Form a Leadership Group! The Tutor/Mentor Connection (T/MC) seeks to draw volunteers and donors to tutor/mentor programs in Chicago the same way that retailers use advertising to draw shoppers to their stores, banks, or fast food restaurants.  This website, and our map-based program locator, provide information that anyone can use to build a better understanding of where and why volunteer-based tutor/mentor programs are needed. With this information, your leadership group can mobilize volunteers and donors to support a single program, all programs in a zip code, or all programs in the entire city.  As more groups take this role, each non profit tutor/mentor program will be strengthened and more kids will be connected to extra adults and extra learning in the non-school hours.

Use this  Volunteer Recruitment Advertisement (pdf)  in your business or church newsletter or local newspaper to draw potential volunteers and donors to the Program Locator section of this website.

Read how interns from high school and colleges are working with Tutor/Mentor Connection. Students can use their personal power to bring people together and point resources to tutor/mentor programs in different places.  Join Tutor/Mentor Connection on Ning and start writing your own stories!

Update the Chicago Program Locator information for your tutor/mentor program. More than 240 listings are included in the T/MC database of Chicago area tutoring and/or mentoring programs.  While we try to keep the information current, we have made is possible for individual programs to log in and keep their own information up-to-date.  If you have a program, but it is not listed, you can create a new account and add your program.

Not from Chicago? Contact the Tutor/Mentor Connection to learn how we might help your community create a Tutor/Mentor Connection.

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