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Wednesday, February 01, 2012

Lawyers Lend A Hand Awards $210k in grants to Chicago Tutor/Mentor Programs
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Below is the list of 37 Chicago area organizations who received 2012 grants from the The Sun-Times Judge Marovitz Lawyers Lend-A-Hand to Youth Program, created in 1994 to support the growth of volunteer-based tutor/mentor programs in the Chicago region. If companies in every industry were to adopt the same guidelines and strategies, tutor/mentor programs in all parts of the region would have multiple sources of financial support, volunteers and leadership, and each would be better able to support the on-going connections of youth and adults.

Lawyers Lend-A-Hand to Youth Program

January/February 2011

$210,000 in Grants to Commemorate

National Mentoring Month

Lawyers Lend-A-Hand to Youth marked the end of National Mentoring Month by awarding $210,000 in grants to community mentoring programs. The thirty-seven (37) groups receiving the grants provide one-on-one mentoring to approximately 8,000 children across the Chicago area.

Two programs have been honored with special recognition. LINK Unlimited won the Thomas A. Demetrio Award of Excellence. For forty-five years, LINK has successfully transitioned over 1,650 economically disadvantaged African American youths to college by providing one-on-one mentoring and academic support throughout their high school years. LINK's designation as the most exemplary mentoring program carries with it an additional $10,000 monetary award.

Family Matters received the Sun-Times Literacy Award. Family Matters works with elementary, middle, and high school students in the North Howard neighborhood of Chicago's East Rogers Park. The program trains its mentors/tutors to use research-based curriculum to develop students' literacy skills. A $10,000 grant also accompanies the Sun-Times Award.

Family Matters Tutoring Pair

Below is a complete list of our 2011-2012 grantee programs:

Alliance for Community Peace
Black on Black Love
Boys Hope Girls Hope
Brain Boosters
The Bridge Youth & Family Services
Cabrini-Green Tutoring Program, Inc.
Center for Companies that Care
Chicago Lights
Chicago Scholars
Chicago Youth Programs
Christopher House
Circle Urban Ministries
City Year Chicago
Cluster Tutoring
College Bound Opportunities
Erie Neighborhood House
Family Matters
Gads Hill Center
Hermosa Community Organization (in honor of Kimball R. Anderson, Winston & Strawn LLP)
Horizons for Youth
Inspired Youth Tutoring
Kelly Hall YMCA
Life Directions (in honor of Todd A. Smith, Power Rogers & Smith, P.C.)
LINK Unlimited
McGaw YMCA
Men Enterprising and Networking
Metropolitan Family Services DuPage
Midtown Educational Foundation
Minds Matter
Passages Alternative Living Program, Inc.
PEAK - The Partnership to Educate & Advance Kids
Penedo Charitable Organization
South Suburban Area Project
UCAN
Whitney Young Dolphins Making a Difference
WITS - Working in the Schools
Y.O.U. (Youth Organizations Umbrella)

See http://www.nationalmentoringmonth.org/news_events/newswires/ for news from other cities about National Mentoring Month.

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By tutormentor2 @ Wednesday, February 01, 2012 10:52 AM

Tutor/Mentor Connection (T/MC) was part of the 1994-2009 leadership and growth of the Layers Lend A Hand to Youth Program and hope to help other industries form similar programs that support volunteer-based tutor/mentor program growth in an entire region. Visit the media page at http://www.tutormentorexchange.net/news-pr and see some of the 1994-2000 articles that illustrate the early years of this partnership.

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