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Universities and colleges

Universities and colleges as partners, sources of volunteers and interns, researchers, and hosts of conferences and network-analysis projects.

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  • 1995-06-01 An article in Chicago Tribune in June 1995, titled 'Poor kids struggle - and succeed', talked about success of the College Opportunity Program made possible by the volunteers and their commitment to the program.
  • 1995-06-08 The Tempo section of the Chicago Tribune, on June 8,1995, carried an article titled 'Life in the big city'. The story talked about the Urban Studies Program of the Associated Colleges of the Midwest, where students spent an off-campus semester in Chicago learning from real life experiences. One student chose an internship at Cabrini Connections.
  • 1995-12-08 The Argus, a Student Newspaper of Illinois Wesleyan University, featured an article on Dec 08, 1995, titled 'Cabrini Connections puts students in touch',and talked about students and faculty from IWU visiting Cabrini Connections to learn how the program works and meet with some of the volunteers and kids. Some students also intern at Cabrini Connections as part of the Urban Studies Semester.
  • 2000-08-21 Spoke with Jeannie B. from East Village Youth Program and learned that they launched a new outreach effort last year. East Village Youth Program is going into schools and conducting workshops to help better prepare youth to get into college. They decided to add the outreach effort as a way to reach more students without the cost of having to fully enroll them in their program (all students enrolled in East Village are guaranteed a college scholarship).
  • 2000-09-14 Represented the T/MC in the LAN 65 resource fair at Truman College
  • 2000-10-10 Email from Steven McLaine, researcher at Georgetown University responded to an email introduction I'd sent. He said:I have followed some of your previous posts on the listserv, and your organization seems to be making some significant progress. My initial reply to joining the group was an enthusiastic "yes!," but i'm not sure what type of commitment you would require. I would love to contribute, but I havemany academic responsibilities slated for the upcoming year. I am definitely interested, however.
  • 2000-10-10 Received email from Deborah Knight-Kerr at Johns Hopkins Hospital. It read, "The following individuals will be attending both days: Harriet Bernstein, Albert Einstein Medical Center, Phila. Cassandra Williams, Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis Elena Quitcon, Beth Israel Medical Center, NY Andrea Perry, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles Deborah Knight-Kerr, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore Johnette Wilson, The Washington Hospital Center, DC William Rochford, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville
  • 2000-10-10 Assistant Principle of Jones Commercial High School called and asked if T/MC would help him start a mentoring program at the school. I responded with "let us help you set up a student-led T/MC at your school". We'll meet on 10/17
  • 2000-11-23 Laurel Sandor and Karen Scheuerer, Community Connector Team, School of Information, University of Michigan posted a report on findings from CTC conference. Dan Bassill responded to show how their findings for CTC were similar to the info T/MC drew from in 1993 to form T/MC. Dan provided summary of actions T/MC has taken based on recommendations.
  • 2000-12-05 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 Hospital Youth Mentoring Partnership invited Dan Bassill to do a workshop at the March 2001 Conference in Baltimore.
  • 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.
  • 2000-12-20 Met with Tom Holub,from Edgewood College in MAdison, WI, to review collaborative strategies for next six months. Cabrini Connections has been working with Edgewood for three years.
  • 2000-12-22 Bob Glaves of Chicago Bar Foundation reports "they have hired Elizabeth Scott to become the new Associate Director, whose duties will include overseeing the Lend a Hand program.. Elizabeth is an attorney who has practiced in litigation while in California, has a lot of marketing experience in the business world, has taught at the University of Chicago and in California, and has been involved in a number of bar and volunteer activities in the past few years.
  • 2001-01-19 John Morrison, a professor at Aurora University, called for information to help start a tutor/mentor program at the Third Unitarian Church in the Austin area of Chicago. We talked of how the "business plan and research" for such a program could be student work/graduate studies of business and social work students at Auora.
  • 2001-01-19 Paul Resnick, University of Michigan, responded to question of interns for T/MC with suggestion that one of their "Archieves and Records Managment" students might be interested in Summer 2001 internship to do retrospective.
  • 2001-02-21 Kim Fox, who organizes service learning programs for Loyola University, called to schedule meeting.
  • 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 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 Met with Kim Fox, Service Learning Coordinator, Loyola University of Chicago. She's interested in developing slots for interns to work with Cabrini Connections.
  • 2001-03-15 Sent invitation to Joyce Shortt at Wellesly College, which supports the MOST initiative, and Linda Sesson, of NSACA (a network of afterschool child care professionals), suggesting the use their on-line lists as meetings, with T/MC as a partner. They are focusing on issues of sustainability and distribution, just as the T/MC is. They both responded favorably.
  • 2001-03-30 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.
  • 2001-04-04 I was traveling from Sacramento-Chicago and met a gentleman, David Springett, Ph.D. who is the President of the Community College Foundation. Their website is www.communitycollege.org. We had an extended meeting/discussion that lasted for over 3 hours! He organizes 3 major conferences a year (held in Chicago, California and Boston) each conference has 3000-4000 attendees. He is very interested in doing collaborative work with us...not limited to sponsorship and the possibility of us doing our conference at the same time as his (with his organization absorbing the costs).
  • 2001-04-05 Met with Oren Pollock. Oren is with Princeton 55, Princeton in Chicago Schools and the Williams College alumni network. He's been trying to get Ivy League schools involved with T/MC for several years. He picked up information to distribute at an April 7 meeting of the Williams College network.
  • 2001-04-11 Kim Fox, Service Learning Coordinator at Loyola Chicago University emailed to report that she had met with the Business School at Loyala and presented T/MC info. She wrote, "The business school meeting went well and I hope we can get you connected with someone there shortly.
  • 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.
  • 2001-08-01 Received call from Minor Myers, Jr. who is President of Illinois Wesleyan University. Notified that Dan Bassill, President of Cabrini Connections and an IWU alumni, was to receive an Honorary Doctorate in recognition of his work during a September 5th, 2001 convocation.
  • 2001-08-06 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.
  • 2001-09-05 Dan Bassill was awarded a doctorate of Humaine Letters degree by Illinois Wesleyan University in a President's Convocation today. In addition, Bassill held meetings with the Career Center Director and Acacia Fraternity members, introducing proposals that would engage IWU students, faculty and alumni as T/MC partners. Bassill was one of 5 alumni to receive honorary doctorates. All have expertise in "community building" and are potential collaborators with Bassill and each other.
  • 2001-09-05 Received following email from Mahesh N. Alur, PhD Candidate, Northwestern University Medical School. He contacted T/MC on 9/1 and offered to raise money for Cabrini Connections through his running in the Chicago Marathon. The email was sent to his friends: Dear Family, Friends, and Colleagues, As some of you know, I am running in my first marathon on October 7, 2001, in Chicago! I thought that this race would be a great opportunity to raise some money for a cause that has become increasingly important to me. During the past year, I tutored an eighth grade student who attended St. Joseph's and lives in the Cabrini Green Housing Project. I found it to be a very rewarding experience, and I believe that a small fundraising campaign would help tremendously a program, the community, and most significantly, the students who deserve the educational opportunities that most of us were fortunate to receive. Cabrini Connections is very similar to the program in which I participated. Not only does it provide tutoring by bringing together working professionals and students from educationally disadvantaged environments, it also attempts to coordinate tutoring across Chicago and the country. It does this by using the internet coupled with marketing and advertising approaches in order to expand outreach and knowledge on issues of poverty and education. The idea is that each tutoring program can learn from each others' experiences in how to reach students and how to attract volunteers. In fact, Cabrini Connections was the organization that helped me to find the tutoring opportunity at St. Joseph's at this time last year. I know that most of you on this e-mail list are of meager means (financially-speaking), but even small donations will be extremely helpful. For those of you who would like to donate a larger amount, all donations to Cabrini Connections are tax deductible. Please do not feel obligated to donate, but if you would like to support me -- and more importantly, these students -- your donation would be met by my undying gratitude. Additionally, please pass this message along to people who I may have missed or to others who would be interested in donating. If you have any questions at all, please feel free to contact me.
  • 2001-09-07 The ARGUS, student newspaper of Illinois Wesleyan University, reported that Dan Bassill, CEO of Cabrini Connections, was one of 5 alumni to receive honorary Doctorates during the Sept. 5th President's Convocation
  • 2001-10-03 Participated in Volunteer Recruitment Fair hosted by the Young Lawyers Group at Chicago Bar Foundation. Developed 11 new leads/contacts. I've had one follow up to schedule a meeting (Northwestern University School of Law, Director of Minority Affairs) and have initiated a follow up with the President of YLA
  • 2001-10-16 Ian Jipp called. He's now director of finance and development at Hales High School. I first met him more than six years ago when he was at Loyola University. He's had a few different jobs in between.
  • 2001-11-09 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.
  • 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.
  • 2002-01-15 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.
  • 2002-01-17 Margaret Grieco, Visiting Fellow, Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, UK, posted this message to Global Knowledge Development list: The internet can be used to empower those previously by-passed in decision making processes. The poverty mapping of Chicago (T/MC) is an excellent example. Volunteers in disadvantaged communities can map their experience and regularly update and display it and grow conscious of the overall framework which has historically restricted them." This was part of a longer message. I emailed a follow u p intro and offer to work together to develop GIS resourses more groups could use.
  • 2002-02-06 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
  • 2002-02-27 Talked with Dr. Ana Marie Schue who leads a strategic planning class at DePaul. The T/MC will be a case history for a spring quarter class. The goal is that this group develop a strategic plan that we can present to universities to get them to partner with the T/MC on collecting information and getting people (their other students, faculty and alumni) to use it as volunteers and partners of tutor/mentor programs anywhere in the Chicago region. This contact was the result of CC staff systematically calling Intern Program managers at every Chicago areas School and building relationships and creating opportunities.
  • 2002-03-07 The West Coast Alumni Newsletter of Columbia College Chicago has the following article in the Vol. 1, #9 issue (2002): MAKE A DIFFERENCE Not many people will make an impact on a child's life the way a tutor/mentor can. Thanks to thousands of volunteers, a growing number of underprivileged students are getting help to succeed in school and go on to find rewarding careers. Chicago's Cabrini Connections is a leader in this movement. For many years Columbia College students and faculty have helped this organization mobilize volunteers, business partners, and philanthropists to support tutor/mentor programs in every poverty area of Chicago. Through the Internet it shares this strategy with the world.
  • 2002-03-13 David Owens, a Health Profession Advisor at the University of Chicago, called. He was referred by Dual Richardson, who has been on T/MC mail list for several years. David was looking for help in developing a program to build student awareness, over the 4-year college career, of ways the student might get involved in a community and career paths in health and/or education this might offer. I explained T/MC goals and our search for a Health Care partner. He suggested an number of opportunities and seemed enthused to pursue the opportunity, even suggesting ways students could take the lead.
  • 2002-03-15 TraceyBrown, a senior at DePaul, met at T/MC to learn about intern opportunities. Since her major is in Social Work and she hopes to start a youth center after finishing seminary, we talked about her doing an internship that builds knowledge of what it takes to run a tutor/mentor program and how social service groups, faith groups and universities could be more strategic in the way they help. We met Tracey after first having discussion with the Intern Program leaders at DePaul. This was part of a prospecting effort.
  • 2002-03-21 Julia Wesley, Office of Community Arts Partnerships, Columbia College of Chicago, called to RSVP to the Recruitment Campaign Meeting. In the follow up I outlijned the potential for Columbia to take the leader role in drawing public attention and participation to a full distribution of Total Quality Mentoring Programs in all parts of Chicago. Julia said she was encouraged to reach out to the T/MC by another staff member, Mary Young, who had worked with T/MC when she was part of Elliott Donnelley Youth Centers.
  • 2002-03-22 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 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.
  • 2002-04-03 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.
  • 2002-04-06 Service Learning group from Kalamazoo Community College (MI) visited Cabrini Connections on Saturday, April 6 to do a workshoip with Kids' Connection teens. During that meeting I was able to outline a vision of a service-learning program working from the college and supporting the Tutor/Mentor Connection's goals.
  • 2002-04-10 Meeting with representatives from the Office of Community Arts Partnership at Columbia College.
  • 2002-04-15 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.
  • 2002-05-01 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.
  • 2002-06-18 Dan Bassill and I met to discuss the Tutor/Mentor Exchange's organizational missions, goals, accomplishments, achievements, and hindrances.
  • 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.
  • 2002-07-17 In the 7/17 statewide distribution of his Service Learning e-news, Gary Greene included two paragraphs on the T/MC with links to our sites.
  • 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. "
  • 2002-10-04 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.
  • 2002-10-13 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
  • 2002-11-03 Followed up lead about "convergence in journalism" from email list and contacted MICHAEL PARKS, Professor, Director, School of Journalism, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California. I offered to be a partner in the program to teach graduate and undergraduate students to use all channels of communications in their work. He emailed back on 11/05 and introduced me to Gerald Swerling, the director of our Public Relations Studies Program, and with Dana Chinn, the USC lecturer in convergence, who is developing the new core curriculum. Geral Swerling followed up on 11/7 with a "Dan -- you're very convincing. In the spring semester I teach the capstone course for our undergraduate sequence. All seniors must take it before graduating, and an internship is required. What would you think of offering those students the opportunity to work with you from January through early May?" I said yes, and am now trying to make this a reality.
  • 2002-11-04 I attended a networking event hosted by UCWBG - The University of Chicago Women's Business Group. This introduced nearly 200 professional business women to nearly 60 charities. The goal was to help the charities recruit board members. I developed several leads from this. One was to Linda Stone, the VP of Technology for this group. I emailed a follow up with suggestions for their web site based on T/MC concepts and goals.
  • 2002-11-04 Attended Board Leader recruitment fair hosted by the University of Chicago's Women's Business Group. Cabrini Connections was invited by Sandy Blau, CEO of the Pullman Foundation. More than a dozen prospective board members and volunteers expressed interest in Cabrini Connections, while the organization met many others who could provide leadership.
  • 2002-12-09 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.
  • 2002-12-27 Chicago Education Alliance Fall 2002 newsletter features Tutor/Mentor Connection on page 2 of 8 page newsletter.
  • 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
  • 2003-03-19 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.
  • 2003-05-15 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 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.
  • 2003-05-21 I met today with Aparna Raj, of Northwestern University's Suitcase Party. We're in the finals for being their Charity for 2004
  • 2003-05-24 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
  • 2003-12-05 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.
  • 2003-12-16 Dan and I discussed how IUPUI Unversity College could start a T/MC effort in Inianapolis similar to the one Chicago.
  • 2004-01-06 Dan met with students in a graphics class at DePaul. They will develop layout concepts for the March 2004 T/MC Report Newsletter, May 2004 Leadership Conference invitation, and if there is time, for ideal tutor/mentor program web site designs.
  • 2004-01-16 Dan Bassill met with Scott Evenbeck and Philip Seabrook, Dean of University College and Assistant Dean of University College, and several other University College Program Leaders of IndianaUniversityPurdueUniversityIndianapolis. The purpose was to help IUPUI develop a lead a Tutor/Mentor Connection process in Indiana.
  • 2004-01-16 Dan Bassill met with Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis to discuss partnering to set up a T/MC based organization in Indianapolis.
  • 2004-02-03 1/8 page Tutor/Mentor Connection ad appeared in The Chicago Flame newspaper, which has a 22,000 circulation in the University of Illinois Chicago and near West Side of Chicago are. This space was donated by the publisher.
  • 2004-02-12 Met with Andrew Pincon of The Digital Workforce Education Society (Digi Bridge) based at the City Colleges of Chicago. This group has agreed to host an e-conference overlay for the May Tutor/Mentor Leadership Conference, using their extensive experience in this field.
  • 2004-03-31 Charles Brooks, District Governor for Chicagoland 30 Toastmasters, sent this message to more than 3,000 Chicago area Toastmasters: "Sandra Beaford and I will be presenting workshops at the TutorMentor Leadership Conference being held at Richard J. Daley College located at 7500 S. Pulaski on May 17 & 18, 2004. This organization was the brain child of its Director, Dan Bassill. I have known Dan for many years and have worked with him at this function in the past. If you have a sincere interest in the development of children you will want to come out and support Dan in his effort to provide a better life and environment for our children. The information about the conference is attached to this email. Please take a little time and check out what this great man is doing for the youth of the Chicago Metropolitian Area. We will have a booth there and will be looking for volunteers. Dan has asked me to ask you to come out and volunteer just a little bit of your time. The TutorMentor Connection is a non for profit organization that depends on the kindness of those interested in the development of children. I am hoping we have a few of those individuals within our group. I look forward to seeing many of you there. Until the next time we meet I am
  • 2004-05-06 Met in internet chat portal (www.alado.net/login) with Andrew Pincon, Digital Workforce Education Society, Nathin Byrer, Technology Director, University College, IUPUI, two of our eConference speakers, and two others on Pincon's staff. One of our speakers was in Texas. Byrer was in Indianapolis, and the rest of us were in different place in the Chicago area. We were able to determine how to handle presentation of a workshop by a speaker from Japan, and provide information to help the speakers with their presentations. IUPUI agreed to handle the final eConference web site work.
  • 2004-05-19 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
  • 2004-07-01 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
  • 2004-10-11 Received following email from Ian Jipp, who I first met in 1994 or 1995 when he was with Loyola University in Chicago. He has been on the T/MC newsletter and email list since then. " I have relocated to Los Angeles and am working the Director of Annual Giving at Harvard-Westlake School. I participated in an all-day college counseling program sponsored by the Mentoring Partnership, a collaborative effort working with tutoring programs here in LA. My boss, Ed Hu, was a key organizerof the event. Megan Chernin was another organizer, she is a volunteer committed to raising money for the Mentoring Partnership. I have passed along information about the Chicago Tutor/Mentor Leadership conference. I do not know if they will attend the conference or simply contact you to network and gain more information about the TMC and Cabrinin Connections, but the seed has been planted. " Megan, and her husband Peter, are a couple who could provide a great deal of support to mentoring efforts. And she has made this a personal prioity. Please let me know if she contacts you
  • 2004-11-17 On Nov. 15 and 16, 2004, the T/MC hosted a 22nd Tutor/Mentor Leadership and Networking Conference at the headquarters of City Colleges of Chicago. More than 30 workshops were offered, in addition to a Monday evening reception at the Union League Club of Chicago, and a 2 day econference. More than 155 people participated in the conference at Daley College and 30-50 more participated in the eConference. There was excellent networking and information sharing.
  • 2004-11-19 Nate Harris of IUPUI sent email confirming that IUPUI will host an eConference during the week of May 23, 2005
  • 2004-12-10 I met with Michael A. Barr, PhD, Director, Center for Sustainable Solutions, The Chicago School of Professional Psychology to discuss possible collaboration on capacity building activities. I met Michael as a result of one of his grad students doing a workshop at the Nov. 2004 T/MC conference. It turns out he has been friends with Claudia Crilly Bellucci, a long term CC volunteer, for more than 8 years.
  • 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.
  • 2005-02-17 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.
  • 2005-02-25 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.
  • 2005-03-11 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.
  • 2005-03-30 Met with Crystal R. Brown-Black, Volunteer/Program Coordinator for the Windows of Opportunity Program, which is the Chicago Housing Authority Non Profit. She has been receiving T/MC email and wants to collaborate with T/MC to help Cabrini Connections type tutor/mentor programs be available in all CHA housing neighborhoods of Chicago. T/MC agreed to provide training to help CHA create a Tutor/Mentor Connection strategy. We will meet again on April 5.
  • 2005-04-12 Julie Williams, Monash University, Australia, send a draft of a prosal for a Nov. 23, 2005 Tutor/Mentor eConference, hosted by Monash University, for T/MC review and comment. This is in response to T/MC networking and invitation of others around the world to also host eConferences.
  • 2005-05-05 The Tutor/Mentor eConference starts tonight at 2am Chicago time as people from Europe begin to deliver workshops via the www.alado.net/econfernece portal. Email has been going around the world from many different participants to encourage others to participate in the workshops which will run from May 6 to May 12. Andrew Pincon of the Digital Workforce Education Society of City Colleges of Chicago is organizing this wave of the eConference.
  • 2005-05-23 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.
  • 2005-08-22 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.
  • 2005-10-27 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.
  • 2005-11-30 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.
  • 2006-01-23 The 25th Tutor/Mentor Leadership and Networking Conference held since May 1994 will be held at Northwestern University Law School, 375 E. Chicago Ave, Chicago, Il 60610 in partnership with the Children & Family Justice Center at the Northwestern University Law School (CFJC).
  • 2006-02-18 Met with Rob Donahue of the Northwestern University Center for Talent Development and Civic Leadership Institute to discuss ways to enage NU students in service projects related to the Tutor/Mentor Connection's mission. T/MC agreed to set up Service Learning discussion in T/MC portal where Rob and NU students could brainstorm ways to get involved.
  • 2006-03-20 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.
  • 2006-09-29 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.
  • Undated The Executive Board of the Abraham Lincoln Marovitz Lend A Hand Program, sponsored by the Chicago Bar Association, met on 10/23/03. Among the key developments reported were; a) Tom Demetrio, Chair of the Leadership Board, and partner at the Chicago Law Firm of Corboy and Demetrio, has agreed to spearhead a million dollar campaign for Lend A Hand; b) 77 students from colleges near the CBA have agreed to be volunteer tutors/mentors; c) a Volunteer Recognition Luncheon will be held in March 2004 to build visibility for tutor/mentor programs within the legal and corporate community; d) the Lend A Hand will receive 20% of proceeds from the Second Annual Barrister's Big Band Ball, which is hosted by the CBA to benefit LAH and Children's Memorial Hospital.
  • Undated Held phone meeting with Teryl ann Rosch, Ph.D, Executive Director, Chicago Education Alliance - Roosevelt University. Discussed implications of new Dept of Education legislation and proposed Citizen Service Act. Both have implications for future tutor demand and supply. Rosch invited T/MC to submit position paper outlining concerns and opportunities. I firs met Dr. Rosch nearly five years ago.
  • Undated Email from : Lisa Hadden, director of Center for Health Professions in Saginaw, Michigan. She said "I have been following your messages posted on the ABCD listserv for awhile now and am also on the ABCD faculty with John McKnight and Jody Kretzmann. We undertake the unique challenge of combining asset based community development strategies with the education of medical students from Mich. State University and nursing students from Saginaw Valley State University. Perhaps there may be a way to work/share/compare ideas.
  • Undated Myself and Steve Roussos and Paul Collins have put together a report and graphs indicating the evaluation results of the Spring 2001 conference. Myself and Steve Roussos are working together to re-do the tutormentorbigstep website to be a one stop site where prospective sponsors can gain not only information about becoming a sponsor of the conferences, but important statistical information on the impact of these conferences on actual programs.
  • Undated Illinois Wesleyan University posted a page on its web site reporting that Dan Bassill, T/MC, received the 2004 Shining Examples of Liberal Arts Leadership Award from the Associated Colleges of Illinois. This information was communicated to all IWU alumni via the email newsletter sent by the University.

Documents and slide decks

64

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) · 20 of 58 slides
  • University Connection · 45 of 57 slides
  • Universities and T/MC · 45 of 60 slides
  • 1993 Montgomery Ward Newslink: pages about the tutoring program and T/MC, 1993–2000 · 14 of 25 pages
  • Articles from the T/MC Site · 34 of 107 pages
  • 2002 Annual Report 2001/2002 · 8 of 22 slides
  • 2003 Annual Report 2002–2003 · 13 of 33 slides
  • On the Path to College (Illinois CAN) · 15 of 19 slides
  • 1999 T/MC case statement, February 1999 update · 11 of 13 pages
  • 1993 The T/MC Report: newsletter pages, 1993–2002 · 12 of 28 pages
  • News Articles from tutormentorconnection.org · 14 of 45 pages
  • 1995 Agency analysis of Cabrini Connections and T/MC (MaryAnn Manfredini) · 9 of 27 pages
  • 2004 T/MC Newsletter, Issue 26 (draft B) · 6 of 13 pages
  • 1994 T/MC case statement, January 1994 (updated to 1996) · 10 of 32 pages
  • 1999 Proposal for an internet-based tutor/mentor learning network (S. Roussos) · 8 of 18 pages
  • 2007 T/MC: who are we working with? · 1 of 1 pages
  • 2005 Chicago Council on Urban Affairs Neighborhood Awards · 3 of 5 pages
  • 2004 T/MC Newsletter, Issue 25 · 9 of 13 pages
  • 2002 Cabrini Connections & T/MC Annual Report 2001–2002 (overview) · 7 of 13 slides
  • 2004 T/MC Newsletter, Issue 30 (Spring 2004) · 8 of 13 pages
  • 2005 Teaching, learning, publishing and PR opportunities with T/MC · 1 of 1 pages
  • About T/MC (from the website) · 7 of 15 pages
  • 1995 The founding slide show: Cabrini Connections and T/MC (35mm slides) · 5 of 99 slides
  • 1996 Vendors for the CPS 10,000 Tutors program (CC/T/MC included) · 2 of 5 pages
  • 2004 T/MC Newsletter, Issue 26 (draft A) · 6 of 10 pages
  • 2005 Tutor/Mentor Learning Network: vision of T/MC · 4 of 9 pages
  • Tutor/Mentor News, Recognition & Awards (web page) · 3 of 10 pages
  • Tipping Points · 5 of 14 slides
  • 2000 Where will we be in 3–5 years? · 2 of 3 pages
  • 1994 Cabrini Connections career-prep steps · 3 of 3 pages
  • 1990 Proposal to establish the Cabrini-Green Tutoring Program as a nonprofit · 5 of 12 pages
  • 1995 Hospitals and health care: a T/MC strategy · 2 of 4 pages
  • 2001 Kids Connection (Cabrini Connections) · 4 of 12 pages
  • 2005 Building a Network: May 2005 eConference · 5 of 34 slides
  • 2008 Prevention conference presentation · 4 of 18 pages
  • 2011 T/MC History Links: 1965 to June 2011 · 2 of 7 pages
  • 2001 Tutor/Mentor Learning Network · 4 of 9 pages
  • 1996 Cabrini Connections presentation · 3 of 10 pages
  • 1997 Proposal to Chicago Public Schools to support T/MC · 3 of 8 pages
  • 2004 Grant Application: Humana Chicago Benefits 2004 · 3 of 5 pages
  • Kids' Connection: Tutor/Mentor Program · 3 of 27 slides
  • 2005 eConference and Conference Introduction, May 2005 · 4 of 33 slides
  • 1996 Mercedes Mentor Award · 3 of 4 pages
  • 1996 Actions 1993–1995 and goals for 1996 · 3 of 8 pages
  • 1995 Cabrini Connections & T/MC annual reports, 1995–1997 · 2 of 7 pages
  • Building a Network Focused on a Common Goal · 4 of 35 slides
  • Mapping a Path to a Career · 2 of 24 slides
  • 2000 T/MC growth, 1994–2000 · 2 of 9 pages
  • Chicagoland Tutor/Mentor Volunteer Recruitment Campaign · 3 of 30 slides
  • 2005 Skoll Foundation application · 2 of 10 pages
  • 2002 Technology vision of the Tutor/Mentor Connection · 4 of 17 pages
  • 1996 Total Quality Mentoring · 3 of 13 pages
  • 1994 YouthNet Center, Grand Boulevard · 2 of 14 pages
  • 2003 2003 Recruitment Campaign: Final Report · 3 of 24 slides
  • What Is the Tutor/Mentor Learning Network? · 1 of 2 pages
  • 1995 Chart of T/MC activity, 1994–1995 · 1 of 1 pages
  • eCollaboration, eLearning and Vertical Organizations · 3 of 28 slides
  • eConference Introduction · 2 of 15 slides
  • 1997 Giraffe Award letter · 2 of 3 pages
  • 2001 HUD Best Practice Award · 3 of 11 pages
  • 2008 A minister working with maps (blog article) · 1 of 5 pages
  • The T/MC Model · 3 of 20 slides
  • 1996 Why invest in youth mentoring and education · 1 of 7 pages
  • 1994 1994 program survey charts by Illinois Wesleyan University · 1 of 5 pages

In the news

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  • Undated Microsoft Word Sources and data
  • Undated Newsletter team1a
  • Undated Campus Compact: Campus Compact Conference Story
  • 1994 CBF19
  • 1994 Chicago Bar Association: Record LAH Program
  • 1994 Metro Info Center
  • 1995 Lawyers Mentor Youth
  • 15 Feb 1995 Illinois Wesleyan University: IWU intern Watseka, IL news
  • 8 Jun 1995 Chicago Tribune: Story
  • 10 Jun 1995 Chicago Tribune: CYCLE
  • 6 Sep 1995 Southtown
  • 19 Nov 1995 Chicago Tribune: Cluster Tutornig letter
  • 1996 Chicago Bar Association: Report Fall TM Week
  • 1996 Crain's Chicago Business: CC story
  • 1996 Illinois Wesleyan University: IWU Magazine Making of Volunteers
  • 10 Apr 1996 Illinois Wesleyan University: Bloomington Pantagraph cc visit IWU
  • 31 May 1996 Chicago Tribune: Olympic Tourch CC on committee
  • 21 Aug 1996 INSIDE
  • 24 Nov 1996 Chicago Tribune: Story
  • 1997 Giraffe Project: Giraffe1997
  • 1997 Giraffe Project: Giraffe Foundation Honor1997
  • 1997 Letters to editor1997&
  • 20 Jul 1997 Chicago Tribune: Story
  • 3 Sep 1997 Chicago Tribune: letter
  • 15 Oct 1998 Edgewood College cc visit
  • 1998 Adolescent Literacy What Works and Why1998
  • 12 Jan 1998 Crain's Chicago Business: Story
  • 2000 Illinois Wesleyan University: IWU Magazine Spring DB award
  • 2000 Project YES volume Dan Bassill TMC mid 2000s
  • 22 Apr 2000 Chicago Tribune: Story
  • 2 Oct 2000 Digital Divide thread on AOL.com
  • 5 Sep 2001 Illinois Wesleyan University: IWU Presidents Convocation DB Ph D honor
  • 7 Sep 2001 Illinois Wesleyan University: IWU Argus DB Ph D honor
  • 12 Sep 2001 EXTRA vol recruitment
  • 18 Oct 2001 Park Ridge Herald: Park Ridge Herald DB Ph D
  • Jun 2003 Education Alliance June conf
  • 3 Jun 2003 Youth Service America briefing TMC conf
  • 2004 ACI News DB Award Spring
  • 2004 Illinois Wesleyan University: IWU Magazine Summer ACI Award
  • 2004 ACI Award IWU Magazine
  • 27 Jul 2005 APNews.myway.com
  • 2006 Serve Illinois TMC Conf Summer
  • May 2008 Indiana Mentor Advisory Council May2008 TMC conf
  • 2009 Illinois Wesleyan University: IWU Alumni udate Spring
  • 2 Aug 2010 Out of the Box Thinking TMC Conf
  • 2011 Streetwise: Story
  • 26 Oct 2011 Streetwise: TM Conf
  • 2012 Streetwise: Story
  • 2012 Streetwise: Story
  • 2015 ILCCVista Update
  • 2015 Acacia: Triad Acacia Fraternity Spring
  • 2015 Acacia: Acacia News
  • May 2015 Campus Compact: Illinois Campus Compact May TM Conf

Maps

8

Open them in the map gallery.

  • 2008 Chicago Universities In Relation To Poverty · Schools
  • 2008 Downtown Universities In Relation To Poverty · Schools
  • Chicago Downtown Universities · Schools
  • Illinois Rep. District 5 Dunkin Hospitals And Universities · Political districts
  • Illinois Rep. District 9 Turner Hospitals Universities · Political districts
  • Colleges Chicago Region Opportunity Insights · Maps by other organizations
  • Colleges Chicago Region Opportunity Insights 1 · Maps by other organizations
  • Illinois Map from Otmize College report · Maps by other organizations

Conference workshops

2

Ratings and comments are on the Workshops page.

  • Choosing a College That Fits — Renee, Tucker · Fall conference
  • The Road to College — Julie Angelica · Spring 2001

Library links

111

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

Planning files

154

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

Website pages

92

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

Awards and honors

3
  • 1996 Illinois Wesleyan University Volunteer Appreciation Award
  • 2001 Doctorate honor from Illinois Wesleyan University
  • 2004 Associated Colleges of Illinois: Shining Example of Liberal Arts for Leadership