Training

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• 1999-12-30 Toi Pilgrim from Student Mentor Partners, Detroit, visited T/MC to share ideas and borrow from T/MC information.
• 2000-08-02 Provided "consulting" to Traci S. from Christopher House on starting a mentoring program. I provided some basic questions to answer, such what age group do they want to serve and what is the purpose of the program, then discussed the questions in more detail.
• 2000-09-12 Provided "consulting" service to Adriene C. from the Westside Holistic Center on starting a tutoring/mentoring program. They planned to start an after school program that enhances academic skills and social skills beginning in October 2000.
• 2000-09-26 Provided "consulting" to Jessica H. from Project Explore. They currently work with youth in the summer to teach them about dinosaur exploration. They wanted to add an ongoing tutoring/mentoring component to help the youth year-round.
• 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 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 Assistant Principle of Jones Commercial High School called and asked if T/MC would help him start a mentoring program at the school. I responded with "let us help you set up a student-led T/MC at your school". We'll meet on 10/17
• 2000-10-11 I contacted The Great Books Foundation for a raffle donation for the 14th T/MC Conference scheduled for November 9 & 10, 2000. The initial conversation for a donation led into a more in-depth conversation in which we shared information about our organizations. There is a lot of potential for t/m programs to partner with TGBF.
• 2000-10-11 Email conversation started with Craig Anthony Thomas, ExDir of the Kalamazoo Chapter of World Organization of Web Masters. By Friday, his message was:"Please re-send as I will bring up your proposal to two groups here -- the Kalamazoo Area Service-Learning Alliance as well as the Kalamazoo chapter of the World Organization of Webmasters. Both meetings take place Tuesday at 1 p.m. and 6 p.m., respectively. It is my impression from frequent visits to your site that Kalamazoo folks could go piggyback with your efforts in a viable parnership. I'll also check out your upcoming November conference as a in-service training session that our group leaders can attend. The information you share helps me make a compelling case for a partnership.
• 2000-10-18 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.
• 2000-10-23 Dan gave 10 minute intro and invitation to Midwest Facilitators Conference attendees
• 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.
• 2000-11-07 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.
• 2000-11-10 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
• 2000-11-21 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.
• 2000-11-29 Fall 2000 T/MC Report and Newslink newsletters put in mail to more than 13,000 people around the country.
• 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.
• 2000-12-05 S. Altschul from Y.O.U. in Evanston, contacted me for information on screening volunteers and suggestions on how to train volunteers around discipline. I discussed with her with CC does for screening volunteers. I also suggested a few websites to look at for info on discipline and recommend that she contact a local university and/or mental health center to get a professional to come in and speak with volunteers. I also faxed her information on screening.
• 2000-12-06 Provided consulting services to T. Stanley from Christopher House. This is the second time we spoke on the telephone about the mentoring program she is developing. The first time (documented earlier) was general "How to Get Started". This conversation was specific to volunteer reporting on their activities/volunteer support and volunteer screening.
• 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
• 2000-12-18 Contacted STEP, Inc. Youth Service Program as part of our outreach efforts. Learned more about their program and their needs. One of their biggest needs is finding volunteers to teach their students computer graphic design. In general, they mainly utilize parent volunteers. The staff works with the students. They serve about 85 annually, and average about 25 youth a day.
• 2000-12-18 Contacted the Arab American Action Network Youth Program as part of our Outreach efforts. Learned about their program, which currently is using high school students to tutor younger kids. Needs include trying to recruit adult/college students as tutors. The program manager, Hatem A., has tried recruiting with not a lot of success. Challenges could be the time of the program, which is 4:30. We discussed the value in using high school students, but the need exists to better train them and to educate the parents on the value of using high school students.
• 2000-12-18 Contacted Cetnro Communitario Juan Diego as part of our outreach effort. Learned about their program which includes tutoring for kids and teaching computers to kids. There are currently about 35 kid enrolled, and 6 more on the waiting list. There's a need for adult volunteers, especially those that can work with kids with special needs. We discussed some recruitment ideas and the importance of training as part of the retention plan.
• 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 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.
• 2000-12-22 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."
• 2000-12-28 Contacted Sunlight African Community Center as part of our outreach work. Learned more about the program and some of their challenges. Two of the top challenges are need for more funds and need for volunteers. We talked about using the high school students as volunteers because they need community service hours. Lack of parent involvement is another challenge. The program's founder has done a lot of networking with local organizations, especially other organizations that target immigrants.
• 2000-12-29 Matt T. from JACS contacted us looking for Steve R. to get guidance on evaluation. Matt saw Steve's name in our newsletter as the evaluation contact. I referred Matt to this website and said he could contact Steve via e-mail. We began talking about JACS program and how they are modifying it from telephone contact with many (1,000s??) Job Corps graduates to providing more extensive support to fewer students in two states. We talked a little about structuring a one-on-one relationship with a volunteer mentor and the need for JACS staff to support the mentors. I referred him to Tim H. from Mercy Home for an idea of how many mentors one staff person could support. Matt asked if we could talk in the future about training and supporting mentors. I, of course, said "Yes"!
• 2000-12-29 Email from Big Sisters contact in Indianapolis area. She wrote (in response to my last message to her), "Thank you for the task. I believe I am beginning to understand how Big Sisters can participate in the T/MC model. I meet with my Executive Director on Wednesday Jan. 3, 2000. I plan to discuss with her the e-mails we have exchanged and the information you have shared with me. I will connect with you again,shortly after meeting with her, I will know whether or not I may proceed with the task you outlined in your E-mail. I believe she will like this concept as much as I do. Wish me luck."
• 2000-12-29 Jayne Cravens, leader of the Virtual Volunteering Project, located in Texas, included this endorsement in a message she posted on the MentorNet list, "There are a lot of other quality mentoring support programs out there as well. I strongly agree with Dan Bassill: "The more choices an organization or community have to draw from the better decisions they will make as to their own vision and direction." Definitely look at Tutor/Mentor Connection and other mentoring program web sites as well."
• 2000-12-29 Linda B. from Emerald Avenue Church of God called for Dan Bassill on Friday. She wanted help on training mentors for a program she's starting at her church. I talked with her because Dan was not in. Through our conversation I learned that she first needed some guidance on how to structure her program, which is necessary before she could train volunteers. I sent her How To Get started information and told her to contact me again to after putting some ideas on paper. She also still wanted to talk with Dan. I left him a message.
• 2000-12-31 Summary of calls received at T/MC for year 2000. Volunters: 100; Parents: 169; Schools/DCFS: 105; new programs: 17; Current programs: 28; misc calls for information 106. (this represents calls entered on contact logs. Not all calls are recorded.)
• 2001-01-02 Follow-up call to Tricia S. with Centro Comunitario Juan Diego. Initial contact made as part of outreach effort. This conversation we discussed some of Tricia's areas of concern which include needing more volunteers, getting parents more involved and having more program structure. We talked informally and some suggestions I made include having older kids serve as tutors for younger kids and having parent committee take on the responsibility of getting more parents involved and possibly organize workshops for parents that help them understand ways to get more involved in their children's educations. We will talk again in a few weeks, after Tricia has time to go through information I sent her on starting a program.
• 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 Contacted Starfish Learning Center as part of our outreach efforts. Starfish was not in our directory. We learned about the program through another outreach call to the Sunlight African Community Center. Starfish operates an after-school tutoring and mentoring in the Rogers Park area. It provides homework help and skill building activities, plus uses the arts and takes kids on trips to places like Florida as rewards for good grades. Starfish has a Christian focus and also teaches bible study to kids. The organization plans to start a cable show with its students.
• 2001-01-05 Contacted Ron A. with the ACE mentoring program in the Fox Valley (IL) area. Learned about this program that exposes high school to careers in Architecture, Construction and Engineering (i.e. ACE), through a Chicago Tribune article. The program is in its first year and is going well. The program idea is modeled after a similar program in NYC.
• 2001-01-09 Shirley Woodard, Fernwood United Methodist Church, Chicago, called for help starting a program. Referred via National Mentoring Partnership.
• 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 Debra Carlson, Summer Business Institute, called to get name of YMCA contact she met at last conference. She told me h ow she'd been networking with others, like Gary Goldman, as a result of the conference. As we talked I told her how she could get a free web site at Chicago Tribune. I also encouraged her to document her contacts via OHATS
• 2001-01-09 Contacted Association House as part of our outreach efforts. Learned more about their after-school programs which consists of one for kids ages 6-12 and other for teens, ages 12-18.
• 2001-01-10 Contacted Rockwell-Grant Youth Project as part of our outreach efforts. Rockwell-Grant is listed in our directory. Learned that they are looking at some changes to the program, primarily focusing its services more on youth as opposed to the entire family, as before. This will allow them to serve more youth. Also, because of violence in Rockwell Gardens, it makes outreach into the community difficult and dangerous. The program is primarily in-school and there's a need for day time mentors & tutors.
• 2001-01-11 Contacted the Donnelly Chicago Youth Center about their CHESS program which is listed in our directory. Learned that the CHESS program is no longer operating because the kids who were in it graduated from high school (CHESS was like an I Have A Dream Program with a specific group of kids). CYC has limited peer mentoring and some tutoring. Wants to expand these services at some point. Needs more tutors, especially adult volunteers.
• 2001-01-11 Contacted Onward Neighborhood House as part of our outreach efforts. Learned that they are collaborating with East Village and that 7-8 of their students to East Village for tutoring. Onward is also part of a collaboration with Erie and Association Houses and other agencies for Youth Options Unlimited. In addition, learned that Onward recived a grant from Kraft to start a career-related mentoring program. I provided some ideas of how to implement this. I also suggested to try to incorporate it into what they are already doing, as opposed to creating something new and separate. I also suggested they contact some of their current collaboration partners for ideas, including Erie Neighborhood House who had been offering a career mentoring program in the past, I believe. In addition, I sent some how to start a program information.
• 2001-01-12 Attended Midwest Facilitators Conference along with Pat Dowdle. This is organized by Paul Collins and continues to be an outstanding source of ideas and networking. New contacts/ideas were: Dana Clark, Ideation International, concept of structured innovation (TRIZ); Bernard Kliska, Co Chair of Family Business Center at Loyola Chicago; Carl Aylen, Neurometric International Limited (www.neurometric.com); Ranya Version, Training Specialist; and Dan Heck, who's network extends to Motorola, MFN, and Willow Creek Church
• 2001-01-17 Meeting of Chicago Bar Foundation Lend A Hand Advisory Council was held this morning. Attended by about 8 people. Guidelines for grant making were further refined, focusing on programs with at least 50% of students in one-on-one matches, extending the funding area to all of Cook County, and developing proposal instructions which should result in programs doing a better job of describing what they do.
• 2001-01-18 Dan, Gita and Pat Dowdle attended the January 2002 Midwest Facilitators Network workshops on Friday, January 18. Workshops by PowerSuasion(www.powersuasion.com), Chris Barlow (Stuart School of Business of IIT), and Michael Wilkinson (www.leadstrat.com) provided valuable knowledge for T/MC growth. All participants will be added to T/MC email distribution.
• 2001-01-19 John Morrison, a professor at Aurora University, called for information to help start a tutor/mentor program at the Third Unitarian Church in the Austin area of Chicago. We talked of how the "business plan and research" for such a program could be student work/graduate studies of business and social work students at Auora.
• 2001-01-20 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.
• 2001-01-29 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.
• 2001-01-31 Contacted Saint Pres Youth Center as part of our outreach efforts. Learned about their program, which is primarily an after-school program for grammar school kids. They have a need for volunteers plus more structure for their volunteer program. There are not a lot of businesses around the neighborhood, which makes volunteer recruitment challenging. I referred him to the Carol Robertson Center which is in the same zip code to ask how they recruit volunteers. I also sent info on volunteer recruitment and retainment.
• 2001-02-01 Contacted Ann L. from Good News Partners - Reading Coaches as part of our outreach efforts. The program works with first grade students from Gale School. They assess all the students and work with the ones who need the most help, except those students who speak little English. They used a structured curriculum.
• 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.
• 2001-02-02 Spoke with Claudia S. of Family Matters as part of our outreach efforts. Learned more about their program which includes tutoring at Gale School after school and an evening program at the Family Matters site. Learned that they need more minority tutors. Also learned that they have a tutor website that is used to communicate with each other.
• 2001-02-02 Contact the Chinese American Service League. Learned that their program is expected to start in mid-February 2001. I gave her our website address and told her about the conference, which she seemed interested in. She said she would callus back in the future once the program has been operating for a while and she has a better idea of how she could utilize our services.
• 2001-02-02 Contacted Connie L. to see how her program was progressing. We met almost two years ago when they were first starting a program. Connie has attended several of our conferences. We just touched base. The program is in it's second year and its attendance has grown from about 15 kids to about 25. Volunteers increased to about 8-9. The challenge is keeping kids involved because they have many other committments.
• 2001-02-07 We were contacted by Saul A. from the Chicago Youth Centers Lower North Center for help/information on starting a mentoring program. I sent her the "How To Start a Program" handout from the conference and the National Mentoring Partnership checklist. I also told her about the website and said she should call us back for more specific help.
• 2001-02-08 Met with the Rev. Dr. Walter B. Johnson, Jr., Pastor of the Wayman African methodist Episcopal Church to discuss his after-school program which is part of the Alliance for Community Peace. Learned that Wayman Church along with other churches on the near north side, have formed the Near North Ministry Alliance, which in turn started the Alliance for Community Peace in 1997. Work of the ACP includes in-school and after-school tutoring and mentoring an enrichment activities.
• 2001-02-08 Spoke with Leslie S. from the Jr. League Eckert Park tutoring program as part of our outreach efforts. Larned that the program meets on Tuesdays and Thursdays evenings during the school year. They have youth work with Jr. League members as tutors. It may not be the same person each week. They also bring in guest speakers and have special projects. The group recently started a point program where youth can buy merchandise from the "store" monthly. The program has 3-4 Jr. Leaguers as coordinators.
• 2001-02-09 Spoke with Philip J. from the Blackstar Project as part of our outreach efforts. Learned about the program, which according to Philip J., is the "largest classroom mentoring program" operating. Blackstar focuses on youth in grades 6-8 who attend either a public school, private school or Catholic school. The program "mentors" nine thousand youth in 70 school. Philip J. said that Blackstar uses a curriculum, but did not want to share the specifics. He did say that the curriculum reinforces academics and career counseling. The program also has 120 mentors.
• 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
• 2001-02-15 Called by Susan Moakley, Mentor Coordinator for VSAC Outreach programs in Vermont. She was part of a team of 15 programs doing research which could lead to the development of a T/MC type support group in that area. She asked quite a few questions on the T/MC, how it got started, etc.
• 2001-02-16 Mason Scholl, a T/MC friend, forwarded email he sent to Rick George of ChildServ in Chicago. His email said, "I suggest that Ed Vega and you contact Dan Bassill at Cabrini Connection to look at ways you could be helpful to each other. . Before your contact Dan, look at his web site: . You will find announcements and descriptions of great training events for staff and volunteers. There are also suggestions on ways After School programs can develop collaborative relationships with each other in recruiting volunteer tutors and mentors for all the After School programs in the city.
• 2001-02-16 Met with Becky S. to provide consulting on starting a tutoring/mentoring program. Becky contacted me in response to an earlier call I placed to their agency as part of our outreach efforts. I sent her the presentation on starting a program and we discussed several concerns/issues she had. I encouraged her to start small and build the foundation. She agreed with that. I also told her about the Leadership Conference and the Volunteer Recruitment Campaign.
• 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 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.
• 2001-02-22 Susan Moesker, from Vermont, followed up last weeks call with a call today to get additional ideas from T/MC for a developing infrastructure to support mentoring programs in Vermont. She was on the T/MC web site as we talked.
• 2001-02-22 Seguin Services, Inc., of Cicero, Ill. purchased 20 T/MC Directories
• 2001-02-22 T/MC visited by Caren Yanis, Foundation Manager, and Dedric Richardson, Research Coordinator, of Oprah's Angel Network Foundation
• 2001-02-23 Met with Damien J. of the High Jump program at Latin School as part of our outreach efforts. Got a better understanding of the program, which targets motivated youths from disadvantaged communities. It is a 2 1/2 year program, with students starting the summer after 6th grade. The participants attend the program at Latin School and are prepared to enter college prep high schools. A lot of the focus is teaching the youth how to learn, what questions to ask and helping them feel comfortable in a college prep environment. About 80 kids are in the program. There was a mentoring piece run by Junior League. Damien J. wants to expand on this and create a more comprehensive mentoring program.
• 2001-02-26 I contacted Norma L. with the Latino Organization of the Southwest as part of our outreach efforts. She currently organizes ESL classes for prents of children in the Headstart Midway program. Her organization works in collaboration with Headstart Midway and the Chicago Lawn Library. She also is now starting a tutoring program for grammar school children at the library. She is using teens as tutors. Whe wants to start a tutoring program for teens, too. The goal for the grammer school program is to enroll up to 15 kids, 5 per night for three nights. Space limitations at the library dictate this number.
• 2001-02-26 dee Dee Shirley, a student at Lincoln Christian College, called to interview T/MC for ideas she could put into her Mission work. T/MC was on review list provided by a professor.
• 2001-02-27 Val Parker, of Power 4 Youth in California sent email which read: I am interested in finding out again about your May conference schedule. Could you email or send me dates and materials? I will try to work it into my schedule, as I enjoyed it much last year. Thank you. Also, if I come to Chicago, may I visit Cabrini Connections? Thank you again for your Board information. I think we are moving along, with a goal job descriptions and new board members by May 3. If I see you in May, perhaps we can talk more.
• 2001-02-27 Mary Kotter, United Way/Crusade of Mercy "First Call for Help" section, called to ask for updated T/MC Directory, since they are still using the 1998 version.
• 2001-02-28 Jerry Shirk, Executive Director, Mentoring Coalition of San Diego County, added himself and four members of his network to the Volunteer Recruitment Campaign eGroup.
• 2001-03-01 Met with Public Communications, Inc. Reviewed Public Awareness strategy for 2001 and set goals. PCI extended it's commitment through 2001. They will provide $15,000 in pro bono support to T/MC.
• 2001-03-01 The Tutor/Mentor Connection was the front page story of the 2001 Special Edition newsletter of the Ecumenical Child Care Network.
• 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.
• 2001-03-02 Minutes of the Chicago Volunteer Recruitment meeting, held Feb 23, were reposted on the MentorNet list by Jerry Shirk, Ex Dir of the Mentoring Coalition of San Diego County.
• 2001-03-13 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.
• 2001-03-22 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.
• 2001-03-26 Katja Hemmerich, a member of a German research team that interviewed T/MC in early March, sent email to say a) thanks; b) our entire German research team found the interview to be very informative; c) Siemens is hosting a national conference and they want to display some of the materials we provided. This interview was set up by Bob Schout of Power Skills. Bob has been a presenter at many T/MC conferences.
• 2001-03-28 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 Sent Bob Schout of PowerSkills photos to use in presentation on volunteerism that he's doing for German Business leader
• 2001-03-30 Did one workshop for the College Fair for High School Counselors and College Advisors of Chicago Public Schools. Seven people attended (out of 24 registered). Established contact with Jean Perez, lead counselor for the entire South region.
• 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 Submitted 2001 Best Practice Contribution Form to US Dept. of Housing and Urban Development on the recommendation of Alex Hendersen. She sent T/MC the form on 4/3/01.
• 2001-04-04 Sent sample of bank brochure program to Michael Dobbie in Seattle, WA. Met him on ABCD list discussion of GIS.
• 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).
• 2001-04-06 Called by Nicole Camal, St. Louis Mentoring Institute. They like web site and want to learn more of how T/MC was created.
• 2001-04-09 Met with Vina Ariyaprakai, AmeriCorps America's Promise Fellow, from MidAmerica Leadership Foundation. Shared Faith-Marketing goals as well as other T/MC info
• 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.
• 2001-04-12 Talked to Nicolle Camal, St Louis Mentoring Task Force, about T/MC strategies.
• 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.
• 2001-04-16 Layton Olson sent email to 100 members of acn consulting list serve saying, "Along with the Planet Volunteer site, I think all ACN members (and their nonprofit organization networks) should know about Chicago's Tutor Mentor Connection, including its May 17-18 leadership conference.www.tutormentorconnection.org" Layton has been participating in T/MC conferences for a couple of years.
• 2001-04-17 New Concepts Tutor/Mentor Connection launched its new web site this week (www.newconceptstmc.org).
• 2001-04-23 Mason Scholl, United Voices for Children, posted an email message into a variety of faith networks. The lead paragraph reads, "With more and more NIC congregations involved in afterschool/mentoring programs, I want to alert you to an excellent 2-day training workshop for staff and volunteers scheduled for May 17/18 in Chicago. This workshop is sponsored by one of the best nationally recognized afterschool/mentoring programs in the country, Cabrini Connection, located on the near north side of Chicago. Its President/CEO, Dan Bassill, is recognized as one of the national experts in this kind of program." He encouraged everyone to attend the May conference.
• 2001-04-25 Phone interview with Renee Erline, Intern for CASA (Court Appointed Advocates). Renee was collecting information on existing programs. She's a student at Northwestern, so we also talked of ways to do research and networking that builds and shares knowledge.
• 2001-04-26 Sent email messages to several networks, such as GE Elfun, Hospital Mentoring, Acacia list, GKD list, TRDEV list and about a dozen other organizations. In each asked them to resend the message to their network. This reaches more than 2000 people in the first round of distribution.
• 2001-04-28 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.
• 2001-05-18 Total Attendance at the May 17 and 18 Tutor/Mentor Leadership Conference was 300. More than 167 organizations were represented. Ten percent of participants came from beyond Chicago.
• 2001-05-18 Attended the Tutor/Mentor Leadership Conference. Presented two workshops with 18 people in each. These shared my experiences and I hope helped each program with their own work. During the workshop I also met and networked with several others. I feel the conference was outstanding.
• 2001-05-23 Centro Romero, a youth agency in Chicago, called for information on getting involved in the recruitment campaign.
• 2001-05-23 Beatrice Polk of Progressive Human Intergenerational (in Chicago) called to ask how to get a grocery store fund raising campaign started. She had read about our work with Whole Foods in the T/MC Report. I provide information and suggested they get into the Recruitment Campaign.
• 2001-05-31 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.
• 2001-06-01 Deborah Fin, a technology officer with the TCN/TechFoundation in Cambridge, MA, and a member of the MassNET planning group wrote, "Many thanks for your email! I have taken the liberty of forwarding it to the MassNET planning group for discussion."
• 2001-06-02 On May 31, ACES sent email through the Volunteer Recruitment Group (69 members) saying, "The Chicago Bears are looking for groups of elementary and middle school kids over the summer who may want to particpate in a day-long Bears Camp with players and staff. By June 1, seven different agencies had responded including groups representing the Chicago Public Schools and Boys & Girls Clubs
• 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
• 2001-06-07 Mark McDaniel and I sat and tried to think of ways a GIS based working/planning tool could be made available in all the ways we've envisioned.
• 2001-06-08 Met with Anthony McGee and Michelle Smith of Chicago Department of Human Services and Youth Net. T/MC was invited to be part of training network that meets monthly. DHS will distribute T/MC surveys, look for opportunities to get Directories purchased, encourage YouthNet leaders to participate in T/MC events, ask DHS leader Ray Velasquez to sign 2001 manifesto; and, continue to share ideas back and forth
• 2001-06-16 Gave one hour presentation to 10 mentors at United Baptist Church, 4242 W. Roosevelt. This is a program that started after its leader attended a T/MC conference three years ago.
• 2001-06-21 Maureen Buckley, PhD, Assistant Professor Counseling Department, Sonoma State University, wrote, "My colleague, Sanda Zimmermann, and I are working on a resource book on mentoring children and adolescents for ABC-Clio press. The book aims to provide a handy, easy to use resource on mentoring for young people, adults and organizations. We are seeking your assistance. We would like to include information on the Tutor/Mentor Connection for interested readers. The information would be featured in our Organizations Chapter (a national and state by state listing of mentoring organizations), as well as Nonprint Resources chapter. They provided a description drawn from the T/MC web site. I edited it and returned it for their use.
• 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)
• 2001-07-17 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.
• 2001-07-30 Received this email today: Hello- You are listed as a contact in a GRASP article for Community Youth Mapping. I'm writing you on behalf of Travis County Afterschool Network (TCAN: http://www.tcantx.org/). We are at the inception of mapping project for the Austin area that will map available afterschool programs in the county. As the GIS/Mapping Coordinator, I'd like to first contact successful programs in other parts of the country. My GIS and mapping skills are solid, but I've never had to prepare a mapping study. If you have any outlines or advice for tackling such a plan, we'd really appreciate it. Thanks in advance for you time. Best Regards, Theresa Noyes I sent back an invitation to look at our web sites and consider ways we can support each other.
• 2001-08-06 Ken Mularski of Walter Peyton High School in Chicago visited T/MC for information and ideas on starting a mentoring program at the high school. He was given a variety of tips.
• 2001-08-06 Provided information on T/MC conference and T/MC goals to Vernon Davis of the New Pathways Mentoring Program of Baltimore, MD. Shared ideas of university marketing and networked conferences. Passed on contact at Johns Hopkins Hospital.
• 2001-08-06 Provided information on Nov. 2001 conference to AmeriCorps volunteer from the Mass Mentoring Partnership. Also provided info about T/MC hosted discussion groups.
• 2001-08-07 I completed my first map of Mentoring programs in the Chicago area and posted it on the Web. The map was very similar to maps that Julie Hamilton has done for Cabrini Connections.
• 2001-08-10 Patricia Hendricks, Mid-Atlantic Regional Technology Consortium, responded to a message I posted regarding service learning. She wrote, "I am a technology coordinator with the Mid-Atlantic Regional Technology in Education Consortium (MAR*TEC). During the summer we convened a group of 19 teachers from Pennsylvannia, New Jersey, Delaware, and Washington D.C. to design a Digital Divide Project for students. In addition to having students investigate the digital divide in their classrooms, the teachers and students will design service learning projects where they work to overcome the digital divide in their lives. I would like to forward this message to the MARTEC Coalition for Overcoming the Digital Divide design team. Perhaps some of these teachers would like to communicate with you about your idea." I said YES and sent her ULRs to other T/MC sites.
• 2001-08-10 Received Chicago Humanities Festival newsletter which included a listing for the Tutor/Mentor Connection and its web site.
• 2001-08-16 Karina Ayala, of the Chicago Bar Foundation, emailed to say thanks for helping her connect a Law Firm that wanted to connect 30 mentors to a 3rd grade class with Working In the Schools, which is a program that connects business people with public schools.
• 2001-08-27 Bertha Murray, of Evanston, Il., called and asked for information on starting a tutor/mentor program. Info sent.
• 2001-08-27 Derek Baume, of Turning Point, based in Skokie, Il., called for information on starting a mentoring program for boys. Info sent.
• 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.
• 2001-09-07 T/MC database was placed on Tutor/Mentor Exchange web site today thanks to the work of Ken Novak, Steve Roussos and Julie Hamilton.
• 2001-09-12 Chris Hutchinson came to learn of marketing opportunities with Cabrini Connections. He agreed to build participation within groups he is familiar with (Western Illinois U. Alumni, Delta Sigma Pi Fraternity, IT (he works for CDW). He'll do this by focusing on the two annual T/MC conferences, starting in Nov. 2001.
• 2001-09-15 Thirty volunteers attended the Sept. 15 orientation for new Cabrini Connections tutors/mentors. This was the first orientation at our new location, and the first in 2 years where volunteers were exposed to the T/MC as well as the Kids' Connection.
• 2001-09-19 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
• 2001-09-24 Spent about 15 minutes on phone giving information on volunteer recruitment to Vicky Rompala at Chicago Urban League. I emphasized a program design that drew business volunteers from every sector and converted them to leaders who would generate a flow of volunteers to an organization.
• 2001-09-24 Steve Roussos taught Dan Bassill to use Front Page to edit the Tutor/Mentor Exchange web site. With that lesson Dan has made the site more current and has added a links page. This is critical because the master Tutor/Mentor Connection site remains out of service. Knowing Front Page enables the T/MC to be current in its news to the public.
• 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.
• 2001-09-27 Bill Thompson, Volunteer/Mentor Specialist, Teen R.E.A.C.H. Center, sent email saying "I was wanting more information on the next Tutor/Mentor Conference. I attended the 14th conference in Chicago and found it to be very helpful and was looking forward to attending again this year.
• 2001-10-01 Dan Bassill attended orientation to be a Commissioner on the Illinois Commission on Volunteerism and Community Service
• 2001-10-02 Provided 10 minutes of phone consultation to Aquilla Madden at the Abraham Lincoln Center, 3858 S. Cottage Grove, in Chicago. She was looking for volunteer tutors. I helped her think through steps to build an organization where volunteer will help mentor kids to careers. She concluded, "She will do research and fax outline for me to review."
• 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.
• 2001-10-04 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.
• 2001-10-11 Frances Roehm, SkokieNet Librarian, emailed to say "I've put a blurb (about the Nov. 2001 conference) up on ChicagoJobs News, so hopefully, all who would benefit will get the word."
• 2001-10-11 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.
• 2001-10-13 Dan Bassill attended Coalition Meeting of the SE Michigan Math Science Learning Network, held in Ann Arbor, MI. Extended contacts with leaders of this network (Jeannine LaSovage) and met new contacts, Susan Shoemaker, Pontiac City Councilwoman; Lefiest Galimore of The Family Learning Institute of Ann Arbor, etc.
• 2001-10-18 Provided info about T/MC and its resources to Lori Deruga of the Safe to Learn Grant program (a part of the Illinois Violence Prevention Program). Lori came to our HQ and picked up conference material to distribute to her school-based network.
• 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.
• 2001-10-26 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.
• 2001-11-09 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.
• 2001-11-29 Tom Klaus, of the Legacy Group, distributed the following message to his email newsletter network: ARE YOU DOING TUTORING & MENTORING? CHECK THIS OUT! Recently I had the opportunity to speak at a conference in Chicago for a group that, frankly, I knew very little about. I had agreed to speak at the conference because the person who recommended it to me was someone whose judgment I trust and advice I value. As it turns out it was one of those really serendipitous experiences. The conference was the semi-annual Tutor/Mentor Leadership Conference. The driving force behind the conference is Dr. Daniel Bassill, who is President of Cabrini Connections and the Tutor/Mentor Connection. Dr. Bassil is a passionate leader who firmly believes in the power of one human life to affect another for good. While much of Dan's work is focused on Chicago, he has also helped facilitate the creation of a nationwide network of organizations and individuals who are involved in tutoring and mentoring. If you or your organization are involved in tutoring and mentoring, Dan Bassill is someone you need to know and the May Tutor/Mentor Leadership Conference is an event you need to get on your calendar. Even now Dan and Aimee Sherman, the Conference Coordinator, are working on that event. In fact, you can submit to present. For more information, contact Aimee at aimeeconfplan@hotmail.com. Also, take a few minutes and visit the website of the Tutor/Mentor Connection at www.tutormentorexchange.net. You'll be glad you did!
• 2001-12-04 Frances E. Roehm, ChicagoJobs Webmaster, SkokieNet Librarian,wrote: "You must be very proud of your program (Leadership Conference) -- it was well organized, well attended, and included many positive presentations -- a very helpful addition for nonprofits in need of some continuing education! The program that stood out for me was the Team Leadership presentation -- it was outstanding! I did make the acquaintenance of the gentleman coordinating the computers, and had outstanding lunchmates to converse with on Friday. Best wishes for every success in your endeavor, and let me know when you have other programs you want me to advertise, or additional information to get out to the good people of Chicagoland.
• 2001-12-05 Send "start a program" kit to Carolann Pacer-Ramsey of Families 1st of VA, Inc., per her request.
• 2001-12-05 Tony LeRo, President of Youth Mentoring Connection, wrote: I have visited your site and found it to be one of the richest resources out there. Thank you for the great work that you are doing. If there is anything that we can do in the future to collaborate and draw more corporate support to more mentoring I would be all for it. Worksite mentoring is such a powerful model.
• 2001-12-05 Andrea Greenwell, Volunteer Coordinator for Jewish Children's League, called to update information for her agency. She's new and wanted to get connected with volunteer recruitment and other T/MC activities. Information provided.
• 2001-12-11 The first meeting of the Illinois After-School Initiative Task Force was held today at the Palmer House Hilton in Chicago. The group was formed as a result of Illinois General Assembly HR 63. The goal is a long-term Illinois strategy that makes quality afterschool programs accessable for all youth, particularly those at greatest risk. Dan Bassill of Cabrini Connections was a charter member and one of two individuals representing volunteerism.
• 2001-12-12 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.
• 2001-12-13 In response to an email posted 12/11 on the Digital Divide e-list (2500 members) I received this response: "Daniel, this is great! My name is Phoebe Lenear, and I am a member of the Institute for African American E-Culture (iAAEC). I believe you talked with Roscoe Giles, the executive director of iAAEC, some time ago. We are a diverse group of researchers, academicians, computer scientists, engineers, social scientists, etc. who collaborate to develop technologies centered around the African American user. One of iAAEC's initiatives is to develop community technology zones. We identify predominantly African American community centers such as Tutor/Mentor Connect and work with them to help us develop and test our technologies before transferring them to the broader user community. You can visit our web site at www.iaaec.org for more information.I would very much like to talk with you in detail about possible collaborations. Let me know when you will be available for a telecon. My schedule is pretty open through Wednesday, Dec 19 or after the holidays." I followed up to schedule a meeting.
• 2001-12-17 Received call from Lucy Popper-Edwards of Houston, TX and from Jamie Boyce of North Lawndale Learning Community. Both were looking for information on starting/expanding a tutor/mentor program. Through September T/MC had recorded 106 calls from volunteers; 119 from parents; 38 from DCFS; 3 from new programs and 17 from current programs, plus 18 unk..a total of 301 calls/requests for information. Calls received during the volunteer recruitment and the conferences are not included on this report.
• 2001-12-18 Received email from Ron Melka, Youth in Crisis, Berwyn, Il. "We have just received a Federal Title V Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Grant through the Illinois Department of Human Services, to start a big brother/sister type program which we call a youth advocate. We want the program period to start February 1, 2002. It is for police referred youth from the city of Berwyn. We need program materials, evaluation tools and anything else that may be helpful. Thank you for your assistance." Responded with email and invitation to use web site and our 800 W. Huron library.
• 2001-12-19 Contacted by Lisa Trischitta, Community Mobilizer for Mentoring with the Delaware Mentoring Council. They have recently begun to see a need to respond to a new demand for mentoring programs in Delaware's high schools. "After researching high school mentoring/adolescent mentoring I came across your program and would love to know more about how it functions." T/MC sent email response which Lisa followed with this message: "Thank you so much for all of your help. This information is wonderful. I really appreciate it."
• 2001-12-19 Contacted by organization in Gambia, West Africa that invites us to collaborate and share ideas. Sent info on International Art Festival and invited them to participate. Also provided info on T/MC sites. Their websites are: http://www.fsif.org - for the organisation and http://www.fsif.net - for the educational training
• 2002-01-01 Message posted on T/MC web site from Nokomis, FL read: "Your site is being used as a reference for those who are developing a county, state and nation wide civil defense program. Thanks for the mentoring references, they have helped many who do not believe that they had no further use in life. We now have many 60-70 year olds performing digital research and development in our forming cyber community."
• 2002-01-04 Renee Tucker of ACI sent this letter to 20 ACI colleges in Illinois and Wisconsin: ACI has been involved with the Tutor/Mentor Conference (T/MC) for several years now, and I have been involved individually since the 2nd conference as a presenter and planning committee member. For the upcoming conference, a call for presenters has been issued, which you will find in this mailing. Please look it over and consider who on your campus may be interested in being a presenter in May. T/MC started as a program of Cabrini Connections tutoring/mentoring program 8 years ago as a grassroots effort to pool knowledge and resources among Chicago’s non-profit, child-serving organizations. The conference occurs twice per year and now has a typical attendance of 300. While the majority of the participants come from the Chicago area, we have also drawn folks from Australia, Washington D.C., New Jersey, Oregon, California, and many other far-off places. T/MC charges minimal fees because the intent is still to help those non-profit organizations who operate on a shoe-string budget. For this reason, T/MC cannot offer honorariums to presenters, and the planning team consists of volunteers interested in keeping this conference going and growing. The information I have enclosed was printed from the conference web site, www.tutormentorconference.bigstep.com, if you or someone on your campus would like to read more about the conference. Please also feel free to pass on my name, number, 312-263-2391 x25, and email address, renee.tucker@acifund.org, as I am happy to talk about the event and the opportunity to present a workshop.
• 2002-01-06 A set of six maps that show poverty areas in Chicago are now on the GIS web site. These maps show schools on the November State Board of Education warning list, and tutor/mentor programs. We’ve broken the maps down by the time of day the service is available and the age group served. Our maps show many more programs available during the 3-5 time frame when most workplace volunteers are not able to participate in comprehensive tutor/mentor programs. Our maps show fewer programs for high school youth, which is a contributing factor to the high dropout rate of teens. I emailed reporters, columist, editorial people, etc. at the Tribune, SunTimes and WGN Radio to encourage them to use these maps in 2002 stories.
• 2002-01-15 Dan Bassill attended Job Corps briefing hosted by Joint Center for Poverty Research. This is new Chicago resource that I was not aware of. Their poverty briefs focus on the same issues that T/MC focuses on. I've added them as TME link and sent email to open collaboration. Also at the meeting were an aid to Senator Durban of Illinois, , James Jones of Child Serve, Jan DeCoursey of Chapin Hall, and a Kids' Connection volunteer who works for the Chicago Job Development Department.
• 2002-01-16 Deborah Mathies, Director of Raptors in the City Program, wrote: "I have read a number of your posts in the Digital Divide chatgroup and I wanted to tell you about a project I am working on that I think you will find of interest. I am a teacher in an inner-city school in Connecticut and the director of a new national environmental education and technology program. "Raptors in the City" has the special goal of connecting urban kids with nature via technology." I sent information back on the conference, web site and other ways we could help people learn about this program.
• 2002-01-23 Program leaders from the Indo-American Tutoring Center visited the Kids' Connection program to observe a tutor/mentor session. Kids' Connection policies and procedures were shared with the Indo-American Tutoring Center to help them build their program.
• 2002-01-29 I received the following email today: "My name is Sarah Frank and I am the Director of Milwaukee Mentors. We are a group of eleven nonprofit agencies that operate mentoring programs for children and teens. I would like to receive information about the conference AND about the tutormentor connection. Our group has been in existence for 6 years but feel we would have much to learn from your group! Could I be added to your newsletter? I look forward to hearing from you."
• 2002-02-06 Met with Kimberly Crayton, consultant to Chicago Youth Agency Partnership and President of Chicago Association of Youth Development Professionals. She'll do a workshop at May 20/21 conference. She'll help bring youth development people to conferences and T/MC web site.
• 2002-02-06 T/MC conference committee met today. Ken King of New Concepts, Renee Tucker of Associated Colleges of Illinois, Allison Wenton of Uhlich Children's Home and Janet Takahara of Big Brothers/Bigs Sisters joined with Cabrini Connections staff for this meeting. The group reviewed workshops for the May 20/21 conference and talked of fund raising strategies.
• 2002-02-11 Peter Dickinson, a tutor at Yale Elementary School in Englewood, called to ask for information on non-school tutor/mentor programs around the school. He was concerned for what the youth would have to be involved with in the non school hours. As T/MC talked through it's understanding of few programs serving this area and the role others could play, Mr. Dickinson indicated he was a mamber of the Yale University Alumni group and that he would introduce T/MC to some members. Mr. Dickinson was referred to T/MC by Calvin Morris of the Community Renewal Society, who receives the T/MC REPORT
• 2002-02-12 Thobeka Poswa, of the GAP program (sponsored by Health for Humanity), called for ideas on fund raising and information on T/MC conference. T/MC shared information and learned that Thobeka is from South Africa and part of a faith-group sponsored team of volunteers from multi countries. We guided Thobeka through the T/ME web site and encouraged her to share info with others .
• 2002-02-13 Margaret Broom called from church in Milwaukee asking for information for starting a mentoring program. I gave her the contact for Milwaukee Mentors and our web site addresses. She said she receives our newsletter and encourages members of her network to attend the conferences.
• 2002-02-21 Sarah Frank, ED of Milwaukee Mentors, met at T/MC. We reviewed goals,actions and work we might do together to strengthen the capacity of mentor programs in each city.
• 2002-02-27 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.
• 2002-02-28 Met with Karolus Smejda President, PowerSuasion Incorporated, following first contact at the last Midwest Facilitator's Meeting. PowerSuasion develops scripts which actors perform as training for corporate people. When I saw this I felt it would be very effective for training volunteers because of the way actors can improvise performances based on the questions volunteers raise. Mr. Smejda has been a tutor for innercity youth and understood well what the potential for his services would be. The challenge will be to find funding to develop a pilot and present this as a training option for programs (during T/MC conferences)
• 2002-03-06 Met with Stacy Jackson, Director of Tutoring and Scholarship, Sarah Tribuzio, Education Programs Manager, and David Miller, Volunteer, from Fourth Presbyterian Church Tutoring Program in Chicago. The meeting enables us to update ourselvels on each other's program. They struggle with many issues that other programs face, but have not yet tapped into the vast resources of their volunteer corps (over 400), their Church membership, or the 35 years they have been in existence, to build a better operating system that works for them, and for any other tutor/mentor program.
• 2002-03-06 Matt Mead has launched a revised version of the T/MC web site with some new features that make it easier to navigate and more interesting for people to visit.
• 2002-03-07 Julie sent T/MC maps showing MBF Bank locations. Karen Perlman, vp of Marketing at the bank sent T/MC their logo. T/MC will create brochure templates that the Bank will print and handout at 31 branch locations.
• 2002-03-12 Attended Advisory Council meeting of Junior League of Chicago. Offered input on Strategic Planning, and on future growth of "Next step for Teen Moms" mentoring program, which is a "signature project" for JLC. I'm one of about 20 members of this Advisory Councile. At meeting set stage for meeting of President of JLC and 2-3 other key leaders, to look for ways for JLC to adopt T/MC as partner and strategy intended to help JLC reach its key goals.
• 2002-03-13 The Lend A Hand Council of the Chicago Bar Foundation met today. There is nearly $65,000 available for 2002 grants to one-on-one tutor/mentor programs (for grants, Demetrrio Award and Searns Family Foundation Match). While a schedule of review was discussed, the bigger issue was the announcement that the Strategic Planning Committee of the Chicago Bar Foundation had decided that Lend A Hand was not a core strategy and that the fund raising (and grant giving) would not be continued in the present format in 2003. This led to the beginning of what will be an on-going conversation among LAH council members intended to keep the program alive and growing. Many commitments were made, including one from Mike Demetrio of Corboy & Dimetrio, to continue to provide resource for the program to continue.
• 2002-03-13 David Owens, a Health Profession Advisor at the University of Chicago, called. He was referred by Dual Richardson, who has been on T/MC mail list for several years. David was looking for help in developing a program to build student awareness, over the 4-year college career, of ways the student might get involved in a community and career paths in health and/or education this might offer. I explained T/MC goals and our search for a Health Care partner. He suggested an number of opportunities and seemed enthused to pursue the opportunity, even suggesting ways students could take the lead.
• 2002-03-14 More than 2,000 email ads featuring the Innervisions Youth Production Video Festival were sent out on Friday, March 14.
• 2002-03-15 TraceyBrown, a senior at DePaul, met at T/MC to learn about intern opportunities. Since her major is in Social Work and she hopes to start a youth center after finishing seminary, we talked about her doing an internship that builds knowledge of what it takes to run a tutor/mentor program and how social service groups, faith groups and universities could be more strategic in the way they help. We met Tracey after first having discussion with the Intern Program leaders at DePaul. This was part of a prospecting effort.
• 2002-03-20 Lucious Smith of the BAGS Foundation in Chicago called to learn how to use OHATS. I explained it to him and suggested he test it by documenting actions of BAGS that support T/MC goals.
• 2002-03-22 I sent 20 email letters to people who had opened the IYP email more than a few times since 3/15/02. I selected people who had the potential to help grow Cabrini Connections. Included were Chicago Public Schools, Chicago Bears, IT companies, Hotel Companies. etc. This is a form of prospecting and follow up made possible by this system.
• 2002-03-22 In a conversation with an America's Promise person I was told that AP does not support individual organizations and that AP was doign major work with Northwest Community Hospital and HOPE worldwide in the Northwest Suburbs and Chicago. This is a rejection after ta year of work with John Brothers to build a closer relationship with AP.
• 2002-03-22 Tom Holub of Edgewood College asked me to send "how did we build our program" information to David Wolfson, Vice President WI Foundation for Independent Colleges, Inc., in Milwaukee. They are at the beginning stages of developing a mentoring support strategy. I sent the "big picture" opportunity via email and will follow with additional information.
• 2002-03-26 Met with Laura Lough of World Vision to discuss strategies for engaging faith communities in tutor/mentor program development and delivery. I reviewed maps, communications goals, web sites and other actions that her organization can adopt to draw more faith groups into on-going learning that leads to more strategic and long-term involvement of churches and individuals.
• 2002-03-26 Email mining led to email contact with Chris Winters, who leads on-line GIS mapping at the University of Chicago, Arianna Huffington, who writes a syndicated newspaper column, Anne Roosevelt, Community Affairs Director at Boeing World Headquarters, Speaker Dennis Hastert of the US Congress, and a variety of others.
• 2002-03-27 Phoebe E. Lenear, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign send an email that read: We're working on adding a discussion thread to the iAAEC website so that we can begin discussing collaboration ideas with Tutor/Mentor Connection and other community technology organizations. We should have this up and running momentarily.
• 2002-03-28 Met with Mercedes Soto of the ITRC Accelerator project and discussed needs of CC and opportunities to work with ITRC
• 2002-04-01 Met with Dan Bassiel. Talked about the a possible collaboration. Use the Cabrini Connection office to meet with one of our TeamMentoring program volunteers.
• 2002-04-03 Equa and Sean met with Dan to discuss ways they can help T/MC and CC
• 2002-04-03 Irene Phelps of the Siragusa Foundation and Dan met with Peter Willmott today. Mr. Willmott is chairman of Children's Hospital in Chicago and of the Associated Colleges of Illinois Board. Irene arranged this introduction.
• 2002-04-04 Received Call from Mr. Smith and George Montgomery, the technology support, of Lucious H Smith / Beulah A G Smith Scholarship to discuss their need for and creation of an OHATS for their organization. Referred by Dan Bassill. Sent them additional materials for the development and customazation of their own OHATS.
• 2002-04-05 Met today with Renee Ogletree and Anthony McGee of the Chicago Department of Human Services. DHS offered to provide some funding for Kids' Connection services to an expanded number of youth. They also offered to look for ways to be more strategically connected with T/MC. This meeting was initiated by DHS.
• 2002-04-05 Met with Debra Helin, Program Director of HuTech and Amy O'Gara, Intern from the Jane Adams Hull House school of Social Service at UIC. Outlined vision/opportunity for HuTech to play T/MC role serving tutor/mentor programs in the child welfare system.
• 2002-04-06 Service Learning group from Kalamazoo Community College (MI) visited Cabrini Connections on Saturday, April 6 to do a workshoip with Kids' Connection teens. During that meeting I was able to outline a vision of a service-learning program working from the college and supporting the Tutor/Mentor Connection's goals.
• 2002-04-11 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.
• 2002-04-15 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 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 Provided information to Evelyn Green, Chicago Dept. of Public Health on resources to start tutor/mentor programs in the Grand Boulevard area of Chicago
• 2002-04-24 Met with Nancy Snyder, incoming president of the Junior League of Chicago, and JLC officers, Carol E. Poynter, and Daniel Kenney. Offered collaboration and partner strategies that would strengthen T/MC and help JLC achieve its long-term plan.
• 2002-05-01 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.
• 2002-05-01 Two teams of DePaul students are doing strategic planning projects for T/MC. Team 1 met with T/MC on 4/28. Members work at various businesses and universities. They will develop a strategic plan aimed at involving a healthcare organization in the T/MC. One member volunteered to convert the School-To-Work Chart to Powerpoint.
• 2002-05-02 Launched second Email Conference ad to 2700 people in Chicago and around the country.
• 2002-05-08 Met with Juvinile Justice Inititiative team to brief them on uses of GIS mapping as piloted by the T/MC. This group is looking for ways to better understand service availibility.
• 2002-05-21 The 17th Tutor/Mentor Leadership Conference since May 1994 was held on Monday and Tuesday, May 20 and 21. Monday attendance was 209 and Tuesday was 254. Total attendance was 309. This was the first conference where each day's attendance was over 200.
• 2002-05-22 Judy Morris, from Whiteville, NC, called T/MC to get info on Entrepreneurship programs and I told her of the opportunity to stat a T/MC in her county
• 2002-05-30 Dennis Woods of a company called Consulting Professionals called for information on mentoring programs. He was referred by Cynthia Greenleaf at CPS. I gave him information which he seemed enthused to receive. He asked to be on our mail list.
• 2002-05-30 Tami Robins of San Diego gave me contact information at Qualcomm Headquarters. They are hosting a volunteer recruitment campaign and do a great job on their web site of promoting the campaign. I sent an email introduction.
• 2002-06-27 Dan made a mentoring presentation to the workplace mentoring team at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois' headquarters. About 30 people were present. Some expressed an interest in working with the T/MC. BCBS helped T/MC create power point presentations and PDAF's of T/MC charts that are now on the T/MC web site.
• 2002-07-05 Tom Klaus, Legacy Resource Group, sent an email and reported, " I was just at Holiday Home Camp in Wisconsin with Carl Hobbs (whom I met at your Fall conference) to do a training with his staff."
• 2002-07-10 First email version of T/MC Report sent to 2500 people.
• 2002-07-12 Met with Pastor Larry Turpin of the United Church of Hyde Park and Laurie Wessman LeBreton, a consultant. They were seeking advise on expanding their youth programs at the Church. Rev. Turpin came from a church in Rogers Park and has received the T/MC newsletter for many years.
• 2002-07-12 This is an email received in response to the newsletter email distribution: "I hope that you recieve this email, My name is Richard Baker and I work for Northern Illinois University, and we have a program where we work with DCFS to help the children in state care to have better educational outcomes. I am also Asst. Pastor for a church on the South side of Chicago, at 35th and Cottage Grove. It is called the WestPoint Baptist Church, we are interested in starting an afterschool tutor and mentor program. Would you be interested in working with us to start such a program. Please write me on the email with some ideas and insights. Thanks so much." We sent back an email that leads Mr. Baker to the web site and sets up a consultation.
• 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.
• 2002-07-29 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. "
• 2002-08-02 Received this email today: "Greetings from Learning Leaders (formerly the New York City School Volunteer Program) (www.learningleaders.org). I'm writing on behalf of an organization that helps NYC public school children by recruiting and training volunteers to provide them with educational instructional support. As a non-profit organization, our budget for promoting our work is greatly limited. But you can help us reach thousands of people through the Internet. Would you be willing to list Learning Leaders on your links/resources page? " We said "yes" and invited them to work with us to create a T/MC structure in New York, while creating competition for good among business/phanthropy leaders in both cities.
• 2002-08-07 Delivered proposal for T/MC funding to Rev. Atty Jeanette Wilson, Director of Community Outreach & Human Relations for Chicago Public Schools. She met with me on 8/5 and showed great enthusiasm for T/MC efforts. She invited me to submit a proposal that shows how T/MC will help her achieve Decsion Time program goals of reducing truancy and improving academic performance of the lowest performing students, while CPS helps us meet T/MC goals (which are the same).
• 2002-08-12 Met with Illinois State Senator Dave Sullivan this morning and introduced him to T/MC and its goals. Asked for him to be a supporter and leader. Asked for him to build links to T/MC and the State volunteer page from his web site, and to help us enlist others to do the same.
• 2002-08-12 T/MC hosted a booth at the Blacks in Technology Expo on Aug. 10/11. Many people came and picked up information. We added 29 to our email list and sent a follow up letter on Aug. 12. We were given a booth by the group who set up the event. They first met the T/MC via email messages Dan posted in email forums, such as the Digital Divide list
• 2002-08-20 Met with Emily Lieberman, who is doing a research project for the Mayor's Office. She's a consultant with Deloitte Consulting and her group is trying to build a database of all youth serving programs in Chicago. She was referred to T/MC by the Illinois After School Initiative Task Force. Showed her how T/MC has been collecting, organizing and sharing T/M info since 1994 and how Deloitte Consulting and the City would benefit by helping us. Provided listing of programs funded by Chicago Bar Foundation.
• 2002-08-21 Met with Lee Stanton and Janette Wilson, Chicago Public Schools. Agreed in concept to a consulting role for T/MC with CPS to help build a T/MC type strategy from CPS
• 2002-08-22 Provided "start a program" information to a Morgan Stanley company volunteer helping start new tutor/mentor program in Washington, DC
• 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 Met with Julian Nazario of the Indiana Plan to discuss ways the T/MC could be working in Indiana and led by Julian and groups he works with.
• 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.
• 2002-09-12 Gary Green's email newsletter, SLICE, which reaches several thousand in the Service-Learning Community, included learning resource information from the last T/MC Report newsletter
• 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 Contacted by Gary Chapman, who is with a youth agency in Georgia, for some training information. I provided information on National Mentoring Center and National Mentoring Partnership and added his email to TMC news.
• 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.
• 2002-09-13 Ken Novak updated the Program Locator section data base and added many new features that make this a much more user friendly resource. For instance, it has a search feature that lets users search for programs in Chicago by zip code and programs in the suburbs by city name. It also has a zip code map that helps people look at the city and see what zip codes are near where they live or want to volunteer.
• 2002-09-16 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.
• 2002-09-16 Erica Graham, who works with the Lincoln's Challenge Academy, sent an email saying "we are looking to find mentors the the cadets in our program. The students come from all over the state of Illinois, mostly from the Chicago area. I would appreciate it if some one could call me to talk about what we can do to help each other in the recruitment of mentors."
• 2002-09-19 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.
• 2002-09-24 Van Bensett of St. Anthony Hospital in Chicago called to tell me the hospital had started a mentoring-to-career program intended to address the nursing shortage. He had met T/MC a couple of years earlier. He was looking for evaluation materials. I introduce him to Hospital Youth Mentoring Partnership (HYMP), which he did not know of.
• 2002-09-24 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.
• 2002-10-04 The College & Career Readiness Network in Chicago will hold its next meeting on Thursday, Nov. 21, at St. Joseph School, 1065 N. Orleans, just prior to the first session of the Tutor/Mentor Leadership Conference. The meeting had originally been scheduled for a couple of days eariler and at a different location.
• 2002-10-08 Email from Jill Campbell says, "I have established a non-profit organization called Take The Next Step and it provides youth activities to enhance the live of youth in the Columbus, Ohio area. I would like to receive as much information about the Tutor Mentor Conference and Leadership Conference. Our organization provides tutoring and mentoring services and would like to be involved with other orgnaizations throughout the US in reaching as many youth as possible. Anything you could offer us would be appreicated." Info sent on 10/9/02, with invitation to consider becoming a T/MC in the Columbus area.
• 2002-10-13 T/MC participated in a 28 hour virtual marathon, Global Learn Day VI in which people from all parts of the world connected and shared information.. Here is the link to the summary page showing the T/MC presentation: http://users.voice-alert.com/gld6/6135.html
• 2002-10-23 Dr. Debra Tunstall, from Columbus, Ohio, called to ask for information on starting a tutor/mentor program in a church. She found the T/MC in an internet search. We shared information, referred her to web site and offered to continue to help her.
• 2002-11-03 Followed up lead about "convergence in journalism" from email list and contacted MICHAEL PARKS, Professor, Director, School of Journalism, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California. I offered to be a partner in the program to teach graduate and undergraduate students to use all channels of communications in their work. He emailed back on 11/05 and introduced me to Gerald Swerling, the director of our Public Relations Studies Program, and with Dana Chinn, the USC lecturer in convergence, who is developing the new core curriculum. Geral Swerling followed up on 11/7 with a "Dan -- you're very convincing. In the spring semester I teach the capstone course for our undergraduate sequence. All seniors must take it before graduating, and an internship is required. What would you think of offering those students the opportunity to work with you from January through early May?" I said yes, and am now trying to make this a reality.
• 2002-11-04 Received this email from Jurander, in Brazil. We've been corresponsing via email for about a year. "I have talked my team , and we understood how important a tutoring/mentoring program is for our community. So, we want to challenger you and us to have anyone among you to be with for some days here at " Projeto Neemias". This person could help us to open a program for helping youths over here." I suggested setting up an eGroup where I and others could coach the planning for this program without the travel expenses.
• 2002-11-06 The Cabrini Connections Kids' Connection was recognized as a Promising Practice at the First Youth Council Forum for the Chicago Metropolitan Region precented by the YOuth Councils of the Workforce Boards of Metropolitan Chicago. Kourtney Cockrell represented CC at the event. Dan followed up on Wednesday and emailed to the 8 Workforce Boards an introduction to the T/MC and and invitation to work together.
• 2002-11-08 Ken King sent email saying he has signed up 16 Gear Up people for the Nov. 2002 Tutor/Mentor Leadership Conference.
• 2002-11-15 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 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.
• 2002-11-22 Receive the INVEST (Evanston, IL) fall 2002 newsletter and the 2002/2003 directory. The newsletter has a front page story on the Aug/Sept. Volunteer Recruitment Campaign and gives credit to the Tutor/Mentor Connection for its leadershipo role. The Directory includes a page 3 description of services provided by the T/MC, with the email address and the web site address.
• 2002-12-04 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.
• 2002-12-05 Dan Bassill was the guest on the Channel 21 School Talk program broadcast on Dec. 5th on cable tv in Chicago
• 2002-12-09 Met with Troy Hardin, who is with the Service Learning Center at DePaul University. We talked of ways the T/MC could be part of the DePaul strategy and DePaul students, faculty and alumni could be leaders and workers in the T/MC strategy.
• 2002-12-09 Ed Gordon, a Cabrini Connections Advisory Council member, has collaborted on a brochure titled "Tips on..Tutoring Services" that will be distributed via Better Business Bureaus around the country in 2003. He has a reference to www.tutormentorconnection.org in the resource section.
• 2002-12-22 I did a search on Google under key words "poverty mentoring" and found many organizations around the world with great programs and great information. Over two days I sent email introductions to more than 23 groups. I added a few of these to the T/MC web site and invited all to load their info on the T/ME site. Most will be added to the T/MC Report email distribution.
• 2003-01-07 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.
• 2003-01-28 Lynn Swisshelm of MentorCharlotte (NC) called to ask for permission to use the "Defining Terms" power point in a meeting she was doing. She's been receiving the monthly email newsletters
• 2003-01-30 Angus McKay wrote, "I would love to discuss our Youth Leadership North Program. We are in the process of designing a youth program for northern Saskatchewan youth in Canada, I looked through your site and find your program is interesting. Please comment."
• 2003-01-30 I met with a rep from IC Starts to talk about mapping and strategy.
• 2003-02-10 Provided tutor/mentor information to Mike Morris, PTA Council President, Paulding County, Ga. Opened conversation about collaboration.
• 2003-02-13 While we do not have a major event to document, we are making progress in a major area of public awareness. Following are some examples: Sara Caldwell, a founder of Cabrini Connections, has submitted a proposal for a one-hour documentary, titled Touched by a Mentor. This will feature a Mentor Theme song written by Sammie Lee, of California. Dr. Edward Gordon, a CC advisory council member, is researching the feasability of writing a book that profiles tutoring/mentoring Alison Neumer, of the ChicagoTribune RedEye section is considering doing a series of profiles. In addition, Community Media Workshop profiles the T/MC in its NEWSTIPS section.
• 2003-02-19 Lorinda Penny, a graduate student from Owensborrough, KY, called after visiting www.tutormentorconnection.org. She's writing a grant for a tutor/mentor program in Owensborrough as part of her studies and wanted ideas from T/MC. I encouraged her to become part of the T/MC in writing a grant that focuses on Total Quality Mentoring and social and emotional learning. Since she works in state government, I also encouraged her to lobby Kentucky leaders to adopt the T/MC as their own model of building a network of TQM programs.
• 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.
• 2003-03-20 Phil Shapiro of Arlington, VA, interviewed Dan Bassill, President of Cabrini Connections, and posted the audio interview on the Internet at http://storymakers.net/danielbassillinterview.ram
• 2003-04-08 Dan met with three representatives from The Institute for Cultural Affairs (www.lca-usa.org). We discussed concepts of Cabrini Connections and the Tutor/Mentor Connection and way we might collaborate.
• 2003-04-09 Ellen Dick presented a 'fund raising" workshop to 10 people at the Cabrini Connections headquarters.
• 2003-04-11 Carole Franke and Vurnice Maloney from Kankakee, Il. came to T/MC to gather info on ways to duplicate T/MC ideas in their own county.
• 2003-04-24 Provided one-on-one training to Rita Rose, of Chicago. She wrote, "I found the meeting very informative and helpful. The resources and other web sites were more than enough info for getting an understanding of all the components necessary to begin and maintain a successful program. The resources and links that were shown are links that you're accessible to at anytime, which makes it easy for anyone beginning a program to progress at a pace that is tailored to their needs and others that are being recruited.
• 2003-05-15 Jennifer Weaver, of PeaceJam, based in Kalamazoo, Michigan and Toinette Pilgrim, Executive Director of Student Mentor Partners based near Detroit, Michigan, will do workshops at the June 5th and 6th Conference.
• 2003-05-15 Robyn Mitchell and Denise M. Lewis, University of Maryland/ProjectLINKS Technology Outreach Program will do a workshop at the June 2003 Leadership Conference. The topic is ProjectLINKS: Putting the Pieces Together
• 2003-05-15 A June Conference workshop will be presented by Sarah Frank, Program Director, Milwaukee Mentors. Participating agencies will include: Maggie Broeren, Executive Director, Our Next Generation and Nancy Hahn, Program Supervisor, New Concept Self Development Center, Inc. Kathy Munson, Director of Mentoring Programs, YMCA of Metropolitan Milwaukee
• 2003-05-15 The Chicago GEAR UP Alliance is partnering with the T/MC on the Spring 2003 Leadership Conference which will be June 5th and 6th at Northeastern Illinois Univefsity. Printed invitations were mailed to 1350 people on 5/13. The first email notice went to more than 4,000 people in early May. The second notice went to the same group on May 15. Kenny King of New Concepts was the intermediary in connecting the GEAR UP Alliance with the T/MC.
• 2003-05-15 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.
• 2003-05-15 Thomas Keller, Ph.D. (University of Chicago) and David DuBois, Ph.D. (University of Illinois at Chicago) will present workshops on Thursday and Friday of the June Tutor/Mentor Leadership Conference. This workshop will present recent research on mentoring and discusses practical applications for program planning and improvement.
• 2003-05-15 Barry Kibel, Ph.D., Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation http://www.pire.org/resultsmapping will do a workshop at the June 2003 Tutor/Mentor Leadership Conference. His topic is Use of on-line and paper-and-pencil journaling to inform, improve, and evaluate tutor/mentor programs
• 2003-05-16 Dan Met with David Whitaker, Executive Director of the Chicago Area Project. Merry Dee of WGN encouraged both of us to meet when we were at the Illinois Area Project lunch in Springfield on April 2, 2003
• 2003-05-21 I met today with Aparna Raj, of Northwestern University's Suitcase Party. We're in the finals for being their Charity for 2004
• 2003-05-21 Ric Estrada of Erie House and Dan Bassill Met to discuss shared ideas
• 2003-05-24 Received invitation from Janet Salmons,who leads Vision2Lead, Inc., to participate in an online conference: Wired.Org: Nonprofits and NGOs Work the Web. It will run for four days, September 16-19, 2003
• 2003-05-27 Kitty Brokaw of Center for Excellence in Education, Based in DC and Chicago visited and we shared stratiegies and vision
• 2003-06-02 David Whitaker and Glyn Hilton of CAP came to T/MC to learn about our work
• 2003-06-06 Linda Ballasy send email on 6/6/03 that said, "I am a trainer for the National Mentoring Center in Portland, OR. I have an upcoming training in Salt Lake City, Utah for which I would like to hand out from your website on Volunteer Recruitment Tips.
• 2003-06-20 Dan Bassill presented a series of 20 minute workshops at the Latino Prevention Network Conference in Chicago. The topic was "How to start and sustain a tutor/mentor program." 31 people attended and were added to the T/MC email newsletter list.
• 2003-06-23 The Barnes & Noble store in Geneva, Il. will partner with the T/MC to help with tutor/mentor program development in the Western suburbs of Chicago. An event is scheduled for July 10th to begin building participation of local programs in the T/MC recruitment campaign.
• 2003-07-01 Brian Banks from Prag at Loyola met with Dan Bassill of T/MC to discuss faith based initiatives
• 2003-08-13 Led 3 hour Volunteer Recruitment Training session today. Attended by one person, Mary Jon Girard of the McGaw YMCA in Evanston, Il. I could have cancelled since only one person was registered. Instead I presenteded the workshop, knowing that every person I speak to is a potential partner of the T/MC. It tu rns out that Mary Jon has extensive program development experience in Memphis and is very likely to become a partner in the goals of the T/MC.
• 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..
• 2003-08-28 Did fund raising workshop for people from the PALs program, Southwest Women Working Today, and Maywood Mentoring program
• 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.
• 2003-09-03 Met with Transitional Living Services to help them develop a marketing communications strategy.
• 2003-09-16 Dan Bassill is a featured presenter at the www.wired.org conference. This brings together technology leaders from around the world.
• 2003-09-17 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.
• 2003-10-07 Met with reps from Greater Chicago Food Depository
• 2003-10-21 1300 printed invitations were mailed for the Nov. 20/21 Tutor/Mentor Leadership Conference. An email invite was sent to about 3000 people.
• 2003-11-04 WVON Radio called to say their foundation had adopted Cabrini Connections and the Tutor/Mentor Connection to be their focus charity in 2004. This means they will work closely with CC and the T/MC throughout the year to draw visibility to our mission, actions and events.
• 2003-11-16 A web link to the T/ME web site has been added by the Good Knight Child Empowerment Network, Inc. It is at http://www.goodknight.org/Supporters.html
• 2003-11-21 Paul Collins launched a new version of the Tutor/Mentor Surveys, using WebIQ instead of Group Systems. These can be accessed at http://jordan-webb.net/tmc
• 2003-12-02 T/MC and Fox Valley area tutor/mentor leaders met at the Barnes & Noble Store in Geneva, Il. on Tues. Dec. 2, 2003. We were joined by Malcolm Jones andFiliberto Alegandro Luna of Hip Haqq Productions (HHP). HHP has volunteered to help build visibility for the Tutor/Mentor Connection through arts performances that they organize. The first monthly spotlight on charities for the month of January, will be the Cabrini Connections Tutor and Mentor Program, the launch will be taking place on Jan 7th 2004 at Anthony’s Restaurant and Jazz Club in Elgin. In addition, Jennifer Johnson reports that a local mentor will be featured in a story in the Daily Herald in Dec, Kathy Moore of Mentors at Work volunteered to take on a media contact role, to generate follow up when media do a story related to tutor/mentor issues. The next meeting was scheduled for January 13, 2004.
• 2003-12-05 Attended Great Cities Forum at University of Illinois at Chicago. Within first hour of registering I ran into six different people who told me they had been on the T/MC web site within past few months, or who had attended the Nov. Conference, or who were involved with T/MC in some way. Aslo reconnected with David Perry, Director of the Great Cities program, whom I first met a few years ago.
• 2003-12-18 Met with professor from DePaul who teaches graphics class. This class will develop newsletter, conference invitation and web site templates for the T/MC to use in 2004 events. T/MC will put these on its web sites for other organizations to borrow for their own communications.
• 2004-01-05 Nathan Harris sent email that read, "Good news. Met with my boss before Christmas and he agreed that we will partner with TMC. He would like for the meeting on 1/16 to be the next step. Maybe we can discuss our full commitment, sign contract, draft a plan of action, schedule training? "
• 2004-01-13 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.
• 2004-01-20 Met with Mary O'Donnell of Experience Corps to discuss possible collaboration. Experience Corps aims to recruit senior citizens to be tutors/mentors and is launching a corps in Chicago in 2005. The organization sent handouts for the Nov. 2004 conference.
• 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.
• 2004-02-12 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.
• 2004-03-30 Received message on the T/ME web site that read: We're doing a very similar thing in South Africa. See www.ikamva.kabissa.org and email me: joy@bridges.org It would be good to share our ideas and lessons learned. All the best!
• 2004-03-31 T/MC received this email today: Hello! My name is Lorie Jackson, I met with you about a week ago regarding a not-for-profit organization that I started. Thank you and I appreciate the opportunity to share your wealth of wisdom and information. As I have reviewed a portion of the Tutor/Mentor Connection site and information that we discussed I've learned and am yet learning how beneficial the information was. Please know that your time was not in vain and I am taking heed to your suggestions and recommendations. I look forward to communicating with you soon! Thanks,
• 2004-04-20 Received following email from Val Parker, of Power4Youth in California: I talked to my friend Alison Redman last week who told me she was being a presenter (at the May 04 T/MC Conference)! She is the chair of our Mentor Connection--a group you know is named and modeled after your Tutor/Mentor Connection--which I helped start a few years ago yet Alison did not know that I recieved my inspriration from Chicago. What a small world!
• 2004-04-21 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
• 2004-05-14 The attached link shows the eConference page posted on the Internet by the Webheads, an international group of educators who became part of the tutor/mentor eConference through the invitation of Andrew Pincon, who took the lead in helping the T/MC offer its first eConference. http://alothman-b.tripod.com/tutormentor_econf04_webheads.htm
• 2004-05-19 T/MC hosted firs Internet Tutor/Mentor Leadership eConference Overlay. More than 50 people from around the world participated as speakers or learners, using a portal provided by the Digital Workforce Education Society. Portions of the conference held on May 17 and 18 at Daley College in Chicago were broadcast live through the Internet.
• 2004-05-19 T/MC hosted Tutor/Mentor Leadership Conference at Richard Daley College in Chicago on May 17 and 18. More than 180 people attended, coming from Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Indiana, Nebraska, Kentucky, Arkansas, New York, Texas and California. This was the 21st T/MC conference since 1994
• 2004-05-19 Received following email message today from Billy Gauthier, of Rockford, Il. He attended the May 17 and 18 Tutor/Mentor Leadership Conference. "I am currently receiving your e-newsletters, but my colleague is not. Her name is Barb Verni-Lau and her email is Barbv@northwestrockford.org She wants to be added. BTW Thank you for a wonderful conference this past week in Chicago"
• 2004-06-22 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.
• 2004-06-30 Met with Jackie Rouse of Sinai Hospital in Chicago to discuss leadership strategies that health care executives could take that would draw attention to tutor/mentor programs as the Back-to-School Recruitment Campaign is taking place.
• 2004-07-01 Met with Gary Wilson, the Director of the Center for Business and Economics at Elmhurst College, and with George Thoma and Joan Vilim, other professors from the Center. Discussed roles the university could take in creating a Knowledge Library that would support the efforts of businness, service-learning, and faith based tutor/mentor initiatives at the college and throughout the country
• 2004-08-23 Kris Marshall of Winning Futures in Michigan sent the following email: I attended your conference in June of 2003 and it inspired me to not only make some drastic changes with my own organization, Winning Futures, but to take the lead in creating a mentor collaboration. The collaboration is called the Metro Detroit Mentor Collaboration (MDMC) and it operates as a division of Winning Futures. The founding programs that we brought together are The Art of Leadership Foundation, Mentor Works - A program of Jewish Family Service, Oakland County Mentors Plus, Student Mentor Partners (Toi), Vista Maria, and Winning Futures. I have attached an overview of what our mission and goals are. We have officially become a partner with Mentor Michigan, which is our state's mentoring agency. We will work with them to be a liaison to local programs. I have also just been named to the mentoring council for the state which will help strengthen the collaboration. The state is writing a grant for funding for the organization. Right now, all staff time is paid by Winning Futures. I hope once funds become available, I can get permission to travel to Chicago to meet with you to discuss your program and how we can offer similar services in Michigan.
• 2004-09-13 John Blackmore, a Winston Churchill scholar from the UK, visited to learn more about the T/MC
• 2004-10-04 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.
• 2004-10-26 Dan Bassill of T/MC was guest of Diane Latiker, Kids of the Block, on the Channel 21 Public Access TV call in show. Diane and Dan talked about tutoring/mentoring programs, the conferences, and ways business and faith groups could support the growth of programs.
• 2004-10-27 T/MC contacted by tech staff at IUPUI to begin the process of rebuilding the www.tutormentorconnection.org web site
• 2004-10-27 Received email from Jurandir in SaoPaolo Brazil that reads: "Hi, I have talking to a dicrector and principals at our Christian school in sao Paulo about a possibility to have a mentor program for a region here in Sao Paulo. Well, we would likwe a conference to encourage and chalenge parents, students, teacher etc, etc. So, I think about you to kick this project. Our school has a all condition to support an event like this. and your present will be crucial and important. Let's think and talk about that for the next year. "
• 2004-11-08 Dan Bassill of T/MC was guest of Sherrard Jones of Sinai Mentoring on a Channel 21 Public Access TV show. The focus was the workshop Sherrod was leading to engage hospitals strategically in leadership of neighborhood tutor/mentor strategies. During the call in segment, Henry Warfield, a young man who had been part of the Montgomery Ward/Cabrini Green Tutoring Program, led by Dan from 1975-1992, called in to testify as to how important the program had been to him and how much Dan Bassill had helped him and many other kids. Henry was in 2nd grade when he joined the program in the early 80's and he stayed active through 10th or 11th grade. He now is an engineer working at O'Hare Airport.
• 2004-11-17 On Nov. 15 and 16, 2004, the T/MC hosted a 22nd Tutor/Mentor Leadership and Networking Conference at the headquarters of City Colleges of Chicago. More than 30 workshops were offered, in addition to a Monday evening reception at the Union League Club of Chicago, and a 2 day econference. More than 155 people participated in the conference at Daley College and 30-50 more participated in the eConference. There was excellent networking and information sharing.
• 2004-11-19 Nate Harris of IUPUI sent email confirming that IUPUI will host an eConference during the week of May 23, 2005
• 2004-11-22 T/MC started helping YMCA develop tutor/mentor program in North Lawndale and Austin
• 2004-12-10 I met with Michael A. Barr, PhD, Director, Center for Sustainable Solutions, The Chicago School of Professional Psychology to discuss possible collaboration on capacity building activities. I met Michael as a result of one of his grad students doing a workshop at the Nov. 2004 T/MC conference. It turns out he has been friends with Claudia Crilly Bellucci, a long term CC volunteer, for more than 8 years.
• 2004-12-29 Met with Kevin King to discuss ways Kevin might help participate and grow the Monthly Training Workshops held at the T/MC site. As a result, Kevin created a training needs survey that was put on the conference web site during the first week of January. Kevin was a speaker at the November 04 conference, representing Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Chicago. He's also a grad student at the Chicago School of Professional Psychiatry. Our networking at the conference led to his involvement in the monthly training.
• 2005-01-04 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.
• 2005-01-19 On 1/16/05 I saw a message related to health initiatives on a list serve from Siobhan Champ-Blackwell and emailed an introduction, explaining my goals of building a health care "hub" with information related to ways health care organizations mentor kids to careers. I was sent many links which I added to the www.tutormentorconnection.org web site. After a two day exchange of email Siobhan introduced the T/MC in his blog at http://medstat.med.utah.edu/blogs/BHIC/ (Web Log). Today Siobhan added himself to the OHATs section of www.tutormentorexchange.net
• 2005-01-19 Greg Sain and Chris Moore of VIP met with T/MC to discuss volunteer recruitment and collaboration strategies.
• 2005-01-28 T/MC and Sherard Jones of Sinai Community Institute met to talk strategies for annual Volunteer Recruitment Campaign. Sherard will take lead in mobilizing programs centered around the Austin/Lawndale/Oak Park area of Chicago's West side
• 2005-01-31 Met with Richard Koenig of Housing Opportunity Development Corp of the North Chicago Suburbs. Discussed ways to connect strategically to build visibility, volunteers, dollars, understanding that benefits tutor/mentor programs, housing, homeless, poverty, etc.
• 2005-02-09 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.
• 2005-02-16 Phillip Jackson, founder of the Black Star Project in Chicago sent an email saying "I learned a lot from you that I used to create Black Star."
• 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.
• 2005-02-22 Spent an hour helping Jurandir Beline and his wife Herica, who are from Sao Paulo, Brazil, hunderstand the T/MC and how they could duplicate it in Brazil. Jurandir is in Chicago for a 4-8 week visit. He and Dan Bassill of T/MC met via the Internet and have been exchanging ideas for more than 2 years.
• 2005-02-25 Received following message from Clair Keim, from the UK, who has a Churchill Travel Fellowship to visit the USA in 2005 to learn about School based mentoring. This is in response to a message I sent encouraging her organization to host a portion of the May and Nov eConference. " Fantastic! Thanks Daniel. Despite working in a Technology College, IT isn't my strong point, but we do have internet conferencing facilities in the school and i've forwarded your email to various staff who should be able to help with the technical aspects. I've also forwarded it to the 'Learning Mentor Co-ordinator' for the whole of Birmingham. I'm sure she'll be keen to get involved and is regularly in touch with mentors in all of the 100 secondary schools (ages 11-16/18) in the city - Birmingham is apparently the biggest local government education authority in Europe, including a wide range of diverse communities, so there should be plenty of scope for learning from each other. I'll let you know when i hear back from other staff and have more idea about the possibilities at our end. I'll go back to your website for more detailed information about the internet conferences and look forward to making plans.
• 2005-03-03 Jurandir and his wife Herika have been visiting from Sao Paulo,Brazil for the past two weeks, learning about Cabrini Connections and the Tutor/Mentor Connection. They are leaving Chicago on Saturday, but Jurandir reports that he intends to translate much of the information on the T/MC web sites into Portuguese and teach the concepts as he build support for tutor/mentor programs in Brazil
• 2005-03-04 Andrew Pincone confirms that he and the Webheads will host a series of Tutor/Mentor eConference workshops from Friday, May 6 to Tuesday, May 10 of 2005
• 2005-03-08 Following an email introduction, I met at T/MC office in Chicago with Sarah Pearson, American Youth Policy Forum,1836 Jefferson Place, NW, Washington, DC 20036. Shared info about T/MC and AYP and discussed a new AYPF study titled: Restoring the Balance between Academics and Civic Engagement in Public Schools, a guide to producing students who are both academically proficient and civically engaged. This report highlights core values of the T/MC and while it focuses on schools as the place where kids learn these values, it shares a T/MC goal of engaging parents, CBOs and the business community as responsible partners. Sarah will send copies for the May Confernece and is considering ways to participate in T/MC forums, such as the eConference.
• 2005-03-11 Received email today from Janet Salmons, who I've worked with previously in conferneces such as Wired.org. She wrote, "When I read your newsletters I always try to think of some way we could do something together again, and this time I have an idea! TechSoup.org has asked me to host an online "event" on the topic of education and the digital divide, focusing on online learning and collaboration tools/spaces. I have a lot of experience with online learning in academic settings, which do bridge the divide for a lot of people who would otherwise not be able to continue their education. I also have a lot of experience with online collaboration. But currently I do not have work going that uses these tools in community-based ways. So I wondered whether you might be interested to join me as a co-host for this proposed event? Between the two of us we cover a lot of ground. If you are interested we can refine these broad topics and decide how to approach the event. " I agreed and we're aiming to host a week-line event during the week of April 18.
• 2005-03-11 I received email requests to attend the May Tutor/Mentor Leadership Conference from Mr. Emmanuel Odoom, Accra Polytechnic, Students Representative Council, in Ghana, Africa, and from Muhammad Bilal Zafar, the Executive Director of a Youth Development Network in Lahore, Pakastan. I encouraged both to participate via the eConference rather than spend time and money coming to Chicago for a two-day conference. I also encouraged them to work with local universities to set up an eConference hub capacity in their country. This would link local groups with each other and with others around the world.
• 2005-03-12 Spoke with Nathan Harris and Nathan Bryer of IUPUI today. They showed me an open source conferencing system (www.sakaiproject.org) that is being adopted by IUPUI and will be available to the Tutor/Mentor Connection for eConferences and on-going collaboration and learning.
• 2005-03-14 Received email from Dr. Charanjeet Singh who leads the GIS NKCA project at UCLA. In response to my email he has offered to help build a similar GIS portal for T/MC. Steve Roussos, of www.akouo.org sent this referral a few weeks ago.
• 2005-03-30 Met with Crystal R. Brown-Black, Volunteer/Program Coordinator for the Windows of Opportunity Program, which is the Chicago Housing Authority Non Profit. She has been receiving T/MC email and wants to collaborate with T/MC to help Cabrini Connections type tutor/mentor programs be available in all CHA housing neighborhoods of Chicago. T/MC agreed to provide training to help CHA create a Tutor/Mentor Connection strategy. We will meet again on April 5.
• 2005-04-09 I posted a message in a T/MC egroup on Thursday asking for someone to help me set up a T/MC blog. On Saturday I received an email from Shiriram giving me this address: http://tutormentor.blogspot.com/
• 2005-04-12 Julie Williams, Monash University, Australia, send a draft of a prosal for a Nov. 23, 2005 Tutor/Mentor eConference, hosted by Monash University, for T/MC review and comment. This is in response to T/MC networking and invitation of others around the world to also host eConferences.
• 2005-05-04 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.
• 2005-05-13 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.
• 2005-06-22 Begain launch of new T/MC web site to about 200 tutor/mentor leaders via email introduction. The ULR is http://msg.uc.iupui.edu/TMC/html/. This site is being built by the technology department at IUPUI, which also hosted a May 2005 econference.
• 2005-08-22 Spent an hour on the phone showing the various components of the Tutor/Mentor Connection strategy to Amber Reiss, the new full time coordinator at the Michigan Community Service Commission dedicated to Mentor Michigan. From 2001-2003 Amber was working with an organization that ran a mentoring program. She attended one or two of the T/MC conferences in Chicago.
• 2005-09-16 Highsight has agreed to host the November Tutor/Mentor Leadership Conference on Nov 17 and 18. Information about the conference design has been sent to all who participated in past conferences. We've already been contacted by a group from Tenessee who has been part of previous conferences and wants to host a workshop in November. We will change the format and have fewer workshop choices in each time frame, but will host a two day symposium using the main auditorium as a meeting place.
• 2005-10-27 Dan Bassill met with a team of researchers and GIS experts from the Msgr.John J. Egan Urban Center at DePaul University to share information about the T/MC mission and its efforts to recruit partners at universities.
• 2005-11-17 A 24th Tutor/Mentor Leadership and Networking Conference was held at St. Joseph's School in Chicago. About 90 people attendced. This was a comment from Traci Stanley, Director of Youth Development Services at Christopher House: "Thanks to you as well Dan. I hired a new tutoring coordinator this summer to manage Christopher House's tutoring program and she found the conference to be extremely helpful. She and I have done some "debriefing" since the conference and I can definitely say that the training, resources, and networking that she got out of the conference will effectively increase our capacity to serve our children and families. Thanks again!" The attendance was the lowest 2-day attendance since 1994. Those who attended benefited, as the comment above indicates. Event though attendance was low, holding the conference enabled us to create more Oct/Nov. awareness of tutoring/mentoring through the email and on-line marketing done to promote the conference.
• 2005-11-18 Dan presented a 50 minute web cast titled "Building a Network of Purpose" in the Webheads in Action international conference. Participants were from Paris, Burma, South America, the USA. More than 340 people are registered for the 3 day event
• 2005-11-18 Tutor/Mentor eConference launched in http://msg.uc.iupui.edu/TMC/html/index.php. More than 250 people have visited the eConference space between Nov. 17 and Nov. 30, to follow the on-line discussions hosted by people from California, New Jersey, Missouri and Chicago.
• 2005-11-29 Received call from a David Robertson, in Baltimore. He's a retired police officer who wants to help build mentoring programs in his community. He found a T/MC web site and called to ask for our help.
• 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.
• 2005-12-13 Received call from Ellen O'Connor, who is with a Rochester, NY Mentoring Roundtable. The community has put out a call for 10,000 mentors and the T/MC is a resource that can help them reach this goal. Ellen called because the T/MC sent an introductory email in October offering its knowledge and experience.
• 2006-01-23 The 25th Tutor/Mentor Leadership and Networking Conference held since May 1994 will be held at Northwestern University Law School, 375 E. Chicago Ave, Chicago, Il 60610 in partnership with the Children & Family Justice Center at the Northwestern University Law School (CFJC).
• 2006-02-08 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
• 2006-02-09 The February 9, 2006 CONNECT RICHMOND Weekly Email Update included a paragraph about the Tutor/Mentor Connection. This email list has about 2,300 participants who are involved with volunteerism, community service, leadership, etc. in Virginia and the Richmond area. T/MC followed with its own longer introduction in a Feb. 10 email.
• 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.
• 2006-03-09 MENTOR has schedule an on-line tutor/mentor eConference forum in their www.mentoring.org/community for May 8-12, 2006
• 2006-03-20 An email newsletter, containing a list of Conference Speakers, along with information on volunteer recruitment, was sent today to the T/MC email distribution list, consisting of more than 2500 contacts. The email was forwarded by members of the T/MC list, such as DePaul University Partners, Illinois Commission for Volunteerism and Community Service, and Lake County Afterschool Coalition, to additional people.
• 2006-04-25 Today the new IUPUI web portal was transferred to the www.tutormentorconnection.org site, thanks to the help of IUPUI and T/MC volunteer Matt Mead.
• 2006-05-02 A live event began in the www.socialedge.org portal, hosted by Dan Bassill, president of the Tutor/Mentor Conneciton. The topic was "Building a network of purpose".
• 2006-05-12 During the past week (May 8-12, 2006) the T/MC has hosted on on-line forum at http://www.socialedge.org and co-hosted another at http://www.mentoring.org/community. More than 120 people posted messages in the Mentoring forum, while the Social Edge forum connected us with people from around the world.
• 2006-05-17 Co hosted eConference with IUPUI
• 2006-05-26 The May 25 and 26, 2006 Tutor/Mentor Leadership and Networking Conference in Chicago was attended by between 190 and 200 people. Since 2001 the May attendance has averaged about 150, so this is a good increase. Participation in May and June e-conferences adds an additional few hundred people to the networking and learning organized by the T/MC at th is time of the year.
• 2006-08-29 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.
• 2006-09-14 Received this email today: Good morning Mr. Bassill, my name is Rosemary Collins, Program Director for Inwood North Community Outreach Program in Houston, TX. I am writing to you for assistance. We will be providing reading mentoring to the children who attend our after school program utilizing Time Warner's Learn To Read workbooks with Time for Kids Magazines. I also know that it is critical for me to train our volunteers before they begin mentoring the children. I understand from Ana (T/MC staff) that you have a handbook for volunteer training. It is possible for me to receive a copy of that manual? And any suggestions you may have. Thank you so much for your time and consideration. Our website address is www.incopcdc.org <http://www.incopcdc.org> "
• 2006-09-14 I received this email from Roger McNalley, of Rochester, NY, today: "Can you guide me to websites and/or resources that have good objective/evidence based statistics as to mentoring program success? We in Rochester are going to use much of your program as a template and feel we need some good solid evidence as to the merits of mentoring. This does not have to be limited to youth but a whole variety of mentoring approaches. "
• 2006-09-29 Met with two DePaul University Students who are doing a writing project as part of a class at DePaul. The project will help people better understand the T/MC and Cabrini Connections.
• 2006-10-05 Today T/MC re-launched the links library on the http://www.tutormentorconnection.org web site. This library has been unavailable since late August 2006 when the web site was taken off line due to serious hacking. The work of rebuilding the site and re building the links library was done by the Tech department of IUPUI, which is hosting the site, and the T/MC.
• Undated Article by John Franklin, titled Tutoring's Trials and Triumphs, in the March 2003 issue of Education Updates. Ed Gordon, Cabrini Connections Tutor/Mentor Connection (T/MC) Advisory Council member and Dan Bassill, CEO, were quoted. The article is at www.ascd.org/publications/ed_update/200303/franklin.html.
• Undated Tutor/Mentor Leadership Conference held on Nov. 20/21. 146 people attended. 30 workshops were presented. Participants came from Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Indiana, Teneesee, Oregon, Wisconsin, California and Illinois.
• Undated T/MC conference announcements were sent through email lists such as ACC, CTCnet, YouthLearn, MentorExchnage, MentorNet, k-12 Service Learning, Safe Youth, America Connects, and the Corporation for National Service, reaching thousands of people around the world. Responses from Texas and Georgia led to new sign ups for the eConference.
• Undated During the week of April 18, 2005, Tech Soup (www.techsoup.org) will host an on-line forum on Online Event on Online Learning Communities and Collaboration Spaces. The T/MC will be one of the co-hosts. The announcement went live on the Tech Soup web site today.
• Undated 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 Don Samuelson, of DSSA, sent the following email to Beth Anderson, Gary Goldman, Think Detroit, and a few others. He wrote, " Beth: Suggest you and others interested in this contact Dan Bassill at tutormentor2@earthlink.net. Has been doing good work in the Cabrini Green neighborhood and other parts of Chicago for a long time. Has some very well developed programs and ideas. His is a wheel that doesn't have to be discovered."
• 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 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 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 Magdalena Montagne works at the National Service Resource Center. The center serves as training and technical assistance to programs funded by the Corporation for National and Community Service. She emailed to ask for copyright permission to post a T/MC power point essay titled , "Starting a career development tutoring/mentoring program in 10 steps" as part of a database of over 400 best practices to help those in service. I agreed.
• Undated Set up eGroup for Chicago organizations that received the first round of Beaumont Foundation technology grants as an outcome of our first networking meeting held today at Bethel New Life in Chicago.
• Undated I 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.
• Undated <a href=>news </a>
• 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 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 Received this email from Cliff Bregstone, who is launching a new program to connect mentors with youth. "Thanks again Dan FOR YOUR TIME AND INSIGHTS. You have already been a great deal of help to me. Your experience will continue to prove invaluable for me. I had a chance to look over the materials you used for training. Wow, not only have you developed a great program but your mentors must be very committed to give e all of that time. Congratulations. I am not an overly creative guy, but I am pretty good at recognizing good ideas and you have them. Dan, I hate to reinvent the wheel. I plan to "borrow" as much as I can from everyone I meet and would love to borrow from you. Be assured that you will be given credit both on our home page and in any literature we use. How do you feel about that? If it is OK I really would appreciate if I could E mail you a list of items we may want to pick parts from and if you approve I would appreciate your E mailing me the documents so I can cut and paste as needed. "

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

• Structured Networking (Jordan-Webb) · 25 of 58 slides Read from page 1
• 1993 The T/MC Report: newsletter pages, 1993–2002 · 14 of 28 pages Read from page 2
• Articles from the T/MC Site · 24 of 107 pages Read from page 10
• 1994 YouthNet Center, Grand Boulevard · 9 of 14 pages Read from page 3
• News Articles from tutormentorconnection.org · 17 of 45 pages Read from page 1
• 1994 T/MC case statement, January 1994 (updated to 1996) · 11 of 32 pages Read from page 5
• 2001 HUD Best Practice Award · 10 of 11 pages Read from page 2
• 1995 Agency analysis of Cabrini Connections and T/MC (MaryAnn Manfredini) · 8 of 27 pages Read from page 2
• 2001 Tutor/Mentor Learning Network · 7 of 9 pages Read from page 1
• 2003 Strategies for Lend-A-Hand from T/MC · 5 of 9 pages Read from page 1
• 1993 Montgomery Ward Newslink: pages about the tutoring program and T/MC, 1993–2000 · 14 of 25 pages Read from page 1
• eConference Introduction · 9 of 15 slides Read from page 6
• 2000 ERICA Award · 4 of 4 pages Read from page 1
• 1999 Proposal for an internet-based tutor/mentor learning network (S. Roussos) · 7 of 18 pages Read from page 2
• Volunteer Recruitment Workshop · 10 of 35 slides Read from page 2
• 2004 Recruiting Volunteers Workshop (2004) · 10 of 35 slides Read from page 2
• 2005 Tutor/Mentor Learning Network: vision of T/MC · 6 of 9 pages Read from page 1
• 2000 T/MC growth, 1994–2000 · 3 of 9 pages Read from page 5
• 2002 Technology vision of the Tutor/Mentor Connection · 11 of 17 pages Read from page 1
• 1999 T/MC case statement, February 1999 update · 8 of 13 pages Read from page 3
• 2004 T/MC Newsletter, Issue 30 (Spring 2004) · 8 of 13 pages Read from page 1
• Tutor/Mentor News, Recognition & Awards (web page) · 4 of 10 pages Read from page 2
• 2004 T/MC Newsletter, Issue 25 · 6 of 13 pages Read from page 1
• 2004 T/MC Newsletter, Issue 26 (draft B) · 6 of 13 pages Read from page 2
• 2004 Grant Application: Humana Chicago Benefits 2004 · 4 of 5 pages Read from page 1
• 2003 Annual Report 2002–2003 · 9 of 33 slides Read from page 2
• 2004 eConference Welcome, May 2004 · 7 of 19 slides Read from page 7
• Steps to Start a Program · 4 of 28 slides Read from page 3
• 2009 Starting a Tutor/Mentor Program: What You Don't See · 4 of 5 pages Read from page 1
• 1999 CHAMPS Award · 5 of 8 pages Read from page 3
• 1996 Actions 1993–1995 and goals for 1996 · 3 of 8 pages Read from page 2
• 1997 Get Intense: sports-celebrity strategy · 2 of 3 pages Read from page 1
• 2004 T/MC Newsletter, Issue 26 (draft A) · 6 of 10 pages Read from page 2
• 1994 The case for Cabrini Connections and T/MC: slide-show script · 2 of 8 pages Read from page 3
• 1993 Cabrini Connections / T/MC structure · 1 of 1 pages Read from page 1
• 1990 Proposal to establish the Cabrini-Green Tutoring Program as a nonprofit · 4 of 12 pages Read from page 1
• Cabrini Connections: History and Structure · 5 of 16 slides Read from page 4
• 1998 Goal of T/MC: a city of good programs · 2 of 2 pages Read from page 1
• Starting a Program (Angela Zirles workshop) · 5 of 13 slides Read from page 2
• 2002 Annual Report 2001/2002 · 4 of 22 slides Read from page 4
• Operating Principles for a Tutor/Mentor Program · 4 of 24 slides Read from page 3
• 1994 T/MC work done in 1994 · 1 of 6 pages Read from page 4
• 1996 The Business Brief (1996, updated to 2000) · 5 of 23 pages Read from page 11
• 2002 Evaluation Workshop Parts 1 & 2, Fall 2002 (S. Roussos) · 5 of 33 slides Read from page 1
• 2002 Introduction to Total Quality Mentoring · 4 of 25 slides Read from page 7
• 2005 Building a Network: May 2005 eConference · 5 of 34 slides Read from page 3
• 1995 The founding slide show: Cabrini Connections and T/MC (35mm slides) · 5 of 99 slides Read from page 49
• Tipping Points · 3 of 14 slides Read from page 4
• 2011 Athletes “Adopt a Neighborhood” strategy · 2 of 5 pages Read from page 3
• 1994 T/MC public awareness goals · 4 of 14 pages Read from page 3
• 1994 Cabrini Connections career-prep steps · 2 of 3 pages Read from page 1
• 2001 Cabrini Connections strategy 2001–2005 · 2 of 4 pages Read from page 1
• 1996 Vendors for the CPS 10,000 Tutors program (CC/T/MC included) · 2 of 5 pages Read from page 1
• 2001 Evaluation Workshop, Fall 2001 (S. Roussos) · 4 of 33 slides Read from page 1
• The Tutor/Mentor Connection: A Business Model · 4 of 28 slides Read from page 8
• The Role of Intermediary (Wired.org) · 3 of 25 slides Read from page 8
• 1995 Cabrini Connections & T/MC annual reports, 1995–1997 · 3 of 7 pages Read from page 2
• 1997 Proposal to Chicago Public Schools to support T/MC · 1 of 8 pages Read from page 7
• 2003 Evaluation Workshop, October 2003 (S. Roussos) · 3 of 44 slides Read from page 1
• 1997 Giraffe Award letter · 2 of 3 pages Read from page 2
• 1998 Giraffe News #37: Dan Bassill selected · 2 of 2 pages Read from page 1
• Hospitals: A Tutor/Mentor Connection in a Profession · 2 of 53 slides Read from page 49
• 1996 Mercedes Mentor Award · 2 of 4 pages Read from page 1
• 1993 PCI public-relations plan: first use of the “Tutor/Mentor Connection” name · 2 of 8 pages Read from page 2
• Annual Planning Calendar · 2 of 17 slides Read from page 12
• 2008 Prevention conference presentation · 2 of 18 pages Read from page 11
• Same Words: Defining Terms · 3 of 24 slides Read from page 8
• 1997 Serve Illinois, fall 1997: Presidents’ Summit follow-up · 1 of 4 pages Read from page 2
• T/MC Theory of Change (Leadership Pyramid) · 3 of 34 slides Read from page 7
• Theory of Change · 3 of 34 slides Read from page 7
• 2011 T/MC History Links: 1965 to June 2011 · 1 of 7 pages Read from page 5
• The T/MC Model · 3 of 20 slides Read from page 3
• Tutor/Mentor Learning Network · 3 of 18 slides Read from page 15
• Total Quality Mentoring: Defining Terms · 3 of 24 slides Read from page 8
• Social Network Analysis Overview (Durian Consulting) · 2 of 70 slides Read from page 24
• 1982 Dan Bassill’s talk to the National Conference on Volunteerism (draft) · 2 of 9 pages Read from page 1
• 2000 Where will we be in 3–5 years? · 2 of 3 pages Read from page 2

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• 1994 Shedd 1994Conf View
• 1994 Shedd1994conf View
• 1995 Story View
• 1995 Lawyers Mentor Youth View
• 16 May 1995 Chicago Defender: Story View
• 8 Nov 1995 Community Media Workshop View
• 1996 Chicago Bar Association: Record LAH and TMC View
• 14 Nov 1996 Chicago Sun-Times: Story View
• 24 Nov 1996 Chicago Tribune: Story View
• 1997 Giraffe Project: Giraffe1997 View
• 1997 Giraffe Project: Giraffe Foundation Honor1997 View
• Jan 1997 CC Vol David Jang Old Kent Bank View
• 29 Apr 1997 Chicago Tribune: Story View
• 20 Jul 1997 Chicago Tribune: Story View
• 30 Aug 1997 Chicago Sun-Times: Story View
• 1 Apr 1998 Chicago Defender: letter View
• 30 Apr 1998 Chicago Sun-Times: letter View
• 30 Apr 1998 Chicago Tribune: letter View
• 1 Jun 1998 Quincy, IL LINK newsletter TMC conf award View
• Oct 1998 School to Work Reporter: School To Work Reporter View
• 15 Oct 1998 Edgewood College cc visit View
• 1998 Adolescent Literacy What Works and Why1998 View
• 1998 STW Reporter View
• 30 Mar 1999 Chicago Tribune: Evanston conf View
• 9 Apr 1999 Digital City Evanston TMC Conf View
• 18 Oct 1999 Chicago Tribune: Internet TMC Conf View
• 2000 Illinois Wesleyan University: IWU Magazine Spring DB award View
• 2000 Project YES volume Dan Bassill TMC mid 2000s View
• 2000 Mentoring Coalition Dade Cty View
• 22 Apr 2000 Chicago Tribune: Story View
• 2001 Ecumenical Child Care Network2001 View
• 24 Sep 2002 Women Tech Educators News 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
• 2004 Social Innovation Award Nomination View
• 2006 Project YES2006 View
• 2006 Serve Illinois TMC Conf Summer View
• May 2008 Indiana Mentor Advisory Council May2008 TMC conf View

Ratings and comments are on the Workshops page.

• Developing a Volunteer Training Program — Janet Sink/Susan McGee · Spring 2001
• Creative Tutor Training — Myra, Janus · Fall conference
• Grantwriting: A Comprehensive Workshop — Johanna, DeJesus · Fall conference
• Orientation and Training of Mentors — Janet, Takehara · Fall conference

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

• ARTS WORKSHOP - Hosted by the Children's Museum of Indianapolis · 2002 library · Learning Sites/Activities
• Professional Development for Employers in School-To-Work Systems · 2002 library · Program Management/Administration
• Althea Enterprises LLC · 2002 library · Training/Development
• Aspira of Illinois · 2002 library · Training/Development
• Consumer Guide to Mentoring · 2002 library · Training/Development
• Innovation Center for Community and Youth Development · 2002 library · Training/Development
• Institute For Voluntary Organizations, Inc. · 2002 library · Training/Development
• JHP Community Center · 2002 library · Training/Development
• MentorshipOnline · 2002 library · Training/Development
• MentorshipOnline · 2002 library · Training/Development
• Midwest Facilitators Network. · 2002 library · Training/Development
• Photography Schools - Photography Colleges & Degrees · 2002 library · Training/Development
• Research-based booklet on tutoring · 2002 library · Training/Development
• Tutor/Mentor Leadership Conference. · 2002 library · Training/Development
• Vermont Community Works · 2002 library · Training/Development
• Welfare Information Network · 2002 library · Training/Development
• Write Thinking · 2002 library · Training/Development
• Youth Crime Watch of America · 2002 library · Training/Development
• YouthBuild Academy for Transformation · 2002 library · Training/Development
• NATIONAL CENTER FOR QUALITY AFTER SCHOOL TRAINING TOOLKIT · 2021 library · AfterSchool Networks
• EDUCATION, TRAINING AND RESEARCH (ETR) - FOCUS ON PUBLIC HEALTH · 2021 library · Public Health Links
• PUBLIC NARRATIVE (WAS COMMUNITY MEDIA WORKSHOP) BLOGS · 2021 library · Fund Raising, Marketing
• SOCIAL LEADERSHIP - WORKSHOP BY JULIAN STODDARD · 2021 library · Network building, idea sharing
• WORLD IS OPEN - LINKS LIBRARY AT TRAINING SHARE · 2021 library · Network building, idea sharing
• BEST PRACTICES IN MENTORING - EDITORIAL IN "THE MENTOR NEWS" · 2021 library · Tutor, Mentor Org blogs
• TECH MISSION CONNECTS PEOPLE, TRAINING AND RESOURCES TO HELP POOR · 2021 library · Faith Based orgs
• CHICAGO IS THE WORLD - A PROJECT OF COMMUNITY MEDIA WORKSHOP · 2021 library · Youth as Leaders Resources
• UPRISING - YOUTH LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT (UK) · 2021 library · Youth as Leaders Resources
• INTONATION MUSIC WORKSHOP - CHICAGO · 2021 library · Arts, STEM
• WEDU - LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT OF WOMEN AROUND WORLD · 2021 library · Other Programs
• DIRECTORY OF CHICAGO YOUTH ORGANIZATIONS - COMMUNITY MEDIA WORKSHOP · 2021 library · Program Locators-Directories
• THE CEBRIN GOODMAN TEEN INSTITUTE (CGTI) - LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT · 2021 library · Youth as Leaders-Service Learning
• CENTER FOR BEST PRACTICES EDUCATION - NATIONAL GOVERNOR'S ASSOCIATION · 2021 library · Drop Out - research
• COMPASSPOINT NONPROFIT RESEARCH AND TRAINING · 2021 library · Policy - Research
• NATIONAL GOVERNORS ASSOCIATION CENTER FOR BEST PRACTICES · 2021 library · Policy - Research
• iCOHERE: UNIFIED LEARNING SYSTEM FOR PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT · 2021 library · Resources for NPO Leaders
• LIFE SKILLS CURRICULA AND STAFF TRAINING · 2021 library · Resources for educators
• 1000 TIPS AND FUN IDEAS TO INSPIRE MENTEES · 2021 library · Training Resources - tutor-mentor
• 13 STEPS THAT HELP DEFINE A QUALITY MENTORING PROGRAM · 2021 library · Training Resources - tutor-mentor
• AFTERSCHOOL TRAINING TOOL KIT · 2021 library · Training Resources - tutor-mentor
• ARTICLE ABOUT RESEARCH ON BUILDING MENTORING SUPPORT SYSTEMS · 2021 library · Training Resources - tutor-mentor
• CARS MENTORING - TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE FOR CALIFORNIA MENTORING PROGRAMS · 2021 library · Training Resources - tutor-mentor
• CENTER FOR TEACHING & LEARNING - TEACHING RESOURCES · 2021 library · Training Resources - tutor-mentor
• CHRONICLE OF EVIDENCE BASED MENTORING · 2021 library · Training Resources - tutor-mentor
• CROSSROADS OF LEARNING - TUTOR TRAINING RESOURCES · 2021 library · Training Resources - tutor-mentor
• EDUCATION NORTHWEST RESOURCES FOR MENTORING AND TUTORING · 2021 library · Training Resources - tutor-mentor
• GROWTH MINDSET TOOLKIT FOR MENTORS · 2021 library · Training Resources - tutor-mentor
• IMPLEMENTING EFFECTIVE YOUTH MENTORING PROGRAM FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS - PDF · 2021 library · Training Resources - tutor-mentor
• INTERNATIONAL BUREAU OF EDUCATION - FREE TRAINING BOOKLETS · 2021 library · Training Resources - tutor-mentor
• INTERNATIONAL MENTORING ASSOCIATION - MENTORING QUESTIONS · 2021 library · Training Resources - tutor-mentor
• MANDATED REPORTING IN ILLINOIS/ERIN'S LAW · 2021 library · Training Resources - tutor-mentor
• MENTORING ACTIVITIES FOR SCHOOL-BASED MENTORING · 2021 library · Training Resources - tutor-mentor
• MENTORING CENTRAL - RESEARCH BASED ON-LINE MENTOR TRAINING PROGRAM · 2021 library · Training Resources - tutor-mentor
• MENTORING PROGRAM RESOURCES - MENTORING PARTNERSHIP OF SW PA · 2021 library · Training Resources - tutor-mentor
• MENTORING RESOURCE LINKS - ONLINE CLEARINGHOUSE · 2021 library · Training Resources - tutor-mentor
• MINNESOTA MENTORING PARTNERSHIP - RESOURCES · 2021 library · Training Resources - tutor-mentor
• NATIONAL MENTORING RESOURCE CENTER · 2021 library · Training Resources - tutor-mentor
• QUAGLIA INSTITUTE ASPIRATIONS FRAMEWORK - APPLY TO MENTORING PROGRAM DESIGN · 2021 library · Training Resources - tutor-mentor
• RESOURCES TO HELP MENTORS DEAL WITH TRAUMA - SELF CARE RESOURCES · 2021 library · Training Resources - tutor-mentor
• STARTING A MENTORING PROGRAM PDF · 2021 library · Training Resources - tutor-mentor
• SUMMER WORKS MENTORING GUIDE - PDF · 2021 library · Training Resources - tutor-mentor
• THAT READING THING - TRAINING RESOURCE FOR VOLUNTEERS · 2021 library · Training Resources - tutor-mentor
• THE LIFEPLAN INSTITUTE, PROGRAM OF CALIFORNIA MENTOR FOUNDATION · 2021 library · Training Resources - tutor-mentor
• THE MENTOR CONSULTING GROUP · 2021 library · Training Resources - tutor-mentor
• TIPS FOR TUTORS VIDEO - FROM SCHOOL ON WHEELS - INDIANAPOLIS · 2021 library · Training Resources - tutor-mentor
• TOOLS AND RESOURCES FROM AUSTRALIAN YOUTH MENTORING NETWORK · 2021 library · Training Resources - tutor-mentor
• TRAINING THE E-LEARNING WORLD - TRAININGSHARE.COM · 2021 library · Training Resources - tutor-mentor
• VINTAGE IMPROVISATION DETROIT - USEFUL RESOURCE · 2021 library · Training Resources - tutor-mentor
• CITY VISION UNIVERSITY - TRAINING CHRISTIANS IN SERVICE · 2021 library · volunteer mgt networks resources

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

• 1995 Rear Admiral Mack Gaston - CO - Great Lakes Naval Training Center - March 1995 letters · TMC-Planning / Correspondence-misc/1990s misc correspondence
• 1997 Rear Admiral Patricia Tracey-Great Lakes Naval Training Center - 5-5-1997 from DB · TMC-Planning / Correspondence-misc/1990s misc correspondence
• 1999 Mott List - 1-1999 to 5-1999 -Internet workshops - volunteer recruiting · TMC-Planning / DB On-line - 1997-1999/Mott List DB discussions
• 2000 BBBS-Chi-MentorTrainingInstitute-notes-circa-2000 · TMC-Planning
• 2000 SpringTrainingForYouth-4-13-2000 · TMC-Planning / Correspondence-email-out-of-Chi Programs
• 2000 CMP workshop - city voices -McCarron, Roberts, circa 2000 db notes · TMC-Planning / EventNotes-misc
• 2002 Barbara Talismann - best practice awards - 3-7-2002 · TMC-Planning / Correspondence-misc
• 2006 CYC Youth Development workshop 10-28-2006 db notes · TMC-Planning / EventNotes-misc
• 2008 Training Leaders to Connect networks - ppt idea - circa 2008 · TMC-Planning / DB thinking on TMC
• 2015 May 2015 TMC Conf - notes from data workshop db · TMC-Planning / Event Notes 2015
• Can the University provide volunteer training blog article2 · TMC-Planning / Universities

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

• 2008 How to Start and Sustain a Volunteer Based Tutor/Mentor Program
• 2008 What is OHATS?
• 2010 History. Who has helped?
• 2021 Additional Research-re education, youth development
• 2021 Afterschool Networks & Associations
• 2021 Alternative School Programs
• 2021 Arts Programs Resources
• 2021 Arts based youth programs
• 2021 Career and Vocational Education
• 2021 Chicago Area College Access Programs
• 2021 Chicago Area School Based Tutor Mentor
• 2021 Chicago Central Area Programs
• 2021 Chicago South Tutor/Mentor Programs
• 2021 Chicago Suburbs - Tutor and/or Mentor Programs
• 2021 College Access Resources
• 2021 Conference Links
• 2021 Digital Access-Digital Divide
• 2021 Drop Out Research
• 2021 Intermediaries and associations
• 2021 International T/M
• 2021 Library - Housing-Com Development
• 2021 Library - Prevention
• 2021 Library: Training Links
• 2021 Mentoring-Tutoring Research
• 2021 Misc Chicago Youth Programs
• 2021 Multiple Site and Community Based T/M programs
• 2021 Network & Learning Blogs
• 2021 Process Improvement; Evaluation
• 2021 Public Health Careers, Mentoring
• 2021 Resources for Educators
• 2021 STEM in youth programs
• 2021 Sept 2021 Tutor/Mentor eNews
• 2021 Technology Resources & Networks
• 2021 Training Resources for NPO Leaders
• 2021 Tutor Mentor Programs beyond Chicago
• 2021 Tutor-Mentor Training
• 2021 Tutor/Mentor Links Library
• 2021 Tutor/Mentor Org Blogs
• 2021 Workforce Development links
• 2021 Youth As Leaders-Service Learning
• 2021 Youth as Leaders Resources
• 2022 August 2022 eNews
• 2022 Library: Learn about T/MC & T/MI
• 2022 Recent additions to library - July-Dec 2022
• 2022 Sept 2022 T/M eNews
• 2022 Volunteer Admin Networks-Resources
• 2023 August 2023 T/MI News
• 2025 New Links - added 2025
• 2025 September 2025 eNews
• 2026 September 2026 T/MI News

• 2001 HUD Best Practice Award for T/MC