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Edition: October 2009
Issue No. 81 |
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NOTE: throughout this newsletter we use a Tiny URL to shorten long web site addresses so the links do not break. We hope you find this helpful.
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* Tutoring and/or Mentoring Programs in Chicago area
* Tutor/Mentor Conference, Nov. 19 & 20
* Using Maps to Build Support for Programs
* Recommended Reading
* President's Message - Connecting those who can help with those who need help |
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| Volunteer-Based Tutoring and/or Mentoring Programs in Chicago Area |
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Fourth week. Image courtesy of Cabrini Connections, Tutor/Mentor Connection.
Who are the tutoring and/or mentoring programs in Chicago? We know of more than 200 organizations who provide some form of volunteer-based tutoring and/or mentoring in the non-school hours. These can be found by searching a map based directory (see below) and a Chicago Programs Links Library at: http://tinyurl.com/ChiTM-Program-Links
The Links Library is organized by sections of the city and suburbs, so if you're looking for programs in the central part of the city, you'd find 65 web sites. However, if you're looking for programs in the South Suburbs, you'd only find 3 web sites. That does not mean no other programs exist. It means we don't know about them yet.
By posting these links we are not vouching for the quality of these programs. We're saying "they are there" and they need help to be as good as they need to be. By comparing web sites of different programs, volunteers, parents, donors, and leaders, can begin to build their own idea of which programs are stronger, and which have good ideas that could be duplicated in other programs, if the resources are provided by donors. By creating maps showing poverty in the region, our vision is that all programs would be great, not just a few great programs in a few places.
If you operate a program, but are not listed, you can register, log in and submit your own link, or email the Tutor/Mentor Connection and we'll add it for you.
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While the T/MC focuses on Chicago, it links to web sites of tutor/mentor programs and networks in other cities:
http://tinyurl.com/T-MCLibrary-programs-network
T/MC also points to volunteer portals, which can be used to locate volunteer opportunities in Chicago and every other part of the country. http://tinyurl.com/T-MC-Volunteering
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| Tutor/Mentor Leadership and Networking Conference, Nov. 19 and 20 |
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Image courtesy of Cabrini Connections, Tutor/Mentor Connection.
IEvery six months T/MC invites people it knows to come together for a Tutor/Mentor Leadership and Networking Conference in Chicago to share ideas, network with T/MC and each other, and build visibility that draws more volunteers and donors to all of the volunteer tutoring and mentoring programs listed on our web sites.
The next Conference will be November 19 and 20, 2009, at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.
Agenda: http://tutormentorconference.org/agenda.asp
Many workshops focus on collaboration, network building, using the Internet and social media, which are skills small non profits can use to find needed volunteers and donors. These are also skills inner-city youth can use to expand the networks of people who help them find jobs and solve life problems.
Speaker List: http://tutormentorconference.org/speakers.asp .
All speakers are volunteers who donate their time. Some are using their own media to promote participation in the conference.
Registration: http://tutormentorconference.org/register.asp
Attendee List: http://tutormentorconference.org/ArchiveRegistrationList/
As you register, you can choose to have your name on this attendee list. This allows other people planning to attend to make contact before the conference, to make sure you meet the people you want to meet. It also enables people to stay connected in the six months between each conference, when the work of using these ideas to build stronger tutor/mentor programs needs to be done.
Press Release: Please share this with people in your network.
http://www.mmdnewswire.com/tutoring-mentoring-programs-6064.html
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| Maps of grocery stores and other assets in Chicago region |
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Maps can be used by businesses, faith groups, foundations, political leaders to build strategies that support tutor/mentor programs in different neighborhoods where they are needed. This map shows Dominick's grocery stores in Chicago region. When T/MC publishes a map, it creates a blog story showing how maps can be used. See http://mappingforjustice.blogspot.com/2009/10/local-grocery-stores.html
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In Chicago, we've created an interactive Tutor/Mentor Program Locator, which enables students, volunteers, leaders to zoom into sections of the city and create their own maps. http://www.tutormentorprogramlocator.net/InteractiveMap.aspx
If you'd like to know more about how to use the Interactive map, or how to add your Chicago area tutor/mentor program to the map, call Nicole, Mike or Dan at 312-492-9614, or email tutormentor2@earthlink.net
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| If you'd like to make a donation to help fund the map making, visit http://www.giveforward.org/mappingforjustice/ |
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| Recommended Reading - Why and Where Tutor/Mentor Programs are needed |
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The Tutor/Mentor Connection library hosts information created by people from throughout the country. Our aim is that more people find and read this information and use what they learn to guide actions they take to help youth living in economic disadvantage get the adult networks and learning support that helps them move through school and into jobs and careers. The map below show one section of this library.
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You can see this graphic at http://tinyurl.com/TMC-research-map . From this interactive map you can link into the various sections of the T/MC library. Three sections of this library are shown below.
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· Research links, mentoring, tutoring, prevention http://tinyurl.com/TMC-research-mentor-tutor
· Drop out crisis articles - http://tinyurl.com/TMC-dropout-crisis
· NCLB, Education articles - http://tinyurl.com/TMC-NCLB-educaton
Visitors to the T/MC site are encouraged to submit new links, and to write articles and encourage discussion about the links that are already on the site. Go to http://tinyurl.com/TMC-Submit-articles
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 president's message
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| Connecting Those Who Can Help with Those Who Need Help |
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by Daniel F. Bassill
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The goal of the Tutor/Mentor Connection is to help constantly improving, mentor-rich programs grow in the high-poverty neighborhoods of Chicago. To succeed, we need to help each program get more consistent public attention, and a more consistent flow of volunteers and operating dollars.
We need leaders in many sectors to act as intermediaries, to draw people together, and to mobilize resources to support ALL of the tutor/mentor programs in a city, not once, but on an on-going basis.
Thus, while this newsletter aims to point program leaders and volunteers to information and ideas they can use, it is also intended to attract business and faith leaders, who can use their own communications resources to mobilize volunteers and donors. This section of essays show roles leaders might take:
http://www.tutormentorexchange.net/leadership-strategies
Since our goal is to innovate ways to help ALL volunteer-based tutor/mentor programs we point to strategies that do this, regardless of where they are in the world. This link shows the Youth Mentoring Week in Australia http://www.youthmentoring.org.au/youth_mentoring_week.php
This section of the Tutor/Mentor Institute site includes PDF essays showing network-building strategies:
http://tinyurl.com/TME-Networking
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