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January 2011 Issue No. 95 |
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| * National Mentoring
Month - Celebrate and Support Mentoring * No more poor people in Cabrini-Green? * Building Resources for Tutor/Mentor Programs * Service Days - Opportunity for Service and Learning * President's Message - Impact of mega-philanthropy |
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| National Mentoring Month - Celebrate and Support |
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This is National Mentoring Month. Learn more
at
http://www.nationalmentoringmonth.org/ The President and many
other leaders are showing their support for Mentoring Programs. We hope
this leads to an outpouring of donor support in addition to new
volunteers. Read this articles to see maps of Cabrini Green and changes forecast for the area. http://tutormentor.blogspot.com/2010/10/cabrini-green-gone-are-you-sure.html If donors don't continue to support Cabrini Connections and the other tutoring and/or mentoring programs serving K-12 youth in the Cabrini Green and Near North area of Chicago, who will provide this service in 2011 and in future years? Read below to see how maps can be used to draw volunteer and donor attention to neighborhoods like Cabrini Green, or your own neighborhood in Chicago. |
| Building Resources for Volunteer-Based Tutoring and/or Mentoring | ||
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This is a map showing the Cabrini-Green
area of Chicago. Tutor/Mentor Programs in any part of Chicagoland can use the T/MC's Interactive Program Locator to create a map showing where they are in Chicago, other programs in their neighborhood, and businesses, faith groups, hospitals and/or universities in the area who could be providing volunteers and dollars to support their operations. Visit the Mapping for Justice blog to see more examples of how maps can be used to build neighborhood networks supporting the growth of tutor/mentor programs in these areas. http://mappingforjustice.blogspot.com T/MC strategy for use of maps is described at http://www.tutormentorexchange.net/mapping-the-programs
You can
visit web sites of more than 200 Chicago area programs to learn how they
support volunteers and students. ----------------------------------------------- If you would like to duplicate this
service in your community, in partnership with the T/MC, we'd like to
work with you. Call 312-492-9614 or introduce yourself on the
http://tutormentorconnection.ning.com site.
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| National Service Days - Opportunity for LEARNING and Service | |
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 Graphic provided by Tutor/Mentor Connection - See story at http://michaelcnt.blogspot.com/2011/01/new-interns-at-cc-tmc.html |
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With the help of volunteers and interns, the Tutor/Mentor Connection has created a variety of animated essays that show how a volunteer that is well-supported by a non profit organization expands his/her understanding of the challenges the organizations is addressing, builds more empathy and commitment to the youth and community being served, and often becomes a leader and capacity builder for the organization.
The graphic above describes volunteering as
a "service learning loop". Each time the volunteer does service he/she
learns from the experience. As they return to their family and workplace
they share their experiences. If non profits can provide better support
as volunteers go to do service, they are more effective, the youth get
more benefit and the volunteer is more satisfied. If there is
continuous support following the service, the volunteer may stay with
the charity longer, and may also become more consistent and strategic in
sharing his/her experiences, leading to more volunteers supporting the
cause in the future. -------------------------------------------------
May and November Tutor/Mentor Leadership
and Networking Conferences offer opportunities for leaders to
exchange ideas and strategies for recruiting and training volunteers. See
http://www.tutormentorconference.org for information about past and
future conferences. |
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| Resources for volunteers, leaders, donors and prospective mayors | |
Below
are links to web sites and information resources that could be used by
anyone concerned with education, diversity, workforce development and
democracy. This information is available 24 hours a day and 365
days a year. What is needed are intermediaries who organize study
groups and help other people find and use this information. |
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* Want to help youth living in high poverty - suggestions for planning and building committees: http://tutormentor.blogspot.com/2011/01/want-to-help-youth-living-in-high.html * Want to get greater response from volunteers and donors? This is one article you might read. http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-dragonfly-effect/201012/contagious-emotion Find more articles to help you build your organization at http://tinyurl.com/TMC-innovation-links *
Want to make your web site more effective? Read the articles at this
site.
http://www.internetevangelismday.com/medium.php
Find links to more articles like this at
http://tinyurl.com/TMC-blogroll This map shows the
organization of information in the Tutor/Mentor Connection's web
library. |
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 president's
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| Impact of mega philanthropy on public education in US - Pipeline Strategy |
by Daniel F. Bassill |
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the article and form your own opinions. One of the criticisms
offered in this article is that the foundation leaders are so powerful
and in love with their own ideas they are not listening to others.
----------------------------------------------- I wrote a series of articles showing what Cabrini Connections, Tutor/Mentor Connection has done over the past decade with a limited flow of operating dollars. Imagine what we might accomplish with the support of one of these philanthropists and how much we might be able to push that support directly to the various tutor/mentor programs operating in Chicago neighborhoods and in other cities. http://tutormentor.blogspot.com/search/label/decade Thanks for reading. Please forward this to others who might be interested. Good luck to all who lead volunteer-based tutoring and/or mentoring strategies as you move through 2011 and the next decade.
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The Tutor/Mentor Connection is part of a two part non-profit. We also operate a site-based tutor/mentor program called Cabrini Connections, http://www.cabriniconnections.net. Support our 2011 actions. - If you've valued this newsletter and the resources of the Tutor/Mentor Connection or the work being done at Cabrini Connections, we need your donations in order to continue in 2011. Please use this form and our PayPal button to send your donation. http://www.tutormentorexchange.net/donate
Please call if you'd like to learn more or
ask us to submit a grant proposal, although we hope you'll use our web
sites to see what we're doing then look at your own budget to decide how
much you want to help us. |
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| Daniel F. Bassill President Tutor/Mentor Connection Cabrini Connections 800 W. Huron, Chicago, IL 60642 312-492-9614 |
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| Read the blogs at : http://tutormentor.blogspot.com http://mappingforjustice.blogspot.com http://tmcpip.blogspot.com/ http://cabriniblog.blogspot.com Follow us on Twitter - http://twitter.com/tutormentorteam
Read past newsletters |
In
fact, in a section of the Tutor/Mentor Connection web site where I focus
on leadership, I describe a similar goal of creating a universe of
connected leaders who act consistently to support the growth of a wide
range of career-focused, mentor-rich learning programs in high poverty
neighborhoods, and operating in the non-school hours as well as in
schools.