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| Aid for writing - The Easy Essay.com |
FREE resource that "can teach almost anyone how to logically organize a proof format (as an essay, speech, business memo etc,) for any fact, concept or idea in 5 minutes."
Could be useful resource for tutors, teachers parents and students. | | Hits: 12 | Report Broken Link | |
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| Black Star Project Blog - call to action |
This blog re-prints information sent out via email newsletters, focusing attention on the racial disparities and injustices in Chicago and America. Great information for those making a case for more support of volunteer-based tutoring/mentoring programs in Chicago and other cities. | | Hits: 115 | Report Broken Link | |
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| Drowning in Paperwork. Distracted from Purpose |
From the web site of Project Streamline:
"Drowning in Paperwork: Distracted From Purpose examined grantmakers application and reporting practices and their impact on grantmakers and grantseekers. This report formed the basis for Project Streamline and continues to be used by grantmakers to better understand the flaws in the current system, barriers to change, and principles that grantmakers can adopt to improve their practices." | | Hits: 99 | Report Broken Link | |
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| Facts showing racial disparities - and education gap in US |
The Black Star Project web site has a wealth of statistical information, articles and other information that communities can use to build a better understanding of the challenges facing minority communities. Use this information to support your own involvement in solving this problem by providing a wider range of learning and employment resources to young people and adults in these communities. | | Hits: 25 | Report Broken Link | |
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| Foundation Accountability in Networked Age |
The writer of this article titled "Gorillas in the midst: foundation accountability in a networked age" reflects on the power of foundations and the lack of accountability. The article offers "four behaviours that are proving necessary for any business, government agency or non-profit to maintain a social licence in this dynamic environment" | | Hits: 146 | Report Broken Link | |
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| Initiative for a Competitive Inner City |
This blog article titled "Achieving Greater Cluster-Based Economic Growth by Incorporating Inner Cities" is parallel thinking to what the Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC seeks to achieve by the use of maps to support collaborative business, faith, NPO and school strategies in inner city neighborhoods. | | Hits: 99 | Report Broken Link | |
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| Making Volunteers: Civic Life after Welfare's End |
From the web site:
"Volunteering improves inner character, builds community, cures poverty, and prevents crime. We've all heard this kind of empowerment talk from nonprofit and government-sponsored civic programs. But what do these programs really accomplish? In Making Volunteers, Nina Eliasoph offers an in-depth, humorous, wrenching, and at times uplifting look inside youth and adult civic programs. She reveals an urgent need for policy reforms in order to improve these organizations and shows that while volunteers learn important lessons, they are not always the lessons that empowerment programs aim to teach.
With short-term funding and a dizzy mix of mandates from multiple sponsors, community programs develop a complex web of intimacy, governance, and civic life. Eliasoph describes the at-risk youth served by such programs, the college-bound volunteers who hope to feel selfless inspiration and plump up their resumés, and what happens when the two groups are expected to bond instantly through short-term projects. She looks at adult "plug-in" volunteers who, working in after-school programs and limited by time, hope to become like beloved aunties to youth. Eliasoph indicates that adult volunteers can provide grassroots support but they can also undermine the family-like warmth created by paid organizers. Exploring contradictions between the democratic rhetoric of empowerment programs and the bureaucratic hurdles that volunteers learn to navigate, the book demonstrates that empowerment projects work best with less precarious funding, more careful planning, and mandatory training, reflection, and long-term commitments from volunteers.
Based on participant research inside civic and community organizations, Making Volunteers illustrates what these programs can and cannot achieve, and how to make them more effective.
Nina Eliasoph is associate professor of sociology at the University of Southern California. She is the author of Avoiding Politics. | | Hits: 92 | Report Broken Link | |
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| Metropolitan Chicago Healthcare Council (MCHC) Workforce Institute |
MCHC is a membership and service association comprising more than 150 hospitals and health care organizations working together, since 1935, to improve the delivery of health care services in the Chicago area.
One of the focus areas is the Health Care Workforce Institute which is working with its member hospitals, and educational, government, workforce investment and community partners to ensure a robust healthcare workforce for the Chicago region.
This web site has a wide range of resources. Browse around and learn more. | | Hits: 71 | Report Broken Link | |
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| Social Capital Role in Empowering Low-Status Youth |
The full title of this paper is "A Social Capital Framework for the Study of Institutional Agents & Their Role in the Empowerment of Low-status Students & Youth"
Written by Ricardo D. Stanton-Salazar, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Education Rossier School of Education University of Southern California 3470 Trousdale Parkway Los Angeles, California 90089-4036
This paper provide rich thinking about the role "that non-family adults agents play in the social development, socialization, formal and informal education, and social mobility of adolescents" and provides many reasons to support mentor-rich non-school tutor/mentor programs operating in high poverty neighborhoods. | | Hits: 3169 | Report Broken Link | |
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| The Empowered Employee - Forbes 2012 article |
This is a look at the future.
Companies that support employee engagement in social benefit activities get a more motivate employee as one who has learned new skills and has expanded his/her informal network.
Companies that support this involvement with latest communications, collaboration and technology will create learning opportunities outside of the workplace that result in better applications of these tools in the workplace.
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| Widening Achievement Gap between Rich and Poor |
This report by Sean Reardon, a Stanford professor of education and sociology, shows that the income achievement gap--the difference in the average standardized scores between children from families at the 10th percentile of income distribution and children at the 90th percentile--is now "nearly twice as large as the black-white achievement gap." | | Hits: 30 | Report Broken Link | |
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