2004

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

• 2004-01-05 Nathan Harris sent email that read, "Good news. Met with my boss before Christmas and he agreed that we will partner with TMC. He would like for the meeting on 1/16 to be the next step. Maybe we can discuss our full commitment, sign contract, draft a plan of action, schedule training? " — IndianaUniversityPurdueUniversity
• 2004-01-06 Dan met with students in a graphics class at DePaul. They will develop layout concepts for the March 2004 T/MC Report Newsletter, May 2004 Leadership Conference invitation, and if there is time, for ideal tutor/mentor program web site designs. — DePaul University graphic design faculty
• 2004-01-13 Dan B. participated from 1/12 to 1/14 in an on-line conference hosted by www.icohere.com. Networked with several people. Learned more about econference capacity. — www.icohere.com
• 2004-01-16 Dan Bassill met with Scott Evenbeck and Philip Seabrook, Dean of University College and Assistant Dean of University College, and several other University College Program Leaders of IndianaUniversityPurdueUniversityIndianapolis. The purpose was to help IUPUI develop a lead a Tutor/Mentor Connection process in Indiana. — IUPUI, IUPUI, IUPUI, IUPUI, IUPUI, IUPUI
• 2004-01-16 Dan Bassill met with Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis to discuss partnering to set up a T/MC based organization in Indianapolis. — IUPUI University College, IUPUI University College, IUPUI University College - Upward Bound
• 2004-01-20 Met with Mary O'Donnell of Experience Corps to discuss possible collaboration. Experience Corps aims to recruit senior citizens to be tutors/mentors and is launching a corps in Chicago in 2005. The organization sent handouts for the Nov. 2004 conference. — Experience Corps, T/Mc
• 2004-01-21 Met with Rev. Sharon Hicks, ED of Village Resource Ministries, a new tutor/mentor program in the Austin neighborhood of Chicago. She had been referred to T/MC from the office of Rep. Danny Davis. Spent two and one-half hours showing strategies for starting and sustainig a tutor/mentor program, and ways here program could be a T/MC in faith networks and in the Austin area. — Village Resource Ministries
• 2004-01-23 Toi Pilgrim from Detroit's Student Mentor Partners, and Metro Detroit Mentoring Collaboration, met with T/MC to discuss cross-city collaboration on Tutor/Mentor Connection concepts — Metro Detroit Mentoring Collaboration
• 2004-01-27 Dan Bassill provided overview of T/MC strategies to youth program representatives of the Chicago Park District, Brookfield Zoo, Lincoln Park Zoo, Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, Chicago Department of Environment, Museum of Science and Industry, BOLD Chicago, Schedd Aquarium, and the YouthNet. This was part of a Teen Forum meeting hosted by the Park District, with the purpose of building a network among these various institutions. — Chicago Park District, plus 16 others
• 2004-01-29 Pat Williams, a freelance writer, called to interview Cabrini Connections for a story in the Chicago Defender. We talked about the T/MC and ways that writers could help collect and write stories about tutor/mentor programs for local papers. — Chicago Defender
• 2004-01-31 On January 31, 2004, the Chicago Defender ran a full page article about Cabrini Connections and Tutor/Mentor Connection, written by Pat Williams, — Chicago Defender
• 2004-02-03 1/8 page Tutor/Mentor Connection ad appeared in The Chicago Flame newspaper, which has a 22,000 circulation in the University of Illinois Chicago and near West Side of Chicago are. This space was donated by the publisher. — The Chicago Flame
• 2004-02-10 T/MC met for an hour with Beth Swanson, Director, Office of After School and Community School Programs for Chicago Public Schools. Provided information on T/MC capacity and goals. Beth said she'd "been on the web sites often." — Chicago Public Schools
• 2004-02-12 Met with Andrew Pincon of The Digital Workforce Education Society (Digi Bridge) based at the City Colleges of Chicago. This group has agreed to host an e-conference overlay for the May Tutor/Mentor Leadership Conference, using their extensive experience in this field. — The Digital Workforce Education Socitey
• 2004-02-20 Nathan Byrer, Dianna Washington, Terrence Littlefield, and Nathan Harris met with Dan Bassill to discuss IUPUI partnering to implement a similar tutor/mentor effort in indianapolis. — IUPUI University College Technology, IUPUI University College - Advising, Campus & Community Life - Diversity, IUPUI University College - Pre-College Programs
• 2004-02-23 T/MC loaded a new Program Locator feature on its web sites. This provides search levels for age group, type of program, time of dat and zip code. It will make it simpler for a person to find a program to meet their needs and will provide much better information for people to understand the availability of tutor/mentor programs in the Chicago region. — www.metrist.org
• 2004-02-27 The Quarterly planning meeting of the Abraham Lincolne Marovitz Lend A Hand Program of the Chicago Bar Association/Foundation was held at the offices of Tom Demetrio, of Corboy and Demetrio. Tom is chair of the Leadership Board of the Lend A Hand. Karina Ayala, Executive Director of LAH, reviewed accomplishments, such as a new LAH brochure, and the new www.lend-a-hand.net web site. Strategies for engaging more lawyers and raising dollars to fund tutor/mentor programs were discussed. Dan Cotter, current president of the Young Lawyers Group of the CBA, will be raising funds on May 8, 2004, as part of a powerlifting event that he participates in. — Corboy & Demetrio, Abraham Lincoln Marovitz Lend A Hand Program, various lawyers and judges
• 2004-03-04 J. Crew (a Chicago store) has created a private shopping event for members of the Chicago Bar Association Young Lawyers Socitey. It will be held on Thursday, April 15th from 6:00 to 8:00 PM. Ten percent of the total sales from this event will be donated in kind to the Abraham Lincoln Marovitz Lend-A-Hand Program for the Tutor/Mentor Connection — Chicago Bar Association, J. Crew, Tutor/Mentor Connection
• 2004-03-09 Radio support. A 2 minute Film Festival pitch was delivered by Terri Hemret ( WXRT) on March 9th at around 10:00 am. It was good PR, and a good pitch for the organization. — WXRT Radio, Cabrini Connections Video Festival (IYP)
• 2004-03-10 Dan Bassill of T/MC met with Bruce Ives and John Jiang of Metro Chicago Information Center to review T/MC uses of GIS maps, the T/MC strategy, and ways T/MC and MCIC could work together to make interactive maps more available to help communities build and sustain more and better programs to help youth move to careers and address other issues of poverty. — MCIC, MCIC
• 2004-03-12 Met with Hillary Duff, Director of Marketing for the Tsunami Foundation. This is a new organization in Chicago that seeks to recruit business professionals to be mentors who help youth move to careers in specific fields. I reviewed strategies the organization might uses to help comprehensive tutor/mentor programs grow in all poverty neighborhoods. Also illustrated resources available via T/MC web sites and invited Hillary and her group to take a role in key events such as the annual recruitment campaign. — Tsunami Foundation
• 2004-03-22 Mayor Edward Mulvaney of Rock Falls, Il. presented the T/MC invitation for Mayors to help mobilize volunteers to a network of Northern Illinois Mayors at a 3/18 meeting. His report to T/MC is "It seems to have a positive reception; I handed outcopies of the prelimary conference schedule (of course highlighting the one for mayors). This week I am following up the short presentation with emails of encouragement and asking mayors for resolutions of support of mentoring in their respective communities." — Mayor, Rock Falls, Northern Illinois network of Mayors
• 2004-03-30 Received message on the T/ME web site that read: We're doing a very similar thing in South Africa. See www.ikamva.kabissa.org and email me: joy@bridges.org It would be good to share our ideas and lessons learned. All the best! — South Africa
• 2004-03-31 Charles Brooks, District Governor for Chicagoland 30 Toastmasters, sent this message to more than 3,000 Chicago area Toastmasters: "Sandra Beaford and I will be presenting workshops at the TutorMentor Leadership Conference being held at Richard J. Daley College located at 7500 S. Pulaski on May 17 & 18, 2004. This organization was the brain child of its Director, Dan Bassill. I have known Dan for many years and have worked with him at this function in the past. If you have a sincere interest in the development of children you will want to come out and support Dan in his effort to provide a better life and environment for our children. The information about the conference is attached to this email. Please take a little time and check out what this great man is doing for the youth of the Chicago Metropolitian Area. We will have a booth there and will be looking for volunteers. Dan has asked me to ask you to come out and volunteer just a little bit of your time. The TutorMentor Connection is a non for profit organization that depends on the kindness of those interested in the development of children. I am hoping we have a few of those individuals within our group. I look forward to seeing many of you there. Until the next time we meet I am — Chicagoland 30 Toastmasters
• 2004-03-31 T/MC received this email today: Hello! My name is Lorie Jackson, I met with you about a week ago regarding a not-for-profit organization that I started. Thank you and I appreciate the opportunity to share your wealth of wisdom and information. As I have reviewed a portion of the Tutor/Mentor Connection site and information that we discussed I've learned and am yet learning how beneficial the information was. Please know that your time was not in vain and I am taking heed to your suggestions and recommendations. I look forward to communicating with you soon! Thanks, — NPO in South Chicago Suburbs
• 2004-04-03 Multi-Media Program with Girls Go Digital — Girls Get Digital
• 2004-04-20 Received following email from Val Parker, of Power4Youth in California: I talked to my friend Alison Redman last week who told me she was being a presenter (at the May 04 T/MC Conference)! She is the chair of our Mentor Connection--a group you know is named and modeled after your Tutor/Mentor Connection--which I helped start a few years ago yet Alison did not know that I recieved my inspriration from Chicago. What a small world! — Power 4 Youth, Long Beach, CA
• 2004-04-21 Received email from Mason Scholl that said: "I'm attaching a PDF file of a newsletter article describing 9 Northern IL United Methodist churches that received grants for their afterschool programs. Yesterday, I called the Rev. Oscar Carrasco, Director of Connectional Ministries, for the Northern IL Conference (NIC) and the Rev. Harry Nicol, Executive Dir., Northern IL Conference United Methodist Foundation suggesting that they meet with you to discuss what kind of collaboration might take place between TutorMentorConnection and the NIC efforts toward expanding afterschool program services to the communities being served by these local congregations — Ecumenical Child Care Network
• 2004-05-02 On May 1 I emailed members of the GIS group and requested a map showing the location of the Chicago school where Girl Gangs were terrorizing students and faculty. This was featured on the front page of the Chicago Sun Times. On May 2, Jim Cory, from Madison, Wisconsin, sent me the map. On May 5th this map was available in the Program Locator section of www.tutormentorexchange.net and I was sending copies to media for follow up stories. — GIS Analysist, Madison, WI
• 2004-05-06 T/MC contacted by the Center for Educational REsources and Outreach in Newton, MA. They requested permission to include a T/MC GIS map that they found at www.tutormentorconnection.org in a "series of academic cources for secondary students that provide opportunities to learn in real-world contexts". This map will be used in a module titled Wealth of Nations. Permission was granted. — Center for Educational Resources and Outreach
• 2004-05-06 Met in internet chat portal (www.alado.net/login) with Andrew Pincon, Digital Workforce Education Society, Nathin Byrer, Technology Director, University College, IUPUI, two of our eConference speakers, and two others on Pincon's staff. One of our speakers was in Texas. Byrer was in Indianapolis, and the rest of us were in different place in the Chicago area. We were able to determine how to handle presentation of a workshop by a speaker from Japan, and provide information to help the speakers with their presentations. IUPUI agreed to handle the final eConference web site work. — Digital Workforce Education Society, University College, IUPUI, Socratic Learning, Inc (Texas), Durland Consulting (Evanston, IL)
• 2004-05-11 Live radio interview at 6:16 am on 5/11 with Cliff Kelly of WVON radio in Chicago. The station has adopted Cabrini Connections and the Tutor/Mentor Connection as a focus charity for 2004. This interview focused on the May 17 and 18 Conference. — WVON Radio
• 2004-05-14 The attached link shows the eConference page posted on the Internet by the Webheads, an international group of educators who became part of the tutor/mentor eConference through the invitation of Andrew Pincon, who took the lead in helping the T/MC offer its first eConference. http://alothman-b.tripod.com/tutormentor_econf04_webheads.htm — Digital Workforce Education Society, Webheads (see web site for list)
• 2004-05-19 T/MC hosted firs Internet Tutor/Mentor Leadership eConference Overlay. More than 50 people from around the world participated as speakers or learners, using a portal provided by the Digital Workforce Education Society. Portions of the conference held on May 17 and 18 at Daley College in Chicago were broadcast live through the Internet. — Digital Workforce Education Society, List on file at T/MC
• 2004-05-19 T/MC hosted Tutor/Mentor Leadership Conference at Richard Daley College in Chicago on May 17 and 18. More than 180 people attended, coming from Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Indiana, Nebraska, Kentucky, Arkansas, New York, Texas and California. This was the 21st T/MC conference since 1994 — List of 180 or more people on file.
• 2004-05-19 Received following email message today from Billy Gauthier, of Rockford, Il. He attended the May 17 and 18 Tutor/Mentor Leadership Conference. "I am currently receiving your e-newsletters, but my colleague is not. Her name is Barb Verni-Lau and her email is Barbv@northwestrockford.org She wants to be added. BTW Thank you for a wonderful conference this past week in Chicago" — Northwest Rockford Organization
• 2004-06-03 First Annual "My Hero" Awards and Volunteer Luncheon hosted by Chicago Bar Association/Foundation and Abraham Lincoln Marovitz Lend-A-Hand Program at the Chicago Bar Association HQ in Chicago. More than 100 people (capacity) attended. Awards were given to recognize outstanding contributions by volunteers serving as tutor/mentor, director, organizer, fund raiser in various tutor/mentor programs throughout Chicago. Among the attendees was The Honorable Timothy C. Evans, Chief Judge, State of Illinois, Circuit Court of Cook County, Dorothy Brown, The Clerk of the Circuit Court, partners of major law firms and officers of the Chicago Bar Association. — President, Chicago Bar Association, Chief Judge, Circuit Court of Cook County, Clerk of Circuit Court of Cook County, Lend A Hand Board Members, 95 other Lawyers, judges, volunteers and tutor/mentor program leaders
• 2004-06-15 Dan Bassill participated in a cable TV show hosted by Alderman Walter Burnett of Chicago. The focus of the show was education. This will air in July. — Alderman, City of Chicago
• 2004-06-22 Met with Margie Gonwa of LEED Council and agreet to host a July 2004 LEED Council training event at the offices of the T/MC (using T/MC computers) in exchange for LEED Council membership and support of T/MC volunteer and business mobilization strategies. Since the LEED Council is a Local Economic and Employment Development Council, this can be a great partnership, leading to more business involvement in tutor/mentor programs. — LEED Council
• 2004-06-23 Met with Michael Trulis, founder of a new Chicago non-profit called Artist for Harmony, to help him develop a strategy that draws support from artists and the arts community for youth serving organizations such as Cabrini Connections and the Tutor/Mentor Connection. As of 6/23 these ideas are now visible on Mike's web site: http://www.artistsforharmony.com/index.html — Artist for Harmony
• 2004-06-23 Received call from singer/songwriter Alice Peacock, www.alicepeacock.com. She is organizing a RockforReading Concert to be held in Chicago in late August, and the beneficiaries are a) Chicago Public Schools, b) Chicago Public Library, c) New City YMCA, and d) Tutor/Mentor Connection! She told me that the T/MC was recommended for inclusion in this group by Arne Duncan, CEO of Chicago Public Schools — www.alicepeacock.com
• 2004-06-30 Met with Jackie Rouse of Sinai Hospital in Chicago to discuss leadership strategies that health care executives could take that would draw attention to tutor/mentor programs as the Back-to-School Recruitment Campaign is taking place. — Sinai Hospital
• 2004-07-01 Met with Gary Wilson, the Director of the Center for Business and Economics at Elmhurst College, and with George Thoma and Joan Vilim, other professors from the Center. Discussed roles the university could take in creating a Knowledge Library that would support the efforts of businness, service-learning, and faith based tutor/mentor initiatives at the college and throughout the country — Center for Business and Economics at Elmhurst College, Center for Business and Economics at Elmhurst College, Tutor/Mentor Connection
• 2004-07-13 Borders will again host volunteer recruitment fairs in Chicago area stores during the weekend of Sept. 9-11, as part of the Chicagoland Tutor/Mentor Volunteer Recruitment Campaign. They will also include information about the fairs in their Sunday ad the week prior to the fairs. — Borders of Chicago
• 2004-07-19 Rock for Reading web site (www.rockforreading.com) was launched today. The T/MC is one of four organizations (the others are Chicago Public Schools, Chicago Public Library, and YMCA) that will share attention and revenue from a rock concert being held in Chicago on August 28th, 2004. — Rock for Reading Concert, Rock for Reading Concert
• 2004-08-04 www.chicagovolunteer.net has posted the Tutor/Mentor Recruitment Campaign on its web site as a featured opportunity.
• 2004-08-05 Felicia Dechter wrote a column in the Learner Skyline Newspaper about the Rock for Reading Concert and the Tutor/Mentor Connection. — Lerner Skyline Newspaper, Rock For Reading Music Festival
• 2004-08-11 Karina Ayala, Executive Director of the Lend A Hand Program at the Chicago Bar Association, emailed me this message to show what the LAH was doing to mobilize volunteers during August and September 2004: "Most of the PR will be in the September. LAH will have a piece in the September CBA Journal and one in mid September in the Daily Law Bulletin." — Lend A Hand Program
• 2004-08-19 The August 19, 2004 issue of EXTRA NEWS (www.extranews.net) included a story about the Chicago Tutor/Mentor Volunteer Recruitment Campaign on the front page of its Back to School section. — EXTRA News
• 2004-08-23 Lindsey Dotson, a member of the Cushman & Wakfield Community Committee, forwared this email which she sent today to all Chicago area employees. "Going forward, C&W will showcase local charities and organizations, and encourage our branch employees to get involved. A different charitable organization will be highlighted each month; some requesting short-term commitments, some with long-term commitments and some in need of a financial donation or simply a donation of time. Our goal is to provide multiple opportunities to give back to the community in a way that is truly meaningful. We will highlight a variety of organizations to pique diverse interests, such as shelters for battered women and children, groups that assist with the winterization of homes for the elderly, animal shelters, and tutoring/mentoring local students, which happens to be the first community opportunity: Cabrini Connections "Back to School" Tutor/Mentor Program Over the next four weeks, Cabrini Connections and other tutor/mentor programs around the city will be recruiting volunteers for our various programs. We strongly urge you to click on the link below to view the numerous programs throughout the city. You can make a difference. http://www.tutormentorexchange.net/Partner/CC/ChiPrograms/ChicagoPrograms.asp. Should you choose to volunteer as a tutor or mentor, send me an e-mail stating your commitment so we can recognize your efforts in our Chicago Briefing. Community service will not only make you feel good about yourself and expand your contact network, it will make a lasting difference in someone's life. If this opportunity is not right for you, just wait and see what next month holds.... — Cushman & Wakefield, Tutor/Mentor Connection
• 2004-08-23 Kris Marshall of Winning Futures in Michigan sent the following email: I attended your conference in June of 2003 and it inspired me to not only make some drastic changes with my own organization, Winning Futures, but to take the lead in creating a mentor collaboration. The collaboration is called the Metro Detroit Mentor Collaboration (MDMC) and it operates as a division of Winning Futures. The founding programs that we brought together are The Art of Leadership Foundation, Mentor Works - A program of Jewish Family Service, Oakland County Mentors Plus, Student Mentor Partners (Toi), Vista Maria, and Winning Futures. I have attached an overview of what our mission and goals are. We have officially become a partner with Mentor Michigan, which is our state's mentoring agency. We will work with them to be a liaison to local programs. I have also just been named to the mentoring council for the state which will help strengthen the collaboration. The state is writing a grant for funding for the organization. Right now, all staff time is paid by Winning Futures. I hope once funds become available, I can get permission to travel to Chicago to meet with you to discuss your program and how we can offer similar services in Michigan. — Winning Futures, Student Mentor Partners
• 2004-08-28 First Annual Rock for Reading Music Festival held in Chicago. Organized by music artist Alice Peacock, and sponsored by The Chicago Sun Times, this event was designed to raise visibility for reading programs and raise money for four charities: The Chicago Public Schools, Chicago Public Library, New City YMCA and Tutor/Mentor Connection. The T/MC used the event to raise visibility and help recruit volunteers for tutor/mentor programs. Five organizations participated in recruiting volunteers: East Village Youth Program, Cabrini-Green Tutoring Program, CYCLE, Project Education Plus and Cabrini Connections. Unfortunately, it rained all day and was cold. Few people attended and the event was ended at 7pm instead of 11pm. While this means that few dollars were raised, the event led to many networking connections that the T/MC and others can use in the future. — Chicago recording artist, T/MC and 4 other tutor/mentor programs, Chicago Public Library, Chicago Public Schools, Chicago Sun Times and several other sponsors
• 2004-09-08 Volunteer recruitment fairs will be held on Friday, Sept. 10 and Saturday Sept. 11 at six Borders stores in Chicago, Evanston and Wheaton and at the James Thompson Center in Chicago. Email is being used to encourage potential volunteers to come to the fairs, or come to the Program Locator, to find p laces where they can volunteer. Today Ron May included a T/MC volunteer wanted message in his email newsletter, titled The May Report. This reaches hundreds of potential IT volunteers. — Borders, The May Report, T/MC and various programs
• 2004-09-13 John Blackmore, a Winston Churchill scholar from the UK, visited to learn more about the T/MC — Winston Churchill scholar
• 2004-09-23 The Young Lawyers Section of the Chicago Bar Foundation is hosting a Pro Bono and Community Service Volunteer Recruitment Fair on 9/30 at the law firm of Jennery & Block. The law firm is hosting and doing a great job of professionalizing the event. Today they posted a web site with a list of programs that are recruiting volunteers . it is http://www.jenner.com/news/news_item.asp?id=12735524 — Jenner & Block, Chicago Bar Association, Young Lawyers Association, Lend A Hand Program
• 2004-09-23 Julie Hamilton, Scot Hamilton and Shon Doseck, a GIS Analyst with Pangaea Information Technologies, Ltd, in Chicago, met to disucss T/MC GIS strategies. Shon has volunteered to take a lead role in the project and has recruited his company to host the T/MC map gallery and provide other in-kind support needed for the project. — T/MC board of directors/volunteer, GIS Developer, Chicago Police Department Headquarters, Pangaea Information Technologies, Ltd
• 2004-09-30 A ProBono and Community Services Volunteer Recruitment Fair was held at Jenner & Block, one of the major law firms in Chicago. Hosted by the Chicago Bar Foundation and Young Lawyers Sections of Chicago Bar Association. More than 60 non profits, including 10 tutor/mentor programs along with over 200 potential volunteers from the legal community attended. The T/MC passed out information on social networking, as well as information about La Familia Technology Week (Oct. 3-9) and tutor/mentor programs that serve Hispanic Populations. — Jenner & Block, Chicago Bar Association, Chicago Bar Foundation, Jenner & Block, Public Interest Law Initiative, Lend A Hand Program
• 2004-10-04 Sharon Caldwell of the YMCA of Chicago emailed to say, "Just wanted to let you know that, miraculously, we received the Mentoring funds we applied for in July from the Department of Education to serve North Lawndale and Austin. We are completely shocked and so very grateful. Thanks so much for the help you provided to us at that time. As you may recall, our request included $1,150 in contractual funds that will go to TM/C each of the three years for "consultation and/or specialized training." Looking forward to working together to expand these crucial services on the west side. — YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago
• 2004-10-07 Met with Juanona Brewster, Director, Standards for Excellence, The Giving Trust, www.thegivingtrust.org. We discussed ways to collaborate and a workshop that The Giving Trust has volunteered to lead in the Nov. 2004 conference. A follow up meeting plan was agreed upon. — The Giving Trust
• 2004-10-11 Received following email from Ian Jipp, who I first met in 1994 or 1995 when he was with Loyola University in Chicago. He has been on the T/MC newsletter and email list since then. " I have relocated to Los Angeles and am working the Director of Annual Giving at Harvard-Westlake School. I participated in an all-day college counseling program sponsored by the Mentoring Partnership, a collaborative effort working with tutoring programs here in LA. My boss, Ed Hu, was a key organizerof the event. Megan Chernin was another organizer, she is a volunteer committed to raising money for the Mentoring Partnership. I have passed along information about the Chicago Tutor/Mentor Leadership conference. I do not know if they will attend the conference or simply contact you to network and gain more information about the TMC and Cabrinin Connections, but the seed has been planted. " Megan, and her husband Peter, are a couple who could provide a great deal of support to mentoring efforts. And she has made this a personal prioity. Please let me know if she contacts you — Harvard-Westlake School, LA
• 2004-10-14 The America's Promise email newsletter included a paragraph about the November Tutor/Mentor Leadership Conference. — America's Promise
• 2004-10-26 Dan Bassill of T/MC was guest of Diane Latiker, Kids of the Block, on the Channel 21 Public Access TV call in show. Diane and Dan talked about tutoring/mentoring programs, the conferences, and ways business and faith groups could support the growth of programs. — Kids Off The Block
• 2004-10-26 Shon got a basic GIS map site up and running on a site hosted by his company, Pangaea Technology. We can work on customizing it when he gets a little more time. If they allow me remote access, I can even work on it. Here's the site: http://arcims.pangaeatech.com/website/TutorMentorConnection/viewer.htm — T/MC GIS Volunteer, Pangaea Tech
• 2004-10-27 T/MC contacted by tech staff at IUPUI to begin the process of rebuilding the www.tutormentorconnection.org web site — IUPUI
• 2004-10-27 Received email from Jurandir in SaoPaolo Brazil that reads: "Hi, I have talking to a dicrector and principals at our Christian school in sao Paulo about a possibility to have a mentor program for a region here in Sao Paulo. Well, we would likwe a conference to encourage and chalenge parents, students, teacher etc, etc. So, I think about you to kick this project. Our school has a all condition to support an event like this. and your present will be crucial and important. Let's think and talk about that for the next year. " — Sao Paolo, Brazil
• 2004-11-08 Dan Bassill of T/MC was guest of Sherrard Jones of Sinai Mentoring on a Channel 21 Public Access TV show. The focus was the workshop Sherrod was leading to engage hospitals strategically in leadership of neighborhood tutor/mentor strategies. During the call in segment, Henry Warfield, a young man who had been part of the Montgomery Ward/Cabrini Green Tutoring Program, led by Dan from 1975-1992, called in to testify as to how important the program had been to him and how much Dan Bassill had helped him and many other kids. Henry was in 2nd grade when he joined the program in the early 80's and he stayed active through 10th or 11th grade. He now is an engineer working at O'Hare Airport. — Sinai Mentoring, Former student in tutor/mentor program, Chicago Access TV - host to show
• 2004-11-17 On Nov. 15 and 16, 2004, the T/MC hosted a 22nd Tutor/Mentor Leadership and Networking Conference at the headquarters of City Colleges of Chicago. More than 30 workshops were offered, in addition to a Monday evening reception at the Union League Club of Chicago, and a 2 day econference. More than 155 people participated in the conference at Daley College and 30-50 more participated in the eConference. There was excellent networking and information sharing. — List of 155 people on file at T/MC
• 2004-11-19 Nate Harris of IUPUI sent email confirming that IUPUI will host an eConference during the week of May 23, 2005 — IUPUI
• 2004-11-22 T/MC started helping YMCA develop tutor/mentor program in North Lawndale and Austin — list in office
• 2004-12-10 I met with Michael A. Barr, PhD, Director, Center for Sustainable Solutions, The Chicago School of Professional Psychology to discuss possible collaboration on capacity building activities. I met Michael as a result of one of his grad students doing a workshop at the Nov. 2004 T/MC conference. It turns out he has been friends with Claudia Crilly Bellucci, a long term CC volunteer, for more than 8 years. — The Chicago School of Professional Psychology
• 2004-12-15 Cabrini Connections received the 2004 Thomas A. Demetrio Award, recognizing an outstanding Chicago area mentoring program, during a reception hosted by the Chicago Bar Association, Chicago Bar Foundation, Corboy and Demetrio Law Firm, and Abraham Lincoln Marovitz Lend A Hand Program. 2004 grants totaling $20,000 were awarded during the event to: Cambodian Association, Centro Communitario, Chicago Youth Programs, Christ Evangelical Church Brain Boosters Program, Hermosa Community Organization, Maywood Youth Mentoring Program, Marilyn G. Rabb Foundation, and Sunlight African Community Center. The grants were presented by members of the LAH Executive Board, lawyers who are donors to the LAH, and Thomas A. Demetrio. — Corboy & Demetrio, Chair, Exec Committee of LAH, Chicago Bar Foundation, Listed in the "what happened"
• 2004-12-29 Met with Kevin King to discuss ways Kevin might help participate and grow the Monthly Training Workshops held at the T/MC site. As a result, Kevin created a training needs survey that was put on the conference web site during the first week of January. Kevin was a speaker at the November 04 conference, representing Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Chicago. He's also a grad student at the Chicago School of Professional Psychiatry. Our networking at the conference led to his involvement in the monthly training. — Chicago School of Professional Psychiatry

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