Themes · One of T/MC’s six goals

Research

Gathering and sharing knowledge: program surveys, the Program Locator, maps of need, studies of what works, and the library of research collected for program leaders.

This is one of the six goals T/MC used to file every activity in its own log, so the events below are the ones T/MC itself tagged with this goal. Documents, news and other items are matched by their words.

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  • 1993-02-06 Dan Bassill met with Nick Rieser of the Metro Chicago Information Center. Reiser confirmed my belief that the T/MC's anticipated use of GIS was not being duplicated elsewhere and that it does have a broad community of support. MCIC agreed to map T/MC data, for a small fee, and to provide a list of people to contact.
  • 1999-12-30 Toi Pilgrim from Student Mentor Partners, Detroit, visited T/MC to share ideas and borrow from T/MC information.
  • 2000-10-09 Email from Nicole Rosa in Denver who is beginning to build an on-line math tutoring "HUB" with T/MC ideas. My last email to her was " I also suggest you go in another direction. What should a parent be considering in making a decision on choosing an on-line tutor? What fees should a parent expect? What guarantees or refunds are available? Is there any body of knowledge you can point to or create that would make visitors want to come to your site as a reference for on-line tutoring? The internet is the wild west in terms of commerce and tutoring is a very subjective area. Can you take a lead and help educate the consumer from your site? Can you link to organizations who also are trying to do this? She wrote: "I really like where you're going with this, Dan! The field of on-line tutoring is wide open with absolutely no guidelines. You're giving me all sorts of ideas. I could be the person to sort of pull all of this together. I will start working on your suggestions!
  • 2000-10-10 Christine Feldman contacted us to request a directory. She works for DCFS. I asked her if she wanted to order multiple copies for others in her office. She began asking questions about the T/MC. I gave her a brief overview and offered to come meet with her to discuss our services plus learn more about what she does. Also I want to discuss how the T/MC and DCFS can find a way to work together in a more systematic fashion.
  • 2000-10-10 Email from Steven McLaine, researcher at Georgetown University responded to an email introduction I'd sent. He said:I have followed some of your previous posts on the listserv, and your organization seems to be making some significant progress. My initial reply to joining the group was an enthusiastic "yes!," but i'm not sure what type of commitment you would require. I would love to contribute, but I havemany academic responsibilities slated for the upcoming year. I am definitely interested, however.
  • 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 Assistant Principle of Jones Commercial High School called and asked if T/MC would help him start a mentoring program at the school. I responded with "let us help you set up a student-led T/MC at your school". We'll meet on 10/17
  • 2000-10-11 I contacted The Great Books Foundation for a raffle donation for the 14th T/MC Conference scheduled for November 9 & 10, 2000. The initial conversation for a donation led into a more in-depth conversation in which we shared information about our organizations. There is a lot of potential for t/m programs to partner with TGBF.
  • 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.
  • 2000-10-18 Dan met with Celia Gonzalez, a grad student at UIC doing research on Urban issues, youth development, etc.
  • 2000-10-19 Attended Community Media Workshop lunch/training. Speakers included John McCarron, formerly of Tribune Editorial Board, and Flynn Roberts, formerly of the Tribune's Urban Affairs Task Force. John is now VP for strategic planning at Metropolitan Planning Council and Flynn writes for Newsweek
  • 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.
  • 2000-11-03 Talked with Steven Romalewski of NYPIRG's CMAP project (www.cmap.nypirg.org) an on-line GIS mapping project. Described our goals/needs, possibilities of them serving as partner/project leader on T/MC GIS.
  • 2000-11-07 Received notification that Seabury Foundation approved grant of $31,250 to fund T/MC Outreach Position for one year.
  • 2000-11-10 Wray Howard of the Rockford (IL) Mentoring Network, attended conference and met with Dan. Interested in working together.
  • 2000-11-22 Aimee Sherman added ten new people to the T/MC Conference planning eGroup.
  • 2000-11-23 Laurel Sandor and Karen Scheuerer, Community Connector Team, School of Information, University of Michigan posted a report on findings from CTC conference. Dan Bassill responded to show how their findings for CTC were similar to the info T/MC drew from in 1993 to form T/MC. Dan provided summary of actions T/MC has taken based on recommendations.
  • 2000-12-06 Sent T/MC intro to StargazerNet, an Internet portal for nonprofit activities and organizations. The support they offer in a broad sense is what T/MC seeks to offer to members of tutor/mentor program net.
  • 2000-12-19 Wendy Francis at URISA reports in an email: "The Chicagoland Chapter of URISA is going to be revitalized soon. That may be a great match for local work. Also, our 2002 annual conference will again take place in Chicago. Another way to showcase your program.
  • 2000-12-19 Met with Lynette Malinger, Ex. Dir. of the Albert J. Speh, Jr. & Claire R. Speh Foundation. Discussed broad range of Kids' Connection and T/MC issues, all focused around our ability to share what we're learning with targeted communities of people, including family foundations.
  • 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 Paul Collins, head of Midwest Facilitators Network and Jordan-Webb, invited me to submit "call to action text" inviting MFN members to help facilitate T/MC actions. We presented this info verbally and as a handout at the Fall 2000 MFN conference in Chicago. Paul will post this on both organization's web sites.
  • 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."
  • 2000-12-29 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."
  • 2000-12-31 Summary of calls received at T/MC for year 2000. Volunters: 100; Parents: 169; Schools/DCFS: 105; new programs: 17; Current programs: 28; misc calls for information 106. (this represents calls entered on contact logs. Not all calls are recorded.)
  • 2001-01-02 Tea Akbar, Executive Director of Partners in Education, sponsored by 4th Presbyterian Church in Chicago, called to offer following news. 1) she's moving to board of education and her spot will not be filled; 2) she is recommending that 4th Church consider becoming a major sponsor of Cabrini Connections since they are considering adopting an off-site program
  • 2001-01-12 Attended Midwest Facilitators Conference along with Pat Dowdle. This is organized by Paul Collins and continues to be an outstanding source of ideas and networking. New contacts/ideas were: Dana Clark, Ideation International, concept of structured innovation (TRIZ); Bernard Kliska, Co Chair of Family Business Center at Loyola Chicago; Carl Aylen, Neurometric International Limited (www.neurometric.com); Ranya Version, Training Specialist; and Dan Heck, who's network extends to Motorola, MFN, and Willow Creek Church
  • 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 Paul Resnick, University of Michigan, responded to question of interns for T/MC with suggestion that one of their "Archieves and Records Managment" students might be interested in Summer 2001 internship to do retrospective.
  • 2001-01-22 Met with Dr. Carl A. Aylen and his wife. He reviewed a sophisticated facilitation software his company is developing called "Brainstorm Mentor". As opposed to TRIZ, which facilitates innovation in engineering type areas, the Brainstorm Mentor aids facilitation in soft areas, using knowledge libraries similar to T/MC as information resources.
  • 2001-01-22 Received email from Frances Roehm, SkokieNet Librarian. She wrote: "I've linked to you from the ChicagoJobs page. It's not a perfect slot for you, but as I have time to rework the page, we'll do a better job of it. I haven't forgotten you. In fact, am really glad you're doing your thing for our kids. We hope to do a program about the Digital Divide for our librarian colleagues in Atlanta in June 2002. If you know of someone in that region who is doing something similar, I'd appreciate knowing about him/her. We have a representative from the feds, who assists librarians with grants for projects to end the divide (or take a stab at it at least), and we'll need to find someone else to address the issue -- a panel of three. I'd ask you, but I can't afford to fly you down to Atlanta!
  • 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.
  • 2001-02-01 Andy Carvin, Senior Associate, Benton Foundation, http://edweb.gsn.org/andy, http://www.DigitalDivideNetwork.org, created a survey to get a sense of what type of people are on the Digital Divide list and why they use it. This was in response to a suggestion I made to the list a few days ago.
  • 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.
  • 2001-02-22 Seguin Services, Inc., of Cicero, Ill. purchased 20 T/MC Directories
  • 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 Met with Kim Fox, Service Learning Coordinator, Loyola University of Chicago. She's interested in developing slots for interns to work with Cabrini Connections.
  • 2001-03-15 Sent invitation to Joyce Shortt at Wellesly College, which supports the MOST initiative, and Linda Sesson, of NSACA (a network of afterschool child care professionals), suggesting the use their on-line lists as meetings, with T/MC as a partner. They are focusing on issues of sustainability and distribution, just as the T/MC is. They both responded favorably.
  • 2001-03-26 Katja Hemmerich, a member of a German research team that interviewed T/MC in early March, sent email to say a) thanks; b) our entire German research team found the interview to be very informative; c) Siemens is hosting a national conference and they want to display some of the materials we provided. This interview was set up by Bob Schout of Power Skills. Bob has been a presenter at many T/MC conferences.
  • 2001-06-01 Talked to Cathy Munson, Director of Mentoring for the YMCA of Milwaukee. She provided information on Milwaukee Mentors. She's part of a statewide mobilization team and liked our suggestion for eGroups and a competition of legal groups to see which city could raise the most money for tutor/mentor programs.
  • 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
  • 2001-06-13 Met with Jim Cory, GIS analysit from Madison, WI. Shared more info on T/MC overall goals and use of GIS to achieve those goals. Jim has volunteered personal time to help T/MC ramp up GIS capacity.
  • 2001-07-27 Jim Cory reports "that Census 2000 data is available now for Illinois" and he has "since downloaded it, but it is in very raw format. This means that it may take a little while to massage it into what we need. At any rate we can go ahead with plans to update the mentor maps with all new data."
  • 2001-08-07 I completed my first map of Mentoring programs in the Chicago area and posted it on the Web. The map was very similar to maps that Julie Hamilton has done for Cabrini Connections.
  • 2001-08-10 Patricia Hendricks, Mid-Atlantic Regional Technology Consortium, responded to a message I posted regarding service learning. She wrote, "I am a technology coordinator with the Mid-Atlantic Regional Technology in Education Consortium (MAR*TEC). During the summer we convened a group of 19 teachers from Pennsylvannia, New Jersey, Delaware, and Washington D.C. to design a Digital Divide Project for students. In addition to having students investigate the digital divide in their classrooms, the teachers and students will design service learning projects where they work to overcome the digital divide in their lives. I would like to forward this message to the MARTEC Coalition for Overcoming the Digital Divide design team. Perhaps some of these teachers would like to communicate with you about your idea." I said YES and sent her ULRs to other T/MC sites.
  • 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.
  • 2001-08-16 Karina Ayala, of the Chicago Bar Foundation, emailed to say thanks for helping her connect a Law Firm that wanted to connect 30 mentors to a 3rd grade class with Working In the Schools, which is a program that connects business people with public schools.
  • 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.
  • 2001-09-12 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.
  • 2001-09-20 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
  • 2001-10-01 Dan Bassill attended orientation to be a Commissioner on the Illinois Commission on Volunteerism and Community Service
  • 2001-10-04 Jim Cory has added a new map to the T/MC GIS web site, showing two shootings that took place on Sept. 29th. I emailed the GIS group, and two reporters (Mary Smerch at Tribune and Laura Washington, The Chicago Reporter) with an encouragement to look at the maps and tell others to do the same.
  • 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.
  • 2001-10-11 Attended Oct. 11th meeting of Illinois Commission on Volunteerism and Community Service. Drew from T/MC experience and goals to add focus to the next 3-year plan which the Commission is now developing as well as to the marketing actions of the Commission.
  • 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.
  • 2001-12-05 Tony LeRo, President of Youth Mentoring Connection, wrote: I have visited your site and found it to be one of the richest resources out there. Thank you for the great work that you are doing. If there is anything that we can do in the future to collaborate and draw more corporate support to more mentoring I would be all for it. Worksite mentoring is such a powerful model.
  • 2001-12-05 Monica Johnson, Managing Consultant, press, Ganey Associates, Inc., has agreed to take charge of the 1994 to 2001 T/MC surveys. She and other volunteers will build a data-entry module and then enter all T/MC surveys since 1994, then create report formats for the data to be available to any user. Goal of first set of reports being complete is late May 2002.
  • 2001-12-05 Andrea Greenwell, Volunteer Coordinator for Jewish Children's League, called to update information for her agency. She's new and wanted to get connected with volunteer recruitment and other T/MC activities. Information provided.
  • 2001-12-11 The first meeting of the Illinois After-School Initiative Task Force was held today at the Palmer House Hilton in Chicago. The group was formed as a result of Illinois General Assembly HR 63. The goal is a long-term Illinois strategy that makes quality afterschool programs accessable for all youth, particularly those at greatest risk. Dan Bassill of Cabrini Connections was a charter member and one of two individuals representing volunteerism.
  • 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.
  • 2001-12-17 Received call from Lucy Popper-Edwards of Houston, TX and from Jamie Boyce of North Lawndale Learning Community. Both were looking for information on starting/expanding a tutor/mentor program. Through September T/MC had recorded 106 calls from volunteers; 119 from parents; 38 from DCFS; 3 from new programs and 17 from current programs, plus 18 unk..a total of 301 calls/requests for information. Calls received during the volunteer recruitment and the conferences are not included on this report.
  • 2001-12-18 Received email from Ron Melka, Youth in Crisis, Berwyn, Il. "We have just received a Federal Title V Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Grant through the Illinois Department of Human Services, to start a big brother/sister type program which we call a youth advocate. We want the program period to start February 1, 2002. It is for police referred youth from the city of Berwyn. We need program materials, evaluation tools and anything else that may be helpful. Thank you for your assistance." Responded with email and invitation to use web site and our 800 W. Huron library.
  • 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
  • 2002-01-01 OHATS adopted by another Chicago group as a result of work on T/MC's OHATS. The group is the Englewood Network, a group of agencies and organizations working to improve employment rates and self-sufficiency for residents of Greater Englewood.
  • 2002-01-06 A set of six maps that show poverty areas in Chicago are now on the GIS web site. These maps show schools on the November State Board of Education warning list, and tutor/mentor programs. We’ve broken the maps down by the time of day the service is available and the age group served. Our maps show many more programs available during the 3-5 time frame when most workplace volunteers are not able to participate in comprehensive tutor/mentor programs. Our maps show fewer programs for high school youth, which is a contributing factor to the high dropout rate of teens. I emailed reporters, columist, editorial people, etc. at the Tribune, SunTimes and WGN Radio to encourage them to use these maps in 2002 stories.
  • 2002-01-15 Dan Bassill attended Job Corps briefing hosted by Joint Center for Poverty Research. This is new Chicago resource that I was not aware of. Their poverty briefs focus on the same issues that T/MC focuses on. I've added them as TME link and sent email to open collaboration. Also at the meeting were an aid to Senator Durban of Illinois, , James Jones of Child Serve, Jan DeCoursey of Chapin Hall, and a Kids' Connection volunteer who works for the Chicago Job Development Department.
  • 2002-01-16 Deborah Mathies, Director of Raptors in the City Program, wrote: "I have read a number of your posts in the Digital Divide chatgroup and I wanted to tell you about a project I am working on that I think you will find of interest. I am a teacher in an inner-city school in Connecticut and the director of a new national environmental education and technology program. "Raptors in the City" has the special goal of connecting urban kids with nature via technology." I sent information back on the conference, web site and other ways we could help people learn about this program.
  • 2002-01-17 Margaret Grieco, Visiting Fellow, Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, UK, posted this message to Global Knowledge Development list: The internet can be used to empower those previously by-passed in decision making processes. The poverty mapping of Chicago (T/MC) is an excellent example. Volunteers in disadvantaged communities can map their experience and regularly update and display it and grow conscious of the overall framework which has historically restricted them." This was part of a longer message. I emailed a follow u p intro and offer to work together to develop GIS resourses more groups could use.
  • 2002-01-23 Program leaders from the Indo-American Tutoring Center visited the Kids' Connection program to observe a tutor/mentor session. Kids' Connection policies and procedures were shared with the Indo-American Tutoring Center to help them build their program.
  • 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."
  • 2002-02-06 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.
  • 2002-02-27 Talked with Dr. Ana Marie Schue who leads a strategic planning class at DePaul. The T/MC will be a case history for a spring quarter class. The goal is that this group develop a strategic plan that we can present to universities to get them to partner with the T/MC on collecting information and getting people (their other students, faculty and alumni) to use it as volunteers and partners of tutor/mentor programs anywhere in the Chicago region. This contact was the result of CC staff systematically calling Intern Program managers at every Chicago areas School and building relationships and creating opportunities.
  • 2002-03-06 Matt Mead has launched a revised version of the T/MC web site with some new features that make it easier to navigate and more interesting for people to visit.
  • 2002-03-07 Julie sent T/MC maps showing MBF Bank locations. Karen Perlman, vp of Marketing at the bank sent T/MC their logo. T/MC will create brochure templates that the Bank will print and handout at 31 branch locations.
  • 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.
  • 2002-03-13 David Owens, a Health Profession Advisor at the University of Chicago, called. He was referred by Dual Richardson, who has been on T/MC mail list for several years. David was looking for help in developing a program to build student awareness, over the 4-year college career, of ways the student might get involved in a community and career paths in health and/or education this might offer. I explained T/MC goals and our search for a Health Care partner. He suggested an number of opportunities and seemed enthused to pursue the opportunity, even suggesting ways students could take the lead.
  • 2002-03-15 TraceyBrown, a senior at DePaul, met at T/MC to learn about intern opportunities. Since her major is in Social Work and she hopes to start a youth center after finishing seminary, we talked about her doing an internship that builds knowledge of what it takes to run a tutor/mentor program and how social service groups, faith groups and universities could be more strategic in the way they help. We met Tracey after first having discussion with the Intern Program leaders at DePaul. This was part of a prospecting effort.
  • 2002-03-20 Lucious Smith of the BAGS Foundation in Chicago called to learn how to use OHATS. I explained it to him and suggested he test it by documenting actions of BAGS that support T/MC goals.
  • 2002-03-21 Prof. Edna Aphek, Jerusalem, Israel, sent email to T/MC in response to a post T/MC placed on Digital Divide list. The post included a description of an intergenerational program that was piloted in Israel. In this program youth taugh seniors how to use the Internet and Computers and the seniors taught history to they youth as they wrote an estory about a chapter in the life of the senior.
  • 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 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.
  • 2002-03-27 Phoebe E. Lenear, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign send an email that read: We're working on adding a discussion thread to the iAAEC website so that we can begin discussing collaboration ideas with Tutor/Mentor Connection and other community technology organizations. We should have this up and running momentarily.
  • 2002-03-28 Met with Mercedes Soto of the ITRC Accelerator project and discussed needs of CC and opportunities to work with ITRC
  • 2002-04-03 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.
  • 2002-04-04 Received Call from Mr. Smith and George Montgomery, the technology support, of Lucious H Smith / Beulah A G Smith Scholarship to discuss their need for and creation of an OHATS for their organization. Referred by Dan Bassill. Sent them additional materials for the development and customazation of their own OHATS.
  • 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 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.
  • 2002-04-06 Service Learning group from Kalamazoo Community College (MI) visited Cabrini Connections on Saturday, April 6 to do a workshoip with Kids' Connection teens. During that meeting I was able to outline a vision of a service-learning program working from the college and supporting the Tutor/Mentor Connection's goals.
  • 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.
  • 2002-04-15 Kenny King of New Concepts T/MC and Joe Walsh, a fund raising consultant, met today to build a strategy to jointly appliy for the 2002 21st Century Afterschool Program Grant and the new Mentoring Program federal grant.
  • 2002-04-15 William Conrad, Jr., President of Institute for Voluntary Organizations invited CC to participate in a one year evaluation project aimed at validating the leadership/board development/strategic planning/technology/fund raising training his organization offers. CC will be one of 6 groups. The project will be funded by WK Kellogg Foundation. I asked Bill to look at OHATS as a possible component of the study.
  • 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.
  • 2002-05-01 Two teams of DePaul students are doing strategic planning projects for T/MC. Team 1 met with T/MC on 4/28. Members work at various businesses and universities. They will develop a strategic plan aimed at involving a healthcare organization in the T/MC. One member volunteered to convert the School-To-Work Chart to Powerpoint.
  • 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.
  • 2002-05-21 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
  • 2002-06-18 Dan Bassill and I met to discuss the Tutor/Mentor Exchange's organizational missions, goals, accomplishments, achievements, and hindrances.
  • 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.
  • 2002-08-01 Added 15 Cabrini Connections IT volunteers to the Marketing/Database eGroup, which will serve as a temporary meeting place for a workgroup focused on building an Internet IT platform for Cabrini Connections. These volunteers represent a variety of IT backgrounds and companies. Together they have the talent to meet our goals, as well as the connections in industry to get the dollars/software and hardware needed to do the work.
  • 2002-08-01 Met with Catherine Garretson to discuss her role in helping develop a database of tutor/mentor programs located in Northern Indiana. Cathy works at BlueCross BlueShield of Illinois and was in the mentoring group that I spoke to in late June. At that point she volunteered to help the T/MC in this effort.
  • 2002-08-02 T/MC interviewed by Kate Bissell of the BBC in the United Kingdome. They are planning to do a radio documentary about tutor/mentor programs in Chicago and their impact on reducing crime. I showed the role the T/MC is playing and showed how she can use the T/MC web site to locate programs in Chicago who she'd like to interview in late August when they come to the US.
  • 2002-08-02 Received this email today: "Greetings from Learning Leaders (formerly the New York City School Volunteer Program) (www.learningleaders.org). I'm writing on behalf of an organization that helps NYC public school children by recruiting and training volunteers to provide them with educational instructional support. As a non-profit organization, our budget for promoting our work is greatly limited. But you can help us reach thousands of people through the Internet. Would you be willing to list Learning Leaders on your links/resources page? " We said "yes" and invited them to work with us to create a T/MC structure in New York, while creating competition for good among business/phanthropy leaders in both cities.
  • 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).
  • 2002-08-12 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 Phone meeting with Paula Wolf, Sr. Executive, at Chicago Metropolis 2020. Discussed ways T/MC could help expand visibility and understanding of her organization's goals, while the business leaders in her group could become owners and leaders in the T/MC mobilization of volunteers, dollars, etc. Referred by Betsy Clarke of Illinois Juvenile Jistice Initiative.
  • 2002-08-20 Met with Emily Lieberman, who is doing a research project for the Mayor's Office. She's a consultant with Deloitte Consulting and her group is trying to build a database of all youth serving programs in Chicago. She was referred to T/MC by the Illinois After School Initiative Task Force. Showed her how T/MC has been collecting, organizing and sharing T/M info since 1994 and how Deloitte Consulting and the City would benefit by helping us. Provided listing of programs funded by Chicago Bar Foundation.
  • 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
  • 2002-09-13 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 Spoke with Jon Schmidt, head of Service Learning for CPS. Set meeting for 9/23. I first met Jon in 1993 when he was leader of the Afters School Action Program (ASAP) in Uptown and I was creating the T/MC. ASAP was a key partner with T/MC and the agency continues to take a lead role in supporting tutor/mentor program growth in that part of Chicago. The organization is now the Y outh Net representative in that area. I had lost contact with Jon for about 4 years and we reconnected when he responded to a message I posted on the K-12 Service Learning discussion list.
  • 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.
  • 2002-09-23 Meera Rao, of VIBHA.org (which used to be CRY, Inc), called to tell us of changes in her organization and that they were sending the T/MC a contribution.
  • 2002-09-24 Van Bensett of St. Anthony Hospital in Chicago called to tell me the hospital had started a mentoring-to-career program intended to address the nursing shortage. He had met T/MC a couple of years earlier. He was looking for evaluation materials. I introduce him to Hospital Youth Mentoring Partnership (HYMP), which he did not know of.
  • 2002-09-26 Ntale Lukama of ServNet received the Tutor/Mentor Connection News and sent and email asking for permission to request/recommend to have the info posted on SERVEnet.org. I responded "yes" and suggested other ways to collaborate.
  • 2002-09-30 Contacted by Leah Cook, Campaign Coordinator, The Children's Campaign (Flordia). She wrote, "this looks like a great program. I'm in Florida and not sure I know how I can help. Do you have a local chapter?" We've exchanged several email and talked on the phone on 10/3.
  • 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.
  • 2002-10-23 Dr. Debra Tunstall, from Columbus, Ohio, called to ask for information on starting a tutor/mentor program in a church. She found the T/MC in an internet search. We shared information, referred her to web site and offered to continue to help her.
  • 2002-11-03 Followed up lead about "convergence in journalism" from email list and contacted MICHAEL PARKS, Professor, Director, School of Journalism, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California. I offered to be a partner in the program to teach graduate and undergraduate students to use all channels of communications in their work. He emailed back on 11/05 and introduced me to Gerald Swerling, the director of our Public Relations Studies Program, and with Dana Chinn, the USC lecturer in convergence, who is developing the new core curriculum. Geral Swerling followed up on 11/7 with a "Dan -- you're very convincing. In the spring semester I teach the capstone course for our undergraduate sequence. All seniors must take it before graduating, and an internship is required. What would you think of offering those students the opportunity to work with you from January through early May?" I said yes, and am now trying to make this a reality.
  • 2002-11-17 Sent email intros to several Health Care and Education Policy organizations in Chicago and around the US. Added the web sites of these groups to T/MC site.
  • 2002-11-19 The Illinois Department of Human Services and the Illinois State Board of Education released a report titled "The Illinois After-school Initiative 2002 Task Force Report". Dan Bassill, president of Cabrini Connections, was a member of this task force.
  • 2002-11-20 The Center for Youth Development and Policy Research, Academy for Educational Development in Washington, DC added the Tutor/Mentor Exchange web site link to their resource bank. They already had the T/MC site.
  • 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.
  • 2002-12-04 Dayna Decker of the Chicago Park District's Junior Earth Team emailed T/MC to ask to be added to the Directory. We sent a form to collect information and invited her to log in at the T/ME site if she has a web page.
  • 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.
  • 2002-12-09 Ed Gordon, a Cabrini Connections Advisory Council member, has collaborted on a brochure titled "Tips on..Tutoring Services" that will be distributed via Better Business Bureaus around the country in 2003. He has a reference to www.tutormentorconnection.org in the resource section.
  • 2002-12-22 I did a search on Google under key words "poverty mentoring" and found many organizations around the world with great programs and great information. Over two days I sent email introductions to more than 23 groups. I added a few of these to the T/MC web site and invited all to load their info on the T/ME site. Most will be added to the T/MC Report email distribution.
  • 2003-01-08 Bill Smythe, a Loan Underwriter for the Illinois Housing Authority called to see if T/MC could offer help in developing a project in Joliet, Il. The goal of the project is to use a portion of HUD funding to pay for tutor/mentor and youth development services in a new development that HUD is funding. Mr. Smythe was referred to the T/MC by one of our Kids' Connection volunteers.
  • 2003-01-21 Jim Cory repots that he has installed a free site counter service on the map web site. Since the January T/MC email newsletter references this site, the counter will help us know if people are visiting it and using our information.
  • 2003-01-28 Lynn Swisshelm of MentorCharlotte (NC) called to ask for permission to use the "Defining Terms" power point in a meeting she was doing. She's been receiving the monthly email newsletters
  • 2003-01-30 I met with a rep from IC Starts to talk about mapping and strategy.
  • 2003-03-06 Erwin Mason, Sr., OCS-Corp, based in Oklahoma, called to talk after reviewing the presentations on the T/MC web site. His email follow up read, "It was a pleasure to talk with you and learn about your innovative projects.I feel that we both could benefit from our collaborative efforts our development and public engagement resources and you creative innovation that every community organization and leader should be using."
  • 2003-05-15 Phone conversation with Teri Dary, Program Director for Do Something. We talked about ways to combine resources on a project to increase service learning at schools in Congressman Jackson's Chicago district.
  • 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
  • 2003-05-27 Kitty Brokaw of Center for Excellence in Education, Based in DC and Chicago visited and we shared stratiegies and vision
  • 2003-06-02 David Whitaker and Glyn Hilton of CAP came to T/MC to learn about our work
  • 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.
  • 2003-07-01 Brian Banks from Prag at Loyola met with Dan Bassill of T/MC to discuss faith based initiatives
  • 2003-09-16 Dan Bassill is a featured presenter at the www.wired.org conference. This brings together technology leaders from around the world.
  • 2003-10-07 Met with reps from Greater Chicago Food Depository
  • 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.
  • 2003-11-21 Paul Collins launched a new version of the Tutor/Mentor Surveys, using WebIQ instead of Group Systems. These can be accessed at http://jordan-webb.net/tmc
  • 2003-12-02 T/MC and Fox Valley area tutor/mentor leaders met at the Barnes & Noble Store in Geneva, Il. on Tues. Dec. 2, 2003. We were joined by Malcolm Jones andFiliberto Alegandro Luna of Hip Haqq Productions (HHP). HHP has volunteered to help build visibility for the Tutor/Mentor Connection through arts performances that they organize. The first monthly spotlight on charities for the month of January, will be the Cabrini Connections Tutor and Mentor Program, the launch will be taking place on Jan 7th 2004 at Anthony’s Restaurant and Jazz Club in Elgin. In addition, Jennifer Johnson reports that a local mentor will be featured in a story in the Daily Herald in Dec, Kathy Moore of Mentors at Work volunteered to take on a media contact role, to generate follow up when media do a story related to tutor/mentor issues. The next meeting was scheduled for January 13, 2004.
  • 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.
  • 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? "
  • 2004-01-13 Dan B. participated from 1/12 to 1/14 in an on-line conference hosted by www.icohere.com. Networked with several people. Learned more about econference capacity.
  • 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
  • 2004-01-27 Dan Bassill provided overview of T/MC strategies to youth program representatives of the Chicago Park District, Brookfield Zoo, Lincoln Park Zoo, Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, Chicago Department of Environment, Museum of Science and Industry, BOLD Chicago, Schedd Aquarium, and the YouthNet. This was part of a Teen Forum meeting hosted by the Park District, with the purpose of building a network among these various institutions.
  • 2004-02-20 Nathan Byrer, Dianna Washington, Terrence Littlefield, and Nathan Harris met with Dan Bassill to discuss IUPUI partnering to implement a similar tutor/mentor effort in indianapolis.
  • 2004-02-23 T/MC loaded a new Program Locator feature on its web sites. This provides search levels for age group, type of program, time of dat and zip code. It will make it simpler for a person to find a program to meet their needs and will provide much better information for people to understand the availability of tutor/mentor programs in the Chicago region.
  • 2004-03-10 Dan Bassill of T/MC met with Bruce Ives and John Jiang of Metro Chicago Information Center to review T/MC uses of GIS maps, the T/MC strategy, and ways T/MC and MCIC could work together to make interactive maps more available to help communities build and sustain more and better programs to help youth move to careers and address other issues of poverty.
  • 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!
  • 2004-05-14 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.
  • 2004-06-30 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.
  • 2004-07-01 Met with Gary Wilson, the Director of the Center for Business and Economics at Elmhurst College, and with George Thoma and Joan Vilim, other professors from the Center. Discussed roles the university could take in creating a Knowledge Library that would support the efforts of businness, service-learning, and faith based tutor/mentor initiatives at the college and throughout the country
  • 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.
  • 2004-09-13 John Blackmore, a Winston Churchill scholar from the UK, visited to learn more about the T/MC
  • 2004-09-23 Julie Hamilton, Scot Hamilton and Shon Doseck, a GIS Analyst with Pangaea Information Technologies, Ltd, in Chicago, met to disucss T/MC GIS strategies. Shon has volunteered to take a lead role in the project and has recruited his company to host the T/MC map gallery and provide other in-kind support needed for the project.
  • 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
  • 2004-10-26 Shon got a basic GIS map site up and running on a site hosted by his company, Pangaea Technology. We can work on customizing it when he gets a little more time. If they allow me remote access, I can even work on it. Here's the site: http://arcims.pangaeatech.com/website/TutorMentorConnection/viewer.htm
  • 2004-10-27 T/MC contacted by tech staff at IUPUI to begin the process of rebuilding the www.tutormentorconnection.org web site
  • 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
  • 2004-11-22 T/MC started helping YMCA develop tutor/mentor program in North Lawndale and Austin
  • 2004-12-10 I met with Michael A. Barr, PhD, Director, Center for Sustainable Solutions, The Chicago School of Professional Psychology to discuss possible collaboration on capacity building activities. I met Michael as a result of one of his grad students doing a workshop at the Nov. 2004 T/MC conference. It turns out he has been friends with Claudia Crilly Bellucci, a long term CC volunteer, for more than 8 years.
  • 2005-01-10 Met with Brian Banks to discuss T/MC and possible collaboration. Brian was with Loyola for many years and we've networked often, but never found ways to collaborate. Brian is now working with a program at the University of Chicago, and offered to try to pull together some collaborative actions that connect the T/MC, the Chicago Area Project, and the program at the University of Chicago.
  • 2005-01-19 On 1/16/05 I saw a message related to health initiatives on a list serve from Siobhan Champ-Blackwell and emailed an introduction, explaining my goals of building a health care "hub" with information related to ways health care organizations mentor kids to careers. I was sent many links which I added to the www.tutormentorconnection.org web site. After a two day exchange of email Siobhan introduced the T/MC in his blog at http://medstat.med.utah.edu/blogs/BHIC/ (Web Log). Today Siobhan added himself to the OHATs section of www.tutormentorexchange.net
  • 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.
  • 2005-02-22 Spent an hour helping Jurandir Beline and his wife Herica, who are from Sao Paulo, Brazil, hunderstand the T/MC and how they could duplicate it in Brazil. Jurandir is in Chicago for a 4-8 week visit. He and Dan Bassill of T/MC met via the Internet and have been exchanging ideas for more than 2 years.
  • 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.
  • 2005-03-11 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.
  • 2005-03-12 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.
  • 2005-03-14 Received email from Dr. Charanjeet Singh who leads the GIS NKCA project at UCLA. In response to my email he has offered to help build a similar GIS portal for T/MC. Steve Roussos, of www.akouo.org sent this referral a few weeks ago.
  • 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.
  • 2005-04-09 I posted a message in a T/MC egroup on Thursday asking for someone to help me set up a T/MC blog. On Saturday I received an email from Shiriram giving me this address: http://tutormentor.blogspot.com/
  • 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.
  • 2005-08-05 Attended National Conference on Volunteerism and Service held in Washington, in my role as a Commissioner for the Illinois Commision on Volunteerism and Community Service. I met more than a dozen business and non profit leaders, including the CEOs of the Corporation for National Service and the Points of Light Foundation. In each case I shared information about the Tutor/Mentor Connection and strategies we belived can build the strength of volunteer-based organizations in any service sector, and in any location.
  • 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.
  • 2005-09-22 Dan Bassill presented information at the first publich hearing of the Mentoring Task Force of the Illinois State Legislature. Rep. Jim Watson and Rep. Bill Mitchell attended the hearing. Information was also provided by several Big Brothers/Big Sisters agencies, by the Boys and Girls Club of Springfield, the Illinois Department of Human Services and the Four Counties for Kids program.
  • 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.
  • 2005-11-18 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.
  • 2005-12-13 Received call from Ellen O'Connor, who is with a Rochester, NY Mentoring Roundtable. The community has put out a call for 10,000 mentors and the T/MC is a resource that can help them reach this goal. Ellen called because the T/MC sent an introductory email in October offering its knowledge and experience.
  • 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.
  • 2006-04-24 Today the new version of the Program Locator went live. This enables tutor/mentor programs to add/edit their own information on-line, and includes the complete Tutor/Mentor Program Profile. This work was done by Vamshee Bhupathiraju, who came to the T/MC in 2003 as a result of funds awarded by a CTC Net Technology 4 Communities grant. He has continued to work past the grant period as a volunteer and consultant.
  • 2006-04-25 Today the new IUPUI web portal was transferred to the www.tutormentorconnection.org site, thanks to the help of IUPUI and T/MC volunteer Matt Mead.
  • 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.
  • 2006-08-29 The web site built for the T/MC and launched in July 2005 has recorded 622,000 hits as of 8/29/06. Due to hacker attacks, IUPUI took the site off line this week and has created a new version on a different platform. This is live, but the hit counter/stats will start with zero, thus not reflecting the tremendous first year traffic.
  • 2006-09-29 Met with two DePaul University Students who are doing a writing project as part of a class at DePaul. The project will help people better understand the T/MC and Cabrini Connections.
  • 2006-10-05 Today T/MC re-launched the links library on the http://www.tutormentorconnection.org web site. This library has been unavailable since late August 2006 when the web site was taken off line due to serious hacking. The work of rebuilding the site and re building the links library was done by the Tech department of IUPUI, which is hosting the site, and the T/MC.
  • 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 Met with Peter Sherer, Director of Development and Strategic Partnership for Experience Corps. Experience Corps is a signature program of Civic Ventures, which was formed by Marc Freidman, who wrote "Kindness of Strangers". It's goal is to mobilize retirees to be volunteers in school based and non-school tutoring, mentoring and literacy programs. Peter had visited the T/MC web site and was very interested in the Maps.
  • Undated Dan Bassill, President of Cabrini Connections and the Tutor/Mentor Connection is one of 50 media spokespeople included in a new YOUTH TRANSITIONS LOOK BOOK published on the Connect For Kids web site at http://www.connectforkids.org. The aim of Connect For Kids is to provide a national list of spokespeople that media can contact for stories related to disadvantaged youth, youth in juvenile justice, youth in foster care, etc.
  • Undated Held phone meeting with Teryl ann Rosch, Ph.D, Executive Director, Chicago Education Alliance - Roosevelt University. Discussed implications of new Dept of Education legislation and proposed Citizen Service Act. Both have implications for future tutor demand and supply. Rosch invited T/MC to submit position paper outlining concerns and opportunities. I firs met Dr. Rosch nearly five years ago.
  • Undated Email from : Lisa Hadden, director of Center for Health Professions in Saginaw, Michigan. She said "I have been following your messages posted on the ABCD listserv for awhile now and am also on the ABCD faculty with John McKnight and Jody Kretzmann. We undertake the unique challenge of combining asset based community development strategies with the education of medical students from Mich. State University and nursing students from Saginaw Valley State University. Perhaps there may be a way to work/share/compare ideas.
  • 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 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 Set up eGroup for Chicago organizations that received the first round of Beaumont Foundation technology grants as an outcome of our first networking meeting held today at Bethel New Life in Chicago.
  • Undated I've come aboard to help log past and future meetings attendance.
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  • Undated Received this message via email from bjavaras in the CPS Information Office at the Juvenile Center (in Chicago): "Thank you for responding to my email. I use your webpage all the time. It is very usefull in helping parents find a tutoring program." I emailed back and encouraged them to teach others to use the new Program Locator feature at www.tutormentorexchange.net, and to help us maintain the accuracy of the information.
  • 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.

Documents and slide decks

83

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

  • Articles from the T/MC Site · 60 of 107 pages
  • 2002 Evaluation Workshop Parts 1 & 2, Fall 2002 (S. Roussos) · 22 of 33 slides
  • 2003 Evaluation Workshop, October 2003 (S. Roussos) · 20 of 44 slides
  • 1999 Proposal for an internet-based tutor/mentor learning network (S. Roussos) · 15 of 18 pages
  • 2001 Evaluation Workshop, Fall 2001 (S. Roussos) · 20 of 33 slides
  • 1994 T/MC case statement, January 1994 (updated to 1996) · 20 of 32 pages
  • Structured Networking (Jordan-Webb) · 20 of 58 slides
  • News Articles from tutormentorconnection.org · 17 of 45 pages
  • 1995 Agency analysis of Cabrini Connections and T/MC (MaryAnn Manfredini) · 14 of 27 pages
  • 2002 Technology vision of the Tutor/Mentor Connection · 13 of 17 pages
  • 2000 Evaluation Tools on the Web (Fall 2000 tech session) · 15 of 23 slides
  • 1999 T/MC case statement, February 1999 update · 8 of 13 pages
  • 1993 Montgomery Ward Newslink: pages about the tutoring program and T/MC, 1993–2000 · 16 of 25 pages
  • 2001 Tutor/Mentor Learning Network · 9 of 9 pages
  • 2003 Strategies for Lend-A-Hand from T/MC · 8 of 9 pages
  • 1993 The T/MC Report: newsletter pages, 1993–2002 · 8 of 28 pages
  • OHATS: Background and Purpose · 9 of 27 slides
  • Internet Database Platform · 10 of 16 slides
  • 2005 Tutor/Mentor Learning Network: vision of T/MC · 9 of 9 pages
  • 1990 Proposal to establish the Cabrini-Green Tutoring Program as a nonprofit · 5 of 12 pages
  • 1995 Goals and progress, November 1994 to August 1995 · 3 of 4 pages
  • T/MC Survey 1: Results · 10 of 18 slides
  • Social Network Analysis Overview (Durian Consulting) · 11 of 70 slides
  • University Connection · 11 of 57 slides
  • 1996 Actions 1993–1995 and goals for 1996 · 6 of 8 pages
  • 1997 Proposal to Chicago Public Schools to support T/MC · 5 of 8 pages
  • 1999 CHAMPS Award · 6 of 8 pages
  • 2004 Grant Application: Humana Chicago Benefits 2004 · 5 of 5 pages
  • 2012 Program Locator, 2012 · 9 of 16 slides
  • The T/MC Model · 7 of 20 slides
  • On the Path to College (Illinois CAN) · 7 of 19 slides
  • 2000 T/MC growth, 1994–2000 · 4 of 9 pages
  • 2000 ERICA Award · 3 of 4 pages
  • 2004 T/MC Newsletter, Issue 26 (draft B) · 5 of 13 pages
  • Universities and T/MC · 8 of 60 slides
  • 2004 T/MC Newsletter, Issue 26 (draft A) · 5 of 10 pages
  • 1995 The founding slide show: Cabrini Connections and T/MC (35mm slides) · 9 of 99 slides
  • 1997 Serve Illinois, fall 1997: Presidents’ Summit follow-up · 2 of 4 pages
  • Steps to Start a Program · 7 of 28 slides
  • 1994 T/MC work done in 1994 · 5 of 6 pages
  • 2003 Annual Report 2002–2003 · 6 of 33 slides
  • Starting a Program (Angela Zirles workshop) · 4 of 13 slides
  • 2004 T/MC Newsletter, Issue 30 (Spring 2004) · 5 of 13 pages
  • No General Would Go to War Without a Map · 4 of 28 slides
  • 2008 Prevention conference presentation · 4 of 18 pages
  • Technology Plan Diagrams · 2 of 5 slides
  • About T/MC (from the website) · 4 of 15 pages
  • 1995 Cabrini Connections & T/MC annual reports, 1995–1997 · 3 of 7 pages
  • 2001 HUD Best Practice Award · 2 of 11 pages
  • Volunteer Recruitment Workshop · 4 of 35 slides
  • 2004 Recruiting Volunteers Workshop (2004) · 4 of 35 slides
  • 2009 Starting a Tutor/Mentor Program: What You Don't See · 2 of 5 pages
  • Neighborhood Analysis: Doolittle and Phillips Schools · 4 of 10 slides
  • 1998 Goal of T/MC: a city of good programs · 2 of 2 pages
  • Hospitals: A Tutor/Mentor Connection in a Profession · 3 of 53 slides
  • 2011 T/MC History Links: 1965 to June 2011 · 2 of 7 pages
  • 2000 Where will we be in 3–5 years? · 3 of 3 pages
  • 1994 YouthNet Center, Grand Boulevard · 4 of 14 pages
  • 2011 Athletes “Adopt a Neighborhood” strategy · 1 of 5 pages
  • 2000 Cultural Impact Award · 1 of 1 pages
  • General Colin Powell on Leadership · 4 of 20 slides
  • 2000 T/MC goals and outcomes, 2000 · 1 of 1 pages
  • 1994 Lawyers’ Lend-A-Hand to Youth case statement (draft) · 3 of 5 pages
  • 1996 La Rabida Big Hearts Award · 2 of 3 pages
  • 2001 Newsletter Article: Tracking and Sharing Our History (OHATS) · 1 of 1 pages
  • 2003 Thinking outside the textbook: goal for Kids Connection · 2 of 2 pages
  • T/MC Theory of Change (Leadership Pyramid) · 3 of 34 slides
  • Theory of Change · 3 of 34 slides
  • What Is the Tutor/Mentor Learning Network? · 1 of 2 pages
  • 1996 The Business Brief (1996, updated to 2000) · 3 of 23 pages
  • Mapping a Path to a Career · 3 of 24 slides
  • 1996 Cabrini Connections presentation · 1 of 10 pages
  • Why Is Tutor/Mentoring So Important? (Corboy) · 2 of 23 slides
  • 1995 Hospitals and health care: a T/MC strategy · 2 of 4 pages
  • 2005 Chicago Innovation Award nomination · 3 of 7 pages
  • 2014 Jefferson Award interview with Dan Bassill · 1 of 4 pages
  • 1996 Mercedes Mentor Award · 2 of 4 pages
  • Tutor/Mentor News, Recognition & Awards (web page) · 2 of 10 pages
  • 2004 T/MC Newsletter, Issue 25 · 3 of 13 pages
  • Operating Principles for a Tutor/Mentor Program · 3 of 24 slides
  • Annual Planning Calendar · 2 of 17 slides
  • 2001 The T/MC pyramid · 1 of 1 pages
  • 1996 Planning and spatial decision-support chart · 1 of 1 pages

In the news

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  • 17 Aug 1993 Chicago Sun-Times: no Battle Plan
  • 30 Dec 1994 Chicago Tribune: Story
  • 1994 Metro Info Center
  • 1995 Chicago Bar Association: Report LAH agreement w TMC
  • 1995 Lawyers Mentor Youth
  • 1995 Poverty Gap Grows1995
  • 8 Jun 1995 Chicago Tribune: Story
  • 6 Sep 1995 Southtown
  • 1996 Chicago Bar Association: Report Fall TM Week
  • 1996 Crain's Chicago Business: CC story
  • 12 Mar 1996 La Rabida Hospital Award
  • 29 Apr 1997 Chicago Tribune: Story
  • 20 Jul 1997 Chicago Tribune: Story
  • 1998 Chronicleof Philanthropy Maps
  • 1998 Adolescent Literacy What Works and Why1998
  • 1999 Illinois Kids Count CC article
  • 23 Jun 1999 Connect for Kids.org
  • 5 Sep 2001 Illinois Wesleyan University: IWU Presidents Convocation DB Ph D honor
  • 2002 Directions Mag.com mapping
  • 24 May 2003 Edgewater Community Calendar TMC Conf
  • 3 Jun 2003 Youth Service America briefing TMC conf
  • 15 Aug 2003 Suburban Chicago News: Suburban News TMC Recruitment
  • 2004 Illinois Wesleyan University: IWU Magazine Summer ACI Award
  • 2004 ACI Award IWU Magazine
  • 2004 Social Innovation Award Nomination
  • 27 Jul 2005 APNews.myway.com
  • 2006 Serve Illinois TMC Conf Summer
  • 2009 Youth Today: YOUTH Today
  • 2009 YOUTHToday
  • 2 Aug 2010 Out of the Box Thinking TMC Conf
  • 2012 Streetwise: Story
  • 2012 Streetwise: Story
  • 7 Jul 2013 Chicago Tribune: Violence
  • 15 Oct 2015 Chicago Tribune: Interactive Maps
  • 21 Oct 2015 Chicago Tribune: Maps
  • 31 Dec 2020 Chicago Sun-Times: Story
  • 8 Jun 2021 Chicago Sun-Times: Story
  • 5 Feb 2023 Chicago Sun-Times: Story

Maps

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Open them in the map gallery.

  • 2021 Data maps Albany Park · Neighborhoods
  • 2021 Data maps North Lawndale · Neighborhoods
  • 2023 Maptitude analysis · Maps by other organizations
  • 2021 Heartland data · Maps by other organizations
  • 2015 Population Map MW data · Maps by other organizations
  • 2015 Population Map Mid East data · Maps by other organizations
  • 2015 Population Map Nigeria data · Maps by other organizations
  • Boston Data Commons · Maps by other organizations
  • Climate Resilience Toolkit case studies · Maps by other organizations
  • Graduation Data Map · Maps by other organizations
  • Police Data Project · Maps by other organizations
  • Shootings Homicide Data · Maps by other organizations

Conference workshops

8

Ratings and comments are on the Workshops page.

  • Program Evaluation Part 1 — Roussos, Steve · Spring 2001
  • Evaluation part 2 — Roussos, Steve · Spring 2001
  • Evaluation, Part 1: Selecting Useful Program Evaluation — Steve, Roussos · Fall conference
  • Planning and Conducting Useful Program Evaluation — Steve, Roussos · Fall conference
  • Evaluation, Part 2: Implementing Evaluation Methods and using Results — Steve, Roussos · Fall conference
  • Planning and Conducting Useful Program Evaluation — Roussos, Steve · Spring 2001
  • Evaluation Part II — Steve Roussos · Spring 2001
  • Evaluation Ideas for Comprehensive Programming — Dicara, Joe · Spring 2001

Library links

454

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

Planning files

61

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

Website pages

110

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