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Tuesday, August 22, 2006

Chicagoland Tutor/Mentor Volunteer Recruitment Campaign
By nsbyrer @ 4:51 PM :: 541 Views :: Volunteering

Help Spread the Word! As school starts each fall, hundreds of volunteer-based tutor/mentor programs in Chicago and in other cities are looking for volunteers. Since we don't have advertising dollars to attract volunteers to individual programs, we're looking for individuals and organizations to get involved with this movement as leaders and advocates who will help us connect thousands of others with individual tutor/mentor programs in Chicago and in other major cities.

TheTutor/Mentor Connection (T/MC) needs your help.
So do Cabrini Connections and more than 200 other volunteer-based youth agencies in the Chicago region that offer tutoring and/or mentoring as part of their services.

There are thousands of similar organizations located in other major cities around the world. They all need volunteers who will be leaders, workers and donors that work together to mobilize resources to support the efforts of volunteers and staff in neighborhood tutor/mentor programs.

While volunteer recruitment is a year-round priority, each year since 1995 the T/MC has organized a volunteer recruitment campaign during August and September as the new school year starts. This is a time when all programs are looking for volunteers and when retail advertisers and media are drawing public attention to back-to-school activities. The T/MC campaign is a media campaign, that intends to draw potential volunteers and donors to web sites, such as this, where they can see why they are needed, where they are needed and ways to get involved. Click the Program Locator link at the left, and you can find LINKS to Chicago area programs, and you can search a database to find tutor/mentor programs in the Chicago region.

While this information helps potential volunteers learn where they can get involved, the T/MC does not have the advertising dollars needed to draw volunteers to this information. Thus, we seek volunteers in business, churches, civic and alumni groups, etc. who will take a role in spreading the word about volunteer-based tutor/mentor opportunities in Chicago and in other cities.

Please take a few minutes learn how you, your law firm, your business, your faith group or your social/ alumni network can get involved with the Tutor/Mentor Connection. Let us help you become a LEADER in this movement! It is a decision that could change your life and the life thousands of young people that need your help.

We want to hear from you! Please email us, or log in and join one of the Discussion Forums where you can take a more active role in building and sustaining volunteer-based tutor/mentor programs.

Become part of a cross-sector collaboration. Link poverty law, equal justice law, healthcare, welfare reform, workforce development, and social justice with tutoring/mentoring and school reform. Join us. Share what you know .

If you?re a lawyer who also is a tutor/mentor or a leader of a tutor/mentor program, or a doctor who works with a tutor/mentor program, you are already on the bridge between two communities of people that are both focused on issues surrounding poverty.

If you are an IT professional working with tutor/mentor programs, the equal justice project, or working within your industry to create information-sharing and collaboration platforms, you are already looking for new ways to test your solutions and new ways to educate members of your enterprise so that more people use the tools you are developing.

Why not join together?Look at the list of discussions hosted on this portal by the T/MC and others. Join one if it makes sense. Create a new forum that addresses your issues, or that shares your experience. Create a feedback forum for people with your background (lawyers, accountants, engineers, Notre Dame alumni, etc.)

Help maintain and upgrade the information on this web site. There are many ways where you can add new links, or contribute to the information being shared on this web site.

Email tutormentor2@earthlink.net with information about e-groups or other forums that you are hosting for similar purposes. We will add a description about your group to our Discussions page so members of the tutor/mentor community can join you where you are taking the lead. We?d like to hear from you.

Note: Learn more about the Chicagoland Tutor/Mentor Volunteer Recruitment Campaign. Visit Recruitment Campaign Link