Maps can show where tutor/mentor programs are needed, and why they are needed. Visit the Tutor/Mentor Blog, Map Gallery, and Program Locator to see examples of how T/MC is following stories in Chicago media with follow up map-stories intended to draw volunteers and donors into neighborhoods which the media point to when they do "bad news" stories and give them feature attention in print and media.

On February 12 and 13, 2008 the President's Council on  Service and Civic Participation  will convein a CEO Summit, aimed at challenging corporate leaders to leverage their employees' professional skills to help the non-profit sector achieve more meaningful outcomes for communities. Learn more at

https://www.regonline.com/builder/site/Default.aspx?eventid=157462

After the Summit, invite your CEO to review the strateges of the Tutor/Mentor Connection and become a strategic partner, using the talent of  a corporation to help develope the future and current workforce of that corporation and industry.  View the T/MC vision: http://cmapspublic.ihmc.us/servlet/SBReadResourceServlet?rid=1178301962705_378512451_14531&partName=htmltext

Each year the January National Mentoring Month celebrates the role mentors play in the lives of all of us. As we think of who has been our mentor, we ask you to focus attention on kids living in inner city neighborhoods where kids and families need extra mentors, and extra learning and experience opportunities in the non-school hours. These are places where tutor/mentor programs like Cabrini Connections are needed. In the Program Locator and Chicago Program Links sections of this web site you can find dozens of programs like Cabrini Connections. Each is constantly looking for resources (dollars, manpower, leaders, ideas, technology, etc.) that they can use to maintain connections between mentors and youth.

Learn how your company can recruit talent volunteers (PDF), to help build stronger tutor/mentor programs in Chicago and other cities. Learn ways you can be more consistent in connecting people in your network (pdf)  to tutor/mentor progams in your city.

Please consider a 2008 donation to the Cabrini Connections or to one of the other mentoring/tutoring organizations listed on our web site to help every tutor/mentor program in Chicago, and in other cities, continue this service in 2008 and beyond. Thank you.

This week two events are being held which connect college and business volunteers with inner city kids. You can read about these on the Tutor/Mentor Blog and the Cabrini Blog. 

Our use of blogs illustrates a strategy small non profits can use to tell their story and reach potential volunteers and donors. As you develop your Back-to-School Volunteer Recruitment Campaign, think of using a blog, and of linking your blog to the Tutor/Mentor Blog, as part of a strategy to get the attention of a greater number of potential volunteers.  Just email your web address to us, or introduce yourself with a comment on the Tutor/Mentor Blog or in the Discussion Forums on this site.

If you lead a business, professional group, health care organization, church or alumni group, and want to lead a strategy where you connect your network to tutor/mentor programs in Chicago or in your own community, email tutormentor2@earthlink.net for our help in developing this strategy.

Visit http://cabriniblog.blogspot.com and view photos from the 2007 year end dinner. This celebrates the 15th year of providing tutoring/mentoring to Cabrini Green youth.

View the Cabrini Connections, Tutor/Mentor Connection timeline and see how this organization has grown from the vision of a few volunteers.  Click on the 1965 to 1992 timeline to see how this vision started more than 40 years ago.