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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 |
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National Conference on Volunteering and
Service, June 22-24 |
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This year's national
conference is in San Francisco. See the agenda at
http://www.volunteeringandservice.org/plan/general-sessions.cfm |
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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.
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Follow up to "Most Dangerous
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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 |
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do you show your impact? |
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goal of the Tutor/Mentor Connection. The map above illustrates a
second, equally important goal. |
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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.
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Tutor/Mentor Leadership and Networking
Conference |
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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
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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
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 president's
message
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Volunteer Mobilization - What is your
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by Daniel F. Bassill |
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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.
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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.
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Daniel F. Bassill
President
Tutor/Mentor Connection
Cabrini Connections
800 W. Huron, Chicago, Il. 60642
312-492-9614 |
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Read the blogs at :
http://tutormentor.blogspot.com
http://mappingforjustice.blogspot.com
http://nicolecabrini.blogspot.com
http://cabriniblog.blogspot.com |
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