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• 1994-11-04 Mayor Richard M. Daley issued proclamation making November 6-12, 1994 Tutor/Mentor Week in Chicago. in this he said, Whereas, the Lend A Hand Program sponsored by the Chicago Bar Foundation, seeks to recruit volunteers to provide tutoring and mentoring to children throughout the city and to coordinate a fund-raising program which will generate critical funds needed to support these efforts citywide; and whereas, Tutor/Mentor Connection was formed by Cabrini Connections in 1993 to serve as a catalyst for expanding and improving tutor/mentor opportunities in Chicago; and whereas, the Chicago Bar Foundation and Cabrini Connections have joined together to promote Tutor/Mentor Week, November 6th through November 12, 1994, in order to raise awareness and support programs providing tutoring and mentoring throughout the city of Chicago; Now therefore, I Richard M. Daley, Mayor, City of Chicago, do hereby proclaim November 6th to 12th, 1994 to be Tutor/Mentor Week in Chicago.
• 1996-12-16 A photo story on the front Page of the Daily Law Bulletin in Chicago was titled "Young professionals make gift to tutor-mentor fund". Pictured were Dan Bassill of the T/MC, Betsy Densmore of the Chicago Bar Foundation, Don Hubert, President of the Chicago Bar Association and Tim Green, a management consultant at Deloitte & Touche. Tim's Group worked with the T/MC and the Lend A Hand to create an event that raised funds for tutor/mentor programs.
• 2000-10-10 Received email from Deborah Knight-Kerr at Johns Hopkins Hospital. It read, "The following individuals will be attending both days: Harriet Bernstein, Albert Einstein Medical Center, Phila. Cassandra Williams, Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis Elena Quitcon, Beth Israel Medical Center, NY Andrea Perry, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles Deborah Knight-Kerr, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore Johnette Wilson, The Washington Hospital Center, DC William Rochford, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville
• 2000-10-10 Asta Ardickas, ED of Illinois Commission on Community Service called to follow up on our August meeting. She offered that her agency would like to provide small grants to Illinois communities to help the volunteer centers in those communities set up Tutor/Mentor Connections. "Would I help?", she asked. This led to a deeper conversation of funding, web pages, and the Tutor/Mentor Training Center concept, a February event, all of which I'll mail her.
• 2000-10-10 Asta Ardickas, ED of Illinois Commission on Community Service called to follow up on our August meeting. She offered that her agency would like to provide small grants to Illinois communities to help the volunteer centers in those communities set up Tutor/Mentor Connections. "Would I help?", she asked. This led to a deeper conversation of funding, web pages, and the Tutor/Mentor Training Center concept, a February event, all of which I'll mail her.
• 2000-10-10 Bob Glaves of Chicago Bar Foundation sent an email to the Lend a Hand group to update everyone on the Nov. 4th Benefit. They already have over $105,000 committed before selling individual tickets (half goes to Lend a Hand)
• 2000-10-11 Email conversation started with Craig Anthony Thomas, ExDir of the Kalamazoo Chapter of World Organization of Web Masters. By Friday, his message was:"Please re-send as I will bring up your proposal to two groups here -- the Kalamazoo Area Service-Learning Alliance as well as the Kalamazoo chapter of the World Organization of Webmasters. Both meetings take place Tuesday at 1 p.m. and 6 p.m., respectively. It is my impression from frequent visits to your site that Kalamazoo folks could go piggyback with your efforts in a viable parnership. I'll also check out your upcoming November conference as a in-service training session that our group leaders can attend. The information you share helps me make a compelling case for a partnership.
• 2000-10-13 Call received from PR person at Mentoring USA. We've invited their chairperson, Mrs.Andrew Cuomo, to be speaker at T/MC Conference. Gave her more info and she'll visit the web site.
• 2000-10-17 Tom Russo, my fund raising GURU from South Carolina, put up a new web site to elicit Conference sponsors. the ULR is http://www.tutormentorconference.bigstep.com/
• 2000-10-17 Bob Erlenbaugh agreed to put up a Cabrini Connections Golf Benefit web site, hosted from his company's web site: http://www.edynamicweb.com
• 2000-10-25 Called by Stephanie Krieger, Therapist at and Elgin, Il. Residential center. She wanted mentors. I told of the need for at T/MC structure in Elgin. She told of friend at Northwestern's Kellogg Business Schools. I told her of conference.
• 2000-10-31 Ron Osborne, acting ED of Chicago Boys & Girls Club called. Wants T/MC to do presentation for Jan strategic planning meeting. Looks like an opportunity to work together.
• 2000-10-31 Craig Thomas emailed from Kalamazoo, MI. Wants to connect with T/MC and get T/MC adopted as resource for city of Kalamzaoo.
• 2000-11-03 Dan emailed about 25 organizations which have been profiled on the daily America's Promise fax sheet to tell them of T/MC Conference. Called the Sears Alliance number and ended up faxing infor to the PR agency working on this, Burson Marsteller, in Chicago
• 2000-11-09 T/MC hosted 14th Tutor/Mentor Leadership Conference. More than 220 total attended. Average was about 150 per day. These numbers are not the final audit, but are close.
• 2000-11-09 T/MC hosted first annual Tutor/Mentor Recognition Dinner. Estimated 80 people attended. iS3C was Gold Level Sponsor.
• 2000-11-10 Representatives of Hospital Youth Mentoring Partnership presented at T/MC conference. Panel represented major hospitals from around the US
• 2000-11-10 Wray Howard of the Rockford (IL) Mentoring Network, attended conference and met with Dan. Interested in working together.
• 2000-11-13 Bob Erlenbach launched the Cabrini Connections Golf Benefit web site at www.edynamicweb.com/CabriniConnectionsGolf
• 2000-11-21 Vikki R. from the National Mentoring Center contacted us to learn more about our conferences, in particular, our conference scheduled for this April/May. They planned to host a regional conference in the Chicago area in April. I provided information about the format/topics of our conference and invited her organization to partner with us. She is going to discuss options with her staff, such as hosting it elsewhere or working with us. She said they could provide a workshop presenter for us at no charge. Possible someone to discuss board development.
• 2000-11-22 Aimee Sherman added ten new people to the T/MC Conference planning eGroup.
• 2000-12-06 Hospital Youth Mentoring Partnership invited Dan Bassill to do a workshop at the March 2001 Conference in Baltimore.
• 2000-12-07 Dan B participated in Technology Networking event at Union League Club. Networked with people like Melissa Giovagnoli of Networlding (whom I'd already had previous contact) and met people like Larry Mohl, Director, Center for Learning and Knowledge Managment at Motorola. Another speaker was Eric Lannert, of www.nminds.com. He's a tutor at Cabrini-Green Tutoring Program, a leader of icStars and his company hosts executive level communities. Ended meeting with suggestion that the participants become an on-going "community".
• 2000-12-14 Reid met with Robert Bryant, General Manager of Barbara's Bookstores (Mayuba Bookstores, Inc.) and John Hastie, Marketing and Events Manager to discuss T/MC Recruitment Campaign and Public Awareness strategies. They committed
• 2000-12-20 Met with Tom Holub,from Edgewood College in MAdison, WI, to review collaborative strategies for next six months. Cabrini Connections has been working with Edgewood for three years.
• 2000-12-20 Added name of volunteer coordinator from St. Vincent dePaul Center in Chicago to on-line "call to action" letter which is at T/MC web site.
• 2000-12-22 Contacted by Aisha Sabur-Jarvis, of Big Sisters of Central Indiana. They wrote we "Would welcome the opportunity to replicate your program in the Indianapolis area." She wrote after receiving the T/MC Report. She wrote "I am intrigued by the importance of a program like this one and the benefit it brings to students."
• 2000-12-22 Bob Glaves of Chicago Bar Foundation reports "they have hired Elizabeth Scott to become the new Associate Director, whose duties will include overseeing the Lend a Hand program.. Elizabeth is an attorney who has practiced in litigation while in California, has a lot of marketing experience in the business world, has taught at the University of Chicago and in California, and has been involved in a number of bar and volunteer activities in the past few years.
• 2000-12-29 Email from Big Sisters contact in Indianapolis area. She wrote (in response to my last message to her), "Thank you for the task. I believe I am beginning to understand how Big Sisters can participate in the T/MC model. I meet with my Executive Director on Wednesday Jan. 3, 2000. I plan to discuss with her the e-mails we have exchanged and the information you have shared with me. I will connect with you again,shortly after meeting with her, I will know whether or not I may proceed with the task you outlined in your E-mail. I believe she will like this concept as much as I do. Wish me luck."
• 2001-01-05 Whole Foods Market Gold Coast (30 W. Huron) announced that "throughout the month of January it offers a chance for customers to support Cabrini Connections " in it's January calendar/newsletter. They will do cash register coupons all month, giving customers a chance to make $1, $5, or $10 donations while buying groceries. On two weekends, three tutor/mentor programs will recruit volunteers at the store.
• 2001-01-09 Received Year 2000 Media Report from Public Communications, Inc. This documents all of the media they generated for T/MC through the year. We have such a report for each year since 1993. I'd like to be able to enter eachlisting on all of these reports as a first step in the retrospective. While these represent media PCI generated, by no means is this all that was generated by CC during this or past years.
• 2001-01-10 Met with ED of FireWorks for Kids Foundation (Chicago Fire) to review goals.
• 2001-01-16 Sara Caldwell launched a message in the Art Festival eCircle, starting planning for a 2001 art festival.
• 2001-01-17 Meeting of Chicago Bar Foundation Lend A Hand Advisory Council was held this morning. Attended by about 8 people. Guidelines for grant making were further refined, focusing on programs with at least 50% of students in one-on-one matches, extending the funding area to all of Cook County, and developing proposal instructions which should result in programs doing a better job of describing what they do.
• 2001-01-18 Dan, Gita and Pat Dowdle attended the January 2002 Midwest Facilitators Network workshops on Friday, January 18. Workshops by PowerSuasion(www.powersuasion.com), Chris Barlow (Stuart School of Business of IIT), and Michael Wilkinson (www.leadstrat.com) provided valuable knowledge for T/MC growth. All participants will be added to T/MC email distribution.
• 2001-01-19 John Morrison, a professor at Aurora University, called for information to help start a tutor/mentor program at the Third Unitarian Church in the Austin area of Chicago. We talked of how the "business plan and research" for such a program could be student work/graduate studies of business and social work students at Auora.
• 2001-01-19 Talked with Asta Ardickas, Director of Illinois Commission on Community Service. She reports 1) Illinois Promise web site is in construction, with links to T/MC; and 2) they continue to brainstorm ways to seed community T/MC structures in downstate cities. She thinks they will try to do it through the Project Success program. I also gave suggestions for planning an annual schedule of activities, using the T/MC schedule as a start
• 2001-01-22 Mark Skibinski from Peoria sent email update: Everything is moving along here. I've been meeting with Sue about planning recruitment events as well as a recognition event for those who have volunteered or mentored. But I was wondering if you have heard of either Mankind Project or Mentors Action Network in Chicago. My agency has been in contact with a represenative and he wants to come down and give a presentation to our CEO, myself, and Farrell Davies about his program and I was wondering if you have heard of these groups? I am also looking to secure some funding to attend your workshop in May. I also wanted to let you know we did receive the Americorps help and will be utiling them with our Peoria's Promise effort.
• 2001-01-24 First Leadership Conference Committee meeting was held for the Spring 2001 conference. Also, the first ever online committee was held. There were 8 attendees to the live meeting and 4 attendees to the online meeting. The online meeting was held in the chat room of the leadership_conference egroup.
• 2001-01-30 Responded to email message of 1/19/2001 which John Bailey, Director, Office of Educational Technology, PA Department of Education, posted. I put two of John's links on the T/MC site and invited John, or one of his staff, to join the T/MC Conference eGroup.
• 2001-02-02 I met with John Brothers, Director, Communities & States, for America's Promise. John was give a complete overview of the T/MC strategy, our use of maps, public awareness, the web site, etc. We discussed how T/MC could help with his goal of getting an America's Promise movement going in Chicago and other major cities and how America's Promise could help T/MC. Kenney King of New Concepts did the original contact work last August to connect John and T/MC.
• 2001-02-21 Met with Sheila Castillo, program director for Earth Force Chicago. This is part of Environmental Education program that is in 7 cities. We shared strategies that can build visibility and volunteers for Earth Force, while leading to environmental education component of more 1-1 tutor/mentor programs.
• 2001-02-21 Met with 4 City Year Chicago volunteers, headed by Katrina Dula, who attended the Nov. 2000 T/MC conference. T/MC offered suggestions of how this group could network with other 73 City Year volunteers in Chicago and lead effort where they help build impact of T/MC events. T/MC also suggested that CY volunteers could help develop student-led T/Mc teams in high schools and turn these into a continuity program where new CY volunteers provide leadership from year to year.
• 2001-02-21 Met with BJ Murray, Kim Davis (wife of owner of Marché), and three other volunteers to start planning for the 2001 Oscars Party. The Silent Auction proceeds fund Cabrini Connections.
• 2001-02-22 T/MC visited by Caren Yanis, Foundation Manager, and Dedric Richardson, Research Coordinator, of Oprah's Angel Network Foundation
• 2001-02-27 Chicago Bar Foundation's Young Professionals Board and the Association of Legal Administrators - Chicago are planning a Fat Tuesday Challenge Fund Raiser for Feb. 27, 2001. Part of funds will go to the Lend A Hand Fund (which funds tutor/mentor programs)
• 2001-02-27 Val Parker, of Power 4 Youth in California sent email which read: I am interested in finding out again about your May conference schedule. Could you email or send me dates and materials? I will try to work it into my schedule, as I enjoyed it much last year. Thank you. Also, if I come to Chicago, may I visit Cabrini Connections? Thank you again for your Board information. I think we are moving along, with a goal job descriptions and new board members by May 3. If I see you in May, perhaps we can talk more.
• 2001-02-28 Jerry Shirk, Executive Director, Mentoring Coalition of San Diego County, added himself and four members of his network to the Volunteer Recruitment Campaign eGroup.
• 2001-03-01 Met with Public Communications, Inc. Reviewed Public Awareness strategy for 2001 and set goals. PCI extended it's commitment through 2001. They will provide $15,000 in pro bono support to T/MC.
• 2001-03-02 Minutes of the Chicago Volunteer Recruitment meeting, held Feb 23, were reposted on the MentorNet list by Jerry Shirk, Ex Dir of the Mentoring Coalition of San Diego County.
• 2001-03-03 Paul Pejsa, GE Elfun Chapter of Milwaukee, sent email which said: "I'll pass your request along to the Chair of our Milwaukee Elfun chapter for the Chapter Executive Committee's consideration."
• 2001-03-13 Put close to 13,000 newsletters in mail to people all over the country. These share information, show the T/MC vision, via charts and maps, and provide invitations to visit T/MC web sites as well as those of other tutoring, mentoring and learning resources.
• 2001-03-19 The i-Street section in the 3/19/2001 Chicago Sun Times, written by Darcy Evon, included a story about the Cabrini Connections Innervision Youth Productions Video Festival. This included web sites for www.tutormentorconnection.org and www.cabriniconnections.net
• 2001-03-29 Received email from Shannah Compton of Hometown Cinema. She wrote, "We have offices in both Indy and Los Angeles. I spend most of the time in Los Angeles developing relationships with HOllywood professionals and securing sponsors etc. I would love to talk with you about how we can go beyond kids making films and start school-to-career mentoring programs. The Indianapolis community seems very open to such a situation and I have to believe that other cities would as well.
• 2001-04-04 I was traveling from Sacramento-Chicago and met a gentleman, David Springett, Ph.D. who is the President of the Community College Foundation. Their website is www.communitycollege.org. We had an extended meeting/discussion that lasted for over 3 hours! He organizes 3 major conferences a year (held in Chicago, California and Boston) each conference has 3000-4000 attendees. He is very interested in doing collaborative work with us...not limited to sponsorship and the possibility of us doing our conference at the same time as his (with his organization absorbing the costs).
• 2001-04-12 Talked to Nicolle Camal, St Louis Mentoring Task Force, about T/MC strategies.
• 2001-04-16 Layton Olson sent email to 100 members of acn consulting list serve saying, "Along with the Planet Volunteer site, I think all ACN members (and their nonprofit organization networks) should know about Chicago's Tutor Mentor Connection, including its May 17-18 leadership conference.www.tutormentorconnection.org" Layton has been participating in T/MC conferences for a couple of years.
• 2001-04-18 Received confirmation from Chicago Humanities Festival that they will cross promote T/MC in their newsletter. They're also interested in developing on-going actions that connect T/M programs and youth with arts and humanities efforts.
• 2001-04-23 Mason Scholl, United Voices for Children, posted an email message into a variety of faith networks. The lead paragraph reads, "With more and more NIC congregations involved in afterschool/mentoring programs, I want to alert you to an excellent 2-day training workshop for staff and volunteers scheduled for May 17/18 in Chicago. This workshop is sponsored by one of the best nationally recognized afterschool/mentoring programs in the country, Cabrini Connection, located on the near north side of Chicago. Its President/CEO, Dan Bassill, is recognized as one of the national experts in this kind of program." He encouraged everyone to attend the May conference.
• 2001-04-26 Adam Alonso, Ex Dir, Chicago MOST, called to get involved with T/MC conferences.
• 2001-04-26 Sent email messages to several networks, such as GE Elfun, Hospital Mentoring, Acacia list, GKD list, TRDEV list and about a dozen other organizations. In each asked them to resend the message to their network. This reaches more than 2000 people in the first round of distribution.
• 2001-05-04 Lura Lyn Ryan, First Lady of Illinois, has agreed to chair the 2001 Tutor/Mentor Volunteer Recruitment Campaign. This will be the second year.
• 2001-05-07 Governor George Ryan (llinois) signed the 2001 Volunteer Recruitment Campaign Call to Action Letter today.
• 2001-05-17 North Loop News (circ 24,000) ran calendar listing about May T/MC conference
• 2001-05-18 Total Attendance at the May 17 and 18 Tutor/Mentor Leadership Conference was 300. More than 167 organizations were represented. Ten percent of participants came from beyond Chicago.
• 2001-05-18 Attended the Tutor/Mentor Leadership Conference. Presented two workshops with 18 people in each. These shared my experiences and I hope helped each program with their own work. During the workshop I also met and networked with several others. I feel the conference was outstanding.
• 2001-05-23 Centro Romero, a youth agency in Chicago, called for information on getting involved in the recruitment campaign.
• 2001-05-23 Beatrice Polk of Progressive Human Intergenerational (in Chicago) called to ask how to get a grocery store fund raising campaign started. She had read about our work with Whole Foods in the T/MC Report. I provide information and suggested they get into the Recruitment Campaign.
• 2001-06-07 Mark McDaniel and I sat and tried to think of ways a GIS based working/planning tool could be made available in all the ways we've envisioned.
• 2001-06-08 Met with Anthony McGee and Michelle Smith of Chicago Department of Human Services and Youth Net. T/MC was invited to be part of training network that meets monthly. DHS will distribute T/MC surveys, look for opportunities to get Directories purchased, encourage YouthNet leaders to participate in T/MC events, ask DHS leader Ray Velasquez to sign 2001 manifesto; and, continue to share ideas back and forth
• 2001-06-09 Sara Caldwell, www.amphionpro.com/gallery, wrote to give updates on the 2nd Annual Art Festival, which will be August 9th and 10th. She already has a number of international artists lined up to display art. She wrote, "Teh art festival website is up at: www.angelfire.com/art/cabrini The Information page will include the address, reception times, and general news and info. The "Art for Sale" page will include about 10-15 pieces of art for sale and will link to my gallery order form for purchases."
• 2001-06-14 meeting with congressman Rod Blagojevich's office with Ellen Sausser from Youth Outreach Services to intoduce congressnman to campaign and invite to participate and help with year round promotion of volunteerism. Met with Brad Strauss, Congressional Aide.
• 2001-06-18 Julie Forbes of Coca Cola called to schedule follow up meeting on July 2 at 9:30am
• 2001-06-21 Karen Johnson of DraftWorldwide and the Direct Marketing Association (DMA) of Chicago emailed and offered to work with T/MC and wants to schedule a meeting.
• 2001-06-29 Mark Brandt, President of the Chicago area chapter of the GE Elfun group, attended the T/MC Recruitment meeting. This groupd is the volunteer body for all GE employees in the Chicago region. Mark will join the planning committee and at minimum will send email to all GE employees to support the campaign.
• 2001-07-02 Met with Julie Forbes, CocaCola Director of Sales for the Chicago Region to discuss T/MC and ways her company can get involved. She offered that they might support the recruitment campaign with "hand tags" on liter bottles of Coke that are sold at grocery stores and mini-marts.
• 2001-07-02 Met with Julie Forbes, CocaCola Director of Sales for the Chicago Region to discuss T/MC and ways her company can get involved. She offered that they might support the recruitment campaign with "hand tags" on liter bottles of Coke that are sold at grocery stores and mini-marts.
• 2001-07-06 Actor Joe Mantegna and Actor Dennis Franz have agreed to support the 2001 Volunteer Recruitment Campaign. This is the third year Joe has supported the campaign.
• 2001-08-06 Provided information on Nov. 2001 conference to AmeriCorps volunteer from the Mass Mentoring Partnership. Also provided info about T/MC hosted discussion groups.
• 2001-08-13 Made a contact with Ian Scarlett the head of the Chicago Association of Direct Marketing referred to us by Karen Johnson from Worldwide Draft.
• 2001-08-21 Received following message from Jill Davis of Microsoft: Hello Daniel and Mary, CONGRATULATIONS on the launch of your new lab! Yes, on behalf of Microsoft Midwest I would be happy to donate one copy of Windows 2000 Advanced Server w/25 CAL. It sounds like you need it before next week, correct? Let me see what I can do to rush this. I'll get back to you tomorrow. Also I will forward the recruitment campaign letter to our local employees. Many people in our district are quite active with the commmunity and are always looking for ways to volunteer!
• 2001-08-27 June/July 2001 issue of the Chicago Bar Association quarterly journal has one-page story on the Thomas A Demetrio Award, presented to Life Directions during the May 2001 Tutor/Mentor Leadership Conference.
• 2001-08-27 Planning meeting held with Chicago Bar Foundation's Lend A Hand Committee. Goal for Nov. 3rd Benefit is to raise $190,000 vis $140,000 in 2000. Half this money goes to tutor/mentor programs. 10% to T/MC.
• 2001-08-29 Arne Duncan, new CEO of Chicago Public Schools, agreed to speak at the Sept. 6th press conference to kick off the recruitment fairs.
• 2001-08-29 Cabrini Connections finished mailing 8,677 T/MC Reports and 3,526 Newslink Newsletters to tutor/mentor stakeholders in Chicago, Illinois and throughout the country. We've already received four calls from those receiving the T/MC Report, asking for help starting a program and for information about recruiting at the volunteer fairs.
• 2001-09-06 First Volunteer recruitment fair and press conference held at James Thompson Center in Chicago. 25 agencies set up booths. Mrs. Ryan visited each booth to talk with each program. Arne Duncan was featured in press conference. Media from TV and radio were present. Channel 7 showed segment in 4PM news and T/MC received 35 calls in a 15 minute span.
• 2001-09-07 Mary Schmich wrote a great column on mentoring and the recruitment campaign for today's Chicago Tribune.
• 2001-09-07 Ben LeFort of EXTRA newspaper wrote a great story on the T/MC Recruitment campaign. It featured programs serving Latino areas, such as Casa Central, Centro Romero and Gads Hill.
• 2001-09-07 T/MC database was placed on Tutor/Mentor Exchange web site today thanks to the work of Ken Novak, Steve Roussos and Julie Hamilton.
• 2001-09-12 Chris Hutchinson came to learn of marketing opportunities with Cabrini Connections. He agreed to build participation within groups he is familiar with (Western Illinois U. Alumni, Delta Sigma Pi Fraternity, IT (he works for CDW). He'll do this by focusing on the two annual T/MC conferences, starting in Nov. 2001.
• 2001-09-15 Thirty volunteers attended the Sept. 15 orientation for new Cabrini Connections tutors/mentors. This was the first orientation at our new location, and the first in 2 years where volunteers were exposed to the T/MC as well as the Kids' Connection.
• 2001-09-20 This is a status report on Internet Groups. We have five active teams working on-line to support various objectives. They are a) Kids' Connection tech team - setting up computers at 800 W. Huron; b) GIS team - getting maps and database on line; c) volunteer recruitment team - planning and coordinating annual and year round volunteer recruitment; d) conference team - planning November and May conference; e) marketing team - building email marketing materials
• 2001-09-21 Ira Bey, who leads a small email marketing company and David Kelbauch, who leads a small advertising company, report that they are meeting and will have "templates" of T/MC ads read for review very soon.
• 2001-09-25 David Klebaugh and Ira Bey met and built a strategy to do email marketing for T/MC. David will have some templates ready in a few weeks. His company will do the creatife. Ira will do the distribution and will host an email list data base.
• 2001-09-27 Bill Thompson, Volunteer/Mentor Specialist, Teen R.E.A.C.H. Center, sent email saying "I was wanting more information on the next Tutor/Mentor Conference. I attended the 14th conference in Chicago and found it to be very helpful and was looking forward to attending again this year.
• 2001-09-29 T/MC sent mail 400 labels of Chicago area T/MC programs to Big Brothers Big Sisters of Chicago to include in mailing to generate participation in the Jan. 2002 National Mentoring Month
• 2001-10-02 A. W. Bolden of the Chicago Chapter of Black Data Processor Association emailed to say, "I will be promoting this conference to the membership at our next meeting. This notice will also be forwarded to members of our board."
• 2001-10-02 Received 10 complementary copies of "Youth!The 26% Solution!" from Wendy Lesko of the Activism 2000 Project, based in DC. She sent these as "raffle prizes" for Nov. Conference, and to help tutor/mentor programs become aquainted with the book and its lessons.
• 2001-10-03 Participated in Volunteer Recruitment Fair hosted by the Young Lawyers Group at Chicago Bar Foundation. Developed 11 new leads/contacts. I've had one follow up to schedule a meeting (Northwestern University School of Law, Director of Minority Affairs) and have initiated a follow up with the President of YLA
• 2001-10-06 Attended the volunteer recruitment fair hosted by the Bonniville Radio Stations at Woodfield Mall. 24 new contacts for potential volunteers. Nearly a dozen other leads to groups such as Bonniville, Hook a Kid on Golf, Kiwanis, etc.
• 2001-10-10 Joe McCord of the Chicago Park District called to introduce me to Bonnie Johnson of the US POST OFFICE. The Post Office will release a "mentoring" stamp in a few months and Joe told Bonnie that she should include T/MC in their "announcement" plans. Joe also offered to meet to renew efforts to get a strategic program going in the local Park District.
• 2001-10-10 Joe McCord, of Chicago Park District, called to introduce me to Bonnie Johnson of US Post Office. She is marketing person for Chicago region.Post office is issuing a Mentoring stamp in 2002 and Bonnie will work with local tutor/mentor programs to build publicity for the release.
• 2001-10-11 Frances Roehm, SkokieNet Librarian, emailed to say "I've put a blurb (about the Nov. 2001 conference) up on ChicagoJobs News, so hopefully, all who would benefit will get the word."
• 2001-10-12 Bonnie Johson agreed to preview new Mentoring Stamp on Nov. 8th as part of the T/MC Leadership Conference. The US Postmaster for Chicago will unveil the stamp. This will be the first showing in the Midwest.
• 2001-10-18 A producer from US 99 Radio called after receiving the Conference Brochure. They want to interview one of the workshop speakers, from Uhlich Children's home. I provided the contact info to Allyson Winton at Uhlich.
• 2001-10-25 Mahesh Alur gave Cabrini Connections donations totalling $1,196 which were collected from 38 people who had pledged funds to Cabrini Connections when Mahesh ran in the 2001 Chicago Marathon. Mahesh chose Cabrini Connections because in 2000 he was connected as a mentor to another tutor/mentor program and has found it very rewarding. The T/MC referred him to that program.
• 2001-10-26 David Klebaugh reviewed story boards for two ad campaigns that will be launched via the Internet. One for T/MC conferences and one for donor/volunteer involvement prior to the end of 2001 holidays. The donor/volunteer ad should be launched via email by mid November.
• 2001-11-03 This year's Chicago Bar Association/Foundation Benefit was held Saturday, Nov. 3 at the Field Museum in Chicago. Attendance was estimated at 1,500, an increase over last year's 1,100. This is now a major event in the legal community, and the idea originated in 1994 when Dan Bassill of the T/MC approached Betsy Densmore of the CBF with the idea of collaborating on an effort to raise funds, visibility and volunteers for tutor/mentor programs.
• 2001-11-09 The Nov. 8th and 9th Leadership Conference was attended by 224 people. The conference was held in a room next to a community college "learning" conference and several university people stopped at the T/MC conference to learn more. Hightlights of the conference included presentation of the 2002 Mentoring Stamp by the post office, and participation by America's Promise for the first time.
• 2001-11-13 Gigi Domingo of the Direct Marketing Association of Chicago wrote: "At this time we've agreed to assist Tutor/Mentor Connection by helping recruit tutor/mentor volunteers through 2 CADM channels. Information about the program and a call for volunteers will posted on the CADM website and through the Ad Marks publication. Please let me know what information you would like to include.
• 2001-11-21 Kids' Connection volunteers were invited to join an on-line e-group that is designed to be a meeting place for Cabrini Connections tutors,mentors, staff and students to share information, ideas and event notices with each other. Anyone can enter issues related to the Kids' Connection. As a result of this invitation, 25 of our 71 volunteers have enlisted as Kids' Connection e-group "members."
• 2001-11-29 Tom Klaus, of the Legacy Group, distributed the following message to his email newsletter network: ARE YOU DOING TUTORING & MENTORING? CHECK THIS OUT! Recently I had the opportunity to speak at a conference in Chicago for a group that, frankly, I knew very little about. I had agreed to speak at the conference because the person who recommended it to me was someone whose judgment I trust and advice I value. As it turns out it was one of those really serendipitous experiences. The conference was the semi-annual Tutor/Mentor Leadership Conference. The driving force behind the conference is Dr. Daniel Bassill, who is President of Cabrini Connections and the Tutor/Mentor Connection. Dr. Bassil is a passionate leader who firmly believes in the power of one human life to affect another for good. While much of Dan's work is focused on Chicago, he has also helped facilitate the creation of a nationwide network of organizations and individuals who are involved in tutoring and mentoring. If you or your organization are involved in tutoring and mentoring, Dan Bassill is someone you need to know and the May Tutor/Mentor Leadership Conference is an event you need to get on your calendar. Even now Dan and Aimee Sherman, the Conference Coordinator, are working on that event. In fact, you can submit to present. For more information, contact Aimee at aimeeconfplan@hotmail.com. Also, take a few minutes and visit the website of the Tutor/Mentor Connection at www.tutormentorexchange.net. You'll be glad you did!
• 2001-11-29 Spoke with Sherri Rardin from Kendall County Project Success about having a collaboration with them and other suburban counties during the 2002 volunteer recruitment campaign
• 2001-12-04 Frances E. Roehm, ChicagoJobs Webmaster, SkokieNet Librarian,wrote: "You must be very proud of your program (Leadership Conference) -- it was well organized, well attended, and included many positive presentations -- a very helpful addition for nonprofits in need of some continuing education! The program that stood out for me was the Team Leadership presentation -- it was outstanding! I did make the acquaintenance of the gentleman coordinating the computers, and had outstanding lunchmates to converse with on Friday. Best wishes for every success in your endeavor, and let me know when you have other programs you want me to advertise, or additional information to get out to the good people of Chicagoland.
• 2001-12-06 Spoke to Sherrie Rardin from Project Success in Kendall County and I will be attending their steering committee meeting on Feb.6 to report on the 2002 campaign.
• 2001-12-13 In response to an email posted 12/11 on the Digital Divide e-list (2500 members) I received this response: "Daniel, this is great! My name is Phoebe Lenear, and I am a member of the Institute for African American E-Culture (iAAEC). I believe you talked with Roscoe Giles, the executive director of iAAEC, some time ago. We are a diverse group of researchers, academicians, computer scientists, engineers, social scientists, etc. who collaborate to develop technologies centered around the African American user. One of iAAEC's initiatives is to develop community technology zones. We identify predominantly African American community centers such as Tutor/Mentor Connect and work with them to help us develop and test our technologies before transferring them to the broader user community. You can visit our web site at www.iaaec.org for more information.I would very much like to talk with you in detail about possible collaborations. Let me know when you will be available for a telecon. My schedule is pretty open through Wednesday, Dec 19 or after the holidays." I followed up to schedule a meeting.
• 2001-12-19 Contacted by organization in Gambia, West Africa that invites us to collaborate and share ideas. Sent info on International Art Festival and invited them to participate. Also provided info on T/MC sites. Their websites are: http://www.fsif.org - for the organisation and http://www.fsif.net - for the educational training
• 2002-01-04 Renee Tucker of ACI sent this letter to 20 ACI colleges in Illinois and Wisconsin: ACI has been involved with the Tutor/Mentor Conference (T/MC) for several years now, and I have been involved individually since the 2nd conference as a presenter and planning committee member. For the upcoming conference, a call for presenters has been issued, which you will find in this mailing. Please look it over and consider who on your campus may be interested in being a presenter in May. T/MC started as a program of Cabrini Connections tutoring/mentoring program 8 years ago as a grassroots effort to pool knowledge and resources among Chicago’s non-profit, child-serving organizations. The conference occurs twice per year and now has a typical attendance of 300. While the majority of the participants come from the Chicago area, we have also drawn folks from Australia, Washington D.C., New Jersey, Oregon, California, and many other far-off places. T/MC charges minimal fees because the intent is still to help those non-profit organizations who operate on a shoe-string budget. For this reason, T/MC cannot offer honorariums to presenters, and the planning team consists of volunteers interested in keeping this conference going and growing. The information I have enclosed was printed from the conference web site, www.tutormentorconference.bigstep.com, if you or someone on your campus would like to read more about the conference. Please also feel free to pass on my name, number, 312-263-2391 x25, and email address, renee.tucker@acifund.org, as I am happy to talk about the event and the opportunity to present a workshop.
• 2002-01-08 National Mentoring Month began the first of January. A variety of TV, radio and print stories will appear during the month calling on volunteers to mentor. This event is being chaired by BBBS. T/MC was offered the lead role in early April, but declined due to lack of revenue to take this additional role. T/MC worked with BBBS and the committee and is linked from the Chicago web sites that promote the event.
• 2002-01-29 I received the following email today: "My name is Sarah Frank and I am the Director of Milwaukee Mentors. We are a group of eleven nonprofit agencies that operate mentoring programs for children and teens. I would like to receive information about the conference AND about the tutormentor connection. Our group has been in existence for 6 years but feel we would have much to learn from your group! Could I be added to your newsletter? I look forward to hearing from you."
• 2002-02-05 Meeting of the Kendall County Project Success organizations decided to partner with the T/MC for the 2002 T/M Volunteer Recruitment Campaign and have fair sites in their area.
• 2002-02-06 Met with Kimberly Crayton, consultant to Chicago Youth Agency Partnership and President of Chicago Association of Youth Development Professionals. She'll do a workshop at May 20/21 conference. She'll help bring youth development people to conferences and T/MC web site.
• 2002-02-06 T/MC conference committee met today. Ken King of New Concepts, Renee Tucker of Associated Colleges of Illinois, Allison Wenton of Uhlich Children's Home and Janet Takahara of Big Brothers/Bigs Sisters joined with Cabrini Connections staff for this meeting. The group reviewed workshops for the May 20/21 conference and talked of fund raising strategies.
• 2002-02-19 meeting was held with the Chicago Festival Association and myself about sponsorhip of the 2002 Tutor/Mentor Volunteer Recruitment Campaign by Marshall Fields and Target.
• 2002-02-21 Sarah Frank, ED of Milwaukee Mentors, met at T/MC. We reviewed goals,actions and work we might do together to strengthen the capacity of mentor programs in each city.
• 2002-02-28 Met with Karolus Smejda President, PowerSuasion Incorporated, following first contact at the last Midwest Facilitator's Meeting. PowerSuasion develops scripts which actors perform as training for corporate people. When I saw this I felt it would be very effective for training volunteers because of the way actors can improvise performances based on the questions volunteers raise. Mr. Smejda has been a tutor for innercity youth and understood well what the potential for his services would be. The challenge will be to find funding to develop a pilot and present this as a training option for programs (during T/MC conferences)
• 2002-03-12 Attended Advisory Council meeting of Junior League of Chicago. Offered input on Strategic Planning, and on future growth of "Next step for Teen Moms" mentoring program, which is a "signature project" for JLC. I'm one of about 20 members of this Advisory Councile. At meeting set stage for meeting of President of JLC and 2-3 other key leaders, to look for ways for JLC to adopt T/MC as partner and strategy intended to help JLC reach its key goals.
• 2002-03-13 The Lend A Hand Council of the Chicago Bar Foundation met today. There is nearly $65,000 available for 2002 grants to one-on-one tutor/mentor programs (for grants, Demetrrio Award and Searns Family Foundation Match). While a schedule of review was discussed, the bigger issue was the announcement that the Strategic Planning Committee of the Chicago Bar Foundation had decided that Lend A Hand was not a core strategy and that the fund raising (and grant giving) would not be continued in the present format in 2003. This led to the beginning of what will be an on-going conversation among LAH council members intended to keep the program alive and growing. Many commitments were made, including one from Mike Demetrio of Corboy & Dimetrio, to continue to provide resource for the program to continue.
• 2002-03-14 More than 2,000 email ads featuring the Innervisions Youth Production Video Festival were sent out on Friday, March 14.
• 2002-03-14 Meeting with Anglea Zirles, Director of Mentoring for Boys and Girls Clubs of Chicago
• 2002-03-21 Julia Wesley, Office of Community Arts Partnerships, Columbia College of Chicago, called to RSVP to the Recruitment Campaign Meeting. In the follow up I outlijned the potential for Columbia to take the leader role in drawing public attention and participation to a full distribution of Total Quality Mentoring Programs in all parts of Chicago. Julia said she was encouraged to reach out to the T/MC by another staff member, Mary Young, who had worked with T/MC when she was part of Elliott Donnelley Youth Centers.
• 2002-03-22 I sent 20 email letters to people who had opened the IYP email more than a few times since 3/15/02. I selected people who had the potential to help grow Cabrini Connections. Included were Chicago Public Schools, Chicago Bears, IT companies, Hotel Companies. etc. This is a form of prospecting and follow up made possible by this system.
• 2002-03-22 In a conversation with an America's Promise person I was told that AP does not support individual organizations and that AP was doign major work with Northwest Community Hospital and HOPE worldwide in the Northwest Suburbs and Chicago. This is a rejection after ta year of work with John Brothers to build a closer relationship with AP.
• 2002-03-22 Tom Holub of Edgewood College asked me to send "how did we build our program" information to David Wolfson, Vice President WI Foundation for Independent Colleges, Inc., in Milwaukee. They are at the beginning stages of developing a mentoring support strategy. I sent the "big picture" opportunity via email and will follow with additional information.
• 2002-03-26 Met with Laura Lough of World Vision to discuss strategies for engaging faith communities in tutor/mentor program development and delivery. I reviewed maps, communications goals, web sites and other actions that her organization can adopt to draw more faith groups into on-going learning that leads to more strategic and long-term involvement of churches and individuals.
• 2002-03-26 Meeting with WGCI Radio to discuss sponsorships for 2002 Volunteer Recruitment Campaign
• 2002-03-26 Email mining led to email contact with Chris Winters, who leads on-line GIS mapping at the University of Chicago, Arianna Huffington, who writes a syndicated newspaper column, Anne Roosevelt, Community Affairs Director at Boeing World Headquarters, Speaker Dennis Hastert of the US Congress, and a variety of others.
• 2002-03-28 Met with Mercedes Soto of the ITRC Accelerator project and discussed needs of CC and opportunities to work with ITRC
• 2002-04-01 Meeting with the new Marketing and Events Manager at Barbara's Bookstore to discuss the 2002 Volunteer Recruitment Campaign
• 2002-04-02 Meeting with Evelyn Green from the Chicago Department of Public Health to discuss additional ways to partner with her and trhe city.
• 2002-04-03 Equa and Sean met with Dan to discuss ways they can help T/MC and CC
• 2002-04-03 Irene Phelps of the Siragusa Foundation and Dan met with Peter Willmott today. Mr. Willmott is chairman of Children's Hospital in Chicago and of the Associated Colleges of Illinois Board. Irene arranged this introduction.
• 2002-04-05 Met today with Renee Ogletree and Anthony McGee of the Chicago Department of Human Services. DHS offered to provide some funding for Kids' Connection services to an expanded number of youth. They also offered to look for ways to be more strategically connected with T/MC. This meeting was initiated by DHS.
• 2002-04-05 MBFinancial Bank sent followng email: "I am meeting with our managers on Tuesday and will confirm these locations. The probable sites we can use for volunteer fairs are: Morton Grove (Dempster Street location), North Riverside (the Mall location has more foot traffic), Elmhurst ((Grand Ave & Elmhurst Rd.), West Loop (Halsted and Madison, no Saturdays) Ashland (1200 N.), South Holland, Tinley Park. I would like to get another city site, so I will discuss that Tuesday."
• 2002-04-05 Met with Debra Helin, Program Director of HuTech and Amy O'Gara, Intern from the Jane Adams Hull House school of Social Service at UIC. Outlined vision/opportunity for HuTech to play T/MC role serving tutor/mentor programs in the child welfare system.
• 2002-04-10 Meeting with representatives from the Office of Community Arts Partnership at Columbia College.
• 2002-04-11 The first email ad for the May conference was sent today to about 2800 people. This ad was created by David Kelbaugh and volunteers from a small advertising company named GroundWork and distributed by a small email marketing company named Emailconnex. The text was edited from a remote location by Dan Bassill.
• 2002-04-12 Meeting with two representatives from Junior Achievement of Chicago.
• 2002-04-15 Introduced T/MC to 25 students in a strategic planning class at DePaul University. One or two teams of three will choose T/MC for a 10 week strategic planning assignment. I've asked them to develop plans to engage organizations (such as DePaul) as strategic partners of T/MC. One of the other presenting organizations was the Humboldt Park Economic Development Corporation (HPEC)‚. This is a potential partner for T/MC in that part of Chicago.
• 2002-04-24 Met with Nancy Snyder, incoming president of the Junior League of Chicago, and JLC officers, Carol E. Poynter, and Daniel Kenney. Offered collaboration and partner strategies that would strengthen T/MC and help JLC achieve its long-term plan.
• 2002-04-30 MBFinancial confirmed they will print 15,000 of the Lend A Hand Brochure. They will distribute 7,000 in the banks that support the recruitment campaign and will give T/MC 8,000 to distribute at other locations. T/MC designed the brochures.
• 2002-05-02 Launched second Email Conference ad to 2700 people in Chicago and around the country.
• 2002-05-06 The Chicago Rush Arena Football Team has agreed to develop joint marketing strategies with the T/MC, focusing on the Volunteer Recruitment Campaign (Aug/Sept), the Nov. T/MC Conference, and a Tutor/Mentor Game Day Event in February. One coach is interested in "adopting" a neighborhood.
• 2002-05-08 Met with Juvinile Justice Inititiative team to brief them on uses of GIS mapping as piloted by the T/MC. This group is looking for ways to better understand service availibility.
• 2002-05-16 Meeting with magda Sanchez, volunteer recruiter for the Chicago Department of Public Health.
• 2002-05-17 Reid presented information on the campaign to a meeting of over 30 Junior Achievement managers from all over the state.
• 2002-05-21 The 17th Tutor/Mentor Leadership Conference since May 1994 was held on Monday and Tuesday, May 20 and 21. Monday attendance was 209 and Tuesday was 254. Total attendance was 309. This was the first conference where each day's attendance was over 200.
• 2002-05-22 Judy Morris, from Whiteville, NC, called T/MC to get info on Entrepreneurship programs and I told her of the opportunity to stat a T/MC in her county
• 2002-05-23 Meeting with Amy Meadows, visual manager for Marshall Fields State Street store. She is a contact that was made from the previous meeting with Maureen Mulvihill from the Jingle Elf Parade.
• 2002-05-24 Meeting with three programs to begin the process of creating a Pilsen fair site for the 2002 campaign.
• 2002-05-28 Meeting with programs in the Mount Prospect area to plan the recruitment event there.
• 2002-05-30 Meeting with MB Financial Bank finalizing the fair sites and marketing plans for the 2002 campaign.
• 2002-05-30 Beth Brandon, Public Awareness Director of Chicago Rush Football called to set up a meeting. We'll discuss ways to build public awareness for tutoring/mentoring, and the Rush Football team, via a reading program that the team already supports in public schools.
• 2002-06-01 Chicago Cares listed information about our need for volunteers for the Marshall Fields Parade in their June and July calendars whcih go out to over 20,000 people.
• 2002-06-21 Meeting with Andi Johnson at Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metropolitan Chicago regarding working together on the September recruitment drive. She is in Charge of Natl. Mentor Month and we discussed sharing information and assisting in recruitment during both our drives.
• 2002-07-05 Tom Klaus, Legacy Resource Group, sent an email and reported, " I was just at Holiday Home Camp in Wisconsin with Carl Hobbs (whom I met at your Fall conference) to do a training with his staff."
• 2002-07-10 First email version of T/MC Report sent to 2500 people.
• 2002-07-12 Spoke with Zac Burson, International Telementor Program (ITM), about ways to collaborate. He contacted me following receipt of the T/MC email newsletter.
• 2002-07-15 The email newsletter of the National Civic Participation Weekly included a feature paragraph on the Tutor/Mentor Connection Volunteer Recruitment campaign in its 7/15 distribution. The Civic Participation Week is the same week at the Recruitment Fairs. It makes sense for them to promote tutoring/mentoring and for us to show that tutoring/mentoring is one of the best forms of civic participation.
• 2002-07-17 Jill Davis at the Chicago Microsoft office wrote, "I'll definitely add your links to our internal employee webpage. I'll be updating our local external community website and will see if I can work your link in somehow."
• 2002-08-07 Delivered proposal for T/MC funding to Rev. Atty Jeanette Wilson, Director of Community Outreach & Human Relations for Chicago Public Schools. She met with me on 8/5 and showed great enthusiasm for T/MC efforts. She invited me to submit a proposal that shows how T/MC will help her achieve Decsion Time program goals of reducing truancy and improving academic performance of the lowest performing students, while CPS helps us meet T/MC goals (which are the same).
• 2002-08-11 The Tutor/Mentor Connection was invited to do a television interview about the 2002 Volunteer Tutor/Mentor Recruitment Campaign on Chicago's local ABC news network.
• 2002-08-11 The Tutor/Mentor Connection performed a morning interview on the local ABC news broadcast to publicize the Volunteer Tutor/Mentor Recruitment Campaign.
• 2002-08-12 Met with Illinois State Senator Dave Sullivan this morning and introduced him to T/MC and its goals. Asked for him to be a supporter and leader. Asked for him to build links to T/MC and the State volunteer page from his web site, and to help us enlist others to do the same.
• 2002-08-12 T/MC hosted a booth at the Blacks in Technology Expo on Aug. 10/11. Many people came and picked up information. We added 29 to our email list and sent a follow up letter on Aug. 12. We were given a booth by the group who set up the event. They first met the T/MC via email messages Dan posted in email forums, such as the Digital Divide list
• 2002-08-19 Taped Radio interview with Lee Ann Trotter of US99 Radio (WUSN-FM). This is for the "Chicago Up Close" show that airs 7am Sunday mornings. Our segment airs 8/25/02.
• 2002-08-21 Met with Lee Stanton and Janette Wilson, Chicago Public Schools. Agreed in concept to a consulting role for T/MC with CPS to help build a T/MC type strategy from CPS
• 2002-08-23 final 2002 recruitment campaign committee meeting. 35 programs represented.
• 2002-08-27 Taped interview on WCIU TV (Channel 26) that will be shown at 6:30 am on Saturday, Sept. 14. Rev. Janette C. Wilson did the half out interview with me, demonstrating Chicago Public School support of the T/MC
• 2002-08-27 Interviewed by Spike O'Dell on WGN Radio (720 am) this morning at 6:50am. Talked about Volunteer Recruitment Campaign. The radio stations has a link to our web site.
• 2002-09-05 Met with marketing people from four Bonniville Radio Stations in Chicago to talk about year-round strategies to motivate peole to be volunteers. The stations are: WLUP, WNND, WTMX and WDRV.
• 2002-09-10 Community Media Workshop of Chicago included a paragraph about the Recruitment Campaign inits Newstips handout that goes to all Chicago area media.
• 2002-09-12 I taped a radio interview today with Jennifer Keipper of WBBM AM radio in Chicago. This will air this afternoon (9/12) in support of the recruitment campaign. We also talked of doing a 1 hour show on the FM station of WBBM later in the year. This interview and most of the media for the campaign were arranged by Public Communication, Inc., our pro bono Public Relations partner
• 2002-09-12 Press Conference held at James Thompson Center in Chicago to kick off recruitment fairs. Arne Duncan, CEO of Chicago public schools announced a goal of 15,000 volunteers. Cathy Leonis represented Mrs. Ryan. Howard McGee, morning DJ for WGCI radio, was a speaker, and a student and volunteer from Uhlich Academy showed the personal impact of mentoring. WLS TV (Channel 7 in Chicago) and the Chicago Tribune sent reporters. During the event I had the opportunity to talk with one of Chicago's Aldermen, Leonard DeVille.
• 2002-09-12 The Chicago SunTimes ran a half page story about the Volunteer Recruitment Campaign in the 9/12/02 newspaper.
• 2002-09-13 Ken Novak updated the Program Locator section data base and added many new features that make this a much more user friendly resource. For instance, it has a search feature that lets users search for programs in Chicago by zip code and programs in the suburbs by city name. It also has a zip code map that helps people look at the city and see what zip codes are near where they live or want to volunteer.
• 2002-09-16 Erica Graham, who works with the Lincoln's Challenge Academy, sent an email saying "we are looking to find mentors the the cadets in our program. The students come from all over the state of Illinois, mostly from the Chicago area. I would appreciate it if some one could call me to talk about what we can do to help each other in the recruitment of mentors."
• 2002-09-18 Met with Beth Brandon and Kurt Kroemer of the Chicago Rush Arena Football Game. The Rush has launched a Charity Ticket Sales program that helps tutor/mentor programs (and other charities) raise money. This was an idea we suggested when we met in May. Any tutor/mentor program that sells tickets to the 2003 season can ern $8 to $16 per ticket sold. In addition, the first or second home game of the 2003 season will be designated Tutor/Mentor Connection Game. We'll encourage programs to sell for this game. Beth and Kurt will work with T/MC to help tutor/mentor programs learn about this program. They will also recruit a coach/player to speak at the November Conference.
• 2002-09-19 Dan did an introduction of T/MC presentation at the Wisconsin Mentoring Coordination Council (WMCC) meeting held in Madison, Wisconsin. Many of the folks in the group have been on T/MC mail list for several years and have previously met with Dan, talked via phone, and/or attended T/MC conferences.
• 2002-09-25 The T/MC REPORT email newsletter was mailed to more than 3,000 stakeholders in Chicago and around the country.
• 2002-09-30 Ira Bey sent an email broadcast to his network telling of the Cabrini Connections benefit to be held at Glasscotts on Nov. 22.
• 2002-10-04 The College & Career Readiness Network in Chicago will hold its next meeting on Thursday, Nov. 21, at St. Joseph School, 1065 N. Orleans, just prior to the first session of the Tutor/Mentor Leadership Conference. The meeting had originally been scheduled for a couple of days eariler and at a different location.
• 2002-10-08 Email from Jill Campbell says, "I have established a non-profit organization called Take The Next Step and it provides youth activities to enhance the live of youth in the Columbus, Ohio area. I would like to receive as much information about the Tutor Mentor Conference and Leadership Conference. Our organization provides tutoring and mentoring services and would like to be involved with other orgnaizations throughout the US in reaching as many youth as possible. Anything you could offer us would be appreicated." Info sent on 10/9/02, with invitation to consider becoming a T/MC in the Columbus area.
• 2002-10-17 Received letter from Dr. Terry Rosch of Chicago Education Alliance offering to put article about T/MC in their next newsletter
• 2002-10-21 Email invitation sent to more than 3500 people telling them about the November 21 and 22 Conference
• 2002-11-05 Provided information on CC and TMC to Follett Publishing via e-mail to Chuck Follett, VP.
• 2002-11-06 Presented information on Chicago Rush Arena Football partnership with T/MC to three programs. Announced it via new page on web site. Any tutor/mentor program in Chicago can sell tickets to 2003 Rush home games and get 1/2 the face price of the ticket as a donation. In addition, the Feb. 2 game will be designated "Tutor/Mentor Game" and will feature the Tutor/Mentor Connection and all programs that sell tickets. This game will be regionally telacast on NBC
• 2002-11-08 Ken King sent email saying he has signed up 16 Gear Up people for the Nov. 2002 Tutor/Mentor Leadership Conference.
• 2002-11-14 Sending letter to MB Financial asking for them to consider co-sponsoring the 2003 Golf Outing.
• 2002-11-15 More than 100 volunteers from various tutor/mentor programs in the Chicago area will march in the Target Jingle-Elf Parade on Thanksgiving Day. These volunteers were recruited by the Tutor/Mentor Connection as part of a growing public awareness building partnership. Visit http://www.chicagofestivals.org/site/epage/7625_211.htm to see the T/MC logo and link to the T/MC web site. More than 2 million people will watch this parade on TV or in person.
• 2002-11-22 Receive the INVEST (Evanston, IL) fall 2002 newsletter and the 2002/2003 directory. The newsletter has a front page story on the Aug/Sept. Volunteer Recruitment Campaign and gives credit to the Tutor/Mentor Connection for its leadershipo role. The Directory includes a page 3 description of services provided by the T/MC, with the email address and the web site address.
• 2002-12-09 Met with Troy Hardin, who is with the Service Learning Center at DePaul University. We talked of ways the T/MC could be part of the DePaul strategy and DePaul students, faculty and alumni could be leaders and workers in the T/MC strategy.
• 2002-12-13 first meeting of the 2003 T/MC Volunteer Recruitment Campaign. 20 programs leaders attended.
• 2003-01-07 Steve Carter, Manager of Illinois State Operations for AARP was referred to the T/MC by Lavetta Summers of CPS. The 2003 national AARP conference will be in Chicago on the same weekend as the 2003 Volunteer Recruitment Campaign. We agreed to look for ways that we can showcase AARP community service while building visibility for tutor/mentor programs.
• 2003-01-30 I contacted Stephen Pugh, a Board of Director candidate.
• 2003-02-14 Meeting with Junior Achievement about 2003 campaign.
• 2003-02-27 I contacted Mike McKiernan at Cushman & Wakefield.
• 2003-02-28 meeting with Cedric Pope, Sinai Mentoring Institute
• 2003-03-04 Speak to Tracey Pakuliewcicz at participate America
• 2003-03-28 Meeting with special committee formed to discuss a fundraising and recruitment concert
• 2003-03-28 Jim Morsch, Dan Bassill, Bob Glaves, Judge Tom Donnelley and Karina Ayala met to review proposed future structure of Lend A Hand Program. Articles from the Chicago Daily Lay Bulletin and the CBA Report were distributed that show that the Lend A Hand is to receive $100,000 from the Estate of Judge Abraham Lincoln Marovitz to help it as it becomes independent from the CBF
• 2003-04-04 Second 2003 Volunteer Recruitment Campaign Committee Meeting
• 2003-04-10 Sent a request to Chuck Follett of Follett Publishing asking for financial help.
• 2003-04-11 Meeting with Junior Achievement Southside representative
• 2003-04-15 Email from Juliet Hanlon, of CitySoft, in Boston, read: You can count on my support. I will refer any appropriate folks your way. Bryan Joyce is one fellow that I can think of immediately from N-Ten Group. I'll have to get back to you with his contact info' and also Gerald Glassmeyer is in the Bay area. Building literacy is no joke any more in America and one that matters to me. The opportunity to technology at this time in history is tenfold as we at CitySoft know (inevitable really)... A great example of this is what our CEO Nick Gleason did with CitySkills in Boston- check out their statistics, it was historic and has become an example to many more. http://www.cityskills.com It is a privilege to know that you care for this future. I hope that you will bring your tech needs to CitySoft. We are one of your bridges to teaming humanity and technology towards that bright future of elearning, ementoring and etutoring.
• 2003-04-15 Conversation with John Nichols at Junior Achievement about fall concert.
• 2003-04-21 Discussion with a Starbuck's Regional Manager about collaborating with the 2003 campaign on recruitment sites
• 2003-04-23 meeing with committee members to discuss 2003 campaign. Ellen Sausser, Youth Outreach Services and Michele Drzwiecki, Onward Neighborhho House
• 2003-04-30 Today I received email newsletters of the Illinois Service Learning network and the Illinois AmeriCorps E-Bulletin. Both had descriptions of the June Tutor/Mentor Leadership Conference. Totally they reach more than 1,000 people throughout the state.
• 2003-05-02 Meeting with Starbuck's District Manager John Trella to discuss recruitment at Starbuck's stores.
• 2003-05-05 Conversation with Dorothy Whitney, PR for Secretary of State Jesse White.
• 2003-05-05 Meeting with Shirley Jenkins of Alpha Temple to discuss Southside recruitment efforts.
• 2003-05-12 Meeting with Mary Moring, INVEST/Evanston to discuss Evanston recruitment.
• 2003-05-15 Jennifer Weaver, of PeaceJam, based in Kalamazoo, Michigan and Toinette Pilgrim, Executive Director of Student Mentor Partners based near Detroit, Michigan, will do workshops at the June 5th and 6th Conference.
• 2003-05-15 Robyn Mitchell and Denise M. Lewis, University of Maryland/ProjectLINKS Technology Outreach Program will do a workshop at the June 2003 Leadership Conference. The topic is ProjectLINKS: Putting the Pieces Together
• 2003-05-15 A June Conference workshop will be presented by Sarah Frank, Program Director, Milwaukee Mentors. Participating agencies will include: Maggie Broeren, Executive Director, Our Next Generation and Nancy Hahn, Program Supervisor, New Concept Self Development Center, Inc. Kathy Munson, Director of Mentoring Programs, YMCA of Metropolitan Milwaukee
• 2003-05-15 The Chicago GEAR UP Alliance is partnering with the T/MC on the Spring 2003 Leadership Conference which will be June 5th and 6th at Northeastern Illinois Univefsity. Printed invitations were mailed to 1350 people on 5/13. The first email notice went to more than 4,000 people in early May. The second notice went to the same group on May 15. Kenny King of New Concepts was the intermediary in connecting the GEAR UP Alliance with the T/MC.
• 2003-05-15 Thomas Keller, Ph.D. (University of Chicago) and David DuBois, Ph.D. (University of Illinois at Chicago) will present workshops on Thursday and Friday of the June Tutor/Mentor Leadership Conference. This workshop will present recent research on mentoring and discusses practical applications for program planning and improvement.
• 2003-05-15 Barry Kibel, Ph.D., Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation http://www.pire.org/resultsmapping will do a workshop at the June 2003 Tutor/Mentor Leadership Conference. His topic is Use of on-line and paper-and-pencil journaling to inform, improve, and evaluate tutor/mentor programs
• 2003-05-16 Dan Met with David Whitaker, Executive Director of the Chicago Area Project. Merry Dee of WGN encouraged both of us to meet when we were at the Illinois Area Project lunch in Springfield on April 2, 2003
• 2003-05-21 I met today with Aparna Raj, of Northwestern University's Suitcase Party. We're in the finals for being their Charity for 2004
• 2003-05-21 Ric Estrada of Erie House and Dan Bassill Met to discuss shared ideas
• 2003-05-24 Seli Lulkin of the Edgewater Chamber of Commerce sent email telling me that a community calendar notice for the conference was posted on their web site and that they were sending 1800 email releases to business and community people in that part of Chicago.
• 2003-05-27 Kitty Brokaw of Center for Excellence in Education, Based in DC and Chicago visited and we shared stratiegies and vision
• 2003-05-27 Meeting with Rev. Leonard DeVille at Alpha Temple to discuss Southside recruitment through churches and businesses.
• 2003-05-28 Emailed Young Alumni Coordinator of the Yale Club of Chicago (I know her through participation in Club's young alumni planning committee) regarding possibility of using young alumni email list to spread word about golf event and volunteer opportunities.
• 2003-05-29 Emailed information regarding participation in golf event and silent auction to co-worker (attorney) who expressed personal and family interest in event. Included information about Cabrini Connections and Tutor/Mentor Connection. Asked her to pass on information to any and all who may be interested.
• 2003-05-30 Meeting with MB Financial Bank to discuss continuing partnerships.
• 2003-06-02 David Whitaker and Glyn Hilton of CAP came to T/MC to learn about our work
• 2003-06-03 Youth Service America sent a message about the T/MC conference in Volume 10 of their on-line newsletter.
• 2003-06-10 Emailed various contacts regarding participation in/sponsorship of golf benefit and volunteer opportunities. Asked contacts to
• 2003-06-10 Friend active in improvisational comedy community posts information regarding golf benefit and volunteer opportunities on Chicago Improv Network Forum.
• 2003-06-12 The Chicago Bar Association Board of Directors approved the forumation of the Judge Abraham Lincoln Marovitz Lend A Hand Program as an offical organization sponsored by the CBA. This is the offical movement of the Lend A Hand Program from under the Chicago Bar Foundation to being a separate entity under the CBA. The estate of Judge Abraham Lincoln Marovitz donated $100,000 for the funding of this effort.
• 2003-06-16 Meeting with Amy Aleman from the Citywide Literacy Coalition to discuss working together
• 2003-06-23 The Barnes & Noble store in Geneva, Il. will partner with the T/MC to help with tutor/mentor program development in the Western suburbs of Chicago. An event is scheduled for July 10th to begin building participation of local programs in the T/MC recruitment campaign.
• 2003-06-24 Emailed politically-active friend (has worked on a number of political campaigns for Chicago and Illinois candidates) regarding golf benefit.
• 2003-06-24 Emailed friend whose husband is general manager/wine director of three-star restaurant in the Loop to see if restaurant would be interested in donating gift certificate for silent auction.
• 2003-06-27 Attended Yale Club/Princeton Club Young Alumni event and distributed brochures regarding golf benefit and explained what Cabrini Connections is and what we do.
• 2003-07-07 Friend passed on information regarding golf benefit to law firm's (Skadden, Arps) internal newsletter.
• 2003-07-14 Intorduction of the 2003 Tutor/Mentor Volunteer Recruitment Campaign at the Southside Minister's Conference of around 20 ministers.
• 2003-08-05 Mayor Ralph W. Conner of the Village of Maywood, Il. sent a letter in support of the 2003 Volunteer Recruitment Campaign. Barbara Cole, Director of the Maywood Youth Mentoring Program was the volunteer who recruited the Mayor's support.
• 2003-09-04 Chicago Sun Times witer Mark Brown wrote a column about tutoring/mentoring for the Sept. 4th edition. It was the top half of page 2 in the paper. This story was the result of work done by Public Communications, Inc., the PR partner of the T/MC.
• 2003-10-21 1300 printed invitations were mailed for the Nov. 20/21 Tutor/Mentor Leadership Conference. An email invite was sent to about 3000 people.
• 2003-10-28 Met with representative of Aurora Mentoring Coalition, president of Mentors@Work program, reapresentative of Literacy Volunteers of America, IL, at the Barnes & Noble Store in Geneva, Il. This was the third meeting since July and there was a concensus to continue meeting.
• 2003-11-04 WVON Radio called to say their foundation had adopted Cabrini Connections and the Tutor/Mentor Connection to be their focus charity in 2004. This means they will work closely with CC and the T/MC throughout the year to draw visibility to our mission, actions and events.
• 2003-12-05 Attended Great Cities Forum at University of Illinois at Chicago. Within first hour of registering I ran into six different people who told me they had been on the T/MC web site within past few months, or who had attended the Nov. Conference, or who were involved with T/MC in some way. Aslo reconnected with David Perry, Director of the Great Cities program, whom I first met a few years ago.
• 2003-12-05 Abraham Lincoln Marovitz Lend A Hand meeting held at offices of the Chicago Bar Association. Participants were Executive Board members of the LAH. The group reviewed the new LAH web site prototype at www.corboydemetrio.com/cba. The group also reviewed proposed recognition events for 2004.
• 2003-12-16 Dan and I discussed how IUPUI Unversity College could start a T/MC effort in Inianapolis similar to the one Chicago.
• 2003-12-18 Met with professor from DePaul who teaches graphics class. This class will develop newsletter, conference invitation and web site templates for the T/MC to use in 2004 events. T/MC will put these on its web sites for other organizations to borrow for their own communications.
• 2004-01-05 Nathan Harris sent email that read, "Good news. Met with my boss before Christmas and he agreed that we will partner with TMC. He would like for the meeting on 1/16 to be the next step. Maybe we can discuss our full commitment, sign contract, draft a plan of action, schedule training? "
• 2004-01-06 Dan met with students in a graphics class at DePaul. They will develop layout concepts for the March 2004 T/MC Report Newsletter, May 2004 Leadership Conference invitation, and if there is time, for ideal tutor/mentor program web site designs.
• 2004-01-16 Dan Bassill met with Scott Evenbeck and Philip Seabrook, Dean of University College and Assistant Dean of University College, and several other University College Program Leaders of IndianaUniversityPurdueUniversityIndianapolis. The purpose was to help IUPUI develop a lead a Tutor/Mentor Connection process in Indiana.
• 2004-01-23 Toi Pilgrim from Detroit's Student Mentor Partners, and Metro Detroit Mentoring Collaboration, met with T/MC to discuss cross-city collaboration on Tutor/Mentor Connection concepts
• 2004-02-12 Met with Andrew Pincon of The Digital Workforce Education Society (Digi Bridge) based at the City Colleges of Chicago. This group has agreed to host an e-conference overlay for the May Tutor/Mentor Leadership Conference, using their extensive experience in this field.
• 2004-03-09 Radio support. A 2 minute Film Festival pitch was delivered by Terri Hemret ( WXRT) on March 9th at around 10:00 am. It was good PR, and a good pitch for the organization.
• 2004-03-12 Met with Hillary Duff, Director of Marketing for the Tsunami Foundation. This is a new organization in Chicago that seeks to recruit business professionals to be mentors who help youth move to careers in specific fields. I reviewed strategies the organization might uses to help comprehensive tutor/mentor programs grow in all poverty neighborhoods. Also illustrated resources available via T/MC web sites and invited Hillary and her group to take a role in key events such as the annual recruitment campaign.
• 2004-03-22 Mayor Edward Mulvaney of Rock Falls, Il. presented the T/MC invitation for Mayors to help mobilize volunteers to a network of Northern Illinois Mayors at a 3/18 meeting. His report to T/MC is "It seems to have a positive reception; I handed outcopies of the prelimary conference schedule (of course highlighting the one for mayors). This week I am following up the short presentation with emails of encouragement and asking mayors for resolutions of support of mentoring in their respective communities."
• 2004-03-30 Received message on the T/ME web site that read: We're doing a very similar thing in South Africa. See www.ikamva.kabissa.org and email me: joy@bridges.org It would be good to share our ideas and lessons learned. All the best!
• 2004-03-31 Charles Brooks, District Governor for Chicagoland 30 Toastmasters, sent this message to more than 3,000 Chicago area Toastmasters: "Sandra Beaford and I will be presenting workshops at the TutorMentor Leadership Conference being held at Richard J. Daley College located at 7500 S. Pulaski on May 17 & 18, 2004. This organization was the brain child of its Director, Dan Bassill. I have known Dan for many years and have worked with him at this function in the past. If you have a sincere interest in the development of children you will want to come out and support Dan in his effort to provide a better life and environment for our children. The information about the conference is attached to this email. Please take a little time and check out what this great man is doing for the youth of the Chicago Metropolitian Area. We will have a booth there and will be looking for volunteers. Dan has asked me to ask you to come out and volunteer just a little bit of your time. The TutorMentor Connection is a non for profit organization that depends on the kindness of those interested in the development of children. I am hoping we have a few of those individuals within our group. I look forward to seeing many of you there. Until the next time we meet I am
• 2004-04-20 Received following email from Val Parker, of Power4Youth in California: I talked to my friend Alison Redman last week who told me she was being a presenter (at the May 04 T/MC Conference)! She is the chair of our Mentor Connection--a group you know is named and modeled after your Tutor/Mentor Connection--which I helped start a few years ago yet Alison did not know that I recieved my inspriration from Chicago. What a small world!
• 2004-05-06 Met in internet chat portal (www.alado.net/login) with Andrew Pincon, Digital Workforce Education Society, Nathin Byrer, Technology Director, University College, IUPUI, two of our eConference speakers, and two others on Pincon's staff. One of our speakers was in Texas. Byrer was in Indianapolis, and the rest of us were in different place in the Chicago area. We were able to determine how to handle presentation of a workshop by a speaker from Japan, and provide information to help the speakers with their presentations. IUPUI agreed to handle the final eConference web site work.
• 2004-05-11 Live radio interview at 6:16 am on 5/11 with Cliff Kelly of WVON radio in Chicago. The station has adopted Cabrini Connections and the Tutor/Mentor Connection as a focus charity for 2004. This interview focused on the May 17 and 18 Conference.
• 2004-05-14 The attached link shows the eConference page posted on the Internet by the Webheads, an international group of educators who became part of the tutor/mentor eConference through the invitation of Andrew Pincon, who took the lead in helping the T/MC offer its first eConference. http://alothman-b.tripod.com/tutormentor_econf04_webheads.htm
• 2004-05-19 T/MC hosted firs Internet Tutor/Mentor Leadership eConference Overlay. More than 50 people from around the world participated as speakers or learners, using a portal provided by the Digital Workforce Education Society. Portions of the conference held on May 17 and 18 at Daley College in Chicago were broadcast live through the Internet.
• 2004-05-19 T/MC hosted Tutor/Mentor Leadership Conference at Richard Daley College in Chicago on May 17 and 18. More than 180 people attended, coming from Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Indiana, Nebraska, Kentucky, Arkansas, New York, Texas and California. This was the 21st T/MC conference since 1994
• 2004-05-19 Received following email message today from Billy Gauthier, of Rockford, Il. He attended the May 17 and 18 Tutor/Mentor Leadership Conference. "I am currently receiving your e-newsletters, but my colleague is not. Her name is Barb Verni-Lau and her email is Barbv@northwestrockford.org She wants to be added. BTW Thank you for a wonderful conference this past week in Chicago"
• 2004-06-03 First Annual "My Hero" Awards and Volunteer Luncheon hosted by Chicago Bar Association/Foundation and Abraham Lincoln Marovitz Lend-A-Hand Program at the Chicago Bar Association HQ in Chicago. More than 100 people (capacity) attended. Awards were given to recognize outstanding contributions by volunteers serving as tutor/mentor, director, organizer, fund raiser in various tutor/mentor programs throughout Chicago. Among the attendees was The Honorable Timothy C. Evans, Chief Judge, State of Illinois, Circuit Court of Cook County, Dorothy Brown, The Clerk of the Circuit Court, partners of major law firms and officers of the Chicago Bar Association.
• 2004-06-23 Met with Michael Trulis, founder of a new Chicago non-profit called Artist for Harmony, to help him develop a strategy that draws support from artists and the arts community for youth serving organizations such as Cabrini Connections and the Tutor/Mentor Connection. As of 6/23 these ideas are now visible on Mike's web site: http://www.artistsforharmony.com/index.html
• 2004-06-23 Received call from singer/songwriter Alice Peacock, www.alicepeacock.com. She is organizing a RockforReading Concert to be held in Chicago in late August, and the beneficiaries are a) Chicago Public Schools, b) Chicago Public Library, c) New City YMCA, and d) Tutor/Mentor Connection! She told me that the T/MC was recommended for inclusion in this group by Arne Duncan, CEO of Chicago Public Schools
• 2004-06-30 Met with Jackie Rouse of Sinai Hospital in Chicago to discuss leadership strategies that health care executives could take that would draw attention to tutor/mentor programs as the Back-to-School Recruitment Campaign is taking place.
• 2004-07-13 Borders will again host volunteer recruitment fairs in Chicago area stores during the weekend of Sept. 9-11, as part of the Chicagoland Tutor/Mentor Volunteer Recruitment Campaign. They will also include information about the fairs in their Sunday ad the week prior to the fairs.
• 2004-07-19 Rock for Reading web site (www.rockforreading.com) was launched today. The T/MC is one of four organizations (the others are Chicago Public Schools, Chicago Public Library, and YMCA) that will share attention and revenue from a rock concert being held in Chicago on August 28th, 2004.
• 2004-08-05 Felicia Dechter wrote a column in the Learner Skyline Newspaper about the Rock for Reading Concert and the Tutor/Mentor Connection.
• 2004-08-11 Karina Ayala, Executive Director of the Lend A Hand Program at the Chicago Bar Association, emailed me this message to show what the LAH was doing to mobilize volunteers during August and September 2004: "Most of the PR will be in the September. LAH will have a piece in the September CBA Journal and one in mid September in the Daily Law Bulletin."
• 2004-08-19 The August 19, 2004 issue of EXTRA NEWS (www.extranews.net) included a story about the Chicago Tutor/Mentor Volunteer Recruitment Campaign on the front page of its Back to School section.
• 2004-08-23 Lindsey Dotson, a member of the Cushman & Wakfield Community Committee, forwared this email which she sent today to all Chicago area employees. "Going forward, C&W will showcase local charities and organizations, and encourage our branch employees to get involved. A different charitable organization will be highlighted each month; some requesting short-term commitments, some with long-term commitments and some in need of a financial donation or simply a donation of time. Our goal is to provide multiple opportunities to give back to the community in a way that is truly meaningful. We will highlight a variety of organizations to pique diverse interests, such as shelters for battered women and children, groups that assist with the winterization of homes for the elderly, animal shelters, and tutoring/mentoring local students, which happens to be the first community opportunity: Cabrini Connections "Back to School" Tutor/Mentor Program Over the next four weeks, Cabrini Connections and other tutor/mentor programs around the city will be recruiting volunteers for our various programs. We strongly urge you to click on the link below to view the numerous programs throughout the city. You can make a difference. http://www.tutormentorexchange.net/Partner/CC/ChiPrograms/ChicagoPrograms.asp. Should you choose to volunteer as a tutor or mentor, send me an e-mail stating your commitment so we can recognize your efforts in our Chicago Briefing. Community service will not only make you feel good about yourself and expand your contact network, it will make a lasting difference in someone's life. If this opportunity is not right for you, just wait and see what next month holds....
• 2004-08-23 Kris Marshall of Winning Futures in Michigan sent the following email: I attended your conference in June of 2003 and it inspired me to not only make some drastic changes with my own organization, Winning Futures, but to take the lead in creating a mentor collaboration. The collaboration is called the Metro Detroit Mentor Collaboration (MDMC) and it operates as a division of Winning Futures. The founding programs that we brought together are The Art of Leadership Foundation, Mentor Works - A program of Jewish Family Service, Oakland County Mentors Plus, Student Mentor Partners (Toi), Vista Maria, and Winning Futures. I have attached an overview of what our mission and goals are. We have officially become a partner with Mentor Michigan, which is our state's mentoring agency. We will work with them to be a liaison to local programs. I have also just been named to the mentoring council for the state which will help strengthen the collaboration. The state is writing a grant for funding for the organization. Right now, all staff time is paid by Winning Futures. I hope once funds become available, I can get permission to travel to Chicago to meet with you to discuss your program and how we can offer similar services in Michigan.
• 2004-08-28 First Annual Rock for Reading Music Festival held in Chicago. Organized by music artist Alice Peacock, and sponsored by The Chicago Sun Times, this event was designed to raise visibility for reading programs and raise money for four charities: The Chicago Public Schools, Chicago Public Library, New City YMCA and Tutor/Mentor Connection. The T/MC used the event to raise visibility and help recruit volunteers for tutor/mentor programs. Five organizations participated in recruiting volunteers: East Village Youth Program, Cabrini-Green Tutoring Program, CYCLE, Project Education Plus and Cabrini Connections. Unfortunately, it rained all day and was cold. Few people attended and the event was ended at 7pm instead of 11pm. While this means that few dollars were raised, the event led to many networking connections that the T/MC and others can use in the future.
• 2004-09-08 Volunteer recruitment fairs will be held on Friday, Sept. 10 and Saturday Sept. 11 at six Borders stores in Chicago, Evanston and Wheaton and at the James Thompson Center in Chicago. Email is being used to encourage potential volunteers to come to the fairs, or come to the Program Locator, to find p laces where they can volunteer. Today Ron May included a T/MC volunteer wanted message in his email newsletter, titled The May Report. This reaches hundreds of potential IT volunteers.
• 2004-09-13 John Blackmore, a Winston Churchill scholar from the UK, visited to learn more about the T/MC
• 2004-09-23 The Young Lawyers Section of the Chicago Bar Foundation is hosting a Pro Bono and Community Service Volunteer Recruitment Fair on 9/30 at the law firm of Jennery & Block. The law firm is hosting and doing a great job of professionalizing the event. Today they posted a web site with a list of programs that are recruiting volunteers . it is http://www.jenner.com/news/news_item.asp?id=12735524
• 2004-09-30 A ProBono and Community Services Volunteer Recruitment Fair was held at Jenner & Block, one of the major law firms in Chicago. Hosted by the Chicago Bar Foundation and Young Lawyers Sections of Chicago Bar Association. More than 60 non profits, including 10 tutor/mentor programs along with over 200 potential volunteers from the legal community attended. The T/MC passed out information on social networking, as well as information about La Familia Technology Week (Oct. 3-9) and tutor/mentor programs that serve Hispanic Populations.
• 2004-10-07 Met with Juanona Brewster, Director, Standards for Excellence, The Giving Trust, www.thegivingtrust.org. We discussed ways to collaborate and a workshop that The Giving Trust has volunteered to lead in the Nov. 2004 conference. A follow up meeting plan was agreed upon.
• 2004-10-11 Received following email from Ian Jipp, who I first met in 1994 or 1995 when he was with Loyola University in Chicago. He has been on the T/MC newsletter and email list since then. " I have relocated to Los Angeles and am working the Director of Annual Giving at Harvard-Westlake School. I participated in an all-day college counseling program sponsored by the Mentoring Partnership, a collaborative effort working with tutoring programs here in LA. My boss, Ed Hu, was a key organizerof the event. Megan Chernin was another organizer, she is a volunteer committed to raising money for the Mentoring Partnership. I have passed along information about the Chicago Tutor/Mentor Leadership conference. I do not know if they will attend the conference or simply contact you to network and gain more information about the TMC and Cabrinin Connections, but the seed has been planted. " Megan, and her husband Peter, are a couple who could provide a great deal of support to mentoring efforts. And she has made this a personal prioity. Please let me know if she contacts you
• 2004-10-14 The America's Promise email newsletter included a paragraph about the November Tutor/Mentor Leadership Conference.
• 2004-10-26 Dan Bassill of T/MC was guest of Diane Latiker, Kids of the Block, on the Channel 21 Public Access TV call in show. Diane and Dan talked about tutoring/mentoring programs, the conferences, and ways business and faith groups could support the growth of programs.
• 2004-10-27 T/MC contacted by tech staff at IUPUI to begin the process of rebuilding the www.tutormentorconnection.org web site
• 2004-10-27 Received email from Jurandir in SaoPaolo Brazil that reads: "Hi, I have talking to a dicrector and principals at our Christian school in sao Paulo about a possibility to have a mentor program for a region here in Sao Paulo. Well, we would likwe a conference to encourage and chalenge parents, students, teacher etc, etc. So, I think about you to kick this project. Our school has a all condition to support an event like this. and your present will be crucial and important. Let's think and talk about that for the next year. "
• 2004-11-17 On Nov. 15 and 16, 2004, the T/MC hosted a 22nd Tutor/Mentor Leadership and Networking Conference at the headquarters of City Colleges of Chicago. More than 30 workshops were offered, in addition to a Monday evening reception at the Union League Club of Chicago, and a 2 day econference. More than 155 people participated in the conference at Daley College and 30-50 more participated in the eConference. There was excellent networking and information sharing.
• 2004-11-19 Nate Harris of IUPUI sent email confirming that IUPUI will host an eConference during the week of May 23, 2005
• 2004-12-15 Cabrini Connections received the 2004 Thomas A. Demetrio Award, recognizing an outstanding Chicago area mentoring program, during a reception hosted by the Chicago Bar Association, Chicago Bar Foundation, Corboy and Demetrio Law Firm, and Abraham Lincoln Marovitz Lend A Hand Program. 2004 grants totaling $20,000 were awarded during the event to: Cambodian Association, Centro Communitario, Chicago Youth Programs, Christ Evangelical Church Brain Boosters Program, Hermosa Community Organization, Maywood Youth Mentoring Program, Marilyn G. Rabb Foundation, and Sunlight African Community Center. The grants were presented by members of the LAH Executive Board, lawyers who are donors to the LAH, and Thomas A. Demetrio.
• 2004-12-29 Met with Kevin King to discuss ways Kevin might help participate and grow the Monthly Training Workshops held at the T/MC site. As a result, Kevin created a training needs survey that was put on the conference web site during the first week of January. Kevin was a speaker at the November 04 conference, representing Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Chicago. He's also a grad student at the Chicago School of Professional Psychiatry. Our networking at the conference led to his involvement in the monthly training.
• 2005-01-07 The Children & Family Justice Center of the Northwestern University School of Law will host the May 2005 Tutor/Mentor Leadership and Networking Conference on May 12 and 13. This is a result of the participation of Besty Clarke, Illinois Juvenile Justice Initiative, in the Nov. 04 conference, as well as networking between IJJI and the T/MC for several previous years. Betsty was a volunteer tutor with the Montgomery Ward/Cabrini Green Tutoring Program in the late 1970's.
• 2005-01-19 Greg Sain and Chris Moore of VIP met with T/MC to discuss volunteer recruitment and collaboration strategies.
• 2005-01-28 T/MC and Sherard Jones of Sinai Community Institute met to talk strategies for annual Volunteer Recruitment Campaign. Sherard will take lead in mobilizing programs centered around the Austin/Lawndale/Oak Park area of Chicago's West side
• 2005-01-31 Met with Richard Koenig of Housing Opportunity Development Corp of the North Chicago Suburbs. Discussed ways to connect strategically to build visibility, volunteers, dollars, understanding that benefits tutor/mentor programs, housing, homeless, poverty, etc.
• 2005-02-08 Received this message from Google: "We are very pleased to tell you that your organization has been selected to participate in the Google Grants program. After careful review of all the applications we received, we chose your group based on the strength of your application and potential to benefit from free Google AdWords advertising. We’re excited to be able to help you reach your target audience with public service messages using AdWords.
• 2005-02-09 Andrew Pincon of the Digital Workforce Education Conference confirmed that he will a portion of the May 05 econference again in his portal, attracting participation from people in his world wide network.
• 2005-02-10 Met with Ellen Haran and Rich Vargas who are members of a church with six locations in Chicago and a branch in Lake View. They have been researching steps to start a tutor/mentor program. I illustated the potential of leading a strategy from the church that supports tutor/mentor programs all over the city. Rich and the T/MC connected over the past two years and Rich has been receiving the T/MC email newsletter. Prior to meeting Rich and Ellen had browsed many parts of the T/MC web site.
• 2005-02-17 Crystal Shannon-Morla, Director of Academic Success Center at Triton College called to talk about hosting the T/MC Conference in November 05. She had attended the conference at Daley College in May 04 and was encouraged to call by Barbara Cole of the Maywood Mentoring Program.
• 2005-02-18 Today is the first meeting of the West Side volunteer recruitment campaign group. The meeting will occur at the Douglass Branch Library
• 2005-02-25 Received following message from Clair Keim, from the UK, who has a Churchill Travel Fellowship to visit the USA in 2005 to learn about School based mentoring. This is in response to a message I sent encouraging her organization to host a portion of the May and Nov eConference. " Fantastic! Thanks Daniel. Despite working in a Technology College, IT isn't my strong point, but we do have internet conferencing facilities in the school and i've forwarded your email to various staff who should be able to help with the technical aspects. I've also forwarded it to the 'Learning Mentor Co-ordinator' for the whole of Birmingham. I'm sure she'll be keen to get involved and is regularly in touch with mentors in all of the 100 secondary schools (ages 11-16/18) in the city - Birmingham is apparently the biggest local government education authority in Europe, including a wide range of diverse communities, so there should be plenty of scope for learning from each other. I'll let you know when i hear back from other staff and have more idea about the possibilities at our end. I'll go back to your website for more detailed information about the internet conferences and look forward to making plans.
• 2005-03-03 Jurandir and his wife Herika have been visiting from Sao Paulo,Brazil for the past two weeks, learning about Cabrini Connections and the Tutor/Mentor Connection. They are leaving Chicago on Saturday, but Jurandir reports that he intends to translate much of the information on the T/MC web sites into Portuguese and teach the concepts as he build support for tutor/mentor programs in Brazil
• 2005-03-04 Andrew Pincone confirms that he and the Webheads will host a series of Tutor/Mentor eConference workshops from Friday, May 6 to Tuesday, May 10 of 2005
• 2005-03-08 Following an email introduction, I met at T/MC office in Chicago with Sarah Pearson, American Youth Policy Forum,1836 Jefferson Place, NW, Washington, DC 20036. Shared info about T/MC and AYP and discussed a new AYPF study titled: Restoring the Balance between Academics and Civic Engagement in Public Schools, a guide to producing students who are both academically proficient and civically engaged. This report highlights core values of the T/MC and while it focuses on schools as the place where kids learn these values, it shares a T/MC goal of engaging parents, CBOs and the business community as responsible partners. Sarah will send copies for the May Confernece and is considering ways to participate in T/MC forums, such as the eConference.
• 2005-03-09 Karina Ayala, ED of the Lend A Hand Program at the Chicago Bar Association sent an email saying "We are at 267 tickets sold (for the March 12th BARRISTER'S BIG BAND BENEFIT BALL).
• 2005-03-11 Received email today from Janet Salmons, who I've worked with previously in conferneces such as Wired.org. She wrote, "When I read your newsletters I always try to think of some way we could do something together again, and this time I have an idea! TechSoup.org has asked me to host an online "event" on the topic of education and the digital divide, focusing on online learning and collaboration tools/spaces. I have a lot of experience with online learning in academic settings, which do bridge the divide for a lot of people who would otherwise not be able to continue their education. I also have a lot of experience with online collaboration. But currently I do not have work going that uses these tools in community-based ways. So I wondered whether you might be interested to join me as a co-host for this proposed event? Between the two of us we cover a lot of ground. If you are interested we can refine these broad topics and decide how to approach the event. " I agreed and we're aiming to host a week-line event during the week of April 18.
• 2005-03-11 I received email requests to attend the May Tutor/Mentor Leadership Conference from Mr. Emmanuel Odoom, Accra Polytechnic, Students Representative Council, in Ghana, Africa, and from Muhammad Bilal Zafar, the Executive Director of a Youth Development Network in Lahore, Pakastan. I encouraged both to participate via the eConference rather than spend time and money coming to Chicago for a two-day conference. I also encouraged them to work with local universities to set up an eConference hub capacity in their country. This would link local groups with each other and with others around the world.
• 2005-03-12 Spoke with Nathan Harris and Nathan Bryer of IUPUI today. They showed me an open source conferencing system (www.sakaiproject.org) that is being adopted by IUPUI and will be available to the Tutor/Mentor Connection for eConferences and on-going collaboration and learning.
• 2005-03-30 Met with Crystal R. Brown-Black, Volunteer/Program Coordinator for the Windows of Opportunity Program, which is the Chicago Housing Authority Non Profit. She has been receiving T/MC email and wants to collaborate with T/MC to help Cabrini Connections type tutor/mentor programs be available in all CHA housing neighborhoods of Chicago. T/MC agreed to provide training to help CHA create a Tutor/Mentor Connection strategy. We will meet again on April 5.
• 2005-04-12 Julie Williams, Monash University, Australia, send a draft of a prosal for a Nov. 23, 2005 Tutor/Mentor eConference, hosted by Monash University, for T/MC review and comment. This is in response to T/MC networking and invitation of others around the world to also host eConferences.
• 2005-05-05 The Tutor/Mentor eConference starts tonight at 2am Chicago time as people from Europe begin to deliver workshops via the www.alado.net/econfernece portal. Email has been going around the world from many different participants to encourage others to participate in the workshops which will run from May 6 to May 12. Andrew Pincon of the Digital Workforce Education Society of City Colleges of Chicago is organizing this wave of the eConference.
• 2005-05-13 Tutor/Mentor Conference drew people from many different states, including Kansas.
• 2005-05-23 A Tutor/Mentor eConference being hosted today, May 23, 2005, by IUPUI. ULR is http://econference.uc.iupui.edu. This is a collaboration between IUPUI and the T/MC. Participants come from Brazil, the UK, Australia and the US.
• 2005-06-16 Met with Rebecca Estrada of Erie Neighborhood House to discuss ways her organization can take a lead role in the annual Volunteer Recruitment Campaign. Rebecca is also the incoming Chair of the Latino Prevention Coalition's education committee and can possibly introduce the T/MC campaign to the coalition's members.
• 2005-06-22 Begain launch of new T/MC web site to about 200 tutor/mentor leaders via email introduction. The ULR is http://msg.uc.iupui.edu/TMC/html/. This site is being built by the technology department at IUPUI, which also hosted a May 2005 econference.
• 2005-07-11 Chicago Access TV will again host a tutor/mentor bulletin board in Aug/Sept 2005 to support volunteer recruitment for Chicago programs. The T/MC sent an email to its conference and program list, with a MS Word version of the Access TV form today. We're sending this via email because of lack of funds and staff for mailing these.
• 2005-07-27 Lend A Hand Program held MY HERO AWARDS event today. About 200 lawyers, judges, law firm people attended and a lot of good will for tutoring/mentoring was generated
• 2005-08-04 Article about tutor/mentor connection appeared in an education supplement of EXTRA NEWS, a Chicago paper aimed at the Hispanic community. The article encourages people to be volunteers and points to the T/MC and Cabrini Connections web sites.
• 2005-08-22 Spent an hour on the phone showing the various components of the Tutor/Mentor Connection strategy to Amber Reiss, the new full time coordinator at the Michigan Community Service Commission dedicated to Mentor Michigan. From 2001-2003 Amber was working with an organization that ran a mentoring program. She attended one or two of the T/MC conferences in Chicago.
• 2005-08-24 ChicagoVolunteer.net, Chicago's Community Resource Network, has put a feature article titled "Become a Tutor" on their Volunteer Opportunities Page. This lists Cabrini Connections, the Tutor/Mentor Connection and the volunteer recruitment campaign as paths of involvement.
• 2005-08-25 EXTRA News, the Bilingual Newspaper of Chicago, included an article on the Tutor/Mentor Volunteer Recruitment Campaign in today's paper. The article can also be found at http://www.extranews.net/news.php?nid=1131
• 2005-08-25 Felicia Dechter led off here Heart of the Hood commentary in the Pioneer Press Skyline Aug. 25th edition, with a story titled "Hey, anybody out there have some free time on their hands?..." This told about the Tutor/Mentor Connection's Volunteer Recruitment Campaign, and the need to recruit skills volunteers, not just tutors/mentors.
• 2005-08-31 Story on Tutor/Mentor Recruitment Campaign appeared in Streetwise Newspaper. This is the newspaper sold by homeless people in Chicago
• 2005-09-16 Highsight has agreed to host the November Tutor/Mentor Leadership Conference on Nov 17 and 18. Information about the conference design has been sent to all who participated in past conferences. We've already been contacted by a group from Tenessee who has been part of previous conferences and wants to host a workshop in November. We will change the format and have fewer workshop choices in each time frame, but will host a two day symposium using the main auditorium as a meeting place.
• 2005-10-27 Dan Bassill met with a team of researchers and GIS experts from the Msgr.John J. Egan Urban Center at DePaul University to share information about the T/MC mission and its efforts to recruit partners at universities.
• 2005-11-08 The Lend A Hand Program at the Chicago Bar Association reports that Mayor Daley will be involved with LAH's Grant Presentation this year, which will be held at City Council Chambers on December 8, 2005 at 5:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m. Karina Ayala, who is the ED of the LAH, also sent an email encouraging grant recipients to attend the Tutor/Mentor Conference on Nov. 17 and 18.
• 2005-11-17 A 24th Tutor/Mentor Leadership and Networking Conference was held at St. Joseph's School in Chicago. About 90 people attendced. This was a comment from Traci Stanley, Director of Youth Development Services at Christopher House: "Thanks to you as well Dan. I hired a new tutoring coordinator this summer to manage Christopher House's tutoring program and she found the conference to be extremely helpful. She and I have done some "debriefing" since the conference and I can definitely say that the training, resources, and networking that she got out of the conference will effectively increase our capacity to serve our children and families. Thanks again!" The attendance was the lowest 2-day attendance since 1994. Those who attended benefited, as the comment above indicates. Event though attendance was low, holding the conference enabled us to create more Oct/Nov. awareness of tutoring/mentoring through the email and on-line marketing done to promote the conference.
• 2005-11-18 Dan presented a 50 minute web cast titled "Building a Network of Purpose" in the Webheads in Action international conference. Participants were from Paris, Burma, South America, the USA. More than 340 people are registered for the 3 day event
• 2005-11-18 Tutor/Mentor eConference launched in http://msg.uc.iupui.edu/TMC/html/index.php. More than 250 people have visited the eConference space between Nov. 17 and Nov. 30, to follow the on-line discussions hosted by people from California, New Jersey, Missouri and Chicago.
• 2005-11-30 In the past two weeks my follow ups to the conference have included email to people a universities, such as DePaul University, to people in churches and faith based organizations, and to volunteers who attend business grad schools such as Northwestern, University of Chicago, Oxford, etc.
• 2005-12-01 The Abraham Lincoln Marovitz Lend-A-Hand Program (LAH) has annouced the 2005 LAH Grant Recipients: Organizations receiving grants of $1,000 to $3,000 are BUILD, Inc., The Bridges Program, Cabrini Connections, Centro Comunitario Juan Diego, Chicago Youth Programs, Inc., Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church, Christopher House, East Village Youth Program, Family Matters, Hermosa Community Organization, Horizons for Youth, Inspired Youth, Inc., Life Directions, Maywood Youth Mentoring Program, McGaw YMCA Project SOAR, Midtown Education Foundation, Sunlight African Community Center LAH will award $45, 000 to outstanding one-on-one mentoring programs and will reach 1295 at risk youth who will benefit from being matched with a caring mentor. Several of the above agencies were nominated for special awards. The nominees for the Inaugural Much Shelist Founders Award ($7,000 to support an emerging program) are Inspired Youth; Hermosa Community; and Sunlight African Community Center. The nominees for the Thomas A. Demetrio Awards of Excellence ($8,000) are Midtown Educational Foundation, East Village Youth Program, and Chicago Youth Programs, Inc.. The winners will be announced at the grant reception which will be held at City Hall. Mayor Richard Daley will present the awards.
• 2006-01-23 The 25th Tutor/Mentor Leadership and Networking Conference held since May 1994 will be held at Northwestern University Law School, 375 E. Chicago Ave, Chicago, Il 60610 in partnership with the Children & Family Justice Center at the Northwestern University Law School (CFJC).
• 2006-02-18 Met with Rob Donahue of the Northwestern University Center for Talent Development and Civic Leadership Institute to discuss ways to enage NU students in service projects related to the Tutor/Mentor Connection's mission. T/MC agreed to set up Service Learning discussion in T/MC portal where Rob and NU students could brainstorm ways to get involved.
• 2006-02-18 I received the Feb. 2006 newsletter of Project YES!, an AmeriCorps project in Illinois. The 4 page newsletter included a half page story titled "Dan Bassill: Bridging the Tutor-Mentor Gap" The story told of my effort to "seek to connect people from around the world with information and networks that help support the growth of comprehensive, volunteer-based tutor/mentor programs" and encouraged people to connect via the May 2006 conference or the T/MC blog.
• 2006-03-04 The Lend A Hand Program and the Chicago Bar Association co-hosted a Fifth Annual Barristers Big Band Benefit Ball with Children's Memorial Hospital. It was held in Winter Garden Room, Harold Washington Library. The event grossed over $119,000 with more than $39,000 in net profit going to the Lend A Hand and the Hospital.
• 2006-03-08 Lt. Governor Pat Quinn of Illinois has formally agreed to serve as honorary chair for the May and November Tutor/Mentor Leadershipo and Networking Conferences. His letter is posted at http://www.tutormentorconference.bigstep.com
• 2006-03-09 MENTOR has schedule an on-line tutor/mentor eConference forum in their www.mentoring.org/community for May 8-12, 2006
• 2006-03-20 An email newsletter, containing a list of Conference Speakers, along with information on volunteer recruitment, was sent today to the T/MC email distribution list, consisting of more than 2500 contacts. The email was forwarded by members of the T/MC list, such as DePaul University Partners, Illinois Commission for Volunteerism and Community Service, and Lake County Afterschool Coalition, to additional people.
• 2006-04-08 Borders and Starbucks stores in the Chicago region will host volunteer recruitment events during August and September. Individual programs are being recruited to host various sites. Inspired Youth has already claimed the Borders on Michigan Ave and Omni Youth has requested Starbucks and Borders locations in Palatine.
• 2006-05-02 A live event began in the www.socialedge.org portal, hosted by Dan Bassill, president of the Tutor/Mentor Conneciton. The topic was "Building a network of purpose".
• 2006-05-12 During the past week (May 8-12, 2006) the T/MC has hosted on on-line forum at http://www.socialedge.org and co-hosted another at http://www.mentoring.org/community. More than 120 people posted messages in the Mentoring forum, while the Social Edge forum connected us with people from around the world.
• 2006-05-17 Co hosted eConference with IUPUI
• 2006-05-26 The May 25 and 26, 2006 Tutor/Mentor Leadership and Networking Conference in Chicago was attended by between 190 and 200 people. Since 2001 the May attendance has averaged about 150, so this is a good increase. Participation in May and June e-conferences adds an additional few hundred people to the networking and learning organized by the T/MC at th is time of the year.
• 2006-06-15 The Lend A Hand Board met today to review applications for Lend A Hand Awards which will be given during a July 12th event. One of the nominees was from Beth Palmer, of a program called Inspired Youth. Beth started this program a few years ago after Epworth Church decided they no longer wanted the program at that church. Beth nominated a Chicago lawyer for the Making a Difference Award, and in her nomination she wrote, "We met Lisa in Sept. 2004 at Borders Books on N. Michigan Ave at the recruitment fair, "What a Difference a Day Makes". In Oct. 2004 she came to tutor in the Inspired Youth Tutoring Program."
• 2006-07-10 ServeIllinois Summer 2006 newsletter includes1/2 page article on May 2006 Tutor/Mentor Leadership Conference.
• 2006-07-12 The 3rd Annual My Hero Award Lunch as held at the Standard Club in Chicago. More than 200 lawyers, judges, law firm reps and tutor/mentor leaders and students attended. Awards were given to recognize the work of judges, lawyers and law firms in supporting volunteer based tutor/mentor programs in the Chicago region. Dan Cotter, a member of the LAH Executive Committee, also presented a check for $20,000 to the Lend A Hand Program, which orgzanized the event. The funds were raised by Dan in a weight lifting event.
• 2006-09-07 On Sept 7th the T/MC hosted a volunteer recruitment fair at the James Thompson Center in Chicago. The list of organizations that participated can be found at http://www.tutormentorexchange.net/Partner/CC/RecruitmentCampaign/recruitmentsites06.htm.
• Undated Tutor/Mentor Leadership Conference held on Nov. 20/21. 146 people attended. 30 workshops were presented. Participants came from Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Indiana, Teneesee, Oregon, Wisconsin, California and Illinois.
• Undated The Executive Board of the Abraham Lincoln Marovitz Lend A Hand Program, sponsored by the Chicago Bar Association, met on 10/23/03. Among the key developments reported were; a) Tom Demetrio, Chair of the Leadership Board, and partner at the Chicago Law Firm of Corboy and Demetrio, has agreed to spearhead a million dollar campaign for Lend A Hand; b) 77 students from colleges near the CBA have agreed to be volunteer tutors/mentors; c) a Volunteer Recognition Luncheon will be held in March 2004 to build visibility for tutor/mentor programs within the legal and corporate community; d) the Lend A Hand will receive 20% of proceeds from the Second Annual Barrister's Big Band Ball, which is hosted by the CBA to benefit LAH and Children's Memorial Hospital.
• Undated T/MC conference announcements were sent through email lists such as ACC, CTCnet, YouthLearn, MentorExchnage, MentorNet, k-12 Service Learning, Safe Youth, America Connects, and the Corporation for National Service, reaching thousands of people around the world. Responses from Texas and Georgia led to new sign ups for the eConference.
• Undated During the week of April 18, 2005, Tech Soup (www.techsoup.org) will host an on-line forum on Online Event on Online Learning Communities and Collaboration Spaces. The T/MC will be one of the co-hosts. The announcement went live on the Tech Soup web site today.
• Undated Follow up email sent by T/MC to Paul Pejsa, GE Medical Systems, in Milwaukee. Paul leads the Elfun Society (GE volunteers) in Milwaukee. T/MC has been outreaching to them for more than a year. Paul responded with "I'll ask members of the Chicago Elfuns to make the decision on involvement this year, and then to lead the effort." He forwarded the info to local people
• Undated Met with Lucienne Simon, Program Director for Illinois Alliance for Arts Education. Shared T/MC info and talked about forms of partnership. The Art Festival is a possibility.
• Undated Gained contact information for the Target/Tiger Woods program that is designated to helping children in tutoring/education forums. The original contact was made through committee member Gail Hardinger. I have contacts for both Tiger Woods and Target, and have sent out letters of intent to collaborate efforts with our conference.
• Undated Development of new conference brochure
• Undated 2 consultants were confirmed to provide the Fall 2001 conference with 1/2 day intense seminars at an additional cost of $20 per class to attendees. Both consultants agreed to offer their services and promote not only their seminar but the conference as well. Facilitators will receive 1/2 of monies generated for their seminar.
• Undated Myself and Steve Roussos and Paul Collins have put together a report and graphs indicating the evaluation results of the Spring 2001 conference. Myself and Steve Roussos are working together to re-do the tutormentorbigstep website to be a one stop site where prospective sponsors can gain not only information about becoming a sponsor of the conferences, but important statistical information on the impact of these conferences on actual programs.
• Undated Launched a conversation with Sharon Caldwell of the Chicago Metropolitan YMCA about collaborating to operate tutor/mentor programs in area YMCAs, with funding coming from the Federal Mentoring Grant. Sharon agreed to include the T/MC as a consultant and training resource in the grant request she is developing for local YMCAs.
• Undated The Lerner Skyline Newspaper (of Chicago) ran a story about the Tutor/Mentor Recruitment Campaign, titled "help a CPS student get ahead: be a tutor/mentor. The writer was Felicia Dechter. The story was 1/6 of a page and on page 3, section one of the paper.
• Undated Recruited volunteers at the Annual Bonneville Radio Group's Volunteer Recruitment Fairs at Woodfield Shopping Center, located in the Northwest Suburbs. More than 150 people picked up handouts. 17 signed the volunteer interest sheet and/or provided busienss cards for follow up. Several radio station people stopped by for conversations that focused on goals/opportunities.
• Undated T/MC met with Mayor Ed Mulvaney of Rock Falls, Il. and presented an invitation for Mayors, or their spouses, to be leaders of the T/MC call to action, in their own communities. Mr. Mulvaney is also a Big Brother/Big Sister volunteer and presented a workshop at the Nov. 03 conference. He is also the chair of an association of Northern Illinois Mayors and agreed to present this invitation to them at a March 18th meeting. In addition, he will lead a workshop at the May 17 and 18 conference intended to draw Mayors to the conference and this strategy.
• Undated <a href=>news </a>
• Undated At a City Hall Ceremony, Chicago's Mayor Richard Daley handed out $45,000 in Lend A Hand Program Grants to 17 different chicago area volunteer-based tutor/mentor programs. Lawyers from the Chicago Bar Association and several major law firms attended. The Thomas A. Demetrio Award ($8,000), which recognizes an outstanding tutor/mentor program, went to the Midtown Education Foundation. The Much Shelist Founder's Award ($7,000), which recognizes the efforts of emerging programs (5 years or less), went to Inspired Youth, led by Beth Palmer. Children from Inspired Youth, Hermosa Community Organization and Sunlight African Community Center sang and told of how mentors made a difference in their lives.
• Undated T/MC created small ads for the volunteer recruitment campaign with a goal that these would be used in a variety of media to draw vistors to the T/MC web site locations where they learn to be volunteers. EXTRA NEWS, which serves Latino Chicago agreed to not only print the ad, but to launch a campaign to enlist other advertisers to pay to have the ads run weekly. The ad format will be the same, with the logo of the company paying for the ad being shown in each different ad.

Ordered by how often the subject comes up. “Read from page” opens the document at the first page that mentions it.

• Structured Networking (Jordan-Webb) · 21 of 58 slides Read from page 1
• 1993 The T/MC Report: newsletter pages, 1993–2002 · 21 of 28 pages Read from page 2
• Articles from the T/MC Site · 38 of 107 pages Read from page 5
• News Articles from tutormentorconnection.org · 23 of 45 pages Read from page 1
• Tutor/Mentor News, Recognition & Awards (web page) · 8 of 10 pages Read from page 1
• 2004 T/MC Newsletter, Issue 25 · 9 of 13 pages Read from page 1
• 2004 T/MC Newsletter, Issue 30 (Spring 2004) · 9 of 13 pages Read from page 1
• eConference Introduction · 12 of 15 slides Read from page 1
• 1993 Montgomery Ward Newslink: pages about the tutoring program and T/MC, 1993–2000 · 11 of 25 pages Read from page 6
• 2004 eConference Welcome, May 2004 · 16 of 19 slides Read from page 1
• 2004 T/MC Newsletter, Issue 26 (draft B) · 10 of 13 pages Read from page 1
• 2005 Building a Network: May 2005 eConference · 13 of 34 slides Read from page 1
• 2004 T/MC Newsletter, Issue 26 (draft A) · 9 of 10 pages Read from page 2
• 2002 Technology vision of the Tutor/Mentor Connection · 11 of 17 pages Read from page 2
• About T/MC (from the website) · 6 of 15 pages Read from page 4
• 1994 T/MC case statement, January 1994 (updated to 1996) · 13 of 32 pages Read from page 7
• 2005 eConference and Conference Introduction, May 2005 · 12 of 33 slides Read from page 1
• 1993 PCI public-relations plan: first use of the “Tutor/Mentor Connection” name · 8 of 8 pages Read from page 1
• 2003 Strategies for Lend-A-Hand from T/MC · 8 of 9 pages Read from page 1
• 2003 2003 Recruitment Campaign: Final Report · 14 of 24 slides Read from page 4
• 1999 T/MC case statement, February 1999 update · 7 of 13 pages Read from page 2
• 1997 Get Intense: sports-celebrity strategy · 2 of 3 pages Read from page 1
• 2000 T/MC growth, 1994–2000 · 7 of 9 pages Read from page 1
• 1997 Serve Illinois, fall 1997: Presidents’ Summit follow-up · 3 of 4 pages Read from page 1
• 1999 Proposal for an internet-based tutor/mentor learning network (S. Roussos) · 5 of 18 pages Read from page 2
• 1997 Proposal to Chicago Public Schools to support T/MC · 5 of 8 pages Read from page 2
• 2001 HUD Best Practice Award · 4 of 11 pages Read from page 6
• 2005 Tutor/Mentor Learning Network: vision of T/MC · 6 of 9 pages Read from page 1
• 1996 Actions 1993–1995 and goals for 1996 · 6 of 8 pages Read from page 2
• 1995 Agency analysis of Cabrini Connections and T/MC (MaryAnn Manfredini) · 6 of 27 pages Read from page 6
• Chicagoland Tutor/Mentor Volunteer Recruitment Campaign · 6 of 30 slides Read from page 10
• 2000 ERICA Award · 3 of 4 pages Read from page 1
• 1994 T/MC public awareness goals · 3 of 14 pages Read from page 4
• 2001 Tutor/Mentor Learning Network · 7 of 9 pages Read from page 1
• 2004 Grant Application: Humana Chicago Benefits 2004 · 3 of 5 pages Read from page 2
• 1996 The Business Brief (1996, updated to 2000) · 6 of 23 pages Read from page 11
• 1999 CHAMPS Award · 4 of 8 pages Read from page 2
• 1996 Mercedes Mentor Award · 2 of 4 pages Read from page 2
• 2005 Skoll Foundation application · 4 of 10 pages Read from page 5
• 2011 T/MC History Links: 1965 to June 2011 · 3 of 7 pages Read from page 1
• 2003 Annual Report 2002–2003 · 6 of 33 slides Read from page 13
• Volunteer Recruitment Workshop · 4 of 35 slides Read from page 10
• 2004 Recruiting Volunteers Workshop (2004) · 4 of 35 slides Read from page 10
• 1994 T/MC work done in 1994 · 4 of 6 pages Read from page 1
• 2011 Athletes “Adopt a Neighborhood” strategy · 2 of 5 pages Read from page 2
• eCollaboration, eLearning and Vertical Organizations · 3 of 28 slides Read from page 8
• 1995 Goals and progress, November 1994 to August 1995 · 3 of 4 pages Read from page 2
• 2007 T/MC: who are we working with? · 1 of 1 pages Read from page 1
• 1995 Cabrini Connections & T/MC annual reports, 1995–1997 · 1 of 7 pages Read from page 2
• 2002 Annual Report 2001/2002 · 3 of 22 slides Read from page 4
• 1996 Mid America Leadership Foundation award · 2 of 2 pages Read from page 1
• Social Network Analysis Overview (Durian Consulting) · 6 of 70 slides Read from page 1
• 2004 Help Spread the Word: 2004 Recruitment Campaign · 3 of 19 slides Read from page 11
• Building a Network Focused on a Common Goal · 3 of 35 slides Read from page 4
• 2002 Case for Investment in T/MC · 2 of 16 slides Read from page 9
• Connecting Those Who Need Help: The Role of Intermediary · 2 of 21 slides Read from page 16
• Internet Database Platform · 4 of 16 slides Read from page 1
• 2008 eChicago conference presentation · 3 of 9 pages Read from page 1
• 1998 Goal of T/MC: a city of good programs · 2 of 2 pages Read from page 1
• 2000 T/MC goals and outcomes, 2000 · 1 of 1 pages Read from page 1
• 2002 Cabrini Connections & T/MC Annual Report 2001–2002 (overview) · 2 of 13 slides Read from page 9
• University Connection · 4 of 57 slides Read from page 36
• Universities and T/MC · 4 of 60 slides Read from page 46
• 2001 Letter to CPS chief Arne Duncan · 2 of 2 pages Read from page 1
• 2005 Chicago Council on Urban Affairs Neighborhood Awards · 1 of 5 pages Read from page 4
• 1995 Chart of T/MC activity, 1994–1995 · 1 of 1 pages Read from page 1
• 2002 Evaluation Workshop Parts 1 & 2, Fall 2002 (S. Roussos) · 3 of 33 slides Read from page 1
• Hospitals: A Tutor/Mentor Connection in a Profession · 3 of 53 slides Read from page 36
• 1999 MENTOR memorandum of understanding · 2 of 2 pages Read from page 1
• 2005 Lend-A-Hand My Hero Awards: Invitation · 1 of 1 pages Read from page 1
• 2006 Lend-A-Hand My Hero Awards: Flyer · 1 of 1 pages Read from page 1
• 1997 Invitation to the Presidents’ Summit from Colin Powell · 1 of 1 pages Read from page 1
• 2008 Prevention conference presentation · 2 of 18 pages Read from page 2
• 2001 Evaluation Workshop, Fall 2001 (S. Roussos) · 3 of 33 slides Read from page 1
• 1995 The founding slide show: Cabrini Connections and T/MC (35mm slides) · 3 of 99 slides Read from page 49
• T/MC Theory of Change (Leadership Pyramid) · 2 of 34 slides Read from page 17
• 1996 Target Group award · 1 of 1 pages Read from page 1
• Theory of Change · 2 of 34 slides Read from page 17
• 2000 Where will we be in 3–5 years? · 2 of 3 pages Read from page 2
• The Role of Intermediary (Wired.org) · 1 of 25 slides Read from page 12
• PERCS Conference Presentation · 1 of 20 slides Read from page 5
• 1982 Dan Bassill’s talk to the National Conference on Volunteerism (draft) · 1 of 9 pages Read from page 8

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• 1994 Shedd 1994Conf View
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• 15 May 1994 Chicago Tribune: conf View
• 16 May 1994 Chicago Tribune: conf View
• 30 Dec 1994 Chicago Tribune: Story View
• 1994 Metro Info Center View
• 1995 Story View
• 1995 TMC.Recruitment Campaign.Misc1995 View
• 1995 Lawyers Mentor Youth View
• 1995 Chicago Tribune: Tib1995Master Plan View
• 16 May 1995 Chicago Defender: Story View
• 16 Jun 1995 Chicago Defender: TMC.Conference View
• 8 Nov 1995 Community Media Workshop View
• 1996 Chicago Bar Association: Report Fall TM Week View
• 12 Mar 1996 La Rabida Hospital Award View
• 31 May 1996 Chicago Tribune: Olympic Tourch CC on committee View
• 15 Aug 1996 Daily Southtown vol recruitment View
• 24 Nov 1996 Chicago Tribune: Story View
• 1997 Presidents Summit View
• 29 Apr 1997 Chicago Sun-Times: Story View
• 29 Apr 1997 Chicago Tribune: Story View
• 29 Apr 1997 Daily Herald: Story View
• 25 Aug 1997 Chicago Defender: Our Children Need Your Help View
• Dec 1997 Presidents Summit declaration View
• 1 Apr 1998 Chicago Defender: letter View
• 30 Apr 1998 Chicago Tribune: letter View
• 1 Jun 1998 Quincy, IL LINK newsletter TMC conf award View
• 9 Sep 1998 Beverly Review View
• 9 Sep 1998 Hyde Park Herald View
• 1998 Chronicleof Philanthropy Maps View
• 1999 URISANews View
• 30 Mar 1999 Chicago Tribune: Evanston conf View
• 9 Apr 1999 Digital City Evanston TMC Conf View
• 23 Jun 1999 Connect for Kids.org View
• 3 Aug 1999 Streetwise: Cabrini Connections View
• 18 Oct 1999 Chicago Tribune: Internet TMC Conf View
• Dec 1999 Helping The Kids URISA News Dec View
• 2000 Youth Today: Youth Today letter View
• 2000 Mentoring Coalition Dade Cty View
• 22 Apr 2000 Chicago Tribune: Story View
• 5 Sep 2001 Illinois Wesleyan University: IWU Presidents Convocation DB Ph D honor View
• 7 Sep 2001 Chicago Tribune: Story View
• 12 Sep 2001 EXTRA vol recruitment View
• 2002 ESRI News: ESRINews TMCMaps View
• 2002 INVEST Evanston Fall TMC recruitment View
• 15 Jul 2002 National Civic Participation Weekly TMC Recruitment View
• 16 Oct 2002 GIS for Everyone TMC use of GIS View
• 2003 INVEST Evanston Fall TMC recruitment View
• 24 May 2003 Edgewater Community Calendar TMC Conf View
• Jun 2003 Education Alliance June conf View
• 3 Jun 2003 Youth Service America briefing TMC conf View
• 2005 Academic Development Institute: ADIFamilies&Schools Fall2005 View
• 25 Aug 2005 Skyline: Story View
• 2006 Academic Development Institute: Academic Development Institute Fall TMC article View
• 2006 Serve Illinois TMC Conf Summer View
• 2006 YOUTH Today July2006 View
• 23 Mar 2007 Third Sector News New Ways to Collaborate View
• May 2008 Indiana Mentor Advisory Council May2008 TMC conf View
• 7 Mar 2009 Chicago Sun-Times: Story View
• 2 Aug 2010 Out of the Box Thinking TMC Conf View
• 2011 Streetwise: Story View
• 26 Oct 2011 Streetwise: TM Conf View
• 2015 ILCCVista Update View
• May 2015 Campus Compact: Illinois Campus Compact May TM Conf View

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Links T/MC collected for program leaders; many outside sites have since moved or closed.

• The Grantmaker Forum on Community & National Service (GFCNS) · 2002 library · Funding/Philanthropy
• The Forum for Youth Investment · 2002 library · Resource Networks
• Tutor/Mentor Leadership Conference. · 2002 library · Training/Development
• FORUM FOR YOUTH INVESTMENT - KNOWLEDGE CENTER · 2021 library · AfterSchool Networks
• THE BELMONT FORUM - FUNDERS OF GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE RESEARCH · 2021 library · Climate, Environment Links
• THE POPULATION HEALTH FORUM · 2021 library · Public Health Links
• GLOBAL EDUCATION CONFERENCE ON-LINE · 2021 library · Education, Learning, C-MOOCs
• EDTECH TALK FORUM · 2021 library · Network building, idea sharing
• VIRTUALLY CONNECTING - WHAT IS IT? WHY ADD IT TO A CONFERENCE? · 2021 library · Network building, idea sharing
• SUMMIT EDUCATIONAL ORGANIZATION (MILWAUKEE) - BLOG · 2021 library · Tutor, Mentor Org blogs
• HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL WORKING KNOWLEDGE FORUM · 2021 library · Business School Connections
• THE CONFERENCE BOARD - INSIGHTS FOR BUSINESS LEADERS · 2021 library · Corp Social Responsibility
• DUSSELDORP SKILLS FORUM - AUSTRALIA · 2021 library · Workforce Development
• PEER FORWARD (WAS COLLEGE SUMMIT) · 2021 library · College Access Resources
• HUD USER FORUMS - ON-LINE MEETING PLACE · 2021 library · Housing, Community Development
• THE FADING AMERICAN DREAM - RAJ CHETTY AT 2019 MPC LUNCHEON · 2021 library · Poverty, Race, Inequality
• WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM GLOBAL RISK REPORT 2018 · 2021 library · Poverty, Race, Inequality
• FORUM FOR THEOLOGICAL EXPLORATION (FTE) · 2021 library · Faith Based orgs
• FOREFRONT (FORMERLY DONORS FORUM) COMMITMENT TO ADVOCATING FOR FULL-COST FUNDING · 2021 library · General Operating Support
• FOREFRONT - ENGAGING FOR IMPACT (WAS DONORS FORUM) · 2021 library · Understanding Philanthropy
• UNITED PHILANTHROPY FORUM · 2021 library · Understanding Philanthropy
• TOWN MEETINGS / PUBLIC FORUMS THAT USE MODERN COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGIES · 2021 library · Collaboration, community building
• EXAMPLES OF DATA VISUALIZATION FROM 2012 GLOBAL VOICES CITIZEN MEDIA SUMMIT · 2021 library · Concept map - visualization
• USING NETWORK ANALYSIS AND SOCIAL MEDIA FOR PLANNING & ANALYZING A CONFERENCE · 2021 library · Concept map - visualization
• ANALYSIS OF TWEETING AT CONFERENCES, USING NODEXL · 2021 library · Creativity, KM
• AMERICAN YOUTH POLICY FORUM · 2021 library · Policy - Research
• SOCIAL EDGE DISCUSSIONS NOW ARCHIVED ON SKOLL WORLD FORUM SITE · 2021 library · Social Enterprise - Networks
• CONNECTING TECHNOLOGIES TO CITIZENSHIP - UIC FORUM WHITE PAPER · 2021 library · Tech Resources-Networks
• ILLINOIS AFTER SCHOOL NETWORK SPRING CONFERENCE – CHICAGO & VIRTUAL · 2021 library · Conferences
• BEYOND SCHOOL HOURS CONFERENCE · 2021 library · Conferences
• EDUCON IS A CONFERENCE AND A CONVERSATION · 2021 library · Conferences
• ILLINOIS CONFERENCE ON VOLUNTEER ADMINISTRATION · 2021 library · Conferences
• NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON VOLUNTEERING AND SERVICE · 2021 library · Conferences
• NATIONAL MENTORING SUMMIT · 2021 library · Conferences
• TUTOR/MENTOR CONNECTION ELEARNING AND NETWORKING · 2021 library · Conferences
• UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO MENTORING INSTITUTE & CONFERENCE · 2021 library · Conferences
• WORLD CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION WEEK · 2021 library · Conferences

Files in T/MC’s planning folders whose titles mention this subject.

• 1990 Illinois Board of Education summit attendees 11-09 · TMC-Planning / Correspondence-misc/1990s misc correspondence
• 1992 Creation of IWU Civic Forum - DB to YvonneJones 11-30-1992 · TMC-Planning / ILWesleyan-1990-2004
• 1994 Michael Jordan invitation to Nov. Conference - rejected - 9-19-1994 · TMC-Planning / Business outreach misc/Rejection letters
• 1995 Edward Dolan, The Conference Board - 8-16-1995 follow up from DB · TMC-Planning / Correspondence-misc/1990s misc correspondence
• 1995 One Church One School Conference - 1995 invite and thanks to DB - 9-5-1995 · TMC-Planning / Correspondence-misc/1990s misc correspondence
• 1996 DB notes for Wesleyan Forum panel - circa 1996 · TMC-Planning / ILWesleyan-1990-2004
• 1996 Helen Copeland, Cleveland Clinic Foundation - 6-20-1996 follow up to TMC conference · TMC-Planning / Correspondence-misc/1990s misc correspondence
• 1997 Letter to Editor-SunTimes re - Presidents Summit - spring 1997 · TMC-Planning / DB thinking on TMC
• 1997 Veronica Derden-Jackson-Westside Baptist Minister s Conference - 1997 from DB · TMC-Planning / Faith Communities
• 1997 Press Release for TMC at Presidents Summit 3-31-1997 · TMC-Planning / PublicRelations-PCI-1993-2003
• 1997 Presidents Summit -1997- Delegate badge D Bassill · TMC-Planning / TMC History - event notes
• 1997 Dren Green, Roosevelt University College of Education - re Nov 1997 conference · TMC-Planning / Universities
• 1998 Operation PUSH-Jesse Jackson - Minister s Forum 11-18-1998 · TMC-Planning / DB On-line - 1997-1999
• 1998 Social Capital - Putnam - UIC Forum circa 1998 · TMC-Planning / SocialNetworkAnalysis
• 1998 American Youth Policy Forum - 1998 and 1999 email to DB · TMC-Planning / Correspondence-misc/1990s misc correspondence
• 1998 Jonathan Alter, Newsweek - President s Summit Follow up - March-May 1998 w DB · TMC-Planning / Correspondence-misc/1990s misc correspondence
• 1998 PCI 10-6-1998 TMC Conference planning · TMC-Planning / PublicRelations-PCI-1993-2003/Media contacts
• 1999 MaryMassey-followup to Portland conference - 11-11-1999 · TMC-Planning / Correspondence-email-out-of-Chi Programs
• 1999 WendyProsser-UWKC - Seattle - follow up to Summit - 12-8-1999 · TMC-Planning / Correspondence-email-out-of-Chi Programs
• 1999 Lesley Tobin, Dusseldorp Skllls Forum, AU - Sept 1999 · TMC-Planning / Universities
• 1999 Lesley Tobin, Dusseldorp Skllls Forum, AU 2-1999 · TMC-Planning / Universities
• 2000 Hospital Youth Mentoring at Nov 10-2000 TMC Conference · TMC-Planning / Hospitals - Public Health
• 2005 High School Summit-9-2005-DB edited · TMC-Planning / DB thinking on TMC
• 2005 2005 National Conference on Volunteering - db notes pt 1 of · TMC-Planning / EventNotes-misc
• 2005 2005 National Conference on Volunteering - db notes pt 2 of 2 · TMC-Planning / EventNotes-misc
• 2005 High School Summit - Sept 2005 - db notes · TMC-Planning / EventNotes-misc
• 2005 Tutor-Mentor e-conference (12[1].4.2005) · TMC-Planning / Universities
• 2006 Value of the conference-DB circ 2006 · TMC-Planning / DB thinking on TMC
• 2006 ACI forum - -10-6-2006 - db notes · TMC-Planning / EventNotes-misc
• 2006 Donors Forum Event - Bill Daley speaker - March 2006 db notes · TMC-Planning / EventNotes-misc
• 2007 ACI forum - -12-2007-Business Partnership w schools - db notes · TMC-Planning / EventNotes-misc
• 2007 Statewide Education Summit 10-22-2007 db notes · TMC-Planning / EventNotes-misc
• 2007 Conference in UK - 2007 - Dan B presenter form · TMC-Planning / Correspondence-misc/1990s misc correspondence
• 2008 ACI forum - 9-17-2008 From Classrooms to Success - db notes · TMC-Planning / EventNotes-misc
• 2008 Conference on Rethinking Workforce Dev 12-29-2008 · TMC-Planning / EventNotes-misc
• 2008 May 28-29-2008 TMC Conference - db notes · TMC-Planning / EventNotes-misc
• 2008 Nov 21 - 2008 TMC Conference - db notes · TMC-Planning / EventNotes-misc
• 2008 Prevention Conference - 9-18-2008 db notes · TMC-Planning / EventNotes-misc
• 2008 Conference sponsorship brochure - 2008 · TMC-Planning / Universities
• 2008 TM Leadership and Networking Conference 2008 · maps / 2008-2011 Maps made by Mike Traken/TMC conferences 08-09
• 2008 TMC Conference City Gallery · maps / 2008-2011 Maps made by Mike Traken/TMC conferences 08-09
• 2008 TMC Conference Downtown Gallery · maps / 2008-2011 Maps made by Mike Traken/TMC conferences 08-09
• 2008 TMC Conference Downtown · maps / 2008-2011 Maps made by Mike Traken/TMC conferences 08-09
• 2008 TMC Conference National Gallery · maps / 2008-2011 Maps made by Mike Traken/TMC conferences 08-09
• 2008 TMC Conference Nov08 Downtown · maps / 2008-2011 Maps made by Mike Traken/TMC conferences 08-09
• 2008 TMC Conference Nov08 Local · maps / 2008-2011 Maps made by Mike Traken/TMC conferences 08-09
• 2008 TMC Conference Nov08 Regional · maps / 2008-2011 Maps made by Mike Traken/TMC conferences 08-09
• 2008 TMC Conference Regional Gallery · maps / 2008-2011 Maps made by Mike Traken/TMC conferences 08-09
• 2008 TMC Conference Regional · maps / 2008-2011 Maps made by Mike Traken/TMC conferences 08-09
• 2008 TMC-Conference-Nov09-Local-HiRes · maps / 2008-2011 Maps made by Mike Traken/TMC conferences 08-09
• 2008 TMC-Conference-Nov09-National-HiRes · maps / 2008-2011 Maps made by Mike Traken/TMC conferences 08-09
• 2009 BBF Community Forum - 1-29-2009 db notes · TMC-Planning / EventNotes-misc
• 2009 IL Dropout Prevention Summit 11-4-2009 db notes · TMC-Planning / EventNotes-misc
• 2009 MCIC Forum on Economic Hardships - 12-2009 · TMC-Planning / EventNotes-misc
• 2009 Ministers Health Fair 9-26-2009 db notes · TMC-Planning / EventNotes-misc
• 2012 LISC Conference 3-5-2012 DB notes · TMC-Planning
• 2012 STEM Summit 2-3-2012 OPRF HS - DB notes · TMC-Planning / STEM related
• 2013 MentorSummitMap2013 · maps
• 2014 African American Legacy Summit 11-1-2014 · TMC-Planning / Event Notes 2014
• 2014 100 Black Men of Chi Scholarship Fair 10-11-2014 · TMC-Planning / TMC History - event notes
• 2015 Network Building - Pres Summit - notes for blog article 2015 · TMC-Planning / DB thinking on TMC
• 2015 ElizabethCoughlin-DePaul Tutor Mentor Summit - met db 2-23-2015 · TMC-Planning / Event Notes 2015
• 2015 Latino Policy Forum - 8-24-2015 - db notes · TMC-Planning / Event Notes 2015
• 2015 Mayor Summit on Veterans 1-30-2015 · TMC-Planning / Mayor Daley proclamations and outreach
• 6th Annual Great Cities Forum - Civic Engagement - DB notes · TMC-Planning / SocialNetworkAnalysis
• TMC Conference City · maps

Pages of T/MC’s website, tutormentorexchange.net, 2008–2026.

• 1994 Conference participation map - 1994-2014
• 2008 Conferences, Networking, On-line Forums
• 2008 Error 404
• 2008 Presentations from past Tutor/Mentor Leadership and Networking Conferences
• 2008 Tutor/Mentor Institute's Event Calendar
• 2009 Dan Bassill Interview
• 2009 Tutor/Mentor Leadership and Networking Conference
• 2009 What Conference Participants Say
• 2010 History. Who has helped?
• 2010 November 19, 2010 Conference Video
• 2012 Mapping Network Growth
• 2021 Additional Research-re education, youth development
• 2021 Business School Connections
• 2021 Climate-Environment-etc
• 2021 Collaboration & Community Building Links
• 2021 Conference Links
• 2021 Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) links
• 2021 Digital Access-Digital Divide
• 2021 Drop Out Research
• 2021 Education Research and Articles
• 2021 Faith Based Youth Serving Orgs
• 2021 Fund Raising Hubs-Intermediaries
• 2021 Innovation-Knowledge Management
• 2021 Intermediaries and associations
• 2021 January 2021 Tutor/Mentor eNews
• 2021 Law, Justice Links
• 2021 Library - Housing-Com Development
• 2021 Library - Street Gangs
• 2021 May 2021 Tutor/Mentor eNews
• 2021 Network & Learning Blogs
• 2021 Process Improvement; Evaluation
• 2021 Public Health Careers, Mentoring
• 2021 Resources for Educators
• 2021 Technology Resources & Networks
• 2021 Tutor/Mentor Org Blogs
• 2021 Workforce Development links
• 2022 April 2022 TM News
• 2022 Dec. 2022 T/M eNews
• 2022 Feb 2022 eNews
• 2022 January 2022 Tutor/Mentor News
• 2022 July 2022 TM eNews
• 2022 Library: Learn about T/MC & T/MI
• 2022 May-June 2022 eNews
• 2022 TMI Video - sharing ideas
• 2022 Volunteer Admin Networks-Resources
• 2023 Conference maps
• 2023 New additions to library - 2023
• 2024 Jan 2024 T/MI Newsletter
• 2024 May-June 2024 eNews
• 2025 April-May 2025 T/M News
• 2025 Feb 2025 T/MI News
• 2025 Jan 2025 TMI eNews
• 2026 February 2026 T/MI Newsletter
• 2026 January 2026 T/MI News
• 2026 Mapping Event Participation
• 2026 March 2026 T/MI eNews
• 2026 New Links - added 2026

• 1997 Invitation from Colin Powell to the Presidents’ Summit for America’s Future