2006

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

• 2006-01-09 T/MC Received the following email message from Jonathan Peters, organizer for the Jefferson Awards for Public Service (http://www.jeffersonawards.org: I though you'd like to know that one of your ideas has finally taken root, it would appear. We have been working with the US Senate for the past year to pass a resolution to make the Jefferson Awards the official volunteer recognition vehicle of the US Senate and we have two Senators that are going to sponsor the bill and put it to a vote. If this happens, the Jefferson Awards nominations and information will be on the websites of all 100 United States Senators this year. I know you had mentioned several times about getting the Jefferson Awards on their websites. This whole idea took off from that idea you made in one our steering committee meetings. — Jefferson Awards for Public Service (Washington)
• 2006-01-23 The 25th Tutor/Mentor Leadership and Networking Conference held since May 1994 will be held at Northwestern University Law School, 375 E. Chicago Ave, Chicago, Il 60610 in partnership with the Children & Family Justice Center at the Northwestern University Law School (CFJC). — Children & Family Justice Center at the Northwestern University Law School (CFJC).
• 2006-02-08 Animation Mentor Programme, located in Heathcote Campus, 58-60 Duncraig Road, Applecross, Australia, will be holding a planning meeting on Feb. 9, 2006 as part of their effort to launch a corporate sponsored mentoring program. The final item on the agenda is: Where to from here? Overview of the Lend a hand Mentoring Programme (a proposed model) which points to the Chicago Bar Association Lend A Hand Program, at http://www.lend-a-hand.net — Animation Mentor Programme, Lend A Hand Program
• 2006-02-09 The February 9, 2006 CONNECT RICHMOND Weekly Email Update included a paragraph about the Tutor/Mentor Connection. This email list has about 2,300 participants who are involved with volunteerism, community service, leadership, etc. in Virginia and the Richmond area. T/MC followed with its own longer introduction in a Feb. 10 email. — ConnectRichmond (2300 people on list)
• 2006-02-18 Met with Rob Donahue of the Northwestern University Center for Talent Development and Civic Leadership Institute to discuss ways to enage NU students in service projects related to the Tutor/Mentor Connection's mission. T/MC agreed to set up Service Learning discussion in T/MC portal where Rob and NU students could brainstorm ways to get involved. — Center for Talent Development, Northwestern U.
• 2006-02-18 I received the Feb. 2006 newsletter of Project YES!, an AmeriCorps project in Illinois. The 4 page newsletter included a half page story titled "Dan Bassill: Bridging the Tutor-Mentor Gap" The story told of my effort to "seek to connect people from around the world with information and networks that help support the growth of comprehensive, volunteer-based tutor/mentor programs" and encouraged people to connect via the May 2006 conference or the T/MC blog. — Project YES!
• 2006-03-04 The Lend A Hand Program and the Chicago Bar Association co-hosted a Fifth Annual Barristers Big Band Benefit Ball with Children's Memorial Hospital. It was held in Winter Garden Room, Harold Washington Library. The event grossed over $119,000 with more than $39,000 in net profit going to the Lend A Hand and the Hospital. — Lend A Hand Program, Chicago Bar Association, Children's Memorial Hospital
• 2006-03-08 Lt. Governor Pat Quinn of Illinois has formally agreed to serve as honorary chair for the May and November Tutor/Mentor Leadershipo and Networking Conferences. His letter is posted at http://www.tutormentorconference.bigstep.com — Lt. Governor, State of Illinois, Office of Lt. Governor, State of Illinois
• 2006-03-09 MENTOR has schedule an on-line tutor/mentor eConference forum in their www.mentoring.org/community for May 8-12, 2006 — MENTOR
• 2006-03-20 An email newsletter, containing a list of Conference Speakers, along with information on volunteer recruitment, was sent today to the T/MC email distribution list, consisting of more than 2500 contacts. The email was forwarded by members of the T/MC list, such as DePaul University Partners, Illinois Commission for Volunteerism and Community Service, and Lake County Afterschool Coalition, to additional people. — various
• 2006-04-08 Borders and Starbucks stores in the Chicago region will host volunteer recruitment events during August and September. Individual programs are being recruited to host various sites. Inspired Youth has already claimed the Borders on Michigan Ave and Omni Youth has requested Starbucks and Borders locations in Palatine. — Starbucks (select stores), Borders (select stores)
• 2006-04-24 Today the new version of the Program Locator went live. This enables tutor/mentor programs to add/edit their own information on-line, and includes the complete Tutor/Mentor Program Profile. This work was done by Vamshee Bhupathiraju, who came to the T/MC in 2003 as a result of funds awarded by a CTC Net Technology 4 Communities grant. He has continued to work past the grant period as a volunteer and consultant. — T/MC consultant, CTCNet
• 2006-04-25 Today the new IUPUI web portal was transferred to the www.tutormentorconnection.org site, thanks to the help of IUPUI and T/MC volunteer Matt Mead. — T/MC volunteer, Technology Director, IUPUI
• 2006-05-02 A live event began in the www.socialedge.org portal, hosted by Dan Bassill, president of the Tutor/Mentor Conneciton. The topic was "Building a network of purpose". — Social Edge.org portal
• 2006-05-12 During the past week (May 8-12, 2006) the T/MC has hosted on on-line forum at http://www.socialedge.org and co-hosted another at http://www.mentoring.org/community. More than 120 people posted messages in the Mentoring forum, while the Social Edge forum connected us with people from around the world. — MENTOR/National Mentoring Partnership, Social Edge
• 2006-05-17 Co hosted eConference with IUPUI — IUPUI, Presenters
• 2006-05-26 The May 25 and 26, 2006 Tutor/Mentor Leadership and Networking Conference in Chicago was attended by between 190 and 200 people. Since 2001 the May attendance has averaged about 150, so this is a good increase. Participation in May and June e-conferences adds an additional few hundred people to the networking and learning organized by the T/MC at th is time of the year. — Between 190 and 200 people
• 2006-06-15 The Lend A Hand Board met today to review applications for Lend A Hand Awards which will be given during a July 12th event. One of the nominees was from Beth Palmer, of a program called Inspired Youth. Beth started this program a few years ago after Epworth Church decided they no longer wanted the program at that church. Beth nominated a Chicago lawyer for the Making a Difference Award, and in her nomination she wrote, "We met Lisa in Sept. 2004 at Borders Books on N. Michigan Ave at the recruitment fair, "What a Difference a Day Makes". In Oct. 2004 she came to tutor in the Inspired Youth Tutoring Program." — Inspired Youth, Lend A Hand Program
• 2006-07-10 ServeIllinois Summer 2006 newsletter includes1/2 page article on May 2006 Tutor/Mentor Leadership Conference. — Illinois Commission for Volunteerism And Community Service
• 2006-07-12 The 3rd Annual My Hero Award Lunch as held at the Standard Club in Chicago. More than 200 lawyers, judges, law firm reps and tutor/mentor leaders and students attended. Awards were given to recognize the work of judges, lawyers and law firms in supporting volunteer based tutor/mentor programs in the Chicago region. Dan Cotter, a member of the LAH Executive Committee, also presented a check for $20,000 to the Lend A Hand Program, which orgzanized the event. The funds were raised by Dan in a weight lifting event. — Chair and Ex Dir of Lend A Hand, More than 200
• 2006-08-29 The web site built for the T/MC and launched in July 2005 has recorded 622,000 hits as of 8/29/06. Due to hacker attacks, IUPUI took the site off line this week and has created a new version on a different platform. This is live, but the hit counter/stats will start with zero, thus not reflecting the tremendous first year traffic. — IUPUI Tech Department
• 2006-09-07 On Sept 7th the T/MC hosted a volunteer recruitment fair at the James Thompson Center in Chicago. The list of organizations that participated can be found at http://www.tutormentorexchange.net/Partner/CC/RecruitmentCampaign/recruitmentsites06.htm. — List of organizations available
• 2006-09-14 Received this email today: Good morning Mr. Bassill, my name is Rosemary Collins, Program Director for Inwood North Community Outreach Program in Houston, TX. I am writing to you for assistance. We will be providing reading mentoring to the children who attend our after school program utilizing Time Warner's Learn To Read workbooks with Time for Kids Magazines. I also know that it is critical for me to train our volunteers before they begin mentoring the children. I understand from Ana (T/MC staff) that you have a handbook for volunteer training. It is possible for me to receive a copy of that manual? And any suggestions you may have. Thank you so much for your time and consideration. Our website address is www.incopcdc.org <http://www.incopcdc.org> " — Inwood North Community Outreach, Houston
• 2006-09-14 I received this email from Roger McNalley, of Rochester, NY, today: "Can you guide me to websites and/or resources that have good objective/evidence based statistics as to mentoring program success? We in Rochester are going to use much of your program as a template and feel we need some good solid evidence as to the merits of mentoring. This does not have to be limited to youth but a whole variety of mentoring approaches. " — Rochester, NY
• 2006-09-29 Met with two DePaul University Students who are doing a writing project as part of a class at DePaul. The project will help people better understand the T/MC and Cabrini Connections. — De Paul Students, Dan, TMC
• 2006-10-05 Today T/MC re-launched the links library on the http://www.tutormentorconnection.org web site. This library has been unavailable since late August 2006 when the web site was taken off line due to serious hacking. The work of rebuilding the site and re building the links library was done by the Tech department of IUPUI, which is hosting the site, and the T/MC. — IUPUI

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• 2006 Beth Palmer letter View Original
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