2002

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

• 2002-01-01 Message posted on T/MC web site from Nokomis, FL read: "Your site is being used as a reference for those who are developing a county, state and nation wide civil defense program. Thanks for the mentoring references, they have helped many who do not believe that they had no further use in life. We now have many 60-70 year olds performing digital research and development in our forming cyber community."
• 2002-01-01 OHATS adopted by another Chicago group as a result of work on T/MC's OHATS. The group is the Englewood Network, a group of agencies and organizations working to improve employment rates and self-sufficiency for residents of Greater Englewood.
• 2002-01-04 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. — Associated Colleges of Illinois (ACI)
• 2002-01-06 A set of six maps that show poverty areas in Chicago are now on the GIS web site. These maps show schools on the November State Board of Education warning list, and tutor/mentor programs. We’ve broken the maps down by the time of day the service is available and the age group served. Our maps show many more programs available during the 3-5 time frame when most workplace volunteers are not able to participate in comprehensive tutor/mentor programs. Our maps show fewer programs for high school youth, which is a contributing factor to the high dropout rate of teens. I emailed reporters, columist, editorial people, etc. at the Tribune, SunTimes and WGN Radio to encourage them to use these maps in 2002 stories. — Volunteers
• 2002-01-08 National Mentoring Month began the first of January. A variety of TV, radio and print stories will appear during the month calling on volunteers to mentor. This event is being chaired by BBBS. T/MC was offered the lead role in early April, but declined due to lack of revenue to take this additional role. T/MC worked with BBBS and the committee and is linked from the Chicago web sites that promote the event. — National Mentoring Partnership, Harvard Mentoring Project, Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Chicago, T/MC and several others
• 2002-01-09 Judy Markey of WGN Radio called and agreed to put a web link from her Radio site to the Program Links site at the TME. At various times during the year she'll tell listeners that if they want to volunteer they can go to this site to find programs where they can volunteer. — WGN Radio, T/Mc
• 2002-01-14 Kenny King, President of New Concepts, held a New Concepts volunteer orientation at the Tutor/Mentor Connection site. — Tutor/Mentor Connection, New Concepts
• 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. — Joint Center for Poverty Research
• 2002-01-16 Deborah Mathies, Director of Raptors in the City Program, wrote: "I have read a number of your posts in the Digital Divide chatgroup and I wanted to tell you about a project I am working on that I think you will find of interest. I am a teacher in an inner-city school in Connecticut and the director of a new national environmental education and technology program. "Raptors in the City" has the special goal of connecting urban kids with nature via technology." I sent information back on the conference, web site and other ways we could help people learn about this program. — Raptors in the City Program
• 2002-01-17 Attended Publicity Club of Chicago lunch. Speakers were media writers for Tribune, SunTimes, i-Street and E-Praire. People at my table were PR professionals from a variety of companies. At the end of the meeting I introduced myself to the only African American in the audience and it turned out to be Andre F. Garner, formerly with Peoples Gas, now the Midwest Public Relations Director for EDS — Publicity Club of Chicago, List of contacts is available.
• 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. — Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge
• 2002-01-18 2nd Email ad, title Documentary Film maker, 2019, was sent on 1/18/02 to more than 2000 on T/MC list. This ad was developed by David Kelbaugh and distributed by Ira Bey's team. — Email Connex, Groundwork
• 2002-01-23 Program leaders from the Indo-American Tutoring Center visited the Kids' Connection program to observe a tutor/mentor session. Kids' Connection policies and procedures were shared with the Indo-American Tutoring Center to help them build their program. — Indo-American Center
• 2002-01-29 I received the following email today: "My name is Sarah Frank and I am the Director of Milwaukee Mentors. We are a group of eleven nonprofit agencies that operate mentoring programs for children and teens. I would like to receive information about the conference AND about the tutormentor connection. Our group has been in existence for 6 years but feel we would have much to learn from your group! Could I be added to your newsletter? I look forward to hearing from you." — Milwaukee Mentors
• 2002-02-05 Meeting of the Kendall County Project Success organizations decided to partner with the T/MC for the 2002 T/M Volunteer Recruitment Campaign and have fair sites in their area. — Project Success
• 2002-02-06 Met with Kimberly Crayton, consultant to Chicago Youth Agency Partnership and President of Chicago Association of Youth Development Professionals. She'll do a workshop at May 20/21 conference. She'll help bring youth development people to conferences and T/MC web site. — Chicago Youth Agency Partnership
• 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. — New Concepts, Associated Colleges of Illinois, Uhlich, Big Brothers/Bigs Sisters of Metropolitan Chicago, Cabrini Connections
• 2002-02-07 Morgan Carter of CFJ Radio, 1470 AM in Chicago, called and interviewed Dan Bassill live on his radio show. He had received the Feb. 2002 T/MC REPORT and was very complementary as he asked about some of the information in the newsletter. — CFJ Radio, 1470 AM in Chicago
• 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 — Yale Alumni Group, Community Renewal Society
• 2002-02-12 Letter to Editor from Dan Bassill was printed in the Feb. 2002 Youth Today — Youth Today Newspaper
• 2002-02-12 Thobeka Poswa, of the GAP program (sponsored by Health for Humanity), called for ideas on fund raising and information on T/MC conference. T/MC shared information and learned that Thobeka is from South Africa and part of a faith-group sponsored team of volunteers from multi countries. We guided Thobeka through the T/ME web site and encouraged her to share info with others . — GAP, Health for Humanity
• 2002-02-13 Margaret Broom called from church in Milwaukee asking for information for starting a mentoring program. I gave her the contact for Milwaukee Mentors and our web site addresses. She said she receives our newsletter and encourages members of her network to attend the conferences. — Milwaukee church
• 2002-02-19 meeting was held with the Chicago Festival Association and myself about sponsorhip of the 2002 Tutor/Mentor Volunteer Recruitment Campaign by Marshall Fields and Target. — Chicago Festival Association
• 2002-02-20 Irene Phelps, ED of the Siragusa Foundation, sent a letter of introduction to Peter Wilmott, who is a philanthropic leader, and a leader in the Health Care field. — The Siragusa Foundation
• 2002-02-21 Sarah Frank, ED of Milwaukee Mentors, met at T/MC. We reviewed goals,actions and work we might do together to strengthen the capacity of mentor programs in each city. — Milwaukee Mentors
• 2002-02-27 The e-mail ad campaign stats as of 2/26/02. The first email, send 12/12 has been viewed once by 1196 people and viewed a total of 1711 times. That means many people are viewing this more than once. Illinois Fatherhood Initiative has viewed the email more than 100 times. The second ad, sent 1/15 has been viewed once by 1,319 and more than once by 1790. The third ad, sent on 1/28, has been viewed at least one time by 1,570 people and more than once by 2,122 people. — Emailconnex, T/MC Voluteers
• 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. — DePaul University, DePaul University, CC staff
• 2002-02-27 Met with Dennis Zavac, President of Executive Service Corps and Frank A. Kreuz, a consultant. Discussed consulting project focused at getting more organizations to duplicate the Chicago Bar Foundatin Lend A Hand and/or the Hospital Youth Mentoring Project. This meeting was arranged by Howard Morgan, the chairman of the Board of CES and a former Citigroup Exec. Jack Kennedy of our board asked Howard for help. — Executive Service Corporation
• 2002-02-28 Met with Karolus Smejda President, PowerSuasion Incorporated, following first contact at the last Midwest Facilitator's Meeting. PowerSuasion develops scripts which actors perform as training for corporate people. When I saw this I felt it would be very effective for training volunteers because of the way actors can improvise performances based on the questions volunteers raise. Mr. Smejda has been a tutor for innercity youth and understood well what the potential for his services would be. The challenge will be to find funding to develop a pilot and present this as a training option for programs (during T/MC conferences) — PowerSuasion Incorporated
• 2002-03-01 Met with Priya M. Bhatia, Asian Community Liaison and U.S. Senate Aide to Richard J. Durbin. Presented a variety of "leadership points" that the Senator could incorporate into his actions and his communications. — Senator Durin's office
• 2002-03-04 Rec'd copy of letter of introduction that Tom Howard, ED of Life Directions, sent to the Richard & Helen De Vos Foundation in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Richard DeVos is a founder of Amway — Life Directions
• 2002-03-05 Karina Ayala, of the Chicago Bar Foundation's Lend A Hand Committee, reported via email: "I received an elated call from Katherine McCabe of the Cluster Tutoring Program. Thanks to the Lend a Hand Program her agency received a donation of $25,000 from a generous donor who selected the Cluster Tutoring Program using the Lend a Hand Program brochure. This is just another example of how you, the Lend a Hand Board, are making a difference in the lives of inner city-youth! — Lend A Hand Program, Cluster Tutoring Program
• 2002-03-06 Met with Stacy Jackson, Director of Tutoring and Scholarship, Sarah Tribuzio, Education Programs Manager, and David Miller, Volunteer, from Fourth Presbyterian Church Tutoring Program in Chicago. The meeting enables us to update ourselvels on each other's program. They struggle with many issues that other programs face, but have not yet tapped into the vast resources of their volunteer corps (over 400), their Church membership, or the 35 years they have been in existence, to build a better operating system that works for them, and for any other tutor/mentor program. — 4th Presbyterian Church Tutoring Program
• 2002-03-06 Actor Joe Mantegna has added a link to the T/MC web site from his LINKS page (http://www.joemantegna.com/cs_joem_links.html) — Actor
• 2002-03-06 Matt Mead has launched a revised version of the T/MC web site with some new features that make it easier to navigate and more interesting for people to visit. — Leapnet
• 2002-03-07 Julie sent T/MC maps showing MBF Bank locations. Karen Perlman, vp of Marketing at the bank sent T/MC their logo. T/MC will create brochure templates that the Bank will print and handout at 31 branch locations. — Press Ganey, MBF Bank
• 2002-03-07 A T/MC letter to the editor mailed to www.directionsmag.com, titled Mapping Solutions to Poverty, can be found in the on-line version of this magazine. — www.directionsmag.com
• 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. — Amphion Productions, West Coast Alumni Newsletter of Columbia College Chicago
• 2002-03-12 Attended Advisory Council meeting of Junior League of Chicago. Offered input on Strategic Planning, and on future growth of "Next step for Teen Moms" mentoring program, which is a "signature project" for JLC. I'm one of about 20 members of this Advisory Councile. At meeting set stage for meeting of President of JLC and 2-3 other key leaders, to look for ways for JLC to adopt T/MC as partner and strategy intended to help JLC reach its key goals. — Junior League of Chicago
• 2002-03-13 The Lend A Hand Council of the Chicago Bar Foundation met today. There is nearly $65,000 available for 2002 grants to one-on-one tutor/mentor programs (for grants, Demetrrio Award and Searns Family Foundation Match). While a schedule of review was discussed, the bigger issue was the announcement that the Strategic Planning Committee of the Chicago Bar Foundation had decided that Lend A Hand was not a core strategy and that the fund raising (and grant giving) would not be continued in the present format in 2003. This led to the beginning of what will be an on-going conversation among LAH council members intended to keep the program alive and growing. Many commitments were made, including one from Mike Demetrio of Corboy & Dimetrio, to continue to provide resource for the program to continue. — Chicago Bar Foundation, Lend A Hand Advisory (13 people)
• 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. — University of Chicago
• 2002-03-14 More than 2,000 email ads featuring the Innervisions Youth Production Video Festival were sent out on Friday, March 14. — EmailConnex, GroundWork
• 2002-03-14 Meeting with Anglea Zirles, Director of Mentoring for Boys and Girls Clubs of Chicago — Boys and Girls Clubs of Chicago
• 2002-03-15 TraceyBrown, a senior at DePaul, met at T/MC to learn about intern opportunities. Since her major is in Social Work and she hopes to start a youth center after finishing seminary, we talked about her doing an internship that builds knowledge of what it takes to run a tutor/mentor program and how social service groups, faith groups and universities could be more strategic in the way they help. We met Tracey after first having discussion with the Intern Program leaders at DePaul. This was part of a prospecting effort. — DePaul
• 2002-03-18 Union League Club of Chicago's State of the Union magazine, distributed to 3500 members, included a notice about Dan Bassill's appointment to the Illinois Commission and his receipt of an honorary doctorate from Illinois Wesleyan. — Union League Club of Chicago
• 2002-03-20 Lucious Smith of the BAGS Foundation in Chicago called to learn how to use OHATS. I explained it to him and suggested he test it by documenting actions of BAGS that support T/MC goals. — BAGS Foundation, Akouo
• 2002-03-21 Prof. Edna Aphek, Jerusalem, Israel, sent email to T/MC in response to a post T/MC placed on Digital Divide list. The post included a description of an intergenerational program that was piloted in Israel. In this program youth taugh seniors how to use the Internet and Computers and the seniors taught history to they youth as they wrote an estory about a chapter in the life of the senior. — Jerusalem, Israel,, Digital Divide List/Benton Foundation
• 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. — Columbia College
• 2002-03-22 I sent 20 email letters to people who had opened the IYP email more than a few times since 3/15/02. I selected people who had the potential to help grow Cabrini Connections. Included were Chicago Public Schools, Chicago Bears, IT companies, Hotel Companies. etc. This is a form of prospecting and follow up made possible by this system. — Various (list of 20)
• 2002-03-22 In a conversation with an America's Promise person I was told that AP does not support individual organizations and that AP was doign major work with Northwest Community Hospital and HOPE worldwide in the Northwest Suburbs and Chicago. This is a rejection after ta year of work with John Brothers to build a closer relationship with AP. — America's Promise
• 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. — Edgewood College, WI Foundation for Independent Colleges, Inc
• 2002-03-26 Met with Laura Lough of World Vision to discuss strategies for engaging faith communities in tutor/mentor program development and delivery. I reviewed maps, communications goals, web sites and other actions that her organization can adopt to draw more faith groups into on-going learning that leads to more strategic and long-term involvement of churches and individuals. — World Vision
• 2002-03-26 Meeting with WGCI Radio to discuss sponsorships for 2002 Volunteer Recruitment Campaign — WGCI Radio, Chicago Youth Programs
• 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. — University of Chicago, Boeing World Headquarters, columist, US Congress
• 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. — iAAEC
• 2002-03-28 Met with Mercedes Soto of the ITRC Accelerator project and discussed needs of CC and opportunities to work with ITRC — ITRC
• 2002-04-01 Meeting with the new Marketing and Events Manager at Barbara's Bookstore to discuss the 2002 Volunteer Recruitment Campaign — Barbara's Bookstore
• 2002-04-01 Met with Dan Bassiel. Talked about the a possible collaboration. Use the Cabrini Connection office to meet with one of our TeamMentoring program volunteers. — Cabrini Connections, New Concepts
• 2002-04-02 Meeting with Evelyn Green from the Chicago Department of Public Health to discuss additional ways to partner with her and trhe city. — Chicago Department of Public Health
• 2002-04-03 Equa and Sean met with Dan to discuss ways they can help T/MC and CC
• 2002-04-03 Irene Phelps of the Siragusa Foundation and Dan met with Peter Willmott today. Mr. Willmott is chairman of Children's Hospital in Chicago and of the Associated Colleges of Illinois Board. Irene arranged this introduction. — Siragusa Foundation, Children's Hospital in Chicago, Associated Colleges of Illinois
• 2002-04-04 Received Call from Mr. Smith and George Montgomery, the technology support, of Lucious H Smith / Beulah A G Smith Scholarship to discuss their need for and creation of an OHATS for their organization. Referred by Dan Bassill. Sent them additional materials for the development and customazation of their own OHATS. — Lucious H Smith / Beulah A G Smith Scholarship
• 2002-04-05 Met today with Renee Ogletree and Anthony McGee of the Chicago Department of Human Services. DHS offered to provide some funding for Kids' Connection services to an expanded number of youth. They also offered to look for ways to be more strategically connected with T/MC. This meeting was initiated by DHS. — Chicago Department of Human Services, Chicago Department of Human Services
• 2002-04-05 MBFinancial Bank sent followng email: "I am meeting with our managers on Tuesday and will confirm these locations. The probable sites we can use for volunteer fairs are: Morton Grove (Dempster Street location), North Riverside (the Mall location has more foot traffic), Elmhurst ((Grand Ave & Elmhurst Rd.), West Loop (Halsted and Madison, no Saturdays) Ashland (1200 N.), South Holland, Tinley Park. I would like to get another city site, so I will discuss that Tuesday." — MBFinancial Bank
• 2002-04-05 Met with Debra Helin, Program Director of HuTech and Amy O'Gara, Intern from the Jane Adams Hull House school of Social Service at UIC. Outlined vision/opportunity for HuTech to play T/MC role serving tutor/mentor programs in the child welfare system. — HuTech, HuTech
• 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. — Kalamazoo Community College (MI)
• 2002-04-10 Meeting with representatives from the Office of Community Arts Partnership at Columbia College. — Office of Community Arts Partnership, Office of Community Arts Partnership
• 2002-04-11 The first email ad for the May conference was sent today to about 2800 people. This ad was created by David Kelbaugh and volunteers from a small advertising company named GroundWork and distributed by a small email marketing company named Emailconnex. The text was edited from a remote location by Dan Bassill. — EmailConnex, GroundWork
• 2002-04-12 Meeting with two representatives from Junior Achievement of Chicago. — Junior Achievement of Chicago, Junior Achievement of Chicago
• 2002-04-15 Introduced T/MC to 25 students in a strategic planning class at DePaul University. One or two teams of three will choose T/MC for a 10 week strategic planning assignment. I've asked them to develop plans to engage organizations (such as DePaul) as strategic partners of T/MC. One of the other presenting organizations was the Humboldt Park Economic Development Corporation (HPEC)‚. This is a potential partner for T/MC in that part of Chicago. — Humboldt Park Economic Development Corporation, DePaul University Strategic Planning Class
• 2002-04-15 Kenny King of New Concepts T/MC and Joe Walsh, a fund raising consultant, met today to build a strategy to jointly appliy for the 2002 21st Century Afterschool Program Grant and the new Mentoring Program federal grant. — New Concepts T/MC, Tutor/Mentor Connection
• 2002-04-15 William Conrad, Jr., President of Institute for Voluntary Organizations invited CC to participate in a one year evaluation project aimed at validating the leadership/board development/strategic planning/technology/fund raising training his organization offers. CC will be one of 6 groups. The project will be funded by WK Kellogg Foundation. I asked Bill to look at OHATS as a possible component of the study. — Institute for Voluntary Organizations, WK Kellogg Foundation, Cabrini Connections
• 2002-04-24 Provided information to Evelyn Green, Chicago Dept. of Public Health on resources to start tutor/mentor programs in the Grand Boulevard area of Chicago — Chicago Dept of Public Health
• 2002-04-24 Met with Nancy Snyder, incoming president of the Junior League of Chicago, and JLC officers, Carol E. Poynter, and Daniel Kenney. Offered collaboration and partner strategies that would strengthen T/MC and help JLC achieve its long-term plan. — Junior League of Chicago
• 2002-04-30 MBFinancial confirmed they will print 15,000 of the Lend A Hand Brochure. They will distribute 7,000 in the banks that support the recruitment campaign and will give T/MC 8,000 to distribute at other locations. T/MC designed the brochures. — MBFinancial Bank
• 2002-05-01 An employee in the graphics department of BlueCross/Blue Shield of Ill is converting some T/MC charts for a LCD presentation to be made by Dan Bassill to their employees. — BlueCross/Blue Shield
• 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. — DePaul Strategic Planning Team 1, T/Mc
• 2002-05-02 Launched second Email Conference ad to 2700 people in Chicago and around the country. — www.emailconnex.com, Groundwork
• 2002-05-06 The Lend A Hand Council of the Chicago Bar Foundation met today and determined the allocation of $50,000 in grants to 30 different one-on-one tutor/mentor programs in Chicago and Cook Country. Grants made to the four programs in Lawndale will be matched by $8,000 in dollars provided by the Steans Family Foundation. In addition, one program will received the annual Demetrio Award, which includes an $8,000 additional grant. In total this means $66,000 will be given via the Lend A Hand Program in 2002. — CBF Lend A Hand Council
• 2002-05-06 The Chicago Rush Arena Football Team has agreed to develop joint marketing strategies with the T/MC, focusing on the Volunteer Recruitment Campaign (Aug/Sept), the Nov. T/MC Conference, and a Tutor/Mentor Game Day Event in February. One coach is interested in "adopting" a neighborhood. — Chicago Rush Arena Football
• 2002-05-08 Met with Juvinile Justice Inititiative team to brief them on uses of GIS mapping as piloted by the T/MC. This group is looking for ways to better understand service availibility. — JJI (13 people)
• 2002-05-16 Meeting with magda Sanchez, volunteer recruiter for the Chicago Department of Public Health. — Chicago Department of Public Health
• 2002-05-17 Reid presented information on the campaign to a meeting of over 30 Junior Achievement managers from all over the state. — Junior Achievment
• 2002-05-21 The 17th Tutor/Mentor Leadership Conference since May 1994 was held on Monday and Tuesday, May 20 and 21. Monday attendance was 209 and Tuesday was 254. Total attendance was 309. This was the first conference where each day's attendance was over 200. — See list of May 20/21 conference
• 2002-05-22 Judy Morris, from Whiteville, NC, called T/MC to get info on Entrepreneurship programs and I told her of the opportunity to stat a T/MC in her county — Columbus County Business Development Center
• 2002-05-23 Meeting with Amy Meadows, visual manager for Marshall Fields State Street store. She is a contact that was made from the previous meeting with Maureen Mulvihill from the Jingle Elf Parade. — Marshall Fields
• 2002-05-24 Meeting with three programs to begin the process of creating a Pilsen fair site for the 2002 campaign. — Carole Robertson Center for Learning, Gads Hill Center, Junior Achievement of Chicago
• 2002-05-28 Meeting with programs in the Mount Prospect area to plan the recruitment event there. — Village of Mount Prospect, Village of Mount Prospect, Junior Achievement, Maine Township Mainestay Program
• 2002-05-30 Meeting with MB Financial Bank finalizing the fair sites and marketing plans for the 2002 campaign. — MB Financial Bank, MB Financial Bank
• 2002-05-30 Dennis Woods of a company called Consulting Professionals called for information on mentoring programs. He was referred by Cynthia Greenleaf at CPS. I gave him information which he seemed enthused to receive. He asked to be on our mail list. — Consulting Professionals, Calumet City, Il, CPS
• 2002-05-30 Tami Robins of San Diego gave me contact information at Qualcomm Headquarters. They are hosting a volunteer recruitment campaign and do a great job on their web site of promoting the campaign. I sent an email introduction. — San Diego Mentoring, Qualcom
• 2002-05-30 Beth Brandon, Public Awareness Director of Chicago Rush Football called to set up a meeting. We'll discuss ways to build public awareness for tutoring/mentoring, and the Rush Football team, via a reading program that the team already supports in public schools. — Chicago Rush Arena Football
• 2002-06-01 Chicago Cares listed information about our need for volunteers for the Marshall Fields Parade in their June and July calendars whcih go out to over 20,000 people. — Chicago Cares
• 2002-06-18 Dan Bassill and I met to discuss the Tutor/Mentor Exchange's organizational missions, goals, accomplishments, achievements, and hindrances. — Northwestern University, Tutor/Mentor Exchange
• 2002-06-21 Meeting with Andi Johnson at Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metropolitan Chicago regarding working together on the September recruitment drive. She is in Charge of Natl. Mentor Month and we discussed sharing information and assisting in recruitment during both our drives. — Big Brothers Big Sisters
• 2002-06-27 Dan made a mentoring presentation to the workplace mentoring team at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois' headquarters. About 30 people were present. Some expressed an interest in working with the T/MC. BCBS helped T/MC create power point presentations and PDAF's of T/MC charts that are now on the T/MC web site. — Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois employees
• 2002-07-05 Tom Klaus, Legacy Resource Group, sent an email and reported, " I was just at Holiday Home Camp in Wisconsin with Carl Hobbs (whom I met at your Fall conference) to do a training with his staff." — Legacy Resource Group, Holiday Home Camp in Wisconsin
• 2002-07-09 Received 3rd year grant of $26,200 from foundation that wishes to remain anonymous to support Volunteer Recruitment Campaign. — anonymous foundation
• 2002-07-10 First email version of T/MC Report sent to 2500 people. — T/MC email list of 2500
• 2002-07-10 Meeting at Chicago Bar Association today to discuss next steps for Lend A Hand Program. CBA has expressed strong support for move of Lend A Hand structure from CBF to becoming a separate entity supported by CBA. A business plan was requested showing goals for next 3 y ears. An impact study was approved. — Lend A Hand Advisory Council
• 2002-07-11 Met with Rosemary Mulligan, State Rep for the Illinois 55th District. Briefed her on T/MC recruitment, the Illinois Commission and the afterschool task force. — State Rep for the Illinois 55th District.
• 2002-07-12 Met with Pastor Larry Turpin of the United Church of Hyde Park and Laurie Wessman LeBreton, a consultant. They were seeking advise on expanding their youth programs at the Church. Rev. Turpin came from a church in Rogers Park and has received the T/MC newsletter for many years. — United Church of Hyde Park (Chicago)
• 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. — WestPoint Baptist Church, Chicago
• 2002-07-12 Spoke with Zac Burson, International Telementor Program (ITM), about ways to collaborate. He contacted me following receipt of the T/MC email newsletter. — International Telementor Program
• 2002-07-15 The email newsletter of the National Civic Participation Weekly included a feature paragraph on the Tutor/Mentor Connection Volunteer Recruitment campaign in its 7/15 distribution. The Civic Participation Week is the same week at the Recruitment Fairs. It makes sense for them to promote tutoring/mentoring and for us to show that tutoring/mentoring is one of the best forms of civic participation. — The National Civic Participation Weekly
• 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. — Service Learning Director, Illinois
• 2002-07-17 Jill Davis at the Chicago Microsoft office wrote, "I'll definitely add your links to our internal employee webpage. I'll be updating our local external community website and will see if I can work your link in somehow." — Microsoft
• 2002-07-22 I sent letters to Paul Vallas, who is now CEO of Philadelphia Schools, and Weldon Rougeau, who is now President of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, Inc., inviting them to continue their support of T/MC from their new positions. — Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, Inc., Philadelphia Public Schools
• 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. " — Vassar University/Northwestern project
• 2002-07-29 Russ Pottle of Youth Today emailed with this message: "We will go ahead and list you on our website links as a reciprocal courtesy. I will pass on the newsletter mention--2" ad proposal, but will see to it that the Tutor/Mentor Connection is included in Youth Today's two-page spread entitled "The Youth Worker Internet Directory" that we run a couple of times per year. There is no charge for this. As for the November Leadership Conference, we will be pleased to send complimentary copies of Youth Today for your attendees." — Youth Today
• 2002-07-30 Tyson Lemons, a VISTA volunteer with a microenterprise association in California, called CAMEO, introduced himself. Tyson had subscribed to the GIS Hotmail and I sent emails on 7/28 to names I did not recognize, asking for introductions. Tyson's group is doing work that would be very valuable to T/MC. He also has sponsors that would be valuable partners. — CAMEO
• 2002-08-01 Added 15 Cabrini Connections IT volunteers to the Marketing/Database eGroup, which will serve as a temporary meeting place for a workgroup focused on building an Internet IT platform for Cabrini Connections. These volunteers represent a variety of IT backgrounds and companies. Together they have the talent to meet our goals, as well as the connections in industry to get the dollars/software and hardware needed to do the work.
• 2002-08-01 Met with Catherine Garretson to discuss her role in helping develop a database of tutor/mentor programs located in Northern Indiana. Cathy works at BlueCross BlueShield of Illinois and was in the mentoring group that I spoke to in late June. At that point she volunteered to help the T/MC in this effort. — BlueCross BlueShield of Ill
• 2002-08-02 T/MC interviewed by Kate Bissell of the BBC in the United Kingdome. They are planning to do a radio documentary about tutor/mentor programs in Chicago and their impact on reducing crime. I showed the role the T/MC is playing and showed how she can use the T/MC web site to locate programs in Chicago who she'd like to interview in late August when they come to the US. — BBC in UK
• 2002-08-02 Received this email today: "Greetings from Learning Leaders (formerly the New York City School Volunteer Program) (www.learningleaders.org). I'm writing on behalf of an organization that helps NYC public school children by recruiting and training volunteers to provide them with educational instructional support. As a non-profit organization, our budget for promoting our work is greatly limited. But you can help us reach thousands of people through the Internet. Would you be willing to list Learning Leaders on your links/resources page? " We said "yes" and invited them to work with us to create a T/MC structure in New York, while creating competition for good among business/phanthropy leaders in both cities. — Learning Leaders
• 2002-08-07 Received this endorsement from Mary Moring, of INVEST, located in Evanston, Il. "Dan, I am ever in awe of your enthusiasm and vision. Your zeal for this project is infectious and makes me want to tell everyone I meet about how they can get involved in the effort. Because it is under my skin, so to speak, I bring its reference to many of my daily experiences. So, reading the newspaper becomes a quest for using that format to spread the word. The T/MC web site is awesome. Have you approached Jim Coates or anyone else in the Technology section of the Tribune about running an article on it? Seems to me that it is pretty special in the type and number of links and ideas it contains. I read Dear Abby every day just to see how the world beyond my experience gets on. Often there are letters from heads of organizations talking about their "month". It is a syndicated column and appears all over the world. A letter from you abut the campaign, its wide-reaching applicability, and a listing of the web site(s) might bring all kinds of results. Thanks for all you do for all of us. Good luck in the campaign. Mary " I asked Mary to send this endorsement to the Tribune herself. Moring — Invest
• 2002-08-07 Delivered proposal for T/MC funding to Rev. Atty Jeanette Wilson, Director of Community Outreach & Human Relations for Chicago Public Schools. She met with me on 8/5 and showed great enthusiasm for T/MC efforts. She invited me to submit a proposal that shows how T/MC will help her achieve Decsion Time program goals of reducing truancy and improving academic performance of the lowest performing students, while CPS helps us meet T/MC goals (which are the same). — Chicago Public Schools
• 2002-08-10 Radio interview on WLUW's Live From The Heartland Show
• 2002-08-11 The Tutor/Mentor Connection was invited to do a television interview about the 2002 Volunteer Tutor/Mentor Recruitment Campaign on Chicago's local ABC news network. — PCI Public Relations Firm, Tutor/Mentor Connection
• 2002-08-11 The Tutor/Mentor Connection performed a morning interview on the local ABC news broadcast to publicize the Volunteer Tutor/Mentor Recruitment Campaign. — Tutor/Mentor Connection, PCI Public Relations Firm
• 2002-08-12 Met with Illinois State Senator Dave Sullivan this morning and introduced him to T/MC and its goals. Asked for him to be a supporter and leader. Asked for him to build links to T/MC and the State volunteer page from his web site, and to help us enlist others to do the same. — Illinois State Senate
• 2002-08-12 T/MC hosted a booth at the Blacks in Technology Expo on Aug. 10/11. Many people came and picked up information. We added 29 to our email list and sent a follow up letter on Aug. 12. We were given a booth by the group who set up the event. They first met the T/MC via email messages Dan posted in email forums, such as the Digital Divide list
• 2002-08-19 article in Extra newspaper about 2002 recruitment campaign — Extra
• 2002-08-19 Taped Radio interview with Lee Ann Trotter of US99 Radio (WUSN-FM). This is for the "Chicago Up Close" show that airs 7am Sunday mornings. Our segment airs 8/25/02. — US99 Radio (WUSN-FM)
• 2002-08-19 Phone meeting with Paula Wolf, Sr. Executive, at Chicago Metropolis 2020. Discussed ways T/MC could help expand visibility and understanding of her organization's goals, while the business leaders in her group could become owners and leaders in the T/MC mobilization of volunteers, dollars, etc. Referred by Betsy Clarke of Illinois Juvenile Jistice Initiative. — Chicago Metropolis 2020, Illinois Juvenile Jistice Initiative
• 2002-08-20 Met with Emily Lieberman, who is doing a research project for the Mayor's Office. She's a consultant with Deloitte Consulting and her group is trying to build a database of all youth serving programs in Chicago. She was referred to T/MC by the Illinois After School Initiative Task Force. Showed her how T/MC has been collecting, organizing and sharing T/M info since 1994 and how Deloitte Consulting and the City would benefit by helping us. Provided listing of programs funded by Chicago Bar Foundation. — Mayor's Office/Deloitte Consulting
• 2002-08-21 Met with Lee Stanton and Janette Wilson, Chicago Public Schools. Agreed in concept to a consulting role for T/MC with CPS to help build a T/MC type strategy from CPS — Chicago Public Schools, Chicago Public Schools
• 2002-08-21 Met with Ernest Young, COO of Skill Builders Learning Group, Inc. Learned how we might work together. Scheduled follow up meeting with President of Skill Builders. — Skill Builders Learning Group
• 2002-08-22 Provided "start a program" information to a Morgan Stanley company volunteer helping start new tutor/mentor program in Washington, DC — Morgan Stanley, Washington, DC
• 2002-08-23 final 2002 recruitment campaign committee meeting. 35 programs represented.
• 2002-08-27 Taped interview on WCIU TV (Channel 26) that will be shown at 6:30 am on Saturday, Sept. 14. Rev. Janette C. Wilson did the half out interview with me, demonstrating Chicago Public School support of the T/MC — Channel 26, Chicago Public Schools
• 2002-08-27 Interviewed by Spike O'Dell on WGN Radio (720 am) this morning at 6:50am. Talked about Volunteer Recruitment Campaign. The radio stations has a link to our web site. — WGN Radio
• 2002-08-29 Sent email introduction to 47 commissioners who attended the National Service cluster meeting in August. — 47 people. See list.
• 2002-09-03 Taped segments of three TV programs to be shown 9/15, 9/22 and 9/27 on the International Sunday School TV Program of Fellowship Baptist Church in Chicago. This will show at 7am each Sunday on Cable TV 25. — International Sunday School Program Host
• 2002-09-04 Met with Julian Nazario of the Indiana Plan to discuss ways the T/MC could be working in Indiana and led by Julian and groups he works with. — Indiana Plan
• 2002-09-04 This morning I met with Dan Bassill in regards of how to create a partnership for Northwest Indiana.
• 2002-09-05 Met with marketing people from four Bonniville Radio Stations in Chicago to talk about year-round strategies to motivate peole to be volunteers. The stations are: WLUP, WNND, WTMX and WDRV. — WLUP, WNND, WTMX and WDRV
• 2002-09-10 Met with Lorraine Bogan today. She is leader of The SAFE Haven Tutoring Program in Chicago. She's also a minister. She agreed to try to develop "sermon kits" that ministers can use to preach about how congregations can get involved with tutor/mentor strategies. The kit would have a sample sermon, an insert for the church bulletin, the bulletin board and the church web site, and a feedback form for programs to self identify. She would use these to go to churches to deliver sermons. We would sell them on the T/MC store and split the proceeds. — The SAFE HAVEN
• 2002-09-10 Community Media Workshop of Chicago included a paragraph about the Recruitment Campaign inits Newstips handout that goes to all Chicago area media. — Community Media Workshops
• 2002-09-11 The Beaumont Foundation of America awarded a technology grant, valued at $13,000 to Cabrini Connections. We'll received 5 new laptop computers, a Digital Camera and a digital projector which we'll use in our Kids' Connection and the T/MC. The Foundation first learned about Cabrini Connections by visiting the TME web site in the spring of 2002. This grant was helped by the intermediary role played by an organization called One Economy, which is working with the ChicagoHousing Authority to help CHA families gain access to information and resources. — Beaumont Foundation of America, One Economy
• 2002-09-12 Gary Green's email newsletter, SLICE, which reaches several thousand in the Service-Learning Community, included learning resource information from the last T/MC Report newsletter — Illinois State Board of Education/Service Learning
• 2002-09-12 I taped a radio interview today with Jennifer Keipper of WBBM AM radio in Chicago. This will air this afternoon (9/12) in support of the recruitment campaign. We also talked of doing a 1 hour show on the FM station of WBBM later in the year. This interview and most of the media for the campaign were arranged by Public Communication, Inc., our pro bono Public Relations partner — WBBM AM, Public Communications, Inc, T/Mc
• 2002-09-12 Contacted by Gary Chapman, who is with a youth agency in Georgia, for some training information. I provided information on National Mentoring Center and National Mentoring Partnership and added his email to TMC news. — 21st Century program of Bearing County Collaborative
• 2002-09-12 Press Conference held at James Thompson Center in Chicago to kick off recruitment fairs. Arne Duncan, CEO of Chicago public schools announced a goal of 15,000 volunteers. Cathy Leonis represented Mrs. Ryan. Howard McGee, morning DJ for WGCI radio, was a speaker, and a student and volunteer from Uhlich Academy showed the personal impact of mentoring. WLS TV (Channel 7 in Chicago) and the Chicago Tribune sent reporters. During the event I had the opportunity to talk with one of Chicago's Aldermen, Leonard DeVille. — CEO Chicago Public Schools, Office of First Lady, Lura Lyn Ryan, WGCI Radio, Alderman, Chicago, Public Communications, Inc.
• 2002-09-12 The Chicago SunTimes ran a half page story about the Volunteer Recruitment Campaign in the 9/12/02 newspaper. — Chicago SunTimes
• 2002-09-13 Ken Novak updated the Program Locator section data base and added many new features that make this a much more user friendly resource. For instance, it has a search feature that lets users search for programs in Chicago by zip code and programs in the suburbs by city name. It also has a zip code map that helps people look at the city and see what zip codes are near where they live or want to volunteer. — Metrist, Inc.
• 2002-09-16 Spoke with Jon Schmidt, head of Service Learning for CPS. Set meeting for 9/23. I first met Jon in 1993 when he was leader of the Afters School Action Program (ASAP) in Uptown and I was creating the T/MC. ASAP was a key partner with T/MC and the agency continues to take a lead role in supporting tutor/mentor program growth in that part of Chicago. The organization is now the Y outh Net representative in that area. I had lost contact with Jon for about 4 years and we reconnected when he responded to a message I posted on the K-12 Service Learning discussion list. — Chicago Public Schools Service Learning Dept, K-12 Service Learning List host
• 2002-09-16 Board of Directors met and committed to sending 2 letters each per month to potential members/donors and to bringing one person per quarter to a breakfast, lunch, dinner or event to learn about the organization. — Press Ganey, Process Advantage, Schwarz, Bill Iwami Sales, Cabrini Connections, CitiGroup
• 2002-09-16 Erica Graham, who works with the Lincoln's Challenge Academy, sent an email saying "we are looking to find mentors the the cadets in our program. The students come from all over the state of Illinois, mostly from the Chicago area. I would appreciate it if some one could call me to talk about what we can do to help each other in the recruitment of mentors." — Lincoln's Challenge Academy
• 2002-09-18 Met with Beth Brandon and Kurt Kroemer of the Chicago Rush Arena Football Game. The Rush has launched a Charity Ticket Sales program that helps tutor/mentor programs (and other charities) raise money. This was an idea we suggested when we met in May. Any tutor/mentor program that sells tickets to the 2003 season can ern $8 to $16 per ticket sold. In addition, the first or second home game of the 2003 season will be designated Tutor/Mentor Connection Game. We'll encourage programs to sell for this game. Beth and Kurt will work with T/MC to help tutor/mentor programs learn about this program. They will also recruit a coach/player to speak at the November Conference. — Chicago Rush Arena Football
• 2002-09-19 Dan did an introduction of T/MC presentation at the Wisconsin Mentoring Coordination Council (WMCC) meeting held in Madison, Wisconsin. Many of the folks in the group have been on T/MC mail list for several years and have previously met with Dan, talked via phone, and/or attended T/MC conferences. — Wis. Dept. of Corrections, Milwaukee Mentors, New Concept Self Development Centers, Wis Dept. of Public Instruction, YMCA of Metropolitan Milwaukee, See list for Wis. Mentoring Coordination Council
• 2002-09-23 Meera Rao, of VIBHA.org (which used to be CRY, Inc), called to tell us of changes in her organization and that they were sending the T/MC a contribution. — VIBHA
• 2002-09-24 Van Bensett of St. Anthony Hospital in Chicago called to tell me the hospital had started a mentoring-to-career program intended to address the nursing shortage. He had met T/MC a couple of years earlier. He was looking for evaluation materials. I introduce him to Hospital Youth Mentoring Partnership (HYMP), which he did not know of. — St. Anthony Hospital
• 2002-09-24 WomenTech Educators Newsletter (email) included a paragraph showing Cabrini Connections as a Best Practice Site. A link to the T/ME web site was included. — Institute for Women in Trades, Technology & Science
• 2002-09-25 The T/MC REPORT email newsletter was mailed to more than 3,000 stakeholders in Chicago and around the country. — See Email lists
• 2002-09-26 Talked for about an hour with Laura Anderson, Director of Creative Mentoring (www.creativementoring.org) which is part of the Delaware network of mentoring organizations. We talked of ways the T/MC and her organization and the Delaware network might work together toward common goals. — Creative Mentoring.org
• 2002-09-26 Ntale Lukama of ServNet received the Tutor/Mentor Connection News and sent and email asking for permission to request/recommend to have the info posted on SERVEnet.org. I responded "yes" and suggested other ways to collaborate. — ServNet.org
• 2002-09-27 We were notified today that The Chicago Community Trust approved a $25,000 one-year grant to fund Cabrini Connections. — The Chicago Community Trust, Cabrini Connections
• 2002-09-30 Contacted by Leah Cook, Campaign Coordinator, The Children's Campaign (Flordia). She wrote, "this looks like a great program. I'm in Florida and not sure I know how I can help. Do you have a local chapter?" We've exchanged several email and talked on the phone on 10/3. — The Children's Campaign (Flordia).
• 2002-09-30 Ira Bey sent an email broadcast to his network telling of the Cabrini Connections benefit to be held at Glasscotts on Nov. 22. — 3CIXT
• 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. — College and Career Readiness Network
• 2002-10-08 Email from Jill Campbell says, "I have established a non-profit organization called Take The Next Step and it provides youth activities to enhance the live of youth in the Columbus, Ohio area. I would like to receive as much information about the Tutor Mentor Conference and Leadership Conference. Our organization provides tutoring and mentoring services and would like to be involved with other orgnaizations throughout the US in reaching as many youth as possible. Anything you could offer us would be appreicated." Info sent on 10/9/02, with invitation to consider becoming a T/MC in the Columbus area. — Take The Next Step
• 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 — Global Learn, City Colleges of Chicago
• 2002-10-17 Received letter from Dr. Terry Rosch of Chicago Education Alliance offering to put article about T/MC in their next newsletter — Chicago Education Alliance
• 2002-10-21 Email invitation sent to more than 3500 people telling them about the November 21 and 22 Conference — See email list
• 2002-10-23 Dr. Debra Tunstall, from Columbus, Ohio, called to ask for information on starting a tutor/mentor program in a church. She found the T/MC in an internet search. We shared information, referred her to web site and offered to continue to help her. — Ohio church
• 2002-10-31 Virginia Peoples of the Beaumont Foundation and Dan B. of the Tutor/Mentor Connection brainstormed via phone of the many ways that the two organizations could work together. Cabrini Connections has received a grant for $13,000 worth of hardware and will work with Beaumont and other organizations to maximize the impact of this donation. — Beaumont Foundation
• 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. — USC School of Journalism, USC School of Journalism
• 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. — UCWBG - The University of Chicago Women's Business Group
• 2002-11-04 Received this email from Jurander, in Brazil. We've been corresponsing via email for about a year. "I have talked my team , and we understood how important a tutoring/mentoring program is for our community. So, we want to challenger you and us to have anyone among you to be with for some days here at " Projeto Neemias". This person could help us to open a program for helping youths over here." I suggested setting up an eGroup where I and others could coach the planning for this program without the travel expenses. — Program in Brazil
• 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. — Pullman Foundation, University of Chicago Women's Business Group, Cabrini Connections
• 2002-11-05 Provided information on CC and TMC to Follett Publishing via e-mail to Chuck Follett, VP.
• 2002-11-06 Presented information on Chicago Rush Arena Football partnership with T/MC to three programs. Announced it via new page on web site. Any tutor/mentor program in Chicago can sell tickets to 2003 Rush home games and get 1/2 the face price of the ticket as a donation. In addition, the Feb. 2 game will be designated "Tutor/Mentor Game" and will feature the Tutor/Mentor Connection and all programs that sell tickets. This game will be regionally telacast on NBC — Chicago Rush Arena Football Team, Gads Hill, Sunlight African Center, Youth in Crisis, Berwyn
• 2002-11-06 The Cabrini Connections Kids' Connection was recognized as a Promising Practice at the First Youth Council Forum for the Chicago Metropolitan Region precented by the YOuth Councils of the Workforce Boards of Metropolitan Chicago. Kourtney Cockrell represented CC at the event. Dan followed up on Wednesday and emailed to the 8 Workforce Boards an introduction to the T/MC and and invitation to work together. — Workforce Boards of Metropolitan Chicago, Cabrini Connections
• 2002-11-08 Wayne Hicks, President of the National Black Data Processing Association, forwared an email I'd sent him about recruiting partners from any BDPA group in the country, not just Chicago, to his entire list. He said to his members, "Please contact Daniel directly if you'd like to accept his challenge...." — Black Data Processing Association
• 2002-11-08 Ken King sent email saying he has signed up 16 Gear Up people for the Nov. 2002 Tutor/Mentor Leadership Conference. — New Concepts
• 2002-11-14 Sending letter to MB Financial asking for them to consider co-sponsoring the 2003 Golf Outing.
• 2002-11-15 More than 100 volunteers from various tutor/mentor programs in the Chicago area will march in the Target Jingle-Elf Parade on Thanksgiving Day. These volunteers were recruited by the Tutor/Mentor Connection as part of a growing public awareness building partnership. Visit http://www.chicagofestivals.org/site/epage/7625_211.htm to see the T/MC logo and link to the T/MC web site. More than 2 million people will watch this parade on TV or in person. — Chicago Festival Orgnization, Marshall
• 2002-11-15 One of the films from last year's Cabrini Connections IYP Video Festival, "Dead Dreams," was selected to be screened at the African Diaspora Film Festival in New York City this December. Kourtney Cockrell (staff) and Mark Sumrall, student star actor in the film, will travel to New York on Saturday November 30th-Monday, December 2nd. They will attend the film screening and Q&A session on Monday, December 2nd at 12 pm. “Dead Dreams” is a short film about AIDS and youth in America that presents a poignant portrayal of the repercussions of the AIDS epidemic on their lives and community — African Diaspora Film Festival, Cabrini Connections IYP
• 2002-11-15 SeniorNet (www.seniornet.org) has established a discussion forum on Volunteerism with a sub category on Tutoring/Mentoring. This is a result of a conversation started a few weeks ago with the President of SeniorNet after she responded to a post on a listserve from the T/MC telling about a youth technology program in Israel. — SeniorNet
• 2002-11-17 Sammie Lee, a singer/song writer from the SanFrancisco area, emailed an intro to T/MC. He's written a song on mentoring that will be sung during National Mentoring Month. He found our web site and was introducing himself to me. We exchanged email and I forwarded his intro to Sara Caldwell, a CC volunteer who is a writer/producer. She and Sammie connected and now are collaborating on a 1 hour mentoring documentary that Sara and T/MC have been trying to create for several years. — singer/song writer from the SanFrancisco area, Amphion Productions
• 2002-11-17 Sent email intros to several Health Care and Education Policy organizations in Chicago and around the US. Added the web sites of these groups to T/MC site. — The Consortium for Policy Research in Education (CPRE), The Minority Student Achievement Network, The Chicago Area Health & Medical Careers Program (CAHMCP), Health Careers/Recruitment Program, MinorityNurse.com, Abbott Northwestern's Mentorship Program
• 2002-11-19 Met with Rev. Sue Strozewski of the Church of Scientology of Illinois. Discussed strategies for involving volunteer ministers from the church in the T/MC and various tutor/mentor programs. One idea was to set up a discussion group within a Scientology member web site that would encourage members to talk to each other. — Church of Scientology of Illinois
• 2002-11-19 I contacted Stephen Pugh, a prospective Cabrini board member. — Martin, Brown & Sullivan
• 2002-11-19 The Illinois Department of Human Services and the Illinois State Board of Education released a report titled "The Illinois After-school Initiative 2002 Task Force Report". Dan Bassill, president of Cabrini Connections, was a member of this task force. — list is available
• 2002-11-20 The Center for Youth Development and Policy Research, Academy for Educational Development in Washington, DC added the Tutor/Mentor Exchange web site link to their resource bank. They already had the T/MC site. — Academy for Educational Development
• 2002-11-22 Receive the INVEST (Evanston, IL) fall 2002 newsletter and the 2002/2003 directory. The newsletter has a front page story on the Aug/Sept. Volunteer Recruitment Campaign and gives credit to the Tutor/Mentor Connection for its leadershipo role. The Directory includes a page 3 description of services provided by the T/MC, with the email address and the web site address. — INVEST (Evanston, Il)
• 2002-12-04 Dayna Decker of the Chicago Park District's Junior Earth Team emailed T/MC to ask to be added to the Directory. We sent a form to collect information and invited her to log in at the T/ME site if she has a web page. — Chicago Park District's Junior Earth Team
• 2002-12-04 Talked via phone with Ken King, ED of New Concepts Tutor/Mentor Connection, about collaborating to build a Tutor/Mentor Learning Network, funded like traditional "Think Tanks". This is part of an on-going conversation intended to avoid competition while maximizing the impact of both organizations. — New Concepts
• 2002-12-05 Dan Bassill was the guest on the Channel 21 School Talk program broadcast on Dec. 5th on cable tv in Chicago — School Talk
• 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. — DePaul University Service Learning
• 2002-12-09 Ed Gordon, a Cabrini Connections Advisory Council member, has collaborted on a brochure titled "Tips on..Tutoring Services" that will be distributed via Better Business Bureaus around the country in 2003. He has a reference to www.tutormentorconnection.org in the resource section. — Imperial Consulting, Better Business Bureaus
• 2002-12-09 I sent out 20 fundraising letters to family and friends. I hope to raise at least 1,000 through this group.
• 2002-12-11 Matt Mead updated the www.tutormentorconnection.org web site so that the text would not disappear in late December 2002. — Redpoint Technologies
• 2002-12-13 first meeting of the 2003 T/MC Volunteer Recruitment Campaign. 20 programs leaders attended.
• 2002-12-22 I did a search on Google under key words "poverty mentoring" and found many organizations around the world with great programs and great information. Over two days I sent email introductions to more than 23 groups. I added a few of these to the T/MC web site and invited all to load their info on the T/ME site. Most will be added to the T/MC Report email distribution. — Various prevention and mentoring programs
• 2002-12-27 Chicago Education Alliance Fall 2002 newsletter features Tutor/Mentor Connection on page 2 of 8 page newsletter. — Chicago Education Alliance

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• 2002 Editorial, 30 December 2002 · 2 pages Read
• 2002 2002 Jimmy Biggs Memorial Golf Benefit · 8 slides Read
• 2002 Annual Report 2001/2002 · 22 slides Read
• 2002 Case for Investment in T/MC · 16 slides Read
• 2002 Cabrini Connections & T/MC Annual Report 2001–2002 (overview) · 13 slides Read
• 2002 Introduction to Total Quality Mentoring · 25 slides Read
• 2002 Evaluation Workshop Parts 1 & 2, Fall 2002 (S. Roussos) · 33 slides Read