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Edition: June 2009
Issue No. 77
 
   
 
   
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* National Conference on Volunteering and Service - connect on-line
* Follow up to "Most Dangerous Neighborhoods in America" media coverage
* How do you show your impact?
* Tutor/Mentor Leadership and Networking Conference in Chicago
* President's Message - Volunteer Mobilization
 
   
issue 01
National Conference on Volunteering and Service, June 22-24

 

This  year's national conference is in San Francisco. See the agenda at http://www.volunteeringandservice.org/plan/general-sessions.cfm


Since most people who are involved with volunteer-based tutoring and/or mentoring in Chicago, or other cities cannot attend the conference it's great to see that a variety of social media are being offered to help people at the conference, or in other parts of the country, connect with each other. Visit http://ncvs.blogspot.com/ to follow the conference blog.  Visit http://twitter.com/ncvs to follow on Twitter.

On-Line Volunteer Recruitment Resources for Programs throughout the USA. Are  you listed in these volunteer search engines?  These are no-costs ways non profits can attract volunteers.  These are also resources for volunteers and donors to use to shop for volunteer opportunities and places where they want to provide financial support.

* ServeIllinois - http://www.serve.illinois.gov/
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ServeNet - http://www.ServeNet.org
* VolunteerMatch - http://www.volunteermatch.org
* ChicagoVolunteer.net - http://www.chicagovolunteer.net
* Idealist - http://www.idealist.org
* Chicago Program Links - http://tinyurl.com/2k227y

Notice to Chicago area tutor/mentor programs: Please check http://tinyurl.com/ChiTM-Program-Links and the Tutor/Mentor Program Locator database at http://www.tutormentorprogramlocator.net/Prgloc.aspx  to make sure  information about your organization is up-to-date. Email the Tutor/Mentor Connection if you need help.


 
 Follow up to "Most Dangerous Neighborhoods In America"  



The June 23, 2009 Chicago SunTimes features a story titled "The Second Most Dangerous Neighborhood in America" which you can view at http://www.suntimes.com/news/neighborhoods/1634761,CST-NWS-hoods23.article


Image courtesy of Cabrini Connections, Tutor/Mentor Connection.

This map shows the neighborhoods featured in the SunTimes story as "most dangerous". It was created using the Interactive Chicago Tutor/Mentor Program Locator which you can view at
http://www.tutormentorprogramlocator.net/InteractiveMap.aspx
It took me only a few minutes to create a map view showing the area of Chicago highlighted in the 6/23/09 Chicago SunTimes article,  with layers of information indicating poverty demographics, poorly performing schools, tutor/mentor programs in the area, and business assets who could be supporting such programs.  It took me another 5 minutes to create a jpg image that I could use in this newsletter and on a blog article that I wrote using the map.


See how map was included in a blog article
http://tutormentor.blogspot.com/2009/06/second-most-dangerous-neighborhood-in.html


Youth Today article features  uses of maps. Read more at
http://tutormentor.blogspot.com/2009/06/youth-today-feature-story-about-npos.html

Learn more about how Tutor/Mentor Connection seeks to use maps to support tutor/mentor programs in every neighborhood of the Chicago region where such programs are needed.
http://www.tutormentorexchange.net/mapping-the-programs 

If you'd like to know more about how to use the Interactive map, or how to add  your Chicago area tutor/mentor program to the map, call Nicole, Mike or Dan at 312-492-9614, or email tutormentor2@earthlink.net

 
     
issue 02  
 How do you show your impact?  

 

 
This graphic illustrates a primary goal of the Tutor/Mentor Connection.  The map above illustrates a second, equally important goal.  



Image courtesy of Cabrini Connections, Tutor/Mentor Connection.

At Cabrini Connections, This is how we illustrate what we do to support this vision
http://www.cabriniconnections.net/7-success-steps

Many youth serving organizations describe their vision and mission differently than we do.  At http://tinyurl.com/ChiTM-Program-Links , we post links to more than 200 groups in Chicago, who work with youth. We also post links to tutoring/mentoring and youth serving organizations throughout the country, and in other countries.

Leaders, volunteers, donors, parents are encouraged to browse these web sites and learn fwhat these different programs are doing, and how they get the results they get. Using this information, anyone can form their own idea of what an ideal tutor/mentor program might look like.  If people in the same city, or same part of a city, are sharing this information, and creating resources to support the growth of tutor/mentor programs, they can use these ideas to make their own programs the best in the world.

One of the presentations from the May conference focused on Impact Evaluation. This is the PDF: http://tinyurl.com/ImpactEvaluation-TMC-Conf .


If you have created a web page to illustrate your mission, theory of change, or outcomes, we encourage you to write an article and share it on the http://www.tutormentorconnection.org web site or on the http://tutormentorconnection.ning.com site.
 

 
   
issue 03  
Tutor/Mentor Leadership and Networking Conference  

 

 

Below is a photo of Ishmael Alamin, Owner of the Hyde Park Hair Salon, the Official Barbershop of President Barack Obama, located in Hyde Park, Ill. He was a speaker at the May Tutor/Mentor Conference.  See more conference photos at http://tutormentorconnection.ning.com
 

 


Image courtesy of Cabrini Connections, Tutor/Mentor Connection. 

Thank you to every one who attended or made a presentation at the May 28 and 29 conference held at the Northwestern University School of Law in Chicago, Il.  We encourage  you to use the conference attendee list at http://www.tutormentorconference.org/ArchiveRegistrationList/ to connect and collaborate with people who attended the May 09 conference or have attended past conferences.

The next conference will be held on November 19 and 20, 2009 on the Northwestern University campus in Evanston, Il.  If you would like to present a workshop, or  help as a sponsor, call Nicole or Dan at 312-492-9614, or submit a form from the conference web site.

Stay connected to each other, and the Tutor/Mentor Connection (T/MC) via Social Media.

Tutor/Mentor Connection on Ning - http://tutormentorconnection.ning.com

T/MC on Facebook -  http://tinyurl.com/TMC-CC-Facebook

T/MC on Twitter - http://www.twitter.com/tutormentorteam

Linked in group discussion of volunteering - http://tinyurl.com/TMC-LinkedIn-Volunteering
 

 
president's message
 
 
 
Volunteer Mobilization - What is your strategy

by Daniel F. Bassill


This week the National Conference on Volunteering and Service is taking place in San Francisco. Follow my articles at http://tutormentor.blogspot.com blog.  You can also follow stories on the Chronicle of Philanthropy blog: http://philanthropy.com/news/updates/index.php?id=8596

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Will this effort help your volunteer-based tutor/mentor program attract volunteers in August and September, as school is starting?

Will this effort help you attract operating dollars to pay your rent, cover insurance costs and screening of volunteers, as well as the training and on-going support they and your students will need during the 2009-10 school year?

What are the businesses, universities, hospitals and faith communities in your part of Chicago, or in your own city, doing to help you and other tutor/mentor programs get volunteers and operating dollars?

If we don't find ways to push operating dollars into tutor/mentor programs in all parts of Chicago, inlcuding the Cabrini Connections (http://www.cabriniconnections.net ) program I lead, and the Tutor/Mentor Connection which maintains a master list of Chicago tutor/mentor programs, I'm afraid there will be many places where the link between a youth and mentor will be broken because a program does not have the funds to operate.

I encourage readers to use the information on the Tutor/Mentor Connection web sites to help their own programs grow, or to develop business strategies that  help multiple programs grow in the same city, or throughout the country. If we can be of assistance, or if you'd like to host your planning on one of our web sites, we welcome you.
 

 
   

Please forward this information on to others. Help us build this network of non profits, business and public leaders. If you can provide time, talent, and even dollars, to help Cabrini Connections, Tutor/Mentor Connection do this work, we would appreciate your support. Find the donor form at http://www.tutormentorexchange.net/donate

To read the current newsletter, and subscribe to receive this in your email, go to
http://www.tutormentorconnection.org/AboutTMC/CurrentNewsletter/tabid/646/Default.aspx

If you would like to know more email tutormentor2@earthlink.net or call 312-492-9614.

 

 
   
Daniel F. Bassill
President
Tutor/Mentor Connection
Cabrini Connections
800 W. Huron, Chicago, Il. 60642 
312-492-9614
 
   
Read the blogs at :
http://tutormentor.blogspot.com
http://mappingforjustice.blogspot.com
http://nicolecabrini.blogspot.com
http://cabriniblog.blogspot.com
 














 

      

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