,
presented by Daniel F. Bassill, President of Cabrini Connections
August 19th, 9:30 am - 12:30 pm - How to Start a Tutor/Mentor Program,
presented by Kathy Anderson, Wicker Park Learning Center
August 26th, 9:30 am - 12:30 pm - Get Ready for IT: Introduction to Career
Opportunities for Girls, presented by members of The Gender Equity Fund's
Speakers Bureau=20
August 28th, 9:30 am - 12:30 pm - Researching Foundations A to $ and "7
Steps to a Winning Proposal, presented by Ellen Dick, Founder, Illinois
Association of Nonprofit Organizations
A schedule of upcoming workshops and a registration form can be found at http://www.tutormentorconference.bigstep.com.
Chicago Bar Association members LEND A HAND to tutor/mentor programs
While charities and youth serving organizations struggle to find funds,
it's exciting to see private business step forward to help fill the void.
On June 12th, the board of the Chicago Bar Association agreed to the
formation of the Abaraham Lincoln Marovitz Lend A Hand Program (ALM-LAH),
which will operate as a sponsored program of the CBA and its 20,000
members. The ALM-LAH, named after it's major benefactor, the late Judge
Abraham Lincoln Marovitz, encourages caring adults to support mentor-rich
tutoring programs by: (1) volunteering their time, (2) providing financial
support, and (3) expanding cultural, educational and athletic
opportunities for the young people the programs serve. While the Lend A
Hand program has been operating within the Chicago Bar Foundation since
1994, and has raised more than $280,000 to fund Chicago tutor/mentor
programs, the new structure provides more staffing and greater potential
to draw visibility, volunteers and dollars to tutor/mentor programs in
every poverty neighborhood of the Chicago region. It's a program that the
T/MC hopes will be duplicated by other professional groups in Chicago, and
in other major cities. Read more in the EVENTS section of http://www.tutormentorconnection.org.
Mentoring and Tutoring News and Resources from Around the Country
Learning from others is one of the best ways to innovate improvement in
any organization. Following are links to city, state and national
tutor/mentor resources that anyone can visit and learn from. All of
these, and many other links can be found in the RESOURCES section of http://www.tutormentorexchange.net and the LINKS section of http://www.tutormentorconnection.org.
California Mentor Initiative.http://www.mentoring.ca.gov/
Capital Partners for Education. http://www.cpfe.org
Cincinnati Youth Collaborative
(CYC).=A0=A0=A0http://home.fuse.net/cycollab
Detroit's Mayor's Time Afterschool Program Initiative-
=A0http://www.ci.detroit.mi.us/kcc/mayorstime.htm
Learning Leaders (formerly the New York City School Volunteer Program)
=A0http://www.learningleaders.org
Mentor! The National Mentoring Partnership - http://www.mentoring.org
Milwaukee Mentors - http://www.milwaukeementors.org
Minnesota Mentoring Partnership. http://www.mentoringworks.org
Massachusetts Promise: An Alliance for Children and Youth.
http://www.masspromise.org
The Mentoring Coalition of San Diego County
=A0http://www.sdmentorcoalition.org/
Mentoring Across Maryland
-=A0http://www.marylandmentors.org/mentorMD/excerpts.html
The Afterschool AllianceThe Afterschool Alliance - =A0
http://www.afterschoolalliance.org
The National Mentoring Center. http://www.nwrel.org/mentoring/
TeamMates Mentoring Program - Nebraska:=A0=A0http://www.teammates.org
YouthFriends of Greater Kansas City. http://www.youthfriends.org
Other On-line Learning Resources:
PEER RESOURCES - one of the most comprehensive on-line mentoring
libraries.
Based in Canada. http://www.peer.ca/peer.html
The American Association of University Women. Dedicated to promoting
equity and education for women and girls. http://www.aauw.org
North Central Regional Education Laboratory. http://www.ncrel.org
GIRL POWER! A national public education campaign to help encourage and
empower 9- to-14-year old girls to make the most of their lives.
http://www.health.org/gpower
eLearningspace.org launched on-line learning program that rewards learners
with TimeDollar points as they learn to use the Internet for
self-learning.
The American Youth Policy Forum - http://www.aypf.org/pubs.htm#Top
NYDIC: National Youth Development Information Center.=A0
http://www.etr.org/nsrc
Effective Practices Information Center at
http://www.nationalservice.org/resources/epicenter.
Fight Crime, Invest in Kids - http://www.fightcrime.org
Volunteer and Donor On-line Resources
State of Illinois - Volunteerism & Community Service
http://wwww.state.il.us/volunteer
Chicago's Community Resource Network http://www.chicagovolunteer.net
http://www.ServeNet.org
Online list of online databases of volunteer
opportunities!=A0=A0=A0http://www.serviceleader.org/vv/vonline2.html
http://www.NetworkforGood.org
The Giraffe Project - recognizes individuals who stick their necks out to
make life better for everyone else. http://www.giraffe.org
http://kaeaiya.pledgepage.org - visit this Pledge Page and see how individuals can build web pages to
support their favorite tutor/mentor programs. This is sponsored by
www.charityfocus.org
Tutor/Mentor Connection Editorial
Millions of dollars raised to elect a President. Millions needed to raise
kids. As school starts and I struggle to find money to open the doors for
the 90 pairs of teens and volunteers that the Cabrini Connections
tutor/mentor program expects to enroll this fall, I'm absolutely
frustrated to be reading of the millions of dollars that are being raised
by political candidates in preparation for next year's election. While I
know how important this is, it just seems that some of that money could be
going to tutor/mentor programs, schools and youth development agencies in
poor neighborhoods around the country.
We've made it easy. At http://www.tutormentorexchange.net and http://www.tutormentorconnection.org you can find links to databases that show contact information for Chicago
area tutor/mentor programs. You can also find links to local and national
volunteer centers that link donors to tutor/mentor programs in all parts
of the country. Over the next month every state will be releasing
school-performance information mandated by the "Leave No Child Behind"
federal law. This will create a flurry of newspaper, radio and TV
jingoism, with all sorts of finger pointing and many cries for more public
funding.
My call is for business and philanthropic accountability. Those
politicians aren't just spending their own money. They are receiving
donations from people who want something in return. I think tutor/mentor
programs are offering America much in return, there fore I invite my peers
and others who care to join the T/MC's back to school volunteer
recruitment campaign so we can create a louder and more effective call for
private sector donors to support tutor/mentor programs in Chicago and
every other state.
If you'd like ideas for what business can do, look at the history of the
Abraham Lincoln Marovitz Lend A Hand Program, sponsored by the Chicago Bar
Association, or visit the Tutor/Mentor Institute section at http://www.tutormentorexchange.net and read "Role of Leaders". Or email the T/MC to become a partner and
sponsor of the 2003 Tutor/Mentor Volunteer Recruitment Campaign or the
November 2003 Tutor/Mentor Leadership Conference. =20
---Dr. Daniel F. Bassill, President, Cabrini Connections, Tutor/Mentor
Connection (tutormentor2@earthlink.net)
Please forward this e-newsletter to all friends, family, colleagues and
business partners who have an interest in helping all youth born in
poverty get the adult support they need to be entering jobs and careers by
age 25.
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