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Edition: February 2010
Issue No. 85 |
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NOTE: throughout this newsletter we use a Tiny URL to shorten long web site addresses so the links do not break. We hope you find this helpful.
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* Using Maps to Mobilize Resources
* How are you telling your story?
* On-line volunteer search resources for fund raising
* Homework Help for volunteers, youth and leaders
* Collaboration, Networking, and Capacity Building
* Cabrini Connections, Cabrini Madness
* President's Message - How Do You Share your Ideas? |
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| issue 01 |
| Using Maps to Mobilize Resources for tutor/mentor programs |
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The map below shows locations volunteer-based tutoring and/or mentoring programs in the Chicago region, It highlights the location of Youth Crossroads, a program in Berwyn, Illinois, that was featured in a recent Chicago Tribune article.
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Image courtesy of Cabrini Connections, Tutor/Mentor Connection.
Tutor/Mentor Connection creates maps as part of an effort to draw volunteers and donors to tutor/mentor programs in all parts of Chicago, including our own Cabrini Connections program (http://www.cabriniconnections.net)
We want to teach others to use maps to draw volunteers and donors to their own tutor/mentor programs, or to neighborhoods where programs are needed. This map was posted on the Tutor/Mentor Blog at http://tutormentor.blogspot.com/2010/02/non-profit-groups-struggle-to-pay-bills.html
It was created in about 10 minutes, using the Interactive map on the Chicago Tutor/Mentor Program locator at http://www.tutormentorprogramlocator.net. If student groups in high school, college or faith groups learn to make maps like this, they can use blogs, Facebook and traditional networking to mobilize volunteers and donors to help tutor/mentor programs in different places. Join the map discussion at http://tutormentorconnection.ning.com/group/tmcuseofgismaps
We encourage Chicago organizations to use these maps to mobilize and sustain local support for tutor/mentor programs in different parts of the city, or the entire city. We also encourage leaders in other cities to duplicate this strategy and connect your efforts with ours through discussions at http://tutormentorconnection.ning.com or forums which you may be hosting.
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Is your program looking for new volunteers? Are you keeping the volunteers who joined you in August and September. These links point to places where you can be recruiting new volunteers.
* ServeIllinois - http://www.serve.illinois.gov/
* 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
Visit the LINKS Library at http://www.tutormentorconnection.org to find additional resources for building and sustaining volunteer-based tutoring, mentoring, education to career and service learning programs.
Notice to Chicago area tutor/mentor programs: Please check the Chicago Program Links and Program Locator at http://www.tutormentorprogramlocator.net to make sure information about your organization is up-to-date. Email the Tutor/Mentor Connection if you need help.
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| On Line Learning Resources that can be used by tutors/mentors |
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Where are students and volunteers getting ideas for learning about Black History during the month of February? Where are they finding help for math, science or writing? Where do they find College and Career Resources? We've created some links libraries for students of Cabrini Connections which volunteers and students from other programs might also use:
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Image courtesy of Cabrini Connections, Tutor/Mentor Connection. |
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* Homework help - http://tinyurl.com/con5by
* College and Career - http://tinyurl.com/5fx9ao
* Youth as Leaders - http://tinyurl.com/bcejum
As you and your student learn to use these links, please add comments to show which you find most valuable, or add new links which you find useful.
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Information leaders and donors can use to help tutor/mentor programs reach more youth:
* Cost of poverty reports show economic impact of poverty- http://www.oafb.ca/assets/pdfs/CostofPoverty.pdf
- This cost of poverty report from Ontario, Canada has information and ideas that apply to Chicago and most other urban areas. Investing in tutor/mentor programs can be a strategy for reducing this cost.
* High School Drop Out Crisis - the links in this section provide reasons why businesses should be more strategically involved in supporting programs that help youth move through school and into jobs. http://tinyurl.com/TMC-dropout-crisis
* What are others saying. Read some of the blogs. http://tinyurl.com/TMC-blogroll
* Collaboration and Community Building ideas - http://tinyurl.com/collaboration-and-capacity-building-articles
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| Tutor/Mentor Connection collaboration, networking and capacity building |
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The Tutor/Mentor Connection uses its web site to aggregate information that anyone working with inner city youth can use to build volunteer-based programs that offer mentoring, tutoring, technology, arts and on-going learning. We host a conference every May and November to encourage some of the people we know to connect and build relationships with each other. We host on-line forums so this can happen every day.
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Image courtesy of Cabrini Connections, Tutor/Mentor Connection.
* The Spring 2010 Tutor/Mentor Leadership and Networking Conference will be held at Loyola University Chicago on May 27 and 28. Workshop proposals are now being accepted at http://www.tutormentorconference.org/present.asp
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Networking places for Volunteers, Leaders and Donors supporting Tutor/Mentor Programs:
* Tutor/Mentor Connection - http://tutormentorconnection.ning.com
* Mentor Exchange - http://mentoringforums.educationnorthwest.org/
* National Mentoring Partnership - http://forums.mentoring.org/ntlm/ and http://www.helium.com/partners/mentoring
* Youth Mentoring List Serve - http://mentoringforums.educationnorthwest.org/node/69
* Drop Out Prevention wiki - http://forums.mentoring.org/ntlm/
* Submit your own links and articles to http://www.tutormentorconnection.org
* Join on-line forums to share ideas. These are places where T/MC is involved:
http://tinyurl.com/5aadsb
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Image courtesy of Cabrini Connections, Tutor/Mentor Connection.
Make a Donation. Join our Team
This newsletters shares ideas that are intended to help every tutor/mentor program, including CABRINI CONNECTIONS, get the resources needed to build long term connections with youth and volunteers. You can support this with a donation to support one of the 13 teams in the Cabrini Madness campaign. Learn more at http://www.cabriniconnections.net/cabrini-madness
People ask, what are your alumni doing? We've never had enough resources to operate the 7th to 12th grade program, let alone track our growing number of alumni. That is changing. Visit http://cabriniconnectionsalumni.ning.com and see how we're beginning to build an alumni support network. Join this if you are a current or former student or volunteer.
 View the videos. Learn more. Share the story with your friends. No matter where you are, or who you are, you can help inner city kids be part of tutor/mentor programs, and be connected to people who help them find jobs as they get older. http://www.cabriniconnections.net/video
Image courtesy of Cabrini Connections, Tutor/Mentor Connection.
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 president's message
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by Daniel F. Bassill
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Image courtesy of Cabrini Connections, Tutor/Mentor Connection.
I have led a volunteer-based tutor/mentor program in Chicago for more than 30 years. It's been a non profit since 1993. Cabrini Connections ( http://www.cabriniconnections.net is constantly trying to do good work, while also trying to find the money, staff, volunteers and ideas needed to do good work. I'm sure this is the struggle every other non profit working with youth faces every day .
This has led me to innovate ways to convert our volunteers into leaders and capacity builders. Since I'm a small organization, with under 100 volunteers each year, I created the Tutor/Mentor Connection in 1993 to help similar programs grow in all part of the Chicago region, so that more programs would be converting their own volunteers into leaders and capacity builders.
If such volunteers all pointed to the same maps, they would be helping my program get volunteers, while they would be helping their own program. This is the core strategy of the Tutor/Mentor Connection. It seeks to involve many leaders, both in the non profit and the for-profit sector.
I try to illustrate these ideas with pictures and graphics because many people don't have the time to read much of what we write. Since I'm not a graphic designer, my ideas are what they are. However, I've been recruiting interns from different colleges to help me convert ideas into animations and videos that more people might look at. Visit http://tutormentor.blogspot.com/2010/02/give-us-this-day-our-daily-attention.html to view two new presentations created by Korean college students from Illinois Institute of Technology.
Visit http://michaelcnt.blogspot.com/ to see work that other interns are doing to encourage others to get involved in tutoring and mentoring. Visit http://www.cabriniconnections.net/video to see videos created by our staff and volunteers.
These show strategies aimed at helping tutor/mentor programs grow in many locations, not a single location. Is your non profit creating similar strategy presentations? Do you know of business or faith groups with this type of information guiding their social involvement or workforce development?
Share links to what you and others are being done in some of the forums I've pointed to in this newsletter. Come to the Tutor/Mentor Leadership and Networking Conference on May 27 and 28 and share these ideas in a workshop or panel discussion. http://www.tutormentorconference.org
Unless many others are using design concepts to blueprint their strategies, and are sharing their ideas in on-line forums, we cannot learn from each other, and find better ways to help every volunteer-based tutor/mentor program get the resources needed each day to reach youth, and have long-term impacts on lives and careers.
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