Resource building

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• 1994-05-08 Met with Betsy Densmore, Executive Director of the Chicago Bar Foundation. She expressed strong interest in funding tutor/mentor programs with T/MC support.
• 1994-06-27 Betsy Densmore faxed letter of support from Chicago Bar Foundation for work with T/MC.
• 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.
• 1995-02-14 Chicago Bar Foundation partnership agreement with T/MC signed for 1995.
• 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.
• 2000-09-10 Acura of Libertyville donated a 1996 Ford Aerostar Van, valued at around $11,600 to Cabrini Connections. Ray Dowdle solicited this.
• 2000-09-12 Spoke with Sheila H. from Denver, CO who contacted us about the November conference. She had spoken to Dan previously. She shared how impressed she is with the T/MC and that she thinks we are a great model to use in other cities, such as Denver.
• 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!
• 2000-10-09 Video produced by Jimmy Biggs, titled "The Real Cabrini" is live on http://hometowncinema.z.com/homepage.html
• 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 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)
• 2000-10-10 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.
• 2000-10-13 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
• 2000-10-18 Dan met with Celia Gonzalez, a grad student at UIC doing research on Urban issues, youth development, etc.
• 2000-10-18 CPS confirmed purchase order for 1000 T/MC Directories at $4 each
• 2000-10-19 Talked with Caroline Kim, iMentor, for about 90 minutes. They are based in New York City. She told me that many of the ideas for the development of their program came from visiting the T/MC web site over the past year. I had contacted iMentor during August via a referral from Michale Margolis.
• 2000-10-19 Received call from Whole Foods, 30 W. Huron. They were responding to letter from Jimmy. Offered to do January in-store promotion, which includes cash register fund raising. A great offer!
• 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
• 2000-10-23 Dan gave 10 minute intro and invitation to Midwest Facilitators Conference attendees
• 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 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.
• 2000-11-03 Bill Lederer called. He's a retired fund raiser who contacted me last week after his friend John Blades (our volunteer) had talked to Dan about facility needs. Turns out Bill is "well connected" and is going to be a guest of Jim Dowdle (Ray's uncle) next week. Jim's leading an $8mm fund raising drive for the Archdiocese. Bill will talk to him about taking a role in helping Cabrini Connections get a building donated from the church.
• 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
• 2000-11-07 Received notification that Seabury Foundation approved grant of $31,250 to fund T/MC Outreach Position for one year.
• 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.
• 2000-11-09 President of iS3C and two staff members attended technology briefing and T/MC Conference Dinner. Made Gold Level sponsor contribution
• 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 iS3C invited Dan Bassill of T/MC to be part of 30 minute infomercial being taped for CNN. Goal is to show how iS3C is supporting charitable efforts to build on-line support system
• 2000-11-13 Bob Erlenbach launched the Cabrini Connections Golf Benefit web site at www.edynamicweb.com/CabriniConnectionsGolf
• 2000-11-21 Received $20,000 from Polk Bros Foundation for Kids' Connection
• 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.
• 2000-11-23 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.
• 2000-11-27 Karen Pearlman of Manufacturers Bank called to tell me she has the printed brochures which show tutor/mentor programs within a five mile radius of 5 Chicago locations. She'll plan a press release and internal employee release.
• 2000-11-29 Fall 2000 T/MC Report and Newslink newsletters put in mail to more than 13,000 people around the country.
• 2000-11-30 IBM approved $5,000 grant.
• 2000-12-01 Jo Mercurio, Juvenile Services Specialist Mentoring Programs, Madison, WI, emailed to ask for information about "steps in developing what you've done in the greater Chicago area with tutormentor connection?" Referred by Adam Aberman from www.icouldbe.org out of New York City.
• 2000-12-06 Hospital Youth Mentoring Partnership invited Dan Bassill to do a workshop at the March 2001 Conference in Baltimore.
• 2000-12-06 Dan B participated in Junior League of Chicago Advisory Council meeting. Follow up conversation with Christina Ohr, General Manager of WLUP, a Bonniville Radio Station
• 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.
• 2000-12-07 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
• 2000-12-15 Received email from Greg Skibinski updating me on work being done in Peoria. He writes, "good things are happening down here in Peoria. I will be the new Co-Chair for Peoria's Promise along with Sue Kingery. My department, Block by Block, will be working together with the United Way to increase our Peoria's Promise effort. We are also applying for two americorp promise fellows to help us with the development of a comprehensive list of providers and services for not only Peoria but our Tri-County Area (Tazewell, Woodford, and Peoria Counties) we will be developing a map for each of these counties as well. Also at this meeting I had a chance to meet our new President of the United Way Michael Stephen and he seemed to be very interested in what Sue and I had to say. We also showed him your CD of your efforts and he was impressed."
• 2000-12-15 Followed up article in community paper to start conversation with Ann Jenich, leader of The Chicago Association of Social Entrepreneurs. The group sees its primary responsibility as one of educating the foundation community in Chicago and raising awareness around the issues and challenges of nonprofit enterprise development."
• 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 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.
• 2000-12-20 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.
• 2000-12-20 Levada Summers, from Chicago Public Schools, called to order 225 more T/MC Directories. They've run out of the 1000 that they purchased.
• 2000-12-21 Contacted via email by Dan Burke, Deputy Director for Education, CNA Corporation, Alexandria, VA. He wrote, "I saw your reply about CTC funding and thought you might be able to give me some advice. After reading what you are doing, it seems to fit very well what I would like to try. What tools (GIS) are you using? Would it take a lot of time and/or money investment for me to use them?"
• 2000-12-22 PCI has worked with Manufacturers Bank and developed a press release for the brochure T/MC developed.
• 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.
• 2000-12-30 Cabrini Connections mentioned in Article about Wards, written by Barney Simpson, Business Writer, in 12/30
• 2000-12-31 Receive this email from Mason Scholl: I saw the front page article in today's Trib about Cabrini Connections. I don't know whether words of congratulations or consolation or both are appropriate. What is the short-term and long-term implications of Wards exit on your work? I also want to let you know that the one of the priorities of the Northern Illinois Conference of the United Methodist Church as it relates to children is after-school programs. A significant proposal has been sent to the denominations Board of Global Ministries requesting funds for this purpose. This has been pushed by the Aurora District Superintendent, Rev. Deborah Fisher. Right after New Years, I plan to call her and find out what she knows about your work and suggest that she contact you. This may be another way some networking can begin.
• 2001-01-02 Debbie Hampton, Executive Director of Ecumenical Child Care Network (ECCN) asked me to write a story for the front page of their next newsletter.
• 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
• 2001-01-03 Tim Pareti joined Cabrini Connections today. Tim will do marketing and fund raising, working with the newsletter, and with the various programs we have which enlist businesses and their people as partners of T/MC.
• 2001-01-04 Bob Spatz of a Chicago area mentor network called and said he's developing a directory and wanted to list Cabrini Connections
• 2001-01-04 James Brown, a former Cabrini Connections volunteer, called from Houston asking for help starting a mentor program. He works with Compaq. I told of our need for a server and our request to Compaq and emailed him the proposal. Maybe this will be an intro to Compaq.
• 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 Phone interview with Cynthia Cousins of EUR Web, a news/entertainment web site reaching African American market. They are considering sponsoring T/MC in one of their new web pages. We were introduced by a friend of Paul Collins.
• 2001-01-09 Ruphina Pettis of Sunlight African Community Center, Chicago, called for help with fund raising. We discussed collaborative ideas, T/MC neighborhood strategies and we sent her sample of Manufacture's Bank brochure with offer to share revenue from businesses in her area which subscribe to this program.
• 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.
• 2001-01-10 Called by Joan Miller, National Museum of Women in the Arts. They just finished a major project and are looking for their next challenge. Maybe it is us. She visited with Kids' Connectiona. Will visit our web site.
• 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
• 2001-01-16 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.
• 2001-01-17 Received notice from ThinkDetroit (GM's on-line program) that they have launched an eGiving web site (www.webhands.org) and we're listed. Sent email inviting them to get Chicago GM dealers involved with T/MC
• 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
• 2001-01-20 Met with Lucious Smith to discuss faith marketing and other strategies to build resources for his program and other tutor/mentor programs in Chicago
• 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 Charity America sent email notice of new PhilanthropyInteractive service (www.charityamerica.com/pi.cfm). I responded to their email with an invitation for them to host T/MC funding thread at their web site.
• 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.
• 2001-01-24 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.
• 2001-01-27 Received email from Mason Scholl introducing me to people from the faith network, such as Eccumenical Child Care Network. He had sent an email to a person who works with NIC local church after-school programs. He wrote, "I am sending you is one from Dan Bassill, Ex. Director, Cabrini Connection, a wonderful, creative after-school tutoring and mentoring program in Chicago's Cabrini neighborhood near St. Matthews UMC. I urge you to look at his web site. He would like to connect with our NIC effort at after-school programs and has much information to exchange with us. I would like at the appropriate time to introduce him to the leadership of the NIC after-school movement. One way to know more about his organization is to check out his website listed in his message."
• 2001-01-29 Contact made for various speakers and sponsors of the Spring 2001 T/M C conference. Contact with Miss Missouri to be a keynote speaker, pending funding approval from her donors. New speakers for the conference include: Nathan Bell, Marcus Spencer, Suzanne DiBianca, Beverly Smith, Gail Brooks (the Stump). Invitations were sent out to 3 new individuals to join the egroup. Corresponse was sent out to 10 organizations for display booths - 3 have responsed to host a display table within the first day emails were sent out.
• 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.
• 2001-01-31 Provided information and volunteer recruitment ideas to Kimberly Pruitt of the Salvation Army - Brained Corps program in Chicago. Also gave information on faith-marketing initiative, and asked that she and her peers try to write sample sermons which we could post on the T/MC web site. She agreed to consider this.
• 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.
• 2001-02-03 River North News, circulation 12,500, did story about Manufacturers Bank working with T/MC. This is third story on this subject generated via PCI and T/MC. Total estimated circulation was 33,247
• 2001-02-07 Paul Collins from Jordan-Webb posted a T/MC volunteer opportunities listing in the Facilitator Opportunities Section of the http://www.midwest-facilitators.net web site. The direct link is: http://www.midwest-facilitators.net/opportunities
• 2001-02-12 Met with Elizabeth Scott, Asst. Director, Chicago Bar Foundation, to review strategy and tactics for 2001 aimed at increasing influence of CBF and T/MC on the growth and development of one-on-one tutor/mentor programs
• 2001-02-19 Dan was interviewed by Deanna Finley for the LaSalle Foundation's annual report (we rent space from LaSalle Foundation). In the course of the interview it was revealed that Deanna is a volunteer and holds a full-time position in Marketing for Arthur Andersen. The interview turned out to be an opportunity for T/MC to invite Arthur Andersen to be a T/MC partner.
• 2001-02-20 Talked with Mark Brant, Chair, Chicago Elfun Society. He'll present T/MC proposal at Wednesday, 2/21 board meeting. He hopes people from downtown Chicago offices might form a team to work with T/MC.
• 2001-02-20 Met with Kenny King, CEO of New Concepts Tutor/Mentor Connection from 9am to 11am. Reviewed New Concepts mission, goals and brainstormed strategy and ways T/MC and New Concepts can work together. New Concepts derived much of its misison and strategy from T/MC conversations which began a couple of years ago.
• 2001-02-21 Kim Fox, who organizes service learning programs for Loyola University, called to schedule meeting.
• 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 Planning meeting of Chicago Bar Foundation Lend A Hand Program held at CBF. Dan Bassill attended, along with Judge Hall of the Juvenile Court, Rita Planera of Corboy & Demetrio, Amy Masters of Chicago Bar Association, and three others
• 2001-02-21 Mary Selinski, Intergenerational Specialist for Illinois Department on Aging, sent T/MC information about a June 19-21 conference and a note asking me to email her to learn about a council they are forming. Mary and T/MC have networked since 1994. She has attended several conferences.
• 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 Met with Kim Fox, Service Learning Coordinator, Loyola University of Chicago. She's interested in developing slots for interns to work with Cabrini Connections.
• 2001-02-28 Jerry Shirk, Executive Director, Mentoring Coalition of San Diego County, added himself and four members of his network to the Volunteer Recruitment Campaign eGroup.
• 2001-03-02 The PreventViolcence!Chicago initiative purchased 12 Directories to use in a March 9 Faith Based training. They will pass on names of participants to T/MC for the data base. T/MC sent faith strategy to them for circulation in themeeting.
• 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.
• 2001-03-15 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.
• 2001-03-15 Marché Restaurant, which has hosted the annual Oscar's Party in Chicago, included a front page story,listing Cabrini Connections as its charity, on its March 2001 newsletter. Also included on its web site. BJ Murray initiated this event five years ago after seeing a story in the Chicago SunTimes about the CC Video Festival.
• 2001-03-18 Received message from Bob Franklin, Telecommunications Consulting, Inc., in UK in response to message I posted on GKD list: He wrote, "1. Thank you for your excellent message. I have raised similar concerns with GKD about using ICT for those in most need. 2. I will offer "some time" to help any project or idea. I can bring a lot of experience and contacts in the telecoms industry. If you can think of anything in your Chicago project which needs help which I might give here in UK just ask and I'll try and do that if I can. I will also start up a file of resumes/CV of people who would just be willing to help in ICT type development., focussed on doing things for those in most need." I wrote back with a list of suggestions.
• 2001-03-22 Attending Hospital Youth Mentoring Conference in Baltimore. I've been able to network with people from Duke, Michigan, New York and other major hospitals around the country. This model could be used to expand work/mentoring around the US, as well as a T/MC type leader model in any city.
• 2001-03-27 Tim and Dan met with Alan Rafalson, Marketing Director of Lakeside Bank to present Bank Brochure Program.
• 2001-03-28 Romanita Hariston, ED of Seattle Kids REACH, a tutoring coalition, called. Said they've been getting the T/MC Report and want to learn how to become more like a T/MC. I sent info.
• 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.
• 2001-04-02 Spent five hours today at Chicago Bar Foundation screening grant requests for the 2001 round of Lend A Hand Grants. About 40 proposals were received and 35 will be considered for grants ranging from $500 to $5,000. One will receive an additional $5,000 as this year's Demetrio Award Program.
• 2001-04-04 Met with Martha Kenton of LAN 65. Discussed ways T/MC and LAN can work together. Martha was referred to T/MC by BBBS Chicago.
• 2001-04-04 Sent Tim Herwig at TCF Bank a package of info on the Bank Brochure program (where we map a bank and show tutor/mentor programs within one mile).
• 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).
• 2001-04-05 Dr. Luciaenne Simon, Ex. Dir. of Illinois Alliance for the Arts (ArtsSmart), called. She said, "Reading T/MC Report with great interest." We scheduled a meeting for mid April.
• 2001-04-12 Met for two hours with Bill Low, District Superintendent, Central Coast District , New South Wales Department of Education and Training (Australia). Bill is a 2001 Churchill Fellow. He is visiting tutor/mentor programs around the world and selected T/MC as one model.
• 2001-04-13 Dan joined a training and development egroup (TRDEV (http://www.yahoogroups.com/group/trdev/) and posted intro message telling about T/MC and Midwest Facilitators net. This list has 1770 members.
• 2001-04-18 Phone conversation with Blake Levenson, board member for Cabrini-Green Youth and Family Services. Exchanged goal info and mutual opportunities. Blake runs a small advertising company. We first met at the March 2001 IYP Video Festival.
• 2001-04-26 Adam Alonso, Ex Dir, Chicago MOST, called to get involved with T/MC conferences.
• 2001-04-28 Hosted display table at Mayor's Parent Assembly. Provided handouts to about 100 people. Held face-to-face briefings with Gery Chico (CPS), Rav Vasquez (Dept. of Human Service), Sean Scanlon (Ill Fatherhood Initiative), Phil Jackson (Boys & Girls Clubs of Chicago) and with representatives of the Chicago Area Project, Channel 5 News, and Mayor's Department of Special Events. The conversations with Chico should lead to a follow up meeting with him and his chief of staff.
• 2001-04-29 1. Contact was made with an organization called "Paternal Involvement Project". This organization is new to the conferences and not only will be attending, but is also interested in joining the committee and presenting future workshops. 2. Correspondence was sent out to Verizon Reads in the hopes of gaining sponsorship and collaboration.
• 2001-05-01 Somer Baylark, Illinois Department of Human Services, reports that the Futures For Kids - Illinois' Promise web site page is moving forward. Their goal is to have the site in place to help recruiting in fall. This site was proposed by T/MC to Mrs. Ryan's office in the fall of 2000. Somer also reports that she's been encouraged to collaborate with T/MC on statewide mapping. We need to follow up on this.
• 2001-05-14 Presented Bank Brochure program to Thomas J. Schnell, Sr. VP at GreatBank, N.A. They have three branches in the Chicago area.
• 2001-05-17 New members to the conference planning committee and leadership_conference egroup were added at the 15th Tutor/Mentor Leadership Conference, which took place on May 17 & 18th, 2001
• 2001-05-31 Met with Michael Herman (www.openspace.michaelherman.com) to talk of ways he might support T/MC. Open Space is a form of facilitation that he leads and very much describes the way Cabrini Connections works. See www.globalchicago.net/evolution/18evolution.html for an explanation. I met Michael at a MFN meeting.
• 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.
• 2001-06-05 Met with Philip Jackson, CEO of Chicago Boys & Girls Clubs. Shared T/MC strategy. Invited Phil to take leader role. Offered to help build comprehensive mentor programs at Clubs. Phil signed Recruitment Campaign Manifesto.
• 2001-06-06 Provided information on web site design to St. Louis Mentoring Initiative Tasl Force
• 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."
• 2001-06-12 Craig Thomas emailed from Michigan, "at a meeting of the area's IT Managers Forum, I suggested that we map the region's IT resources. The example I used was the Tutor/Mentor Connection site."
• 2001-06-12 Steve Roussos forward an email from Cynthia White of ThinkDetroit. It said, "Thanks for the information and I have forwarded it to my Executive Director who seems interested and believes it is timely. So, we will carefully review this and provide you with feedback soon."
• 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.
• 2001-06-14 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
• 2001-06-18 Craig Thomas of Kalamazoo, MI, send this email to ThinkDetroit: "Dan Bassill of Chicago's Tutor-Mentor Connection and I have been discussing how to make the mapping technology more accessible to nonprofits in my neck of the woods -- the Kalamazoo area -- and beyond. He told me of your interest and suggested I check out your ThinkDetroit site, which I did. It appears that we are all on the same wavelength.I hope you will permit me to share in on this venture. I'd love to use it for the site we're building here for the IT Managers Forum, an ad hoc group pooling resources to attract New Economy tools and enterprises. Let me know how we can collaborate.
• 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 Cabrini Connections relocated the T/MC and the Kids' Connection to a single building after being separated into two locations for the past two years (July 1999 - July 2001)
• 2001-07-09 Val Parker, of Power4Youth send this email: "One of my mentors is a marketing person, who thought my newsletter was good for a first attempt by a non-pro, but she thought she could do better, so I signed her up to do the next one! And even better, I sent it to all those "thanks but no thanks to joining now" interested folks, and got one to come back! And some people actually sent me money!"
• 2001-07-17 Attended PreventViolence!Chicago planning meeting. About a dozen other organizations, mostly government agencies, were present. Meeting resulted in a commiment to do some new "strategic planning" to define goals of the group.
• 2001-07-17 Attended first planning meeting for January 2002 National Mentoring Month Chicago planning team. Held at Big Brothers/Big Sisters. T/MC was invited to be lead agency for Chicago, but declined due to lack of resources. Instead, T/MC will support BBBS as lead agency
• 2001-07-19 The annual Golf Benefit was held today and attended by 85 golfers, CC staff/students and friends. New contacts were made at Accenture, ITRC, the trade association for exposition planning, Grainger, Household, Abbott and a few other companies.
• 2001-07-24 IBM approved a 2001 grant of $5,000
• 2001-07-27 The Farney R. Wurlitzer Foundation approved a $15,000 grant to Cabrini Connections
• 2001-07-28 Susan Parma called from Dallas to provide contact information for two people transferring from Dallas to Chicago. One will be with Sprint Broadband. During this discussion I outlined a goal of building "fund raising forms" on the internet which would help agencies apply for government grants. Since Susan started a company called Forms on a Disk about 8 years ago, she intuitively understands the "value" potential of this idea.
• 2001-08-01 Received call from Minor Myers, Jr. who is President of Illinois Wesleyan University. Notified that Dan Bassill, President of Cabrini Connections and an IWU alumni, was to receive an Honorary Doctorate in recognition of his work during a September 5th, 2001 convocation.
• 2001-08-07 Marisue Kaplan, a former Loaned Executive of the United Way/Crusade of Mercy whom Dan Bassill met in the early 90's, called to tell that she was getting married and that she was having contributions sent to Cabrini Connections in lieu of wedding gifts.
• 2001-08-09 A new link was posted on the Tutor/Mentor Exchange announcing the details for the Volunteer Recruitment Campaign. http://www.tutormentorexchange.net/tmcrecruitmentcampaign.htm
• 2001-08-10 Developed a email advertisement and request for workshop presenters and display tables for this fall's Tutor/Mentor Leadership Conference. This ad was posted in the ABCD and thr ARNOVA discussion lists. Dan posted this advertisement. Requests for the workshops are forwared to Aimee, the conference organizer.
• 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 Dan Bassill appointed by Governor George Ryan to a two year term as a commissioner to Illinois Commission on Community Service
• 2001-08-23 Harry Porterfield of Channel 2 did a "People you should know" feature on Lorraine Bogan, who leads a program in Roseland that is losing their space. This was arranged by PCI, working for the T/MC.
• 2001-08-27 Mark Brown of the Chicago Sun-Times ran a great story about the SAFE program in the Aug. 27 paper.
• 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 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.
• 2001-08-31 Jeff Curto, an IWU Acacia member, saw the IWU press release telling of Dan Bassill's recognition and sent the following emil to the ACACIA egroup (more than 50 members). "Brothers; Those who know Dan know that he works tirelessly and without ceasing to help inner city kids find their way out of poverty and towards active, productive, educated lives. Dan Bassill embodies "Human Service" at its best. Dan's done this for a LONG time, often with little recognition. An award like this, while not the extra $$ that Dan needs to make his programs GO, likely goes some distance to help him keep up the fight. Suggestion: take a look in your pocket RIGHT NOW and send Dan a check for whatever you can spare.. even if it's "not much"... EVERYTHING helps.
• 2001-09-05 Dan Bassill was awarded a doctorate of Humaine Letters degree by Illinois Wesleyan University in a President's Convocation today. In addition, Bassill held meetings with the Career Center Director and Acacia Fraternity members, introducing proposals that would engage IWU students, faculty and alumni as T/MC partners. Bassill was one of 5 alumni to receive honorary doctorates. All have expertise in "community building" and are potential collaborators with Bassill and each other.
• 2001-09-05 Received following email from Mahesh N. Alur, PhD Candidate, Northwestern University Medical School. He contacted T/MC on 9/1 and offered to raise money for Cabrini Connections through his running in the Chicago Marathon. The email was sent to his friends: Dear Family, Friends, and Colleagues, As some of you know, I am running in my first marathon on October 7, 2001, in Chicago! I thought that this race would be a great opportunity to raise some money for a cause that has become increasingly important to me. During the past year, I tutored an eighth grade student who attended St. Joseph's and lives in the Cabrini Green Housing Project. I found it to be a very rewarding experience, and I believe that a small fundraising campaign would help tremendously a program, the community, and most significantly, the students who deserve the educational opportunities that most of us were fortunate to receive. Cabrini Connections is very similar to the program in which I participated. Not only does it provide tutoring by bringing together working professionals and students from educationally disadvantaged environments, it also attempts to coordinate tutoring across Chicago and the country. It does this by using the internet coupled with marketing and advertising approaches in order to expand outreach and knowledge on issues of poverty and education. The idea is that each tutoring program can learn from each others' experiences in how to reach students and how to attract volunteers. In fact, Cabrini Connections was the organization that helped me to find the tutoring opportunity at St. Joseph's at this time last year. I know that most of you on this e-mail list are of meager means (financially-speaking), but even small donations will be extremely helpful. For those of you who would like to donate a larger amount, all donations to Cabrini Connections are tax deductible. Please do not feel obligated to donate, but if you would like to support me -- and more importantly, these students -- your donation would be met by my undying gratitude. Additionally, please pass this message along to people who I may have missed or to others who would be interested in donating. If you have any questions at all, please feel free to contact me.
• 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.
• 2001-09-19 Received email from www.policylink.org notifying us of the recent publication titled, Bridging the Organizational Divide: Toward a Comprehensive Approach to the Digital Divide. This report provides a policy framework for a comprehensive approach to the digital divide with a heavy emphasis on building the capacity of community based organizations to produce relevant online content. Your organization is highlighted in the report and we regard you, and the others profiled, as pioneers that are pushing the community technology field to address the lack of technology capacity in the nonprofit sector. We view your program as a national model for building a new policy agenda that will include support for other community groups to use technology to promote their missions. We are also developing national and local media campaigns to get the word out about the report and the exciting programs that are highlighted. Zita Allen, a Senior Communications Associate at PolicyLink, will lead this effort. She will be in touch with you to discuss both national and local angles." I forwarded this to a few of the foundations that are now considering IT proposals from us.
• 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.
• 2001-09-25 Michael Herman emailed to report "I've posted your message to the bulletin board on-line and the wall at our crossroads gathering on 9/14. We are convening an on-going community conversation to continue what we've started at crossroads." He offered to send something to the crossroads elists and to the fastcompany local group lists. I provided a follow up message for him to send.
• 2001-09-26 Ian Scarlett of the Direct Marketing Association called to begin a planning process with T/MC that will support the October-December 2001 DM training offered by DMA to its members. Two teams will use the T/MC as the object of their marketing plan development.
• 2001-09-26 Ian Scarlett of the Direct Marketing Association called to begin a planning process with T/MC that will support the October-December 2001 DM training offered by DMA to its members. Two teams will use the T/MC as the object of their marketing plan development.
• 2001-09-26 Received call from Ronald McDonald Foundation that we are invited to present our request for funding at a meeting scheduled for December 4th, 2001
• 2001-10-01 Dan Bassill attended orientation to be a Commissioner on the Illinois Commission on Volunteerism and Community Service
• 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
• 2001-10-04 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 Ex Director of www.beamentor.org, based in California, called to invite me to a meeting of program leaders attending the California Mentoring Conference. While I won't be at the conference we exchanged a number of capacity building concepts, focused around "hubs" located in different sections of the country.
• 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 Sara Calwell posted "news" on her www.amphionpro.com web site about "Touched by a Tutor", a 10-part series that profiles the inspiring and engaging relationships that take place between tutors and students at the Cabrini Connections tutoring program in Chicago. She sent this notice via email to her friends.
• 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.
• 2001-10-11 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.
• 2001-10-16 Ian Jipp called. He's now director of finance and development at Hales High School. I first met him more than six years ago when he was at Loyola University. He's had a few different jobs in between.
• 2001-10-17 The Chronicle of Philanthropy included a report in their Technology section about the "Bridging the Organizational Divide" study released by PolicyLink. Cabrini Connections is included as an example of an "innovator" in this report. I shared this news in the Digital Divide list (over 1000 people) and got an email from PolicyLink saying "thanks" since they had not yet heard that they were mentioned!
• 2001-10-23 Dan Bassill participated as an Advisor in the Junior League of Chicago (JLC) Advisory Council and strategic planning meeting. The meeting was to review future goals for Project Con-Cern which is a capacity building outreach program of the JLC. Bassill shared strategies that had led to TMC building impact in tutor/mentor programs all over the area and suggested JLC could adopt similar strategies and have an even greater impact in its core mission area: Helping women and children in disadvantaged areas.
• 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 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
• 2001-12-06 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.
• 2001-12-11 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.
• 2001-12-12 The first wave of over 2000 emails was sent by the T/MC Marketing Team today. The ad developed by one volunteer and send by another volunteer draws people to the T/MC web sites and then on to tutor/mentor programs.
• 2001-12-12 WGN TV contacted me with this message: "Per the discussion you had with John Vitanovec and Merri Dee, we're going to be updating our web site with a list of WGN-TV Children's Charities beneficiaries. Can you please e-mail me your charity's URL?"
• 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.
• 2001-12-18 Don Samuelson wrote: "I'll ask April to send you a copy of our ICTF proposal for a statewide Network and central support system. We did talk about you yesterday at our collaborator meeting when John Chmela discussed the interim web site we were going to put up, and the potential of the permanent web site that will be created as part of the overall effort. We talked about how we might best collaborate with your efforts. Think John Chmela of the Jim Mullen Foundation and you should talk."
• 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.
• 2002-01-08 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.
• 2002-01-09 Judy Markey of WGN Radio called and agreed to put a web link from her Radio site to the Program Links site at the TME. At various times during the year she'll tell listeners that if they want to volunteer they can go to this site to find programs where they can volunteer.
• 2002-01-14 Kenny King, President of New Concepts, held a New Concepts volunteer orientation at the Tutor/Mentor Connection site.
• 2002-01-17 Attended Publicity Club of Chicago lunch. Speakers were media writers for Tribune, SunTimes, i-Street and E-Praire. People at my table were PR professionals from a variety of companies. At the end of the meeting I introduced myself to the only African American in the audience and it turned out to be Andre F. Garner, formerly with Peoples Gas, now the Midwest Public Relations Director for EDS
• 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.
• 2002-02-05 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.
• 2002-02-19 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.
• 2002-02-20 Irene Phelps, ED of the Siragusa Foundation, sent a letter of introduction to Peter Wilmott, who is a philanthropic leader, and a leader in the Health Care field.
• 2002-02-27 The e-mail ad campaign stats as of 2/26/02. The first email, send 12/12 has been viewed once by 1196 people and viewed a total of 1711 times. That means many people are viewing this more than once. Illinois Fatherhood Initiative has viewed the email more than 100 times. The second ad, sent 1/15 has been viewed once by 1,319 and more than once by 1790. The third ad, sent on 1/28, has been viewed at least one time by 1,570 people and more than once by 2,122 people.
• 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.
• 2002-02-27 Met with Dennis Zavac, President of Executive Service Corps and Frank A. Kreuz, a consultant. Discussed consulting project focused at getting more organizations to duplicate the Chicago Bar Foundatin Lend A Hand and/or the Hospital Youth Mentoring Project. This meeting was arranged by Howard Morgan, the chairman of the Board of CES and a former Citigroup Exec. Jack Kennedy of our board asked Howard for help.
• 2002-03-04 Rec'd copy of letter of introduction that Tom Howard, ED of Life Directions, sent to the Richard & Helen De Vos Foundation in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Richard DeVos is a founder of Amway
• 2002-03-05 Karina Ayala, of the Chicago Bar Foundation's Lend A Hand Committee, reported via email: "I received an elated call from Katherine McCabe of the Cluster Tutoring Program. Thanks to the Lend a Hand Program her agency received a donation of $25,000 from a generous donor who selected the Cluster Tutoring Program using the Lend a Hand Program brochure. This is just another example of how you, the Lend a Hand Board, are making a difference in the lives of inner city-youth!
• 2002-03-06 Actor Joe Mantegna has added a link to the T/MC web site from his LINKS page (http://www.joemantegna.com/cs_joem_links.html)
• 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.
• 2002-03-07 The West Coast Alumni Newsletter of Columbia College Chicago has the following article in the Vol. 1, #9 issue (2002): MAKE A DIFFERENCE Not many people will make an impact on a child's life the way a tutor/mentor can. Thanks to thousands of volunteers, a growing number of underprivileged students are getting help to succeed in school and go on to find rewarding careers. Chicago's Cabrini Connections is a leader in this movement. For many years Columbia College students and faculty have helped this organization mobilize volunteers, business partners, and philanthropists to support tutor/mentor programs in every poverty area of Chicago. Through the Internet it shares this strategy with the world.
• 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.
• 2002-03-14 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
• 2002-03-15 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.
• 2002-03-21 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 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.
• 2002-03-27 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
• 2002-04-01 Meeting with the new Marketing and Events Manager at Barbara's Bookstore to discuss the 2002 Volunteer Recruitment Campaign
• 2002-04-01 Met with Dan Bassiel. Talked about the a possible collaboration. Use the Cabrini Connection office to meet with one of our TeamMentoring program volunteers.
• 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 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 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.
• 2002-04-06 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.
• 2002-04-10 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.
• 2002-04-15 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.
• 2002-04-30 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.
• 2002-05-01 An employee in the graphics department of BlueCross/Blue Shield of Ill is converting some T/MC charts for a LCD presentation to be made by Dan Bassill to their employees.
• 2002-05-06 The Lend A Hand Council of the Chicago Bar Foundation met today and determined the allocation of $50,000 in grants to 30 different one-on-one tutor/mentor programs in Chicago and Cook Country. Grants made to the four programs in Lawndale will be matched by $8,000 in dollars provided by the Steans Family Foundation. In addition, one program will received the annual Demetrio Award, which includes an $8,000 additional grant. In total this means $66,000 will be given via the Lend A Hand Program in 2002.
• 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.
• 2002-05-22 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
• 2002-05-30 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.
• 2002-07-09 Received 3rd year grant of $26,200 from foundation that wishes to remain anonymous to support Volunteer Recruitment Campaign.
• 2002-07-10 First email version of T/MC Report sent to 2500 people.
• 2002-07-10 Meeting at Chicago Bar Association today to discuss next steps for Lend A Hand Program. CBA has expressed strong support for move of Lend A Hand structure from CBF to becoming a separate entity supported by CBA. A business plan was requested showing goals for next 3 y ears. An impact study was approved.
• 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.
• 2002-07-22 I sent letters to Paul Vallas, who is now CEO of Philadelphia Schools, and Weldon Rougeau, who is now President of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, Inc., inviting them to continue their support of T/MC from their new positions.
• 2002-07-29 Met with Anayah R. Barney, a Vassar University student who is doing a summer research project with Northwestern. During the meeting we learned that she went to high school with two Cabrini Connections alumni. Following the meeting she sent this email: "Thank you for meeting with me yesterday to thoroughly explain the your work with youth and its extreme importance. The information is surely appreciated and has already altered our approach to the research project. "
• 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.
• 2002-08-02 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).
• 2002-08-11 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.
• 2002-08-19 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.
• 2002-08-21 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
• 2002-08-21 Met with Ernest Young, COO of Skill Builders Learning Group, Inc. Learned how we might work together. Scheduled follow up meeting with President of Skill Builders.
• 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
• 2002-08-29 Sent email introduction to 47 commissioners who attended the National Service cluster meeting in August.
• 2002-09-03 Taped segments of three TV programs to be shown 9/15, 9/22 and 9/27 on the International Sunday School TV Program of Fellowship Baptist Church in Chicago. This will show at 7am each Sunday on Cable TV 25.
• 2002-09-04 This morning I met with Dan Bassill in regards of how to create a partnership for Northwest Indiana.
• 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 Met with Lorraine Bogan today. She is leader of The SAFE Haven Tutoring Program in Chicago. She's also a minister. She agreed to try to develop "sermon kits" that ministers can use to preach about how congregations can get involved with tutor/mentor strategies. The kit would have a sample sermon, an insert for the church bulletin, the bulletin board and the church web site, and a feedback form for programs to self identify. She would use these to go to churches to deliver sermons. We would sell them on the T/MC store and split the proceeds.
• 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.
• 2002-09-11 The Beaumont Foundation of America awarded a technology grant, valued at $13,000 to Cabrini Connections. We'll received 5 new laptop computers, a Digital Camera and a digital projector which we'll use in our Kids' Connection and the T/MC. The Foundation first learned about Cabrini Connections by visiting the TME web site in the spring of 2002. This grant was helped by the intermediary role played by an organization called One Economy, which is working with the ChicagoHousing Authority to help CHA families gain access to information and resources.
• 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.
• 2002-09-16 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.
• 2002-09-16 Board of Directors met and committed to sending 2 letters each per month to potential members/donors and to bringing one person per quarter to a breakfast, lunch, dinner or event to learn about the organization.
• 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.
• 2002-09-23 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 WomenTech Educators Newsletter (email) included a paragraph showing Cabrini Connections as a Best Practice Site. A link to the T/ME web site was included.
• 2002-09-25 The T/MC REPORT email newsletter was mailed to more than 3,000 stakeholders in Chicago and around the country.
• 2002-09-26 Talked for about an hour with Laura Anderson, Director of Creative Mentoring (www.creativementoring.org) which is part of the Delaware network of mentoring organizations. We talked of ways the T/MC and her organization and the Delaware network might work together toward common goals.
• 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.
• 2002-09-27 We were notified today that The Chicago Community Trust approved a $25,000 one-year grant to fund Cabrini Connections.
• 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.
• 2002-10-21 Email invitation sent to more than 3500 people telling them about the November 21 and 22 Conference
• 2002-10-31 Virginia Peoples of the Beaumont Foundation and Dan B. of the Tutor/Mentor Connection brainstormed via phone of the many ways that the two organizations could work together. Cabrini Connections has received a grant for $13,000 worth of hardware and will work with Beaumont and other organizations to maximize the impact of this donation.
• 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.
• 2002-11-04 I attended a networking event hosted by UCWBG - The University of Chicago Women's Business Group. This introduced nearly 200 professional business women to nearly 60 charities. The goal was to help the charities recruit board members. I developed several leads from this. One was to Linda Stone, the VP of Technology for this group. I emailed a follow up with suggestions for their web site based on T/MC concepts and goals.
• 2002-11-04 Attended Board Leader recruitment fair hosted by the University of Chicago's Women's Business Group. Cabrini Connections was invited by Sandy Blau, CEO of the Pullman Foundation. More than a dozen prospective board members and volunteers expressed interest in Cabrini Connections, while the organization met many others who could provide leadership.
• 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 Wayne Hicks, President of the National Black Data Processing Association, forwared an email I'd sent him about recruiting partners from any BDPA group in the country, not just Chicago, to his entire list. He said to his members, "Please contact Daniel directly if you'd like to accept his challenge...."
• 2002-11-14 Sending letter to MB Financial asking for them to consider co-sponsoring the 2003 Golf Outing.
• 2002-11-15 SeniorNet (www.seniornet.org) has established a discussion forum on Volunteerism with a sub category on Tutoring/Mentoring. This is a result of a conversation started a few weeks ago with the President of SeniorNet after she responded to a post on a listserve from the T/MC telling about a youth technology program in Israel.
• 2002-11-17 Sammie Lee, a singer/song writer from the SanFrancisco area, emailed an intro to T/MC. He's written a song on mentoring that will be sung during National Mentoring Month. He found our web site and was introducing himself to me. We exchanged email and I forwarded his intro to Sara Caldwell, a CC volunteer who is a writer/producer. She and Sammie connected and now are collaborating on a 1 hour mentoring documentary that Sara and T/MC have been trying to create for several years.
• 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 Met with Rev. Sue Strozewski of the Church of Scientology of Illinois. Discussed strategies for involving volunteer ministers from the church in the T/MC and various tutor/mentor programs. One idea was to set up a discussion group within a Scientology member web site that would encourage members to talk to each other.
• 2002-11-19 I contacted Stephen Pugh, a prospective Cabrini board member.
• 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.
• 2002-12-04 Talked via phone with Ken King, ED of New Concepts Tutor/Mentor Connection, about collaborating to build a Tutor/Mentor Learning Network, funded like traditional "Think Tanks". This is part of an on-going conversation intended to avoid competition while maximizing the impact of both organizations.
• 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 I sent out 20 fundraising letters to family and friends. I hope to raise at least 1,000 through this group.
• 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.
• 2002-12-27 Chicago Education Alliance Fall 2002 newsletter features Tutor/Mentor Connection on page 2 of 8 page newsletter.
• 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.
• 2003-01-08 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.
• 2003-01-30 I contacted Stephen Pugh, a Board of Director candidate.
• 2003-01-30 I met with a rep from IC Starts to talk about mapping and strategy.
• 2003-02-27 I contacted Mike McKiernan at Cushman & Wakefield.
• 2003-03-04 Article in Chicago's Daily Law Bulletin titled "Judge's gift to support students, law programs" told about a $1 million bequest from the estate of the late U.S. District Judge Abraham Lincoln Marovitz to the Chicago Bar Foundation. Bob Glaves, Ex. Dir, of the Chicago Bar Foundation was quoted in the article saying, "We're going to take a relatively small chunk of the gift -- but a large sum of money of $100,000 -- to support the Lend-A-Hand Program. In the early 1990s, Judge Marovitz was actually involved in setting up the Lend A Hand Program, so we thought he would like to keep supporting it."
• 2003-03-17 Kathleen Prados, of Franklin Sr. High School in Franklin, LA, posted a message at the T/MC web site saying that "20 JROTC Cadets are ready and willing to help build capacity of tutor/mentor programs in St. Mary Parish, and that they want to build a partnership with the T/MC." I sent a "statement of principles" letter of agreement and a description of T/MC Functions/components and offered to help them.
• 2003-03-19 Northeastern Illinois University agreed to host the Tutor/Mentor Leadership Conference on June 5th and 6th of 2003. Ken King of New Concepts solicited this involvement on behalf of the T/MC.
• 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
• 2003-04-09 Ellen Dick presented a 'fund raising" workshop to 10 people at the Cabrini Connections headquarters.
• 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
• 2003-05-15 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 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 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.
• 2003-05-16 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
• 2003-05-27 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
• 2003-06-10 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.
• 2003-06-23 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.
• 2003-07-01 Brian Banks from Prag at Loyola met with Dan Bassill of T/MC to discuss faith based initiatives
• 2003-07-07 Friend passed on information regarding golf benefit to law firm's (Skadden, Arps) internal newsletter.
• 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.
• 2003-08-13 T/MC awarded consulting contract from Community Technology Centers Network. We'll do 17 hours (each) of volunteer recruitment consulting with PuiTak Center pf Chicago and Transitional Living Services of Hebron, Il..
• 2003-08-30 Frank Johns met with Dan Bassill to learn about volunteering as a tutor/mentor. In the conversation we demonstrated much of the vision of the Tutor/Mentor Connection.
• 2003-09-17 T/MC hosted on-line chat today in the www.wired.org conference. T/MC has a presentation at the conference, which has more than 70 people from around the world enrolled.
• 2003-09-17 Karina Ayala at the Abraham Lincoln Marovitz Lend A Hand program reports "I have secured several bar associations to adopt a Lend a Hand program, which will actively recruit mentors for tutor/mentor agencies. The Asian Bar, the Filipino Bar and the Hispanic Lawyers Association have all agreed to start this year.
• 2003-10-07 Met with reps from Greater Chicago Food Depository
• 2003-10-20 Doris Salomon, Community Affairs Director of BP wrote to thank Cabrini Connections for submitting a proposal for the BP 2003 Leader Awards. Although we were not a winner, she wrote, "You should feel proud of the fact that of 135 proposals, your program was one of 10 to be reviewed by the Green/Environment Blue Ribbon Panel." She went on, "Although your program was not selected as a winner, it is BP's belief that your organization should be commended for your efforets in addressing key community issues in the Chicagoland area."
• 2003-10-21 Emailed head of Yale/Princeton Young Alumni Committee to see if she would be willing to forward flyer re: Harvest in the Park to list.
• 2003-10-27 Erwin Mason, from Oklahoma, called to say that he'd been following the T/MC's work since we first talked a year ago and that he's impressed with what we're doing. He offered to explore ways that the T/MC could be written into proposals that his organization is generating in Oklahoma.
• 2003-10-27 Emailed Oprah Winfrey regarding Cabrini Connections' work and need for funding.
• 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.
• 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.
• 2004-01-13 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.
• 2004-01-16 Dan Bassill met with Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis to discuss partnering to set up a T/MC based organization in Indianapolis.
• 2004-01-21 Met with Rev. Sharon Hicks, ED of Village Resource Ministries, a new tutor/mentor program in the Austin neighborhood of Chicago. She had been referred to T/MC from the office of Rep. Danny Davis. Spent two and one-half hours showing strategies for starting and sustainig a tutor/mentor program, and ways here program could be a T/MC in faith networks and in the Austin area.
• 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.
• 2004-01-29 Pat Williams, a freelance writer, called to interview Cabrini Connections for a story in the Chicago Defender. We talked about the T/MC and ways that writers could help collect and write stories about tutor/mentor programs for local papers.
• 2004-02-10 T/MC met for an hour with Beth Swanson, Director, Office of After School and Community School Programs for Chicago Public Schools. Provided information on T/MC capacity and goals. Beth said she'd "been on the web sites often."
• 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.
• 2004-02-20 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.
• 2004-02-27 The Quarterly planning meeting of the Abraham Lincolne Marovitz Lend A Hand Program of the Chicago Bar Association/Foundation was held at the offices of Tom Demetrio, of Corboy and Demetrio. Tom is chair of the Leadership Board of the Lend A Hand. Karina Ayala, Executive Director of LAH, reviewed accomplishments, such as a new LAH brochure, and the new www.lend-a-hand.net web site. Strategies for engaging more lawyers and raising dollars to fund tutor/mentor programs were discussed. Dan Cotter, current president of the Young Lawyers Group of the CBA, will be raising funds on May 8, 2004, as part of a powerlifting event that he participates in.
• 2004-03-04 J. Crew (a Chicago store) has created a private shopping event for members of the Chicago Bar Association Young Lawyers Socitey. It will be held on Thursday, April 15th from 6:00 to 8:00 PM. Ten percent of the total sales from this event will be donated in kind to the Abraham Lincoln Marovitz Lend-A-Hand Program for the Tutor/Mentor Connection
• 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."
• 2004-04-03 Multi-Media Program with Girls Go Digital
• 2004-04-21 Received email from Mason Scholl that said: "I'm attaching a PDF file of a newsletter article describing 9 Northern IL United Methodist churches that received grants for their afterschool programs. Yesterday, I called the Rev. Oscar Carrasco, Director of Connectional Ministries, for the Northern IL Conference (NIC) and the Rev. Harry Nicol, Executive Dir., Northern IL Conference United Methodist Foundation suggesting that they meet with you to discuss what kind of collaboration might take place between TutorMentorConnection and the NIC efforts toward expanding afterschool program services to the communities being served by these local congregations
• 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 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.
• 2004-06-22 Met with Margie Gonwa of LEED Council and agreet to host a July 2004 LEED Council training event at the offices of the T/MC (using T/MC computers) in exchange for LEED Council membership and support of T/MC volunteer and business mobilization strategies. Since the LEED Council is a Local Economic and Employment Development Council, this can be a great partnership, leading to more business involvement in tutor/mentor programs.
• 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
• 2004-07-01 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
• 2004-07-13 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.
• 2004-08-04 www.chicagovolunteer.net has posted the Tutor/Mentor Recruitment Campaign on its web site as a featured opportunity.
• 2004-08-05 Felicia Dechter wrote a column in the Learner Skyline Newspaper about the Rock for Reading Concert and the Tutor/Mentor Connection.
• 2004-08-23 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 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.
• 2004-09-30 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.
• 2004-10-04 Sharon Caldwell of the YMCA of Chicago emailed to say, "Just wanted to let you know that, miraculously, we received the Mentoring funds we applied for in July from the Department of Education to serve North Lawndale and Austin. We are completely shocked and so very grateful. Thanks so much for the help you provided to us at that time. As you may recall, our request included $1,150 in contractual funds that will go to TM/C each of the three years for "consultation and/or specialized training." Looking forward to working together to expand these crucial services on the west side.
• 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.
• 2004-10-14 The America's Promise email newsletter included a paragraph about the November Tutor/Mentor Leadership Conference.
• 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
• 2004-10-27 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
• 2004-12-10 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.
• 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.
• 2005-01-04 Met with Dave Terrazino and Amy Barth of Youth In Crisis, of Berwyn, Il. to discuss ways their organization can take a lead role in T/MC activities in their part of the Chicago Region. Amy attended the Nov. 04 T/MC Conference.
• 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.
• 2005-01-10 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.
• 2005-01-10 The front page of the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin, distributed by the Chicago Bar Association to all 22,000 members, featured this headline: CBA/CBF Lend A Hand Program Awards $28,000 to Various Agencies. The article talked about how the Lend A Hand promotes voluneer based tutor/mentor programs and also featured a sub article showing that Cabrini Connections received the 2004 Thomas A. Demetrio Award.
• 2005-01-18 After recieving email from Dan Bassill, I emailed him resources for the Health Occupations Link, and posted information about Tutor/Mentor Exchange on the BHIC Blog http://medstat.med.utah.edu/blogs/BHIC/
• 2005-01-19 Greg Sain and Chris Moore of VIP met with T/MC to discuss volunteer recruitment and collaboration strategies.
• 2005-01-27 Quarterly meeting of the Lend A Hand Executive Board was held on 1/27/05. The LAH Leadership Board seeks to secure 25 law firms to commit to $10,000 per year, multiple year pleges, to support the LAH's grant making efforts. Corboy & Demetrio and Butler Rubin Saltarelli & Boyd have made such commitments since the last LAH Board meeting.
• 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.
• 2005-03-14 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.
• 2005-03-28 Sara Caldwell, a founder of Cabrini Connections and the Tutor/Mentor Connection, sent a copy of her new book, "Jumpstart Your Awesome Film Production Company". In the forward she wrote, "I also want to acknowledge Daniel Bassill, President and CEO of the Cabrini Connections tutor/mentor program in Chicago, who opened my eyes in so many important ways. Thanks to Dan, I have enjoyed one of the most important friendships of my life with my former tutee, the talented and remarkable Isaiah Brooms. As a veteran of mentoring programs and a man who knows no bounds when it comes to selfless giving, Dan is a true role model and hero, no matter what your profession." Sara is donating 15% of royalties from this book to Cabrini Connections.
• 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.
• 2005-04-29 Attended forum titled "Youth on the Streets: Lost in the Wilderness", hosted by Alternative Schools Network. Information distributed highlighted the high drop out rate and cost to society of teens who do not get HS degree and skills to work. During forum Phil Jackson of Black Star Project gave me the April-May 2005 Issue of Proud Parent Journey, which he distributes to 30,000 people. The Journal included a full page of tutor/mentor program contact information and a referral to the T/MC web site.
• 2005-05-04 Sherard Jones of Sinai Mentoring Institute sent this email: Two weeks ago, I presented to the CEOs of the system. They liked what they saw, and I've been given the go ahead to move forward. Next week I'll be meeting with the VP under whose auspices the proposed program would fall. Thank you for encouraging me to move forward with this concept. It looks like we're making progress. Should you have any other guidance to share (once your hands aren't so full), I'll be ready to listen. By the way, the Harriet Barlowe piece really struck pay dirt because our CEO is actually from NY and was very familiar with her work.
• 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.
• 2005-05-07 Nia's Heart Annual Mother Daughter Luncheon was held at Triedstone F.G.B.C. located at 1415 W. 104th Street Chicago, IL 60643 Bishop Simon Gordon Sr. Pastor. This luncheon was planned by the mentees of Nia's Heart and was a activity for leadership development module. Skills learned planning, budgeting, timeline management.
• 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.
• 2005-06-02 The June email newsletter of Business Strengthening America, include a paragraph about the Tutor/Mentor Connection, along with our web site address. This is distributed to more than 700 businesses around the country who have made a commitment to increase employee volunteerism.
• 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.
• 2005-07-27 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
• 2005-08-05 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.
• 2005-08-24 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.
• 2005-09-22 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.
• 2005-11-08 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.
• 2005-11-18 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
• 2005-11-30 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).
• 2006-02-08 Animation Mentor Programme, located in Heathcote Campus, 58-60 Duncraig Road, Applecross, Australia, will be holding a planning meeting on Feb. 9, 2006 as part of their effort to launch a corporate sponsored mentoring program. The final item on the agenda is: Where to from here? Overview of the Lend a hand Mentoring Programme (a proposed model) which points to the Chicago Bar Association Lend A Hand Program, at http://www.lend-a-hand.net
• 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.
• 2006-03-09 MENTOR has schedule an on-line tutor/mentor eConference forum in their www.mentoring.org/community for May 8-12, 2006
• 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.
• 2006-04-24 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.
• 2006-05-12 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
• 2006-07-12 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.
• 2006-08-29 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.
• 2006-09-07 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.
• 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 Michael Demetrio, President of the Chicago Bar Association, devoted his President' editorial in the September 2003 CBA Record to the Abraham Lincoln Marovitz Lend A Hand, which is sponsored by the CBA.
• 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 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 A full page article in the March 2003 issue of the Chicago Bar Association Record, which distributes to its 20,000 members, has the headline, "The Chicago Bar Foundation receives generous gift from the estate of Judge Abraham Lincoln Marovitz. In the article one paragraph states, "the Judge Abraham Lincoln Marovitz Lend a Hand Fund will provide a base of support for the CBA/CBF Lend A Hand youth mentoring program as it transitions to independent status.
• Undated In early November 2004 just prior to contacting Congressman's Davis's office, I sought and received advice from Father Michael Pfleger, Pastor of St. Sabina Catholic Church. I know and have worked with Father through the sharing program at my Glenview parish (St. Sabina's is one of our sharing parishes), and Father had been a priest assigned to the Glenview parish prior to being reassigned to St. Sabina. Father suggested to me that I should call him for assistance if I found the congressman's unresponsive, and I did so in late January 2004.
• Undated On April 29, 2004, I phoned Dan Cantrell, Congressman Danny Davis's assistant for economic development and grants, and invited him to attend part of the May17-18 Leadership Conference with me to give him, and through him, the congressman a fuller understanding of the mission and work of T/MC and CC. I called Cantrell at the suggestion of the congressman's principal assistant, Gwen Burnett with whom I've been communicating since early November 2003 in an effort to talk to the congressman to inquire about possible additional (or special Federal) financial assistance to help keep our programs operating effectively, given the general decrease in our financial resources.
• 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 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 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 Email exchange with Allen Whitehead, Director of Partner Services at Philanthropic Research, Inc., which is the host for Guidestar and Network for Good. While Allen offered no promise of immediate collaboration with the T/MC, he said, "Your file will stay in my 'current' notebook because I think some of these ideas will come back to us later when we might be in position to realistically consider them."
• 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 I have been involved in the North Shore Senior Center in various ways in the past and felt it might be a fertile source of effective volunteers, particularly for business-oriented functions. After making contact with the volunteer coordinator, I learned that Dan Bassill has an old friend and former business colleague who is very active at the center. This friend of Dan's offered us the opportunity to make a brief pitch to recruit vounteers at the start of one of the Center's weekly programs.
• 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.
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• Undated Talked for about 40 minutes with Ken Kominski of eLearningSpace.org about developing a partnership in which T/MC would received funding from grants developed by eLs. In return, we'd introduce eLS to the tutor/mentor world.
• Undated Received email from the Lend A Hand Program at the Chicago Bar Association telling that they now have their official 501(c)(3) tax exempt status, which means they can solicit charitble donations directly from donors, rather than through the original sponsor of the Lend A Hand, the Chicago Bar Foundation
• 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.

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• Articles from the T/MC Site · 59 of 107 pages Read from page 2
• 1993 The T/MC Report: newsletter pages, 1993–2002 · 23 of 28 pages Read from page 4
• 1993 Montgomery Ward Newslink: pages about the tutoring program and T/MC, 1993–2000 · 22 of 25 pages Read from page 2
• News Articles from tutormentorconnection.org · 35 of 45 pages Read from page 1
• 2004 T/MC Newsletter, Issue 30 (Spring 2004) · 12 of 13 pages Read from page 1
• 2004 T/MC Newsletter, Issue 26 (draft B) · 11 of 13 pages Read from page 2
• 2002 Technology vision of the Tutor/Mentor Connection · 14 of 17 pages Read from page 1
• 1999 T/MC case statement, February 1999 update · 11 of 13 pages Read from page 1
• 2003 Annual Report 2002–2003 · 16 of 33 slides Read from page 3
• 1996 The Business Brief (1996, updated to 2000) · 20 of 23 pages Read from page 1
• 2004 T/MC Newsletter, Issue 25 · 11 of 13 pages Read from page 1
• 2004 T/MC Newsletter, Issue 26 (draft A) · 9 of 10 pages Read from page 2
• Tutor/Mentor News, Recognition & Awards (web page) · 9 of 10 pages Read from page 1
• About T/MC (from the website) · 12 of 15 pages Read from page 1
• 1999 CHAMPS Award · 7 of 8 pages Read from page 1
• 1990 Proposal to establish the Cabrini-Green Tutoring Program as a nonprofit · 11 of 12 pages Read from page 1
• 2003 2003 Recruitment Campaign: Final Report · 16 of 24 slides Read from page 1
• 2005 Skoll Foundation application · 9 of 10 pages Read from page 1
• 2002 Annual Report 2001/2002 · 9 of 22 slides Read from page 2
• 1994 T/MC case statement, January 1994 (updated to 1996) · 12 of 32 pages Read from page 4
• 2004 Grant Application: Humana Chicago Benefits 2004 · 5 of 5 pages Read from page 1
• 2003 Strategies for Lend-A-Hand from T/MC · 9 of 9 pages Read from page 1
• 2000 ERICA Award · 4 of 4 pages Read from page 1
• eCollaboration, eLearning and Vertical Organizations · 14 of 28 slides Read from page 3
• 1995 The founding slide show: Cabrini Connections and T/MC (35mm slides) · 19 of 99 slides Read from page 3
• 2005 Tutor/Mentor Learning Network: vision of T/MC · 9 of 9 pages Read from page 1
• 1995 Agency analysis of Cabrini Connections and T/MC (MaryAnn Manfredini) · 7 of 27 pages Read from page 2
• 2002 Cabrini Connections & T/MC Annual Report 2001–2002 (overview) · 9 of 13 slides Read from page 3
• 1997 Get Intense: sports-celebrity strategy · 2 of 3 pages Read from page 1
• 1994 Tutor/Mentor Week proclamations, 1994 (Lend-A-Hand and Mayor Daley) · 5 of 8 pages Read from page 1
• 2008 Prevention conference presentation · 9 of 18 pages Read from page 2
• 2005 Help Spread the Word: 2005 Recruitment Campaign · 9 of 18 slides Read from page 1
• 1999 Proposal for an internet-based tutor/mentor learning network (S. Roussos) · 8 of 18 pages Read from page 1
• The Tutor/Mentor Connection: A Business Model · 13 of 28 slides Read from page 1
• 1996 Actions 1993–1995 and goals for 1996 · 6 of 8 pages Read from page 2
• 2002 Case for Investment in T/MC · 12 of 16 slides Read from page 1
• 1995 Goals and progress, November 1994 to August 1995 · 4 of 4 pages Read from page 1
• 1994 T/MC public awareness goals · 9 of 14 pages Read from page 3
• 1994 The case for Cabrini Connections and T/MC: slide-show script · 6 of 8 pages Read from page 3
• 1997 Proposal to Chicago Public Schools to support T/MC · 6 of 8 pages Read from page 2
• 2003 2003 Jimmy Biggs Memorial Golf Benefit · 7 of 10 slides Read from page 1
• 2001 HUD Best Practice Award · 6 of 11 pages Read from page 6
• Volunteer Recruitment Workshop · 10 of 35 slides Read from page 4
• 2004 Recruiting Volunteers Workshop (2004) · 10 of 35 slides Read from page 4
• 1994 Lawyers’ Lend-A-Hand to Youth case statement (draft) · 5 of 5 pages Read from page 1
• 2001 Tutor/Mentor Learning Network · 8 of 9 pages Read from page 1
• 1999 The case for investment in T/MC · 4 of 4 pages Read from page 1
• 2005 Chicago Innovation Award nomination · 4 of 7 pages Read from page 3
• 2004 Help Spread the Word: 2004 Recruitment Campaign · 9 of 19 slides Read from page 1
• Steps to Start a Program · 10 of 28 slides Read from page 7
• 2009 Starting a Tutor/Mentor Program: What You Don't See · 4 of 5 pages Read from page 1
• 1996 Total Quality Mentoring · 7 of 13 pages Read from page 1
• 2008 eChicago conference presentation · 5 of 9 pages Read from page 1
• 2000 T/MC growth, 1994–2000 · 6 of 9 pages Read from page 2
• Hospitals: A Tutor/Mentor Connection in a Profession · 10 of 53 slides Read from page 3
• Operating Principles for a Tutor/Mentor Program · 8 of 24 slides Read from page 8
• 1995 Formal agreement: Lend-A-Hand, T/MC and the Chicago Bar Foundation · 3 of 3 pages Read from page 1
• The T/MC Model · 7 of 20 slides Read from page 3
• 2011 Athletes “Adopt a Neighborhood” strategy · 4 of 5 pages Read from page 1
• Internet Database Platform · 5 of 16 slides Read from page 2
• 1998 Goal of T/MC: a city of good programs · 2 of 2 pages Read from page 1
• 1996 Mid America Leadership Foundation award · 2 of 2 pages Read from page 1
• 2005 Chicago Council on Urban Affairs Neighborhood Awards · 4 of 5 pages Read from page 1
• 1996 Target Group award · 1 of 1 pages Read from page 1
• Tipping Points · 9 of 14 slides Read from page 1
• 2000 Where will we be in 3–5 years? · 2 of 3 pages Read from page 2
• No General Would Go to War Without a Map · 8 of 28 slides Read from page 10
• Chicagoland Tutor/Mentor Volunteer Recruitment Campaign · 6 of 30 slides Read from page 8
• 2004 Use of GIS for Capacity Building · 6 of 24 slides Read from page 4
• 1995 Chart of T/MC activity, 1994–1995 · 1 of 1 pages Read from page 1
• 2001 Letter to CPS chief Arne Duncan · 2 of 2 pages Read from page 1
• University Connection · 8 of 57 slides Read from page 21
• 1982 Dan Bassill’s talk to the National Conference on Volunteerism (draft) · 4 of 9 pages Read from page 1
• 1994 T/MC work done in 1994 · 4 of 6 pages Read from page 2
• 1994 YouthNet Center, Grand Boulevard · 5 of 14 pages Read from page 5
• 1994 Cabrini Connections career-prep steps · 2 of 3 pages Read from page 1
• 1997 Giraffe Award letter · 2 of 3 pages Read from page 1
• 1998 Giraffe News #37: Dan Bassill selected · 2 of 2 pages Read from page 1
• 2002 Introduction to Total Quality Mentoring · 6 of 25 slides Read from page 9
• 2001 Kids Connection (Cabrini Connections) · 4 of 12 pages Read from page 2
• 2005 Lend-A-Hand My Hero Awards: Invitation · 1 of 1 pages Read from page 1
• 1993 PCI public-relations plan: first use of the “Tutor/Mentor Connection” name · 3 of 8 pages Read from page 1
• Universities and T/MC · 7 of 60 slides Read from page 21
• 1996 Why invest in youth mentoring and education · 6 of 7 pages Read from page 1
• Mapping a Path to a Career · 5 of 24 slides Read from page 2
• Connecting Those Who Need Help: The Role of Intermediary · 3 of 21 slides Read from page 8
• General Colin Powell on Leadership · 4 of 20 slides Read from page 3
• Kids' Connection: Tutor/Mentor Program · 4 of 27 slides Read from page 15
• 2001 Appointment to the Serve Illinois Commission · 3 of 8 pages Read from page 5
• The Role of Intermediary (Wired.org) · 5 of 25 slides Read from page 2
• 2001 Cabrini Connections strategy 2001–2005 · 3 of 4 pages Read from page 1
• 1996 Vendors for the CPS 10,000 Tutors program (CC/T/MC included) · 3 of 5 pages Read from page 1
• Neighborhood Analysis: Doolittle and Phillips Schools · 3 of 10 slides Read from page 2
• 2000 The role of faith communities · 3 of 11 pages Read from page 6
• 2000 T/MC goals and outcomes, 2000 · 1 of 1 pages Read from page 1
• 1996 La Rabida Big Hearts Award · 1 of 3 pages Read from page 3
• 2006 Lend-A-Hand My Hero Awards: Flyer · 1 of 1 pages Read from page 1
• 1993 Cabrini Connections / T/MC network-building goal · 1 of 1 pages Read from page 1
• Role of Leaders in a Tutor/Mentor Connection · 3 of 16 slides Read from page 3
• 1997 Serve Illinois, fall 1997: Presidents’ Summit follow-up · 3 of 4 pages Read from page 1
• T/MC Theory of Change (Leadership Pyramid) · 4 of 34 slides Read from page 9
• Tutor/Mentor Learning Network · 4 of 18 slides Read from page 2
• 2008 Bank of America Local Heroes Award · 1 of 1 pages Read from page 1
• Building a Network Focused on a Common Goal · 4 of 35 slides Read from page 22
• 1996 Cabrini Connections presentation · 3 of 10 pages Read from page 1
• 2002 Editorial, 30 December 2002 · 1 of 2 pages Read from page 1
• 2000 Evaluation Tools on the Web (Fall 2000 tech session) · 3 of 23 slides Read from page 12
• 1995 Hospitals and health care: a T/MC strategy · 2 of 4 pages Read from page 2
• 1993 Junior Achievement – T/MC partnership · 4 of 6 pages Read from page 1
• 1996 Map of 1996 Lend-A-Hand grant recipients · 1 of 1 pages Read from page 1
• 2005 eConference and Conference Introduction, May 2005 · 3 of 33 slides Read from page 5
• 1996 Profile of Dan Bassill (M. Contos) · 2 of 7 pages Read from page 3
• Theory of Change · 4 of 34 slides Read from page 9
• 2011 T/MC History Links: 1965 to June 2011 · 2 of 7 pages Read from page 2
• 1995 Cabrini Connections & T/MC annual reports, 1995–1997 · 1 of 7 pages Read from page 5
• 2000 Cultural Impact Award · 1 of 1 pages Read from page 1
• 2004 eConference Welcome, May 2004 · 2 of 19 slides Read from page 8
• Jefferson Awards: Recognizing Volunteers · 1 of 2 pages Read from page 1
• 2014 Jefferson Award interview with Dan Bassill · 2 of 4 pages Read from page 2
• 2005 Building a Network: May 2005 eConference · 2 of 34 slides Read from page 26
• 2008 A minister working with maps (blog article) · 2 of 5 pages Read from page 1
• 2001 Newsletter Article: Tracking and Sharing Our History (OHATS) · 1 of 1 pages Read from page 1
• 1999 Letter to State Senator Barack Obama · 1 of 1 pages Read from page 1
• 1999 Email to State Senator Barack Obama · 1 of 1 pages Read from page 1
• Annual Planning Calendar · 3 of 17 slides Read from page 2
• Role of the Tutor/Mentor Connection · 1 of 11 slides Read from page 9
• Structured Networking (Jordan-Webb) · 3 of 58 slides Read from page 5
• Logic Model for T/MC · 2 of 10 slides Read from page 8

• Undated CAN CALL TV Fall View
• Undated ESRI News: ESRINews TMCMaps View
• Undated Jefferson Awards: Jefferson Award View
• Undated Microsoft Word Sources and data View
• Undated Newsletter team1a View
• 1982 Montgomery Ward FORWARD MWTP View
• 1990 TMC.Recruitment.Bank.Booster.1990s View
• 1994 PCINewsletter View
• 1994 CBF19 View
• 15 May 1994 Chicago Tribune: conf View
• 16 May 1994 Chicago Tribune: conf View
• 21 Aug 1994 Chicago Tribune: cc vol View
• 27 Nov 1994 Chicago Sun-Times: Story View
• 30 Dec 1994 Chicago Tribune: Story View
• 1994 Chicago Bar Association: Record LAH Program View
• 1994 CBFNews1994 View
• 1994 Chicago Sun-Times: CC volunteer profile View
• 1994 Metro Info Center View
• 1995 Chicago Bar Association: Report LAH agreement w TMC View
• 1995 News Spring View
• 1995 MW Forward CC story Winter View
• 1995 St. Peters Church news View
• 1995 TMC.Recruitment Campaign.Misc1995 View
• 1995 Lawyers Mentor Youth View
• 1995 Spring1995 View
• 1995 Chicago Tribune: Tib1995Master Plan View
• 16 May 1995 Chicago Defender: Story View
• 9 Jun 1995 Daily Southtown View
• 16 Jun 1995 Chicago Defender: TMC.Conference View
• 6 Sep 1995 Southtown View
• 8 Nov 1995 Community Media Workshop View
• 1996 Chicago Bar Association: Record LAH and TMC View
• 1996 Chicago Bar Association: Report Fall TM Week View
• 1996 Crain's Chicago Business: CC story View
• 31 May 1996 Chicago Tribune: Olympic Tourch CC on committee View
• 24 Jul 1996 Chicago Defender: Prime Mover Award View
• 14 Nov 1996 Chicago Sun-Times: Story View
• 24 Nov 1996 Chicago Tribune: Story View
• 4 Dec 1996 Educator View
• 4 Dec 1996 Chicago Parent: Parent View
• 16 Dec 1996 Chicago Bar Association: young prof gift View
• 1997 Giraffe Project: Giraffe1997 View
• 1997 Kiwanis International Project Ideas View
• 1997 Giraffe Project: Giraffe Foundation Honor1997 View
• 1997 Letters to editor1997& View
• Jan 1997 CC Vol David Jang Old Kent Bank View
• 29 Apr 1997 Chicago Sun-Times: Story View
• 29 Apr 1997 Chicago Tribune: Story View
• 2 Jun 1997 Chicago Tribune: Story View
• 22 Jun 1997 Chicago Sun-Times: Commitment.Cities View
• 20 Jul 1997 Chicago Tribune: Story View
• 25 Aug 1997 Chicago Defender: Our Children Need Your Help View
• 30 Aug 1997 Chicago Sun-Times: Story View
• 3 Sep 1997 Chicago Tribune: letter View
• 24 Nov 1997 Chicago Bar Association: Daily LAH event View
• 21 Dec 1997 Chicago Sun-Times: letter View
• Jun 1998 Chronicleof Philanthropy Maps letter June View
• Oct 1998 School to Work Reporter: School To Work Reporter View
• 1998 Black United Fund Winter TMC View
• 1998 Chicago Bar Association: tutor programs View
• 1998 Chronicleof Philanthropy Maps View
• 1998 YMCA Y Pal Mentoring Fall View
• 1998 Adolescent Literacy What Works and Why1998 View
• 1998 STW Reporter View
• 12 Jan 1998 Crain's Chicago Business: Story View
• 1999 Lend A Hand web View
• 1999 Performink IYP story View
• Mar 1999 Target Marketing News View
• 30 Mar 1999 Chicago Tribune: Evanston conf View
• 9 Apr 1999 Digital City Evanston TMC Conf View
• 12 Apr 1999 Chicago Sun-Times: DBLetter View
• 4 Jun 1999 DM News: DM News.com View
• 7 Jun 1999 DM News: DMNews View
• 9 Jun 1999 DM News: DMNews View
• 11 Jun 1999 Interactive PR Marketing News View
• 23 Jun 1999 Connect for Kids.org View
• 5 Jul 1999 Economic Opportunity Report View
• 21 Jul 1999 Noth LOOP News cc grant View
• 3 Aug 1999 Streetwise: Cabrini Connections View
• 27 Aug 1999 Chicago Bar Association: Lend A Hand website View
• 18 Oct 1999 Chicago Tribune: Internet TMC Conf View
• Dec 1999 Helping The Kids URISA News Dec View
• 2000 Illinois Wesleyan University: IWU Magazine Spring DB award View
• 2000 Mentoring Coalition Dade Cty View
• 20 Jan 2000 American News Service TMC Mapping View
• 22 Apr 2000 Chicago Tribune: Story View
• 30 Dec 2000 Chicago Tribune: Story View
• 2001 Ecumenical Child Care Network2001 View
• Feb 2001 Booster Lerner Paper Feb View
• 3 Feb 2001 River North News View
• 5 Sep 2001 Illinois Wesleyan University: IWU Presidents Convocation DB Ph D honor View
• 2002 Directions Mag.com mapping View
• 2002 ESRI News: ESRINews TMCMaps View
• 2002 INVEST Evanston Fall TMC recruitment View
• 7 Mar 2002 Ill Retail Merchants Association 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
• 6 Nov 2003 Skyline: donation View
• Dec 2003 Youth Today Dec Jan letter View
• 2004 Illinois Wesleyan University: IWU Magazine Summer ACI Award View
• 2004 ACI Award IWU Magazine View
• 2004 Social Innovation Award Nomination View
• 31 Jan 2004 Chicago Defender: Story View
• 3 Feb 2004 UIC Flame View
• 2005 Academic Development Institute: ADIFamilies&Schools Fall2005 View
• 10 Jan 2005 Chicago Bar Association: Report View
• 10 Jan 2005 Report View
• 16 Jan 2005 Chicago Bar Association: Report View
• 27 Jul 2005 APNews.myway.com View
• 4 Aug 2005 EXTRA recruitment 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
• 2006 Youth Today2006 View
• 10 Aug 2006 EXTRA Ad View
• 10 Aug 2006 EXTRA News Ad View
• 2007 Chicago Bar Association: Report grants View
• 2007 Serve Illinois Winter View
• 7 Feb 2007 Power of One w Debra Berg View
• 23 Mar 2007 Third Sector News New Ways to Collaborate View
• May 2008 Indiana Mentor Advisory Council May2008 TMC conf View
• 7 Sep 2008 Chicago Sun-Times: e Mail to Editor DB View
• 7 Mar 2009 Chicago Sun-Times: Story View
• 11 Dec 2009 Chicago Tribune: Story View
• 2 Aug 2010 Out of the Box Thinking TMC Conf View
• 2011 Streetwise: Story View
• 26 Oct 2011 Streetwise: TM Conf View
• 2012 Streetwise: Story View
• 2012 Streetwise: Story View
• 12 Aug 2013 Crain's Chicago Business: Story View
• 6 Apr 2014 Chicago Tribune: Plan View
• 15 Oct 2015 Chicago Tribune: Interactive Maps View
• 21 Oct 2015 Chicago Tribune: Maps View
• 24 Jun 2020 Chicago Tribune: Mekhi James View
• 31 Dec 2020 Chicago Sun-Times: Story View

Open them in the map gallery.

• 2019 Program Locator banks · Business
• 2012 NCVS · Business
• 2010 T/MC Thanks Whole Foods · Business
• 2010 Thanks Starbucks · Business
• 2010 Thanks Whole Foods · Business
• 2009 Banks MB Financial · Business
• 2009 Grocery All · Business
• 2009 Hyde Park Hair Salon · Business
• 2009 Hyde Park Hair Salon · Business
• 2009 Hyde Park Hair Salon · Business
• 2009 Hyde Park Hair Salon · Business
• 2009 Jewel Dominicks · Business
• 2009 Sexton Woodlawn Revisited · Business
• 2009 Webster Wine Bar · Business
• 2008 Banks Banco Popular · Business
• 2008 Banks Bank Of America · Business
• 2008 Banks Charter One · Business
• 2008 Banks Chase · Business
• 2008 Banks Citibank · Business
• 2008 Banks MB Financial · Business
• 2008 Banks Northern Trust · Business
• 2008 Banks Park National · Business
• 2008 Business Retail CVS · Business
• 2008 Business Retail CVS Schools · Business
• Austin Chase · Business
• Bank of America · Business
• Business Insurance Allstate · Business
• Business Insurance American Family · Business
• Business Insurance Farmers · Business
• Business Insurance State Farm · Business
• Chase · Business
• Grocery Dominicks s · Business
• Multiple Store Support · Business
• NICOR · Business
• Phillips High School business · Business
• Rotary Map · Business
• Wal Mart · Business
• Walgreens · Business
• Webster Wine Bar · Business
• Illinois Rep. District 5 Dunkin Business Banks · Political districts
• Illinois Rep. District 5 Dunkin Business Insurance · Political districts
• Illinois Rep. District 5 Dunkin Business Pharmacy · Political districts
• Illinois Rep. District 9 Turner Business Banks · Political districts
• Illinois Rep. District 9 Turner Business Insurance · Political districts
• Illinois Rep. District 9 Turner Business Pharmacy · Political districts
• T/MC Chicago Ward1 business · Political districts
• 2013 Funding · Funding & donors
• 2009 Chicago Marathon · Funding & donors
• 2009 Lend A Hand · Funding & donors
• 2008 Lend A Hand · Funding & donors
• CAUSE RIBBON · Funding & donors
• Dinner map · Funding & donors
• Foundations93 05Chi Region · Funding & donors
• Funding platform · Funding & donors
• Lend A Hand · Funding & donors
• Show giving on map · Funding & donors
• 2023 Southside STEM Asset Map business · Maps by other organizations
• 2020 Grant Planning Map · Maps by other organizations
• 2020 Grant Planning Map Dashboard · Maps by other organizations
• 2018 Field Foundation · Maps by other organizations
• 2016 Philanthropy Map60623 · Maps by other organizations
• 2016 Philanthropy Map60657 · Maps by other organizations
• 2015 Philanthropy Map · Maps by other organizations
• Business Locator SB Csite · Maps by other organizations
• Philanthropyin sight Map · Maps by other organizations
• Segregated Cities Business Insider · Maps by other organizations

Ratings and comments are on the Workshops page.

• Fundraising Fundamentals — Cindy, Diehl Yang · Fall conference
• Strategies for Corporate and Community Partnerships — Beth, Brandon · Fall conference
• Collaborating with Local Businesses: How to Create a Mentor Card Program — Amber, Reiss · Fall conference
• Fundraising Fundamentals — Cindy Yang · Spring 2001

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

• International Youth Foundation · 2002 library · Education-to-Careers
• California Mentor Foundation · 2002 library · Evaluation/Research
• Black United Fund of Illinois, Inc. · 2002 library · Funding/Philanthropy
• Chicago Bar Foundation Lend A Hand Program. · 2002 library · Funding/Philanthropy
• Chicago Health Corps · 2002 library · Funding/Philanthropy
• dlcharity · 2002 library · Funding/Philanthropy
• givinggiftsthatgive · 2002 library · Funding/Philanthropy
• Greenstar · 2002 library · Funding/Philanthropy
• HUman Interaction Research Institute web site · 2002 library · Funding/Philanthropy
• igive.com · 2002 library · Funding/Philanthropy
• Independent Sector · 2002 library · Funding/Philanthropy
• Internet NonProfit Center: Resources for and about Non Profits · 2002 library · Funding/Philanthropy
• Lend-A-Hand Program of the Chicago Bar Association · 2002 library · Funding/Philanthropy
• National Center for Family Philanthropy Links Page · 2002 library · Funding/Philanthropy
• New Ventures in Philanthropy · 2002 library · Funding/Philanthropy
• NewTithing™ Group · 2002 library · Funding/Philanthropy
• Out-of-School Time Project · 2002 library · Funding/Philanthropy
• The Chicago Community Trust · 2002 library · Funding/Philanthropy
• The Grantmaker Forum on Community & National Service (GFCNS) · 2002 library · Funding/Philanthropy
• The Phil Hardin Foundation · 2002 library · Funding/Philanthropy
• Working for Change · 2002 library · Funding/Philanthropy
• www.helping.org · 2002 library · Funding/Philanthropy
• Living Classrooms Foundation · 2002 library · Learning Sites/Activities
• Bresee Foundation · 2002 library · Organizations (Models) to Learn
• READ Foundation · 2002 library · Organizations (Models) to Learn
• The Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management · 2002 library · Program Management/Administration
• Benton Foundation Kids Campaign · 2002 library · Resource Networks
• Canada's Leading Authority on Peer Program Development and Mentoring for Schools and Business. · 2002 library · Resource Networks
• Points of Light Foundation · 2002 library · Resource Networks
• Free Software Foundation · 2002 library · Technology/Digital Divide
• BORN THIS WAY FOUNDATION · 2021 library · AfterSchool Networks
• THE WALLACE FOUNDATION KNOWLEDGE CENTER · 2021 library · AfterSchool Networks
• ARTS & BUSINESS COUNCIL OF CHICAGO (A&BC/CHICAGO) · 2021 library · Arts Programs Resources
• CHICAGO POETRY FOUNDATION · 2021 library · Arts Programs Resources
• GRAMMY MUSIC FOUNDATION - GRAMMY IN THE SCHOOLS · 2021 library · Arts Programs Resources
• INTERNATIONAL CHILD ART FOUNDATION (ICAF) · 2021 library · Arts Programs Resources
• ACTION FRAMEWORK FOR ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATIONS PUBLIC HEALTH INITIATIVES · 2021 library · Public Health Links
• CPASS FOUNDATION FOCUSES ON HEALTH & MEDICAL CAREERS · 2021 library · Public Health Links
• DISPARITIES IN HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE - RWJ FOUNDATION · 2021 library · Public Health Links
• GIS EDUCATION COMMUNITY SITE SPONSORED BY BY ESRI · 2021 library · STEM Resource Links
• STRUCTURAL ENGINEERS ASSOCIATION OF ILLINOIS (SEAOI) - FOUNDATION · 2021 library · STEM Resource Links
• 139 FOUNDATIONS THAT TWITTER · 2021 library · Fund Raising, Marketing
• ALLIANCE MAGAZINE BLOG - SUPPORTS PHILANTHROPY/SOCIAL INVESTMENT · 2021 library · Fund Raising, Marketing
• AN INVESTMENT APPROACH TO PHILANTHROPY - 2011 ARTICLES · 2021 library · Fund Raising, Marketing
• GIFT HUB BLOG - IDEAS ABOUT PHILANTHROPY · 2021 library · Fund Raising, Marketing
• PHILAN TOPIC - FROM PHILANTHROPY NEWS DIGEST · 2021 library · Fund Raising, Marketing
• TACTICAL PHILANTHROPY · 2021 library · Fund Raising, Marketing
• THE EVOLUTION OF PHILANTHROPY & THE FALL OF THE FUNDRAISING PYRAMID · 2021 library · Fund Raising, Marketing
• THE PIONEER GAP AND PHILANTHROPY - 2013 · 2021 library · Fund Raising, Marketing
• CHANGING BUSINESS AS USUAL – BLOG ARTICLES · 2021 library · Network building, idea sharing
• EDGE PERSPECTIVES WITH JOHN HAGEL - STRATEGY @ THE INTERSECTION OF BUSINESS AND TECHNOLOGY · 2021 library · Network building, idea sharing
• TECHNOLOGY FOR NON PROFIT AND PHILANTHROPIC SECTOR · 2021 library · Network building, idea sharing
• BEYOND MENTORING: ENGAGING MENTORS TO SUPPORT RECRUITMENT, FUNDRAISING AND BEYOND (VIDEO) · 2021 library · Tutor, Mentor Org blogs
• ASHOKA - GLOBAL ASSOCIATION, SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURS · 2021 library · Business School Connections
• BABSON COLLEGE - SOCIAL INNOVATION LAB · 2021 library · Business School Connections
• BIG PICTURE LEARNING - CHANGING THE WAY WE THINK ABOUT EDUCATION · 2021 library · Business School Connections
• BOSTON COLLEGE CENTER FOR CORPORATE CITIZENSHIP · 2021 library · Business School Connections
• BUSINESS TODAY - CONNECTING COLLEGE STUDENTS & BUSINESS LEADERS · 2021 library · Business School Connections
• COLUMBIA SOCIAL ENTERPRISE CLUB · 2021 library · Business School Connections
• CORNELL CENTER FOR SUSTAINABLE GLOBAL ENTERPRISE · 2021 library · Business School Connections
• CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY - REALIZED WORTH BLOG · 2021 library · Business School Connections
• EXECUTIVE EDUCATION AT DARTMOUTH · 2021 library · Business School Connections
• FUQUA'S CASE CENTER - ADVANCEMENT OF SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP · 2021 library · Business School Connections
• GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY - BUSINESS FOR IMPACT · 2021 library · Business School Connections
• GEORGIA TECH INSTITUTE FOR LEADERSHIP & ENTREPRENEURSHIP · 2021 library · Business School Connections
• HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL SOCIAL ENTERPRISE · 2021 library · Business School Connections
• HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL WORKING KNOWLEDGE FORUM · 2021 library · Business School Connections
• HOOVER INSTITUTION AT STANFORD UNIVERSITY · 2021 library · Business School Connections
• INDIANA UNIVERSITY KELLY SCHOOL OF BUSINESS INSTITUTE FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND COMPETITIVE ENTERPRISE · 2021 library · Business School Connections
• MICHIGAN STATE U. BROAD SCHOOL OF BUSINESS · 2021 library · Business School Connections
• MIT SLOAN ACTION LEARNING LABS · 2021 library · Business School Connections
• NET IMPACT UNDERGRAD AT UCLA · 2021 library · Business School Connections
• NOTRE DAME MENDOZA BUSINESS SCHOOL - NET IMPACT · 2021 library · Business School Connections
• NYU STERN SOCIAL ENTERPRISE ASSOCIATION · 2021 library · Business School Connections
• PENN STATE UNIVERSITY'S PARK'S SMEAL COLLEGE OF BUSINESS' NET IMPACT · 2021 library · Business School Connections
• PRINCETON ALUMNI CORPS (WAS PRINCETON 55 PROJECT) · 2021 library · Business School Connections
• PURDUE UNIVERSITY - KRANNERT’S EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING INITIATIVE · 2021 library · Business School Connections
• RICE UNIVERSITY ALLIANCE FOR TECHNOLOGY AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP · 2021 library · Business School Connections
• UC DAVIS NET IMPACT · 2021 library · Business School Connections
• UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - BERKELEY, PROGRAM ON OPEN INNOVATION · 2021 library · Business School Connections
• UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS NET IMPACT CLUB · 2021 library · Business School Connections
• UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND AT COLLEGE PARK'S SMITH SCHOOL OF BUSINESS' NET IMPACT CHAPTER · 2021 library · Business School Connections
• UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN'S ROSS SCHOOL OF BUSINESS – NET IMPACT · 2021 library · Business School Connections
• UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA NET IMPACT · 2021 library · Business School Connections
• UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA'S WHARTON SCHOOL OF BUSINESS - SOCIAL IMPACT CLUBS · 2021 library · Business School Connections
• UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA - DARDEN NET IMPACT · 2021 library · Business School Connections
• UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON BUSINESS SCHOOL'S NET IMPACT CHAPTER · 2021 library · Business School Connections
• DEPARTMENTUSC MARSHALL SCHOOL OF BUSINESS – THOUGHT LEADERSHIP INITIATIVE · 2021 library · Business School Connections
• VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY - TURNER FAMILY CENTER FOR SOCIAL VENTURES · 2021 library · Business School Connections
• WAKE FOREST U. SCHOOL OF BUSINESS – RESEARCH CENTER FOR ANALYTICS · 2021 library · Business School Connections
• BETA SITE FOR BUSINESS INNOVATION · 2021 library · Corp Social Responsibility
• CIVIC CONNECTS BUSINESS AND NON PROFIT · 2021 library · Corp Social Responsibility
• CEOs FOR CORPORATE PURPOSE · 2021 library · Corp Social Responsibility
• CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY NEWSWIRE SERVICE · 2021 library · Corp Social Responsibility
• CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY RESEARCH - CONN COMMUNICATIONS · 2021 library · Corp Social Responsibility
• CORPORATE VOLUNTEERING, GIVING AND GRANTS TECHNOLOGY REVIEW - 2021 · 2021 library · Corp Social Responsibility
• HBR REVIEW OF CORPORATE CSR SHORTFALLS - "NOT THINKING BIG ENOUGH" · 2021 library · Corp Social Responsibility
• HOW EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT BENEFITS A BUSINESS · 2021 library · Corp Social Responsibility
• NY CORPORATE VOLUNTEER ENGAGEMENT: A GUIDE TO IMPACT (PDF) · 2021 library · Corp Social Responsibility
• PHILANTHROPY FOR ACTIVE CIVIC ENGAGEMENT (PACE) · 2021 library · Corp Social Responsibility
• SOCIAL MEDIA STRATEGIES THAT COULD SUPPORT CORPORATE SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT · 2021 library · Corp Social Responsibility
• THE CONFERENCE BOARD - INSIGHTS FOR BUSINESS LEADERS · 2021 library · Corp Social Responsibility
• VERIZON FOUNDATION - INNOVATIVE LEARNING · 2021 library · Corp Social Responsibility
• WHAT CORPORATE AMERICA NEEDS TO DO TO CREATE BLACK WEALTH · 2021 library · Corp Social Responsibility
• WHY EMPLOYEE VOLUNTEERING IS GOOD FOR BUSINESS · 2021 library · Corp Social Responsibility
• A BUSINESS, EDUCATION AND GOVERNMENT LEADERS CONVERSATION ABOUT WHAT’S AT STAKE FOR OUR ECONOMY AND OUR YOUNG PEOPLE. (VIDEO) · 2021 library · Workforce Development
• LIVING CLASSROOMS FOUNDATION · 2021 library · Workforce Development
• NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR TEACHING ENTREPRENEURSHIP - CHICAGO OFFICE · 2021 library · Workforce Development
• SBA LEARNING CENTER - HELP WITH STARTING & GROWING A BUSINESS · 2021 library · Workforce Development
• UK CAREER ACADEMY FOUNDATION · 2021 library · Workforce Development
• VIRTUAL ENTERPRISES INTERNATIONAL - IN-SCHOOL GLOBAL BUSINESS SIMULATION · 2021 library · Workforce Development
• EDUTOPIA - GEORGE LUCAS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION · 2021 library · Multiple Subjects
• GIANT LEARNING GAMES FROM DAVID L HOYT FOUNDATION · 2021 library · Multiple Subjects
• CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS FOUNDATION · 2021 library · Social Science, History
• HOW HOUSING MATTERS IN CHICAGO - MACARTHUR FOUNDATION · 2021 library · Housing, Community Development
• LAWYERS LEND-A-HAND PROGRAM AT CHICAGO BAR FOUNDATION · 2021 library · Law, Justice, etc
• SAFETY AND JUSTICE CHALLENGE - SUPPORTED BY MACARTHUR FOUNDATION · 2021 library · Law, Justice, etc
• I.C. STARS - HELPS FUTURE LEADERS FUTURE LEADERS DEVELOP SKILLS IN BUSINESS AND TECHNOLOGY · 2021 library · Alt School Programs
• THE CESAR E. CHAVEZ FOUNDATION - SERVICE LEARNING · 2021 library · Youth as Leaders Resources
• COMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION (CHICAGO) - SUPPORTS YOUTH DIGITAL LEARNING · 2021 library · Arts, STEM
• NORTH SOUTH FOUNDATION - SUPPORTS INDIAN YOUTH IN US AND INDIA · 2021 library · Arts, STEM
• READ FOUNDATION - NEW YORK CITY · 2021 library · Intermediaries - Associations
• AFRICAN YOUTH FOUNDATION · 2021 library · International Mentoring and Tutoring
• INTERNATIONAL YOUTH FOUNDATION · 2021 library · International Mentoring and Tutoring
• THE YOUTH FOUNDATION - HONG KONG · 2021 library · International Mentoring and Tutoring
• EMILY SHANE FOUNDATION ( LA) WORKS WITH MIDDLE SCHOOL YOUTH · 2021 library · Other Programs
• TAPROOT FOUNDATION - HELPING NPOS AND SOCIAL CHANGE ORGANIZATIONS CONNECT WITH BUSINESS TALENT · 2021 library · Volunteer Recruitment Sites
• ALLOWGOOD - EMPOWER ALL YOUTH THROUGH THE TOOLS OF PHILANTHROPY · 2021 library · Youth as Leaders-Service Learning
• CIVIC LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION - TEACHES LEADERSHIP SKILLS · 2021 library · Youth as Leaders-Service Learning
• TRUE STAR FOUNDATION - JOURNALISM PROGRAM FOR YOUTH · 2021 library · Youth as Leaders-Service Learning
• CONSEQUENCES OF IMPACT INVESTING ON PHILANTHROPY · 2021 library · Challenges facing NPOs
• FOUNDATION HABITS THAT AGGRAVATE GRANT SEEKERS · 2021 library · Challenges facing NPOs
• FUND RAISING - PHILANTHROPY CHALLENGES - BLOG · 2021 library · Challenges facing NPOs
• GAPS BETWEEN NONPROFIT NEEDS AND DONOR PRACTICES · 2021 library · Challenges facing NPOs
• GETTING FOUNDATIONS TO LOOK AT YOUR WORK · 2021 library · Challenges facing NPOs
• IS STRATEGIC PHILANTHROPY YESTERDAY'S NEWS? - 2014 ARTICLE · 2021 library · Challenges facing NPOs
• SHORTCOMINGS OF MODERN STRATEGIC PHILANTHROPY AND HOW TO OVERCOME THEM · 2021 library · Challenges facing NPOs
• STRATEGIC PHILANTHROPY FOR COMPLEX WORLD · 2021 library · Challenges facing NPOs
• THE PRICE OF REAL CHANGE - PHILANTHROPY CHALLENGES · 2021 library · Challenges facing NPOs
• THE PROBLEM OF STRATEGIC PHILANTHROPY · 2021 library · Challenges facing NPOs
• UNDERDEVELOPED: A NATIONAL STUDY OF CHALLENGES FACING NONPROFIT FUNDRAISING · 2021 library · Challenges facing NPOs
• 12 BEST DONOR MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE - COMPARISON · 2021 library · Fund Raising platforms
• COMBINED FEDERAL CAMPAIGN (CFC) FUNDRAISING - LEARN ALL ABOUT IT · 2021 library · Fund Raising platforms
• COMMITTEE ENCOURAGING CORPORATE PHILANTHROPY · 2021 library · Fund Raising platforms
• OPPORTUNITY TO LEARN NETWORK FUND - THE SCHOTT FOUNDATION · 2021 library · Fund Raising platforms
• PHILANTHROPY PLAYMAKERS COACHES ATHLETES TO DO GOOD · 2021 library · Fund Raising platforms
• UPSWELL - A SOCIAL SECTOR COMMUNITY SPONSORED BY INDEPENDENT SECTOR · 2021 library · Fund Raising platforms
• VENTURE PHILANTHROPY PARTNERS · 2021 library · Fund Raising platforms
• FOREFRONT (FORMERLY DONORS FORUM) COMMITMENT TO ADVOCATING FOR FULL-COST FUNDING · 2021 library · General Operating Support
• HAMELS FOUNDATION (THE) - SUPPORTS EDUCATION IN US & AFRICA · 2021 library · Grant resources
• BILL & MELINDA GATES FOUNDATION · 2021 library · Grant resources
• COUNCIL ON FOUNDATIONS WEB SITE · 2021 library · Grant resources
• DEACONESS FOUNDATION - ST. LOUIS · 2021 library · Grant resources
• FOUNDATION DIRECTORY ON-LINE AT CANDID LEARNING · 2021 library · Grant resources
• FUNDRAISING AND GRANTS DIRECTORY · 2021 library · Grant resources
• GMA FOUNDATIONS - RESOURCES · 2021 library · Grant resources
• GRANTS INFORMATION CENTER, UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN · 2021 library · Grant resources
• ILLINOIS R3 GRANTS: RESTORE. REINVEST. RENEW. JULY 2020 · 2021 library · Grant resources
• KNIGHT FOUNDATION - INVESTS IN JOURNALISM · 2021 library · Grant resources
• LAWYERS LEND-A-HAND TO YOUTH - CHICAGO BAR ASSOCIATION · 2021 library · Grant resources
• MCCORMICK FOUNDATION INITIATIVES · 2021 library · Grant resources
• MEN WHO GIVE A DAMM - PHILANTHROPIC GROUP · 2021 library · Grant resources
• CHARLES STEWART MOTT FOUNDATION · 2021 library · Grant resources
• OFFICE OF JUSTICE PROGRAMS - FUNDING RESOURCE CENTER · 2021 library · Grant resources
• POLK BROS. FOUNDATION · 2021 library · Grant resources
• PROJECT STREAMLINE - A GRANT MAKING INITIATIVE · 2021 library · Grant resources
• WOMEN'S WAY - SUPPORT FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS · 2021 library · Grant resources
• "IMPOSSIBLE TO JUSTIFY." A POLITICAL SCIENTIST TAKES ON AMERICAN PHILANTHROPY · 2021 library · Understanding Philanthropy
• 360 GIVING - STUDIES UK PHILANTHROPY · 2021 library · Understanding Philanthropy
• ABOUT GLASSPOCKETS -TRANSPARENCY OF FOUNDATIONS · 2021 library · Understanding Philanthropy
• ARTICLES ON PHILANTHROPY AND PLANNED GIVING · 2021 library · Understanding Philanthropy
• CANDID - FORMED BY MERGER OF FOUNDATION CENTER & GUIDESTAR · 2021 library · Understanding Philanthropy
• CHARITABLE GIVING TRENDS - NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST · 2021 library · Understanding Philanthropy
• CHARITY (CHECK) 101- FREE DIRECTORY OF IRS-RECOGNIZED CHARITIES AND NONPROFITS · 2021 library · Understanding Philanthropy
• CHRONICLE OF PHILANTHROPY - ON-LINE RESOURCE · 2021 library · Understanding Philanthropy
• CURRENT TRENDS IN PHILANTHROPY · 2021 library · Understanding Philanthropy
• EFFECTIVE ALTRUISM - HOW CAN WE USE OUR RESOURCES TO HELP OTHERS THE MOST? · 2021 library · Understanding Philanthropy
• FORD FOUNDATION TO FOCUS ON INEQUALITY - 2015 AND BEYOND · 2021 library · Understanding Philanthropy
• FOREFRONT - ENGAGING FOR IMPACT (WAS DONORS FORUM) · 2021 library · Understanding Philanthropy
• FOUNDATION ACCOUNTABILITY IN NETWORKED AGE · 2021 library · Understanding Philanthropy
• FOUNDATION MAPS IS POWERED BY CANDID'S WORLD-CLASS PHILANTHROPY DATA · 2021 library · Understanding Philanthropy
• FUNDING CENTRE - AUSTRALIA · 2021 library · Understanding Philanthropy
• FUNDING TRENDS DASHBOARD - UK · 2021 library · Understanding Philanthropy
• GIVING IN ILLINOIS - FOREFRONT REPORTS · 2021 library · Understanding Philanthropy
• HOW AMERICA GIVES - A MAP OF PHILANTHROPY AND GIVING IN AMERICA · 2021 library · Understanding Philanthropy
• INDEPENDENT SECTOR · 2021 library · Understanding Philanthropy
• INSIDE PHILANTHROPY - READ BLOG ARTICLES · 2021 library · Understanding Philanthropy
• LEARNING BY GIVING FOUNDATION - GRANT MAP · 2021 library · Understanding Philanthropy
• MINNESOTA COUNCIL ON FOUNDATIONS -COLLABORATIVE PHILANTHROPY · 2021 library · Understanding Philanthropy
• NATIONAL CENTER FOR FAMILY PHILANTHROPY KNOWLEDGE CENTER · 2021 library · Understanding Philanthropy
• NEO PHILANTHROPY - FOCUS ON SOCIAL JUSTICE · 2021 library · Understanding Philanthropy
• NONPROFIT QUARTERLY - RESOURCE FOR NPO SECTOR · 2021 library · Understanding Philanthropy
• NONPROFIT TIMES · 2021 library · Understanding Philanthropy
• NONPROFIT WORKS · 2021 library · Understanding Philanthropy
• ON-LINE DONATION SERVICES · 2021 library · Understanding Philanthropy
• PHILAMPLIFY SEEKS TO MAXIMIZE IMPACT OF GRANT MAKERS · 2021 library · Understanding Philanthropy
• PHILANTHROPIC INITIATIVE, INC. · 2021 library · Understanding Philanthropy
• PHILANTHROPY AND COVID-19: MEASURING ONE YEAR OF GIVING-2021 REPORT · 2021 library · Understanding Philanthropy
• PHILANTHROPY CENTER AT BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY · 2021 library · Understanding Philanthropy
• RELATIONSHIP BASED SYSTEMS IN PHILANTHROPY · 2021 library · Understanding Philanthropy
• ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION - FOCUS ON POVERTY IN NYC · 2021 library · Understanding Philanthropy
• SOCIAL CHANGE PHILANTHROPY ARTICLE · 2021 library · Understanding Philanthropy
• STATE OF NONPROFIT SECTOR - NONPROFIT FINANCE FUND · 2021 library · Understanding Philanthropy
• STUDY OF HIGH NET WORTH PHILANTHROPY - 2018 · 2021 library · Understanding Philanthropy
• SYSTEMS CHANGE PHILANTHROPY - RESOURCE OF CHANDLER FOUNDATION · 2021 library · Understanding Philanthropy
• THE BOSTON FOUNDATION - UNDERSTANDING BOSTON RESOURCE · 2021 library · Understanding Philanthropy
• THE CENTER ON PHILANTHROPY AT INDIANA UNIVERSITY · 2021 library · Understanding Philanthropy
• THE CENTRE FOR EFFECTIVE ALTRUISM, BASED IN UK · 2021 library · Understanding Philanthropy
• THE EVERYDAY PHILANTHROPIST - CHANGE HOW PEOPLE THINK ABOUT NON-PROFITS · 2021 library · Understanding Philanthropy
• THE FUNDERS' NETWORK · 2021 library · Understanding Philanthropy
• THE HAUSER INSTITUTE FOR CIVIL SOCIETY AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY · 2021 library · Understanding Philanthropy
• THE NATIONAL CENTER ON PHILANTHROPY AND THE LAW · 2021 library · Understanding Philanthropy
• TWENTY-FIVE THESES ABOUT FOUNDATIONS · 2021 library · Understanding Philanthropy
• UNITED PHILANTHROPY FORUM · 2021 library · Understanding Philanthropy
• W.K. KELLOGG FOUNDATION - RESOURCE DIRECTORY · 2021 library · Understanding Philanthropy
• WHAT IF PHILANTHROPY ISN'T THE BEST WAY TO HELP PEOPLE? - ARTICLE · 2021 library · Understanding Philanthropy
• BUILDING A COLLABORATIVE BUSINESS - MAKING BETTER DECISIONS · 2021 library · Creativity, KM
• GIRL HUB - NIKE FOUNDATION PROJECT · 2021 library · Creativity, KM
• SOCIAL MEDIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION - NODEXL · 2021 library · Creativity, KM
• MAPPING PHILANTHROPY - FOUNDATION MAPS BY CANDID · 2021 library · GIS Mapping
• CHOOSING THE RIGHT SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM FOR YOUR BUSINESS (2018) · 2021 library · Marketing, Communications
• KNIGHT FOUNDATION COMMUNITY PARTNERS PROGRAM · 2021 library · Process Improvement, Evaluation
• THE EISENHOWER FOUNDATION - REPLICATING, EVALUATING AND COMMUNICATING WHAT WORKS RESTORING AMERICA’S PROMISE · 2021 library · Drop Out - research
• KNOWLEDGE WORKS FOUNDATION · 2021 library · Education Research
• LUMINA FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION - GOAL 2025 · 2021 library · Education Research
• SOROS FOUNDATION FOCUS ON EDUCATION AND YOUTH · 2021 library · Education Research
• ANNIE E. CASEY FOUNDATION (AECF) · 2021 library · Policy - Research
• ANNIE E. CASEY FOUNDATION’S KIDS COUNT DATA BOOK - 2021 · 2021 library · Policy - Research
• BUSINESS PLAN COMPETITIONS - MENTOR CAPITAL NETWORK · 2021 library · Social Enterprise - Funding
• IMPACT INVESTING - AN NEW FORM OF PHILANTHROPIC SUPPORT · 2021 library · Social Enterprise - Funding
• LEX MUNDI PRO BONO FOUNDATION - FREE LEGAL SERVICES FOR SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURS · 2021 library · Social Enterprise - Funding
• SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION (SBA) LEARNING CENTER · 2021 library · Social Enterprise - Funding
• THE ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION - IMPACT INVESTING · 2021 library · Social Enterprise - Funding
• PLATFORM BUSINESS MODEL - DISCUSSION 2015 · 2021 library · Social Enterprise - Networks
• PLATFORMS SUPPORTING NEXT GENERATION BUSINESS - SOCAP ON FACEBOOK · 2021 library · Social Enterprise - Networks
• THE LIFEPLAN INSTITUTE, PROGRAM OF CALIFORNIA MENTOR FOUNDATION · 2021 library · Training Resources - tutor-mentor
• IDEAS FOR BUILDING STRONGER CORPORATE VOLUNTEER PROGRAMS · 2021 library · volunteer mgt networks resources
• EXPERIENCE CORPS - AARP FOUNDATION TUTORING PROGRAM · 2021 library · volunteer mgt networks resources

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

• 1975 DB contacts - business cards- 1975 to 1990 · TMC-Planning / Correspondence-email-out-of-Chi Programs
• 1990 TMC-aBusinessTypeMarketingPlan-1990s · TMC-Planning
• 1993 Lee Benish, Daniel P. Coffery & Associates - 1993 contact notes · TMC-Planning / Business outreach misc
• 1993 Lee Benish, Daniel P. Coffery & Associates - 2-2-1993 intro from DB · TMC-Planning / Business outreach misc
• 1993 Wendy City Scene newletters-showing support for CC - 1993 · TMC-Planning / Business outreach misc
• 1994 Norman Hall, Norman Hall and Associates -1-9-1994 from DB · TMC-Planning / Business outreach misc
• 1994 Michael Jordan invitation to Nov. Conference - rejected - 9-19-1994 · TMC-Planning / Business outreach misc/Rejection letters
• 1994 Krissy Dziedzic, Daniel Murphy Scholarship Foundation - 8-6-1994 follow up to DB · TMC-Planning / Correspondence-misc/1990s misc correspondence
• 1994 Primus Mootry, Corporate Community Schools of America - 1994, 1995 letters from DB · TMC-Planning / Correspondence-misc/1990s misc correspondence
• 1994 Cindy Zinkovich, PCI, 10-6-1994 letter about final agreement w Chicago Bar Foundation · TMC-Planning / PublicRelations-PCI-1993-2003/Media contacts
• 1995 Anton Valukus, Jenner and Block - 6-1995 letter from DB · TMC-Planning / Business outreach misc
• 1995 Bill McCarthey, VP, Ogilvy and Mather - former MW VP - 6-6-1995 · TMC-Planning / Business outreach misc
• 1995 Carolyn Nordstrom, President, Chicago United - 6-16-1995 from DB · TMC-Planning / Business outreach misc
• 1995 David Cravit and Associates Advertising - 11-27-1995 follow up from DB · TMC-Planning / Business outreach misc
• 1995 David Hirsch, Sr VP, Smith Barney - 5-8-1995 intro from DB · TMC-Planning / Business outreach misc
• 1995 David Shuker, Leadership Council - Spring 1995 intro from DB · TMC-Planning / Business outreach misc
• 1995 Jane Crosby, Oneac Corp - Libertyville, 1995 from DB · TMC-Planning / Business outreach misc
• 1995 Jobi Cates, Cates Public Relations - 8-10-1995 from CC · TMC-Planning / Business outreach misc
• 1995 John Grady, Bell Atlantic Video Services, Reston, VA - 6-7-1995 from DB · TMC-Planning / Business outreach misc
• 1995 Kamal Hans, Andersen Consulting - 12-4-1995 follow up from DB · TMC-Planning / Business outreach misc
• 1995 Ken Perkins, Chicago, 7-19-1995 follow up from DB · TMC-Planning / Business outreach misc
• 1995 Kipp Lykins, Lake Shore Capital Partners - 7-19-1995 follow up from DB · TMC-Planning / Business outreach misc
• 1995 Leslie Andersen, CPAs for Public Interest - 6-8-1995 follow up to DB · TMC-Planning / Business outreach misc
• 1995 Mitch Rosen, VP, Chicago Rockets - 6-6-1995 follow up from DB · TMC-Planning / Business outreach misc
• 1995 Nathaniel Jarret, Pastor, Martin Temple AMEZ, Chicago - 6-1-1995 follow up from DB · TMC-Planning / Business outreach misc
• 1995 Nick Pontikes, Comdisco, 6-25-1995 from DB · TMC-Planning / Business outreach misc
• 1995 Phil White, Informix Software, Menlo Park, Ca - 2-12-1995 intro from DB · TMC-Planning / Business outreach misc
• 1995 Watch Wards - presentation to CEO of Wards circa 1995 · TMC-Planning / Business outreach misc
• 1995 John Kostolansky, Associate Dean, Director, Graduate School of Business, Loyola University - 10-25-1995 from DB · TMC-Planning / Universities
• 1995 Marilyn Leyland, Caterpillar Foundation 8-29-1995 to DB · TMC-Planning / Business outreach misc/Rejection letters
• 1995 Al Carter Youth Foundation - 9-20-1995 - cross enrolment query · TMC-Planning / Correspondence-misc/1990s misc correspondence
• 1995 Bud Ipema, Mid-American Leadership Foundation, Chicago - 1-4-1995 from DB · TMC-Planning / Correspondence-misc/1990s misc correspondence
• 1995 Helen Copeland, Cleveland Clinic Foundation - 1995-1998 contact · TMC-Planning / Correspondence-misc/1990s misc correspondence
• 1995 Pat Kilduff, Golden Apple Foundation 12-20-1995 follow up · TMC-Planning / Correspondence-misc/1990s misc correspondence
• 1995 Patrick Costigan, Enterprise Foundation - Cost of Poverty Study - 5-17-1995 to DB · TMC-Planning / Correspondence-misc/1990s misc correspondence
• 1995 Patrick Costigan, Enterprise Foundation - Cost of Poverty Study - 5-8-1995 from DB · TMC-Planning / Correspondence-misc/1990s misc correspondence
• 1995 Patrick Costigan, Enterprise Foundation - Cost of Poverty Study - 6-1-1995 from DB · TMC-Planning / Correspondence-misc/1990s misc correspondence
• 1995 Joe Cappo, Crain s Chicago Business - Go beyond Cabrini Green 11-15-1995 from DB · TMC-Planning / PublicRelations-PCI-1993-2003/Media contacts
• 1996 James Wilder, Sr VP, Harcourt Brace School Publishers - 7-19-1996 follow up from DB · TMC-Planning / Business outreach misc
• 1996 Juliet Hochman, PLAY, Nike, Inc - 1-25-1996 follow up from DB · TMC-Planning / Business outreach misc
• 1996 Kathy Simpson, DonTech Publishing - 3-29-1996 from G. Schoen · TMC-Planning / Business outreach misc
• 1996 William Kane, Martin Brown & Sullivan - 9-24-1996 follow up from DB · TMC-Planning / Business outreach misc
• 1996 Timothy Seiler, Indiana University Center on Philanthropy - 5-6-1996 from DB · TMC-Planning / Universities
• 1996 Nancy Johnson, Quarasan - circa 1996 · TMC-Planning / Business outreach misc/Rejection letters
• 1996 Texico Foundation rejection- 12-12-1996 · TMC-Planning / Business outreach misc/Rejection letters
• 1996 Carl Ball-Ball Foundation - 3-21-1996 from DB · TMC-Planning / Correspondence-misc/1990s misc correspondence
• 1996 Darryl Stingley Youth Foundation - 8-19-1996 from DB · TMC-Planning / Correspondence-misc/1990s misc correspondence
• 1996 General Mills-Corporate Partnership Committee - 2-19-1996 letter from DB · TMC-Planning / Correspondence-misc/1990s misc correspondence
• 1996 Helen Copeland, Cleveland Clinic Foundation - 6-20-1996 follow up to TMC conference · TMC-Planning / Correspondence-misc/1990s misc correspondence
• 1996 MacArthur Foundation - Nick Rabkin - 9-23-1996 from DB · TMC-Planning / Correspondence-misc/1990s misc correspondence
• 1996 Robert Goodwin, CEO, Points of Light Foundation - 7-31-1996 intro from DB · TMC-Planning / Correspondence-misc/1990s misc correspondence
• 1996 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation - S. Schroeder - 3-19-1996 from DB · TMC-Planning / Correspondence-misc/1990s misc correspondence
• 1996 Sarah Duncan, Ariel Foundation-Mentoring - TMC Raffle winner 12-14-1996 · TMC-Planning / Correspondence-misc/1990s misc correspondence
• 1996 Society of Actuaries Foundation - Kay Branz - 5-22-1996 from DB · TMC-Planning / Correspondence-misc/1990s misc correspondence
• 1996 Voice for Ill Children - Benton Foundation - 12-1996 info from DB · TMC-Planning / Correspondence-misc/1990s misc correspondence
• 1997 Ann Kolevar, Arthur Anderson - 8-25-1997 follow up from DB · TMC-Planning / Business outreach misc
• 1997 Arthur Anderson III, Arthur Anderson Foundation - 8-12-1997 from DB · TMC-Planning / Business outreach misc
• 1997 David Sevening, Witco Corporation-Greenwich, CT -11-24-1997 from DB · TMC-Planning / Business outreach misc
• 1997 Jodi Sittig, Director of Marketing, Nike, Inc - 8-29-1997 from DB · TMC-Planning / Business outreach misc
• 1997 Joe McLennan, Management Association of Illinois - 1997 from DB · TMC-Planning / Business outreach misc
• 1997 Judy Jones, Edelman Public Relations - 11-18-1997 from DB · TMC-Planning / Business outreach misc
• 1997 Katie Tuck, Marketing Manager, Niketown, Chicago - 1-21-1997 follow up from DB · TMC-Planning / Business outreach misc
• 1997 Katie Tuck, Marketing Manager, Niketown, Chicago - May 1997 conf info from DB · TMC-Planning / Business outreach misc
• 1997 Ken Struttmann, Archer-Daniels Midland Foundation, Decatur, Il - 8-12-1997 from DB · TMC-Planning / Business outreach misc
• 1997 Letter to 50-plus business leaders - 1-9-1997 · TMC-Planning / Business outreach misc
• 1997 Mary Johnson, Foot Cone and Belding Communications - 11-24-1997 from DB · TMC-Planning / Business outreach misc
• 1997 Mary Johnson, Foot Cone and Belding Communications - 8-26-1997 to DB · TMC-Planning / Business outreach misc
• 1997 Michele Hooper, President, Committee of 200, Chicago - 10-24-1997 from DB · TMC-Planning / Business outreach misc
• 1997 Sample of advertising business could do for TMC - 1997 · TMC-Planning / Business outreach misc
• 1997 Steven Pawlow, KPMG Peat Marwick, 1997 fax from DB · TMC-Planning / Business outreach misc
• 1997 Theresa Kroll, Montgomery Ward 3-20-1997 from DB · TMC-Planning / Business outreach misc
• 1997 TMC outreach to IBM - 10-2-1997 letter from DB · TMC-Planning / Business outreach misc
• 1997 Tollefson and Associates - re Joe McLennan - 7-1-1997 follow up to DB · TMC-Planning / Business outreach misc
• 1997 Tom Deneen, Aon Risk Services, CC Advisory Council - 9-3-1997 from DB · TMC-Planning / Business outreach misc
• 1997 Business-Education conf -DBnotes-1-6-1997 · TMC-Planning / EventNotes-misc
• 1997 Business-Education conf-1 -DBnotes-1-6-1997 · TMC-Planning / EventNotes-misc
• 1997 Business-Education-notes-1-1997-99 · TMC-Planning / EventNotes-misc
• 1997 Business-Education-notes-1997-99 · TMC-Planning / EventNotes-misc
• 1997 Business-EducationConf-1997 · TMC-Planning / EventNotes-misc
• 1997 Business-EducationConf-notes-1997 · TMC-Planning / EventNotes-misc
• 1997 Handy Lindsey, Jr. ED, Field Foundation of Il - endorsement of ACI College Readiness Program 4-25-1997 · TMC-Planning / Universities
• 1997 Betsy Brill, Girl s Best Friend Foundation - 10-3-1997 from DB · TMC-Planning / Correspondence-misc/1990s misc correspondence
• 1997 Chicago Instructional Technology Foundation - 3-6-1997 thanks to DB · TMC-Planning / Correspondence-misc/1990s misc correspondence
• 1997 CNA Foundation - Karen Harrigan - 2-17-1997 from DB · TMC-Planning / Correspondence-misc/1990s misc correspondence
• 1997 EVEREN Foundation - Mary Ellen Guest - 2-18-1997 from DB · TMC-Planning / Correspondence-misc/1990s misc correspondence
• 1997 Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation - 1-3-1997 from DB · TMC-Planning / Correspondence-misc/1990s misc correspondence
• 1997 Luther Replogle Foundation - 5-16-1997 from CC-TMC · TMC-Planning / Correspondence-misc/1990s misc correspondence
• 1997 Rohlen Foundation - 5-19-1997 from CC-TMC · TMC-Planning / Correspondence-misc/1990s misc correspondence
• 1998 TMC - Business Type Marketing Plan - 1998 version · TMC-Planning
• 1998 Harry Dent, Quaker Oats Company - 2-26-1998 from DB · TMC-Planning / Business outreach misc
• 1998 Steve Monroe, Grubb and Ellis - 11-11-1998 meeting · TMC-Planning / Business outreach misc
• 1998 Steven Pawlow, KPMG Peat Marwick, from Donna Giampietro - cc co-founder - 1-13-1998 · TMC-Planning / Business outreach misc
• 1998 W. Bolton- Jewel Food Stores - Jan 1998 letter from TMC · TMC-Planning / Business outreach misc
• 1998 1998 Business Education Conf - DB notes · TMC-Planning / DB On-line - 1997-1999
• 1998 Expanding Horizons Foundation - 10-31-1998 meeting - DB notes · TMC-Planning / DB On-line - 1997-1999
• 1998 National Alliance for Business - DB message 8-27-1998 · TMC-Planning / DB On-line - 1997-1999
• 1998 Reatha King, General Mills - 5-12-1998 · TMC-Planning / Business outreach misc/Rejection letters
• 1998 I Have a Dream Foundation - John Horan - letter to DB 3-31-1998 · TMC-Planning / Correspondence-misc/1990s misc correspondence
• 1998 Henry Gomez, Dir, Corporate Affairs, HBO - 1-23-1998 from DB · TMC-Planning / PublicRelations-PCI-1993-2003/Media contacts
• 1999 WorhyEvents-fundraising-1999-2000 · TMC-Planning
• 1999 ABM AMRO - J. Davenport - letter from TMC 12-2-1999 · TMC-Planning / Business outreach misc
• 1999 Anderson Consulting - 1999-2000 contact · TMC-Planning / Business outreach misc
• 1999 Gary Chico, Altheimer and Gray, 2-24-1999 from DB · TMC-Planning / Business outreach misc
• 1999 Karl Taylor, VP, Strategic Planning, Montgomery Ward - 2-24-1999 from DB · TMC-Planning / Business outreach misc
• 1999 Laura Pires-Hester, DeWitt-Wallace-Reader s Digest Fund - 3-10-1999 from DB · TMC-Planning / Business outreach misc
• 1999 Michael Loftus, Resident Manager, Palmer House Hilton, 2-24-1999 from DB · TMC-Planning / Business outreach misc
• 1999 Mott Foundation. Re JC Penny - 1999 email · TMC-Planning / Correspondence-email-out-of-Chi Programs
• 1999 Michelle Pemberton-C.S. Mott Foundation - request for conf info 3-10-1999 · TMC-Planning / DB On-line - 1997-1999
• 1999 Business-Education conf -DBnotes-1-19-1999 · TMC-Planning / EventNotes-misc
• 1999 Mentoring Network Grant-abstract-draft 3-1999 · TMC-Planning / OHATS-TMC-SteveRoussos 1998-2002
• 1999 Mentoring Network Grant-problem description-draft 3-1999 · TMC-Planning / OHATS-TMC-SteveRoussos 1998-2002
• 1999 S.Roussos-letter-grants.ideas-1999 · TMC-Planning / OHATS-TMC-SteveRoussos 1998-2002
• 1999 J.B. Pritzker-Pritzker Cousins Foundation 5-4-1999 letter from DB · TMC-Planning / Correspondence-misc/1990s misc correspondence
• 1999 Jose Fernandez, writer for technology grant - DB feedback 2-9-1999 · TMC-Planning / Correspondence-misc/1990s misc correspondence
• 2000 Anderson Consulting - Social Services Action Team 2-25-2000 · TMC-Planning / Business outreach misc
• 2000 Company outreach strategy goals - G. Schoen - 9-11-2000 · TMC-Planning / Business outreach misc
• 2000 JohnLingner-UnionLeague - 2-15-2000 · TMC-Planning / Business outreach misc
• 2000 UnionLeagueClub - TechGroup - 4-9-2000 · TMC-Planning / Business outreach misc
• 2000 Jesse Owens Foundation - letter from DB 5-26-2000 · TMC-Planning / Correspondence-misc
• 2000 Udai Kumar- iS3C - TMC conf sponsor 11-2000 · TMC-Planning / Correspondence-misc
• 2000 United Airlines, Caryn Cross - 11-27-2000 decline · TMC-Planning / Business outreach misc/Rejection letters
• 2001 MB Financial Bank - Volunteer Recruitment Brochure - circa 2001 · TMC-Planning / Business outreach misc
• 2001 BusinessMentor program in UK -8-7-2001 · TMC-Planning / Correspondence-email-out-of-Chi Programs
• 2003 Beaumont Foundation 2-3-03 meeting notes · TMC-Planning / Technology - CC-TMC
• 2004 YMCA Chicago Mentoring grant 2004 - w TMC · TMC-Planning
• 2004 Spathies Construction - 5-6-04 · TMC-Planning / Business outreach misc
• 2006 TMC Grant w CDCYC - 2006 · TMC-Planning
• 2006 Batchu Foundation - India - Education - 4-28-2006 db notes · TMC-Planning / EventNotes-misc
• 2006 Donors Forum Event - Bill Daley speaker - March 2006 db notes · TMC-Planning / EventNotes-misc
• 2006 Center for Effective Philanthropy - 2-16-2006 survey request and response · TMC-Planning / Correspondence-misc/1990s misc correspondence
• 2007 ACI forum - -12-2007-Business Partnership w schools - db notes · TMC-Planning / EventNotes-misc
• 2008 Conference sponsorship brochure - 2008 · TMC-Planning / Universities
• 2008 Business-Insurance-Allstate · maps / 2008-2011 Maps made by Mike Traken/Insurance Company maps
• 2008 Business-Insurance-AmericanFamily · maps / 2008-2011 Maps made by Mike Traken/Insurance Company maps
• 2008 Business-Insurance-Farmers · maps / 2008-2011 Maps made by Mike Traken/Insurance Company maps
• 2008 Business-Insurance-StateFarm · maps / 2008-2011 Maps made by Mike Traken/Insurance Company maps
• 2008 Business-Retail-CVS-092508 · maps / 2008-2011 Maps made by Mike Traken/Pharmacy Company maps
• 2008 Business-Retail-CVS-Schools-092508 · maps / 2008-2011 Maps made by Mike Traken/Pharmacy Company maps
• 2008 TMC-Chicago-Ward1-business-72dpi · maps / 2008-2011 Maps made by Mike Traken/Political leaders/Chi-1stWard-Flores
• 2008 ILRepDist5-Dunkin-Business-Banks · maps / 2008-2011 Maps made by Mike Traken/Political leaders/ILRepDist5-Dunkin
• 2008 ILRepDist5-Dunkin-Business-Insurance · maps / 2008-2011 Maps made by Mike Traken/Political leaders/ILRepDist5-Dunkin
• 2008 ILRepDist5-Dunkin-Business-Pharmacy · maps / 2008-2011 Maps made by Mike Traken/Political leaders/ILRepDist5-Dunkin
• 2008 ILRepDist9-Turner-Business-Banks · maps / 2008-2011 Maps made by Mike Traken/Political leaders/IlRepDist9-ArthurTurner
• 2008 ILRepDist9-Turner-Business-Insurance · maps / 2008-2011 Maps made by Mike Traken/Political leaders/IlRepDist9-ArthurTurner
• 2008 ILRepDist9-Turner-Business-Pharmacy · maps / 2008-2011 Maps made by Mike Traken/Political leaders/IlRepDist9-ArthurTurner
• 2009 Aparecio Foundation - 9-18-2009 eMail to DB · TMC-Planning / Correspondence-misc
• 2009 Alford Group fundraising event - circa 2009 db notes · TMC-Planning / EventNotes-misc
• 2009 Siragusa Foundation - event circa 2009 db notes · TMC-Planning / EventNotes-misc
• 2011 Philanthropy vs Sponsorship 4-21-2011 DB notes · TMC-Planning
• 2011 Terry Mazaney - CCT - DB notes from philanthropy event circa 2011 · TMC-Planning / EventNotes-misc
• 2012 WTTW Chicago - American Graduate initiative 4-11-12 invitation · TMC-Planning / Business outreach misc
• 2013 Philanthropy Club 2013-17 db notes · TMC-Planning
• 2015 NormGoldring-R.Sanderson-ParentPower - 2015 meeting - db notes · TMC-Planning / Business outreach misc
• 2015 NormGoldring-R.Sanderson-ParentPower - 2015 meeting · TMC-Planning / Business outreach misc
• 2015 Civic Leadership Foundation - 9-16-2015 - db notes · TMC-Planning / Event Notes 2015
• 2015 Civic Leadership Foundation - follow up to Roosevelt edu 9-16-2015 · TMC-Planning / Event Notes 2015
• 2015 Philanthropy Club - 33-2015 · TMC-Planning / Event Notes 2015
• 2015 PhilanthropyMap2015 · maps
• 2016 PhilanthropyMap60623-3-17-16 · maps
• 2016 PhilanthropyMap60657-3-17-16 · maps
• 2018 FieldFoundation2018 · maps
• 2023 SouthsideSTEMAssetMap-business2023 · maps
• A Look at Our Business - From Business Perspective · TMC-Planning
• Business School Connections - list · TMC-Planning / Universities
• BusinessLocatorSBCsite · maps
• Foundations93-05ChiRegion · maps
• Philanthropyin-sightMap · maps
• PhillipsHS-business · maps
• SegregatedCities-BusinessInsider · maps

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

• 2008 4-part strategy
• 2008 Awards and interviews
• 2008 Case for Business involvement
• 2008 Daniel F. Bassill
• 2008 Education-to-Careers
• 2008 Error 404
• 2008 Goals of Recruitment Campaign - for planning:
• 2008 HELP SPREAD THE WORD!
• 2008 Planning Strategies
• 2008 Poverty Maps
• 2008 Public Awareness - Rest of Story
• 2008 Recruiting Talent Volunteers
• 2008 Strategy to accomplish the Mission
• 2008 Support for Campaign - History
• 2008 The Rest of the Story - A Marketing Strategy
• 2008 Tutor/Mentor Institute's Event Calendar
• 2008 Volunteer at a Chicagoland Tutor/Mentor Program
• 2008 What is OHATS?
• 2008 Workforce Development
• 2008 eLearning and Networking Goals
• 2009 Dan Bassill Interview
• 2009 Getting Started
• 2009 Role of Leaders - can you take this role?
• 2009 These illustrated essays share the T/MI vision
• 2010 History. Who has helped?
• 2011 Increasing Attention for Tutor/Mentor Programs
• 2011 NOTICE OF CHANGE TO T/MC
• 2011 Two Names. One Mission.
• 2019 Campaign for Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC
• 2019 Concept Map Library
• 2020 Chicago Programs - Facebook
• 2020 Intermediaries - Chicago
• 2021 Additional Research-re education, youth development
• 2021 Afterschool Networks & Associations
• 2021 Alternative School Programs
• 2021 April 2021 Tutor/Mentor eNews
• 2021 Arts Programs Resources
• 2021 August 2021 T/M eNews
• 2021 Black History Links
• 2021 Business School Connections
• 2021 Career and Vocational Education
• 2021 Challenges Facing NPOs
• 2021 Chi Orgs on Instagram
• 2021 Chicago Area College Access Programs
• 2021 Chicago Area School Based Tutor Mentor
• 2021 Chicago Gov; Misc NPOs
• 2021 Chicago Suburbs - Tutor and/or Mentor Programs
• 2021 Climate-Environment-etc
• 2021 Collaboration & Community Building Links
• 2021 Concept Maps; Visualization
• 2021 Conference Links
• 2021 Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) links
• 2021 Digital Access-Digital Divide
• 2021 Drop Out Research
• 2021 Education, Learning & cMOOC blogs
• 2021 Faith Based Youth Serving Orgs
• 2021 Fund Raising Hubs-Intermediaries
• 2021 Fund Raising-Marketing blogs
• 2021 GIS Mapping Links
• 2021 General Operating Support Articles
• 2021 Grant Resources
• 2021 Innovation-Knowledge Management
• 2021 Intermediaries and associations
• 2021 International T/M
• 2021 June-July 2021 eNews
• 2021 Law, Justice Links
• 2021 Library - Housing-Com Development
• 2021 Library - Philanthropy Links
• 2021 Library - Poverty, race, inequality
• 2021 Library - Violence against women
• 2021 Library - poverty-crime mapping
• 2021 Library: Business Involvement
• 2021 March 2021 Tutor/Mentor eNews
• 2021 Marketing-Communications
• 2021 May 2021 Tutor/Mentor eNews
• 2021 Mentoring-Tutoring Research
• 2021 Multiple Site and Community Based T/M programs
• 2021 Multiple Subjects
• 2021 Network & Learning Blogs
• 2021 Political Actions-Progressive Issues
• 2021 Process Improvement; Evaluation
• 2021 Public Health Careers, Mentoring
• 2021 STEM Resource Links
• 2021 STEM in youth programs
• 2021 Social Capital Research
• 2021 Social Enterprise Funding
• 2021 Social Enterprise Networks & Ideas
• 2021 Social Science, History
• 2021 Technology Resources & Networks
• 2021 Training Resources for NPO Leaders
• 2021 Tutor Mentor Programs beyond Chicago
• 2021 Tutor/Mentor Links Library
• 2021 Tutor/Mentor Org Blogs
• 2021 Understanding Philanthropy
• 2021 Useful Tech Tools
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• 1996 Mid America Leadership Foundation award
• 2005 Skoll Foundation application