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March 2011 Issue No. 97 |
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| * Tutor/Mentor
Conference, May 19 and 20 * Mapping Chicago Tutor/Mentor Locations * How do you Share your Stories? * Connecting people and ideas * President's Message - Building Philanthropic Capital |
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| Tutor/Mentor Leadership and Networking Conference, May 19 and 20, 2011 |
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Since 1994 the Tutor/Mentor Connection has hosted a May and November Tutor/Mentor Leadership and Networking Conferences in Chicago. The next will be hosted at Victory Apostolic Church in Matteson, IL on May 19th and 20th. We have just confirmed the
space, so now we need your help to build workshops and panels that
provide opportunities for leaders to
exchange ideas and strategies for recruiting and training volunteers,
finding donors, recruiting students and providing effective, on-going
tutoring and/or mentoring. This will be the second conference hosted in the South Suburbs. In November 2007 we held the conference at the Olympia Fields Country Club, near Matteson. I wrote about that conference in this article: http://tutormentor.blogspot.com/2007/11/its-conference-day.html Read summary of Nov. 2010
conference: Read case for collaboration: Share you ideas about the conference, networking, and challenges facing tutor/mentor programs in the groups at http://tutormentorconnection.ning.com/groups Since 1994 the Tutor/Mentor Connection has been building a knowledge network focused on helping kids in poverty connect with adults and non-school learning, skill-development and enrichment supports. Our aim is to create a "collective impact" that is greater than what any single organization can achieve by working alone. An organization called FSG has been writing articles about collective impact. This week they point to two articles in the New York Times. http://tinyurl.com/CollectiveImpactStories |
| Mapping Chicago - Showing Locations of Tutoring and/or Mentoring Programs | ||
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The Tutor/Mentor Connection has been building and maintain a directory of non-school, volunteer-based tutoring and/or mentoring programs since 1993. We use maps to show where they are located and where more are needed. The conferences provide an opportunity for these programs, and others from beyond Chicago to connect and learn from each other. It's also an opportunity to build more public attention for tutoring/mentoring, which we hope stimulates the flow of volunteers and dollars to all programs, including the Cabrini Connections program that the T/MC operates in Chicago. We host a directory with links to the nearly 200 Chicago area youth organizations that we know of at: http://tinyurl.com/ChiTM-Program-Links We host an interactive map directory, that you can use to find programs in different parts of the region, and to find potential business, college, and faith group partners. http://www.tutormentorprogramlocator.net/InteractiveMap.aspx We're constantly updating this information. Read about this at http://tmcpip.blogspot.com/2011/03/spring-cleaning-of-chicago-area.html 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 |
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| How does your tutor/mentor program tell its own stories? | |
What
programs do you compare yourself too? Use the Tutor/Mentor
Conference, on-line forums and links library to share links to your
blogs and videos. |
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Bring handouts or set up a display table
at the May 19 and 20 conference. One goal of this conference is to
identify and give recognition to tutor/mentor programs operating in the
South part of Chicago, the South Suburbs and Northern Indiana. If you
operate a program in this area please make sure you're included in the
Program Links library at
http://tinyurl.com/ChiTM-Program-Links . If you would like
to host a display table and use the conference to help draw attention to
your tutor/mentor program, use this form.
http://www.tutormentorconference.org/displaytables.asp |
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| issue 03 | |
| Tutor/Mentor Connection - Connecting People and Ideas | |
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Public/Private Ventures - Priorities for a New Decade: Making (More) Social Programs Work (Better) http://www.ppv.org/ppv/publications/assets/329_publication.pdf
From The Center at UCLA -
School Engagement, Disengagement, Learning Supports, & School Climate
Drop Out Prevention Resources -
http://www.nyec.org/page.cfm?pageID=279 |
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Other sources of
network-building information * Mentor Training links http://tinyurl.com/T-MCLibrary-mentor-training * Various types of tutor/mentor programs in other cities - http://tinyurl.com/T-MCLibrary-programs-network * Link to research section of tm library - http://tinyurl.com/TMLibrary-research Submit your own link recommendations and post articles that talk about this information. Just register and log in at http://www.tutormentorconnection.org |
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 president's
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| Building Philanthropic Capital to Fuel Good to Great |
by Daniel F. Bassill |
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If you're the CEO of a small non profit do you feel like you're pushing a big rock up a steep hill most of the time? Since 1993, I've been struggling to keep Cabrini Connections, Tutor/Mentor Connection funded with adequate resources to innovate solutions to difficult problems. Each time there is an economic meltdown caused by human or environmental disasters, it gets more difficult to keep the organization going. I found two articles in the past month that helped me understand why I have this problem. I hope they are useful to you as well. First is a set of blog articles written by Sean Stannard-Stockton, CEO of Tactical Philanthropy Advisors. These articles have helped me understand the difference between donors who give us small grants to support the "transactions" of tutoring/mentoring that we do each week and donor/investors --- who Sean names "Philanthropic Investors" that help build strong, effective non-profit organizations. The second is an article on the Stanford Social Innovation Review titled "Increasing Civic Reach". I wrote about this on the Tutor/Mentor Connection forum and hope you'll take a look. http://tutormentorconnection.ning.com/profiles/blogs/building-philanthropic-capital
I don't think it's
possible for every tutor/mentor program in Chicago to have a board full
of people who have the "civic reach" needed to draw philanthropic donors
to each organization. However, I do think there is a potential that
leadership groups could form who try to build support for tutor/mentor
programs all over the Chicago region. However, what if the Mayor, Governor or even President took use his/her leadership to support the growth of tutor/mentor programs by encouraging the growth of leadership in private sector organizations. I created a video following the election of Rahm Emanuel in Chicago, illustrating the type of message he could deliver to help tutor/mentor programs grow in Chicago. See it at http://tutormentor.blogspot.com/2011/03/imagine-if-this-were-new-mayors-video.html . The Tutor/Mentor Leadership and Networking Conference offers an opportunity for leaders from the public and private sector and from tutor/mentor programs to network, share ideas, and build strategies that result in well-funded non-school tutor/mentor programs growing from good to great in all parts of the Chicago Region. I hope you'll attend, and if you are a philanthropist, I hope you will invest. http://www.tutormentorconference.org
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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.
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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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