2000

From T/MC’s own activity log (OHATS); the Timeline has the same events with their goals and outcomes.

• 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. — Christopher House, Cabrini Connections
• 2000-08-17 Rebecca A. from the Jewish United Fund's TOV Literacy project e-mailed us on our website for more information on our organization. In response to this e-mail, I contacted her and shared information bout our conference and volunteer recruitment campaing. I also learned about their program, which is focused on literacy tutoring in schools. — Jewish United Fund TOV Literacy Project, Cabrini Connections
• 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). — East Village Youth Program, Cabrini Connections
• 2000-09-06 Talked with Sheila Heitzg of Denver about starting local T/MC. This was follow up to earlier email conversation she and I had started on the SanDiego MentorNet list.
• 2000-09-10 Acura of Libertyville donated a 1996 Ford Aerostar Van, valued at around $11,600 to Cabrini Connections. Ray Dowdle solicited this. — Acura of Libertyville, Cabrini Connections
• 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. — Westside Holistic Center, Cabrini Connections
• 2000-09-12 Spoke with Sheila H. from Denver, CO who contacted us about the November conference. She had spoken to Dan previously. She shared how impressed she is with the T/MC and that she thinks we are a great model to use in other cities, such as Denver. — I don't know the organization. Town: Denver, CO, Cabrini Connections
• 2000-09-14 The Executive Directory of the Ecumenical Child Care Network (ECCN) sent me an email offering to a) co sponsor conferences and do workshops; b) web link; c) share T/MC in ECCN networks; d) cross promote in newsletters, and e) continue discussion of how our two organizations can work together.
• 2000-09-14 Was cc'd on an email from Don Samuelson, whom I've been networking with for more than a year. Don was writing to the following people: alicia-clifford@uchicago.edu; dwalters13@mailcity.com (Danielle Walters), vdorsey@thecha.org; Darkwa@uic.edu, bakerd@iit.edu; Kalven@aol.com; DBarnes@thecha.org (Barnes,Diana); LHutchin@thecha.org (Hutchinson,Linda); PSM97@aol.com; dshannon@midway.uchicago.edu;Paula1077@aol.com; eadsd@student.northpark.edu Don wrote: We should really be developing some "tutoring" relationship in Stateway between Martin Luther King Drive and the kids at Stateway. Similar to the various tutoring programs that have been in operation at Cabrini. And between students at IIT and the kids at Stateway. Will very much be helped if it can be assisted by the Internet. Nelda? Elliott Donnelley? Crispus Attucks? Raymond? DeLaSalle? Phillips? Lots of resources to be connected. What is the most effective way of raising awareness, and aggregating and informing demand? Perhaps there could be a delegation from the Stateway community that could attend the Tutor Mentor conference. Might be a very good idea. Perhaps Phillip Jackson could be helpful in this area. Sounds like something in which he would have a real interest.
• 2000-09-14 Represented the T/MC in the LAN 65 resource fair at Truman College — LAN 65, Cabrini Connections
• 2000-09-15 Steve Roussos sent me email to look at draft of Tutormentorexchange.net web page. I did. I made first official entry in the T/MC documentation system. This is the second entry.
• 2000-09-15 Contacted by Frances Roehm <roehf@nslsilus.org> who wrote: I saw your posting on Digital Divide. I'm a librarian at Skokie Public Library, and have concerns about all of our folks having access to the tools and information they need. My particular focus is the development of our online neighbor-hood (http://www.skokienet.org) and job site (http://www.chicagojobs.org). Please tell me more about the Cabrini Connections. Are you developing a mentoring project for the kids? Are you creating online content for folks in the community?
• 2000-09-15 Received email from Luz Rivas <Luz@npo.net>, which is a product of the Information Technology Resource Center in Chicago. She wrote: Thanks for the conference information.I'm interested in the survey findings and I hope to attend the workshop. We would be interested in exhibiting. I'm interested in learning more about your mapping and other services. I mainly work with organizations on database development projects and many times I need to refer clients for those services. Also, our business development director was telling me about some business partners that he is currently talking to. I think your organization can fit into those projects. C) Outcomes could be support of T/MC technology, intro to funders and, over time, a distribution strategy of tech firms/tech support to T/M programs
• 2000-09-16 Received minutes of Aug 15 Youth Development Implementation Team from the PreventViolence!Chicago task force. In these one member was quoted as "concerned that there is not much concrete to report" at planned October Summit. I met with this group in Aug 99 and outlined the T/MC plan. This resulted in more signatures for the Campaign Manifesto, Dan Devine sponsoring the Nov 99 conf, and workshops on Juvenile Justice being a the Nov 99 and May 2000 conference. It did not result in this group embracing the T/MC strategy as there strategy. Thus, today I emailed Katherine Klimisch who is the liason to Sister Sheila Lyne, Head of PreventViolence!Chicago, and encouraged her to nudge the connection with the T/MC along.
• 2000-09-16 Sent Email to Michelle Chambers to follow up on Rev. Jesse Jackson's appearance as speaker at November Dinner
• 2000-09-16 In my email minutes of The Mentoring Coalition of San Diego County's General Meeting of September 13, 2000 the following paragraph was included: " This month's "MentoReview" (The newsletter of the Mentoring Coalition of San Diego County) had a feature article about the "Chicago Plan" for mentoring program support. The article is based on items posted on MentorNet by Dan Bassill, from Chicago's Tutor/Mentor Connection.
• 2000-09-16 Submitted funding proposal to Nalco Foundation.
• 2000-09-18 Peggy Kelly of State's Attorney's office called. They cannot fund conference, but will purchase 30 directories. I asked her to consider the following: a) make a list of 100 people who supported the Balanced & Restorative Justice Law in Illinois, and send note to them each time we do an event asking them to support T/MC; b) send us that list for our mail list; c) send letters to other agencies to encourage them to order directories as well; d) lobby the PreventViolence!Chicago group to follow T/MC strategy. She liked the ideas and agreed to pursue them with her boss, Sister Kathleen Ryan.
• 2000-09-18 Received email from April Foley, Mt Prospect, Il. Mentor program which said: I talked with our Village Clerk about having a proclamation done for Tutor/Mentor Week. She is wondering if you have a copy of last year's, or if when you get a copy of Chicago's for this year, if we could see it - that way, we're not starting from scratch.
• 2000-09-18 Received email from from: Greg Skibinski Director of Prevention Services Children's Home in Peoria. He wrote: I would really appreciate it if you were able to come down to Peoria for a day, I promise to make the trip worth your while. I had a chance to meet with Sue Kingery and informed her of what was going on. She stated that she would be talking with you soon to let you know that Peoria's Promise is no longer meeting and the United Way's volunteer Center would be taking over.I'm not sure what all this means yet. I also talked and invited Billie Block to meet with us as well and she stated that she is interested as well as several other youth orientated groups in Peoria. I also like what you have said about momentum. I feel that Peoria has been staying still, but not going anywhere. i would like to change that. I feel that if you were able to come down and share with us what you have done this would provide us with the needed momentum. I will be encouraging those that have the internet to check out your website in the meantime.
• 2000-09-20 I met with two people from ITRC
• 2000-09-21 Met with Joan Wynn, The Chapin Hall Center for Children to review T/MC and learn of her work with Maggie Daley (Mayor's wife) and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. She was "wowed" with our various uses of technology.
• 2000-09-21 The Chicago Community Trust today confirmed approval of a two-year grant of $50,000 to fund the T/MC. We have been trying to get support from the Trust for several years.
• 2000-09-22 Received following email from Kurstin Finch Gnehm, Project Manager, Public Libraries as Partners in Youth Development, Urban Libraries Council: I'm the Project Manager for a Wallace-Reader's Digest Funds grant called "Public Libraries as Partners in Youth Development." The grant has been given to nine libraries, plus the Urban Libraries Council to provide T.A. The grant's goal is to help libraries to develop non-school-hour programs that encourage career development, school achievement, life skills, career skills, and positive youth development for teenagers in resource-challenged areas. We heard about your program through the Tutor/Mentor Connection website, which was recommended to us as a valuable tool for designing mentoring programs. I'd like to arrange a visit to your site with one of my colleagues, if that's possible. A great time for us is the 19th or 20th of October. We would love to see the environment and talk to staff! If you could contact me about this, I'd really appreciate it. My contact information is below, and email works great for me.
• 2000-09-22 Sent letter to Sharon M. Shipinski of the Center for Research in Law and Justice at UIC. I included a TQM chart showing the various programs the legal community supports as separate projects, but which all converge in a neighborhood as services intended to help kids and families. Some of these are balanced & restorative justice, juvenil justice, violence prevention, etc.
• 2000-09-22 An Associated Press story titled "Not all Prefer to go Online" was picked up by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. I was called by a reader who lives in a senior citizen home. I was quote in the article as saying: Dan Bassill, who promotes access to low-income families through Cabrini Connections in Chicago, said he is more concerned about Americans who want access but cannot get it for financial and other reasons. ``We're far premature to be talking about those who don't want to be connected,'' he said. ``Let's find ways to help the ones who want to use technology get it and put it to work.''
• 2000-09-23 Joan Wynn send an introduction of T/MC to Penny Johnson, who has access to interns at U of Chicago. I followed with an email to Penny and did a CC to Stever Roussos
• 2000-09-26 Manufacturers Bank has a first draft done on the brochure that we designed for them. This uses a T/MC map to show the area within one mile of each different bank location in Chicago, and provides a list of the Tutor/Mentor Programs in that map area. They will print different versions for five different locations and place these at teller stations as handouts.
• 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. — Project Explore, Cabrini Connections
• 2000-09-27 Posted information about the conference and T/MC web site on YOUTHLEARN@LISTSERV.MORINO.ORG which has about 350 members across the nation. I do this almost daily.
• 2000-09-28 Call for Doris Garrett, Ill. Dept of Human Services. Requested more conf brochures. Offered to provide list of Project Success and Tean Reach sites around state. Still working on ways to help expand connection of T/MC with Dept. of Human Services.
• 2000-09-29 Interviewed by Kathryne Greenman of the New York Times for a story about on-line mentoring
• 2000-09-29 Contact from Church in Birmingham, Alabama asking for help starting program
• 2000-09-29 Received Email from Karen Johnson of DRAFTworldwide: She wrote "I just today forwarded your email to the CADM DFTH Chair and our PR person for CADM. I will also share it with DraftWorldwide's ("DW") Charitable Committee in October.
• 2000-10-02 Dan Bassill came from Chicago and presented to the Prevention Council
• 2000-10-02 Steve Roussos put the updated doucmentation system on line.
• 2000-10-03 Received email from Susan Moesker , Recruitment Director, Mentoring USA in New York, who wrote, " Just wanted to let you know that I forwarded your invitation to Mrs. Cuomo and I'll let you know the verdict as soon as I hear back from her. While she has an office here, she doesn't come in every day, so it may take a little time." This was in response to my invitation to have Mrs. Cuomo speak at the Nov. 9th Dinner
• 2000-10-03 Email to Wayne Hicks, Black Data Processing Association Pres in Cincinatti. This was a reminder to encourage him to partner with T/MC and to visit the OHATS page.
• 2000-10-03 The tutoring and mentoring efforts for Peoria, Illinois were at a stand still. Our local Peoria's Promise group had disbanded in their recruiting efforts. We conducted a meeting to our Peoria Prevention Council, this is a group made up of local after-school preventionists, and had Dan Bassill talk about his work and efforts for the tutor mentor connections. This was a motivating point for all of us.The Chair of our Peoria's Promise was rejuvinized and we are forming a new focus group to re-evaluate what had taken place in the past and how we can move forward. I believe that the Peoria's Promise group will add new memebrs that will bring in the motivation, resources, and energy needed to make things better and move forward.
• 2000-10-03 Article in Daily Southtown, written by John Dobberstein. Talks about Marlon Millhouse's involvement with Cabrini Connection's IYP program. Also on the Daily Southtown web site.
• 2000-10-06 John from Fourth Bridge contacted CC to do follow up on offer to work with us
• 2000-10-06 Dan met for 1 hour with 5 representives of Chicago Public School pupil support services divison, including Charlene Vega, LaVada Summers, Ethel Collier. They better understand and are committed to T/MC
• 2000-10-07 Leo Quigley of Community Builders, Inc. confirmed a meeting with Dan Bassill on Oct 13th. He initiated the meeting following earlier email contact from Dan.
• 2000-10-07 Geeks for America launched with T/MC as one of first instigator/supporters of the idea
• 2000-10-07 iS3C CEO contacted Dan to set up follow up meeting
• 2000-10-08 I met today for 90 minutes with the President of iS3C (www.isc3.com), an ecommerce consulting firm with branches all over the world. He clearly understood the need for a technology platform, and database, to be the foundation for all T/MC work, and the need for a tech group to build and manage a documented process (similar to the development of the Lynex Open Source Technology). He is considering taking that role.
• 2000-10-09 Email from Nicole Rosa in Denver who is beginning to build an on-line math tutoring "HUB" with T/MC ideas. My last email to her was " I also suggest you go in another direction. What should a parent be considering in making a decision on choosing an on-line tutor? What fees should a parent expect? What guarantees or refunds are available? Is there any body of knowledge you can point to or create that would make visitors want to come to your site as a reference for on-line tutoring? The internet is the wild west in terms of commerce and tutoring is a very subjective area. Can you take a lead and help educate the consumer from your site? Can you link to organizations who also are trying to do this? She wrote: "I really like where you're going with this, Dan! The field of on-line tutoring is wide open with absolutely no guidelines. You're giving me all sorts of ideas. I could be the person to sort of pull all of this together. I will start working on your suggestions!
• 2000-10-09 Video produced by Jimmy Biggs, titled "The Real Cabrini" is live on http://hometowncinema.z.com/homepage.html
• 2000-10-10 Christine Feldman contacted us to request a directory. She works for DCFS. I asked her if she wanted to order multiple copies for others in her office. She began asking questions about the T/MC. I gave her a brief overview and offered to come meet with her to discuss our services plus learn more about what she does. Also I want to discuss how the T/MC and DCFS can find a way to work together in a more systematic fashion.
• 2000-10-10 Email from Steven McLaine, researcher at Georgetown University responded to an email introduction I'd sent. He said:I have followed some of your previous posts on the listserv, and your organization seems to be making some significant progress. My initial reply to joining the group was an enthusiastic "yes!," but i'm not sure what type of commitment you would require. I would love to contribute, but I havemany academic responsibilities slated for the upcoming year. I am definitely interested, however.
• 2000-10-10 Received email from Deborah Knight-Kerr at Johns Hopkins Hospital. It read, "The following individuals will be attending both days: Harriet Bernstein, Albert Einstein Medical Center, Phila. Cassandra Williams, Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis Elena Quitcon, Beth Israel Medical Center, NY Andrea Perry, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles Deborah Knight-Kerr, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore Johnette Wilson, The Washington Hospital Center, DC William Rochford, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville
• 2000-10-10 Asta Ardickas, ED of Illinois Commission on Community Service called to follow up on our August meeting. She offered that her agency would like to provide small grants to Illinois communities to help the volunteer centers in those communities set up Tutor/Mentor Connections. "Would I help?", she asked. This led to a deeper conversation of funding, web pages, and the Tutor/Mentor Training Center concept, a February event, all of which I'll mail her.
• 2000-10-10 Asta Ardickas, ED of Illinois Commission on Community Service called to follow up on our August meeting. She offered that her agency would like to provide small grants to Illinois communities to help the volunteer centers in those communities set up Tutor/Mentor Connections. "Would I help?", she asked. This led to a deeper conversation of funding, web pages, and the Tutor/Mentor Training Center concept, a February event, all of which I'll mail her.
• 2000-10-10 Bob Glaves of Chicago Bar Foundation sent an email to the Lend a Hand group to update everyone on the Nov. 4th Benefit. They already have over $105,000 committed before selling individual tickets (half goes to Lend a Hand)
• 2000-10-10 Assistant Principle of Jones Commercial High School called and asked if T/MC would help him start a mentoring program at the school. I responded with "let us help you set up a student-led T/MC at your school". We'll meet on 10/17
• 2000-10-10 Tutor/Mentor Connection receives 1/3 page coverage in the Serve Illinois Newletter, published by the Illinois Department of Human Services — Illinois Commission on Community Service
• 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.
• 2000-10-12 Exchanged emails with Susan Tenby, Content Developer, Tech Soup.org, which is sponsored by CompuMentor in SanFrancisco
• 2000-10-12 Dan Bassill quoted in New York Times article titled EMail Mentoring, written by Catherine Greenman
• 2000-10-13 Call received from PR person at Mentoring USA. We've invited their chairperson, Mrs.Andrew Cuomo, to be speaker at T/MC Conference. Gave her more info and she'll visit the web site.
• 2000-10-13 Senator Richard Durban of Illinois contacted Reid Schultz, leader of the T/MC Recruitment campaign. He wanted to find a program which he could do an appearance at on Saturday, 10/14. Reid set him up with the HighSight program.
• 2000-10-16 Talked with Martha Irvine, Associated Press Technology Reporter, who called looking for a place where she could volunteer as a mentor. Invited her to do a story and gave many reasons. — Associated Press
• 2000-10-17 Tom Russo, my fund raising GURU from South Carolina, put up a new web site to elicit Conference sponsors. the ULR is http://www.tutormentorconference.bigstep.com/
• 2000-10-17 Bob Erlenbaugh agreed to put up a Cabrini Connections Golf Benefit web site, hosted from his company's web site: http://www.edynamicweb.com — HealthCom Partners, edynamicweb.com, Cabrini Connections
• 2000-10-18 Dan met with Celia Gonzalez, a grad student at UIC doing research on Urban issues, youth development, etc. — UIC Urban Planning Program
• 2000-10-18 CPS confirmed purchase order for 1000 T/MC Directories at $4 each — Chicago Public Schools
• 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. — iMentor
• 2000-10-19 Received call from Whole Foods, 30 W. Huron. They were responding to letter from Jimmy. Offered to do January in-store promotion, which includes cash register fund raising. A great offer! — Whole Foods, 30 W. Huron, T/Mc
• 2000-10-19 Attended Community Media Workshop lunch/training. Speakers included John McCarron, formerly of Tribune Editorial Board, and Flynn Roberts, formerly of the Tribune's Urban Affairs Task Force. John is now VP for strategic planning at Metropolitan Planning Council and Flynn writes for Newsweek — Community Media Workshop, Tribune, Newsweek, MacArthur Foundation, Metropolitan Planning Council
• 2000-10-23 Dan gave 10 minute intro and invitation to Midwest Facilitators Conference attendees — Midwest Facilitators Network (MFN)
• 2000-10-25 Called by Stephanie Krieger, Therapist at and Elgin, Il. Residential center. She wanted mentors. I told of the need for at T/MC structure in Elgin. She told of friend at Northwestern's Kellogg Business Schools. I told her of conference. — Streamwood Residential Center, Elgin, Il
• 2000-10-31 Ron Osborne, acting ED of Chicago Boys & Girls Club called. Wants T/MC to do presentation for Jan strategic planning meeting. Looks like an opportunity to work together. — Boys & Girls Clubs of Chicago
• 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. — City of Kalamazoo
• 2000-11-03 Talked with Steven Romalewski of NYPIRG's CMAP project (www.cmap.nypirg.org) an on-line GIS mapping project. Described our goals/needs, possibilities of them serving as partner/project leader on T/MC GIS. — NYPIRG's CMAP, T/Mc
• 2000-11-03 Bill Lederer called. He's a retired fund raiser who contacted me last week after his friend John Blades (our volunteer) had talked to Dan about facility needs. Turns out Bill is "well connected" and is going to be a guest of Jim Dowdle (Ray's uncle) next week. Jim's leading an $8mm fund raising drive for the Archdiocese. Bill will talk to him about taking a role in helping Cabrini Connections get a building donated from the church.
• 2000-11-03 Dan emailed about 25 organizations which have been profiled on the daily America's Promise fax sheet to tell them of T/MC Conference. Called the Sears Alliance number and ended up faxing infor to the PR agency working on this, Burson Marsteller, in Chicago
• 2000-11-07 Received notification that Seabury Foundation approved grant of $31,250 to fund T/MC Outreach Position for one year. — The Seabury Foundation
• 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. — See Nov. 2000 Conf data base
• 2000-11-09 T/MC hosted first annual Tutor/Mentor Recognition Dinner. Estimated 80 people attended. iS3C was Gold Level Sponsor. — See database of Nov. 2000 conf
• 2000-11-09 President of iS3C and two staff members attended technology briefing and T/MC Conference Dinner. Made Gold Level sponsor contribution — iS3C
• 2000-11-10 Representatives of Hospital Youth Mentoring Partnership presented at T/MC conference. Panel represented major hospitals from around the US — Johns Hopkins Hospita
• 2000-11-10 Wray Howard of the Rockford (IL) Mentoring Network, attended conference and met with Dan. Interested in working together. — Rockford Mentoring Partnership
• 2000-11-13 iS3C invited Dan Bassill of T/MC to be part of 30 minute infomercial being taped for CNN. Goal is to show how iS3C is supporting charitable efforts to build on-line support system
• 2000-11-13 Bob Erlenbach launched the Cabrini Connections Golf Benefit web site at www.edynamicweb.com/CabriniConnectionsGolf — HealthCom Partners, eDynamicweb
• 2000-11-21 Received $20,000 from Polk Bros Foundation for Kids' Connection — Polk Bros Foundation, Cabrini Connections
• 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. — National Mentoring Center (NWREL), Cabrini Connections
• 2000-11-22 Aimee Sherman added ten new people to the T/MC Conference planning eGroup. — Cabrini Connections, Jobs for Youth, Missouri Mentoring Program, Each On Reach One, Michigan City, Ind. Schools, YMCA of Chicago
• 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. — School of Information, University of Michigan
• 2000-11-27 Karen Pearlman of Manufacturers Bank called to tell me she has the printed brochures which show tutor/mentor programs within a five mile radius of 5 Chicago locations. She'll plan a press release and internal employee release. — Manufacturers Bank
• 2000-11-29 Fall 2000 T/MC Report and Newslink newsletters put in mail to more than 13,000 people around the country. — Tutor/Mentor Connection
• 2000-11-30 IBM approved $5,000 grant. — IBM, Cabrini Connections
• 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. — Madison, WI Mentoring, www.icouldbe.org
• 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. — Y.O.U., Cabrini Connections
• 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. — Christopher House, Cabrini Connections
• 2000-12-06 Hospital Youth Mentoring Partnership invited Dan Bassill to do a workshop at the March 2001 Conference in Baltimore. — Hospital Youth Mentoring Partnership
• 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 — Junior League of Chicago, WLUP
• 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. — StargazerNet
• 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". — Networlding, Athenium, nMinds, closerlook, inc, Union League Club
• 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 — Barbara's Book stores
• 2000-12-14 Contacted Sue T. with the Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church Brain Booster program as part of my outreach efforts. She gave me a better understanding of the their program. They work with 30 kids (that's capacity) and have about 25 tutors. 20 of the tutors are high school students earning their community service hours. The program runs from 3:00-5:00 on Tuesdays. They spend 1/2 hour in groups working on basic math and reading skills, than 1 hour with their tutors. The adult tutors also serve as mentors to the high school students, so there is a need for more adult volunteers — Christ Evangelicial Lutheran Church, Cabrini Connections
• 2000-12-15 Spoke with Lillian E. from Presentation Church - A.S.A.P. t/m program as part of my outreach efforts. Learned more about their program which serves 67 youth M-F afterschool. Needs include more volunteers, computers and money for summer field trips. — Presentation Church - A.S.A.P., Cabrini Connections
• 2000-12-15 Received email from Greg Skibinski updating me on work being done in Peoria. He writes, "good things are happening down here in Peoria. I will be the new Co-Chair for Peoria's Promise along with Sue Kingery. My department, Block by Block, will be working together with the United Way to increase our Peoria's Promise effort. We are also applying for two americorp promise fellows to help us with the development of a comprehensive list of providers and services for not only Peoria but our Tri-County Area (Tazewell, Woodford, and Peoria Counties) we will be developing a map for each of these counties as well. Also at this meeting I had a chance to meet our new President of the United Way Michael Stephen and he seemed to be very interested in what Sue and I had to say. We also showed him your CD of your efforts and he was impressed." — Peoria's Promise
• 2000-12-15 Spoke with Becky N. from Park KIDS/Chase Park program as part of outreach efforts. Learned more about the PARK Kids programs. Each park determines their own programming. Chase offers several different recreational classes youth can choose including theater & arts, gymnastics and woodworking. Homework time is also a choice. Students work independently. The park use to offer tutoring, but the funding was provided by CPS who now uses that money to fund the Lighthouse programs at schools. — PARK Kids Program/Chase Park, Cabrini Connections
• 2000-12-15 Followed up article in community paper to start conversation with Ann Jenich, leader of The Chicago Association of Social Entrepreneurs. The group sees its primary responsibility as one of educating the foundation community in Chicago and raising awareness around the issues and challenges of nonprofit enterprise development." — Chicago association of Social Entrepreneurs
• 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. — STEP, Inc. Youth Services, Cabrini Connections
• 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. — Arab American Action Network Youth Program, Cabrini Connections
• 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. — Centro Communitario Juan Diego, Cabrini Connections
• 2000-12-19 Wendy Francis at URISA reports in an email: "The Chicagoland Chapter of URISA is going to be revitalized soon. That may be a great match for local work. Also, our 2002 annual conference will again take place in Chicago. Another way to showcase your program. — URISA
• 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. — Albert J. Speh, Jr. & Claire R. Speh Foundation
• 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. — Edgewood College, Kids' Connection
• 2000-12-20 Added name of volunteer coordinator from St. Vincent dePaul Center in Chicago to on-line "call to action" letter which is at T/MC web site. — stVincent dePaul Center, Chicago
• 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. — Jordan-Webb, Midwest Facilitators Network
• 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. — Chicago Public Schools
• 2000-12-21 Contacted via email by Dan Burke, Deputy Director for Education, CNA Corporation, Alexandria, VA. He wrote, "I saw your reply about CTC funding and thought you might be able to give me some advice. After reading what you are doing, it seems to fit very well what I would like to try. What tools (GIS) are you using? Would it take a lot of time and/or money investment for me to use them?" — CNA Corporation
• 2000-12-22 PCI has worked with Manufacturers Bank and developed a press release for the brochure T/MC developed. — Public Communications, Inc, Manufacturers Bank, T/Mc
• 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." — Big Sisters of Central Indiana
• 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. — Chicago Bar Foundation
• 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. — Sunlight African Community Center, Cabrini Connections
• 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"! — JACS, Cabrini Connections
• 2000-12-29 Interviewed by Chicago Tribune and Daily Southtown regarding the impact on Cabrini Connections from the announcement that Wards would be going out of business. — Chicago Tribune, Daily Southtown
• 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." — Big Sisters of Middle Indiana
• 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." — Virtual Volunteering Project, MentorNet
• 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. — Emerald Avenue Church of God, Cabrini Connections
• 2000-12-30 Front page story in the Chicago Tribune and on their Web site about Cabrini Connections and Wards — Chicago Tribune, Wards, Cabrini Connections
• 2000-12-30 Cabrini Connections mentioned in Article about Wards, written by Barney Simpson, Business Writer, in 12/30 — Daily Southtown, Cabrini Connections
• 2000-12-31 Receive this email from Mason Scholl: I saw the front page article in today's Trib about Cabrini Connections. I don't know whether words of congratulations or consolation or both are appropriate. What is the short-term and long-term implications of Wards exit on your work? I also want to let you know that the one of the priorities of the Northern Illinois Conference of the United Methodist Church as it relates to children is after-school programs. A significant proposal has been sent to the denominations Board of Global Ministries requesting funds for this purpose. This has been pushed by the Aurora District Superintendent, Rev. Deborah Fisher. Right after New Years, I plan to call her and find out what she knows about your work and suggest that she contact you. This may be another way some networking can begin. — Northern Illinois Conference of the United Methodist Church
• 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.) — 527 different callers during 2000

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