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CALENDAR
of EVENTS!
Read the Tutor/Mentor Blog
Current
Newsletter
Visit
our
Links
to Chicago Youth Programs
Use
the PROGRAM
LOCATOR. to find contact information for Tutor/Mentor
Programs in different zip codes of the Chicago area.
Visit
OHATS
for T/MC. See how we document what we are accomplishing.
Learn more about the Cabrini
Connections
Tutor/Mentor Program
FREE
Program Evaluation Workshops & Materials
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Vision:
As a result of the work we do, more youth born in poverty will be
entering jobs and careers by age 25. |
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The Tutor/Mentor
Connection (T/MC) mission is: To
gather and organize all that is known about successful
non-school tutor/mentor programs and share that knowledge to
expand the availability and enhance the effectiveness of these
services to children in inner city Chicago and other poverty
areas.
Intro to T/MC and Cabrini Connections (pdf)
One
way we help tutor/mentor programs grow is by creating maps showing
where poverty is concentrated and where tutor/mentor programs are
needed. These maps also help potential volunteers and donors make
choices of where they get involved, based on where they are located
in the Chicago region. For instance, on the map above, we show
expressways that connect people who live in the North, West and
South suburbs of Chicago, but work in the central Loop area. Every
day thousands of commuters pass through poverty areas. Using the
Program Locator and Links to Chicago programs, any of these people
can become a volunteer, leader, advocate or donor in support of
tutor/mentor programs in the neighborhoods they pass every day.
New maps will be produced every week. View these maps at
http://mappingforjustice.blogspot.com and in the T/MC Map
Gallery at
http://www.horizonmapping.net/projects/tmc/tmc_gallery/Tutor_Mentor_crime_maps.html#5
Browse
the various sections of this and other T/MC web sites and use the
resources you find to support your own personal and
organizational involvement in volunteer-based tutoring/mentoring.
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or visit the Tutor/Mentor
Institute section to
find more ideas you
can use in your leadership and program development.
Visit the Program
Locator and LINKS sections to find contact information for various tutoring and/or
mentoring programs in the Chicago region. Use this
information to decide where to volunteer....or where to make
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The Tutor/Mentor Connection mission is accomplished through a four-part strategy.
1)
It aims to increase knowledge about what works, where
programs are located and where more are needed.
2) It
aggressively shares this knowledge in a marketing and public
awareness campaign aimed at
3) creating a greater involvement of
all adults, and a greater flow of essential resources to
individual programs; and a
4) better understanding among all
stakeholders of the long-term, integrated actions needed to help
children and youth move from a birth in poverty to a job and a
career. For each child this is a minimum 25-year
commitment.
View
map of Tutor/Mentor Connection goals.
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While the volunteer mentor is on the front lines in this effort,
support for each volunteer and student is what makes a long-term
mentoring match possible. Make a 2008 donation to support
Cabrini Connections, Tutor/Mentor Connection
http://www.cabriniconnections.net/donate/
Visit the
Tutor/Mentor Connection, Cabrini Connections on
Facebook
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UPCOMING
EVENTS |
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May 29 & 30, 2008 |
Tutor/Mentor Leadership and Networking
Conference in Chicago, held May 29 and 30. Workshop Descriptions
here.
Attendee List
here.
View May
2008 Tutor/Mentor Conference Celebration
Flash
More than 120 people connected in
Chicago on May 29 and 30 to network and draw attention to volunteer-based
tutoring/mentoring as a workforce development, diversity, dropout
prevention and public health strategy, not just as an education and
poverty reduction program.
To discuss participation in future conferences and
T/MC networking, email tutormentor2@earthlink.net
Read about the:
T/MC
e-conference.
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| July
17, 2008 |
Jimmy
Biggs Memorial Cabrini Connections Golf Benefit,
Former
University of Illinois and Chicago Bears quarterback
Kurt Kittner is the co-chair of this event. Visit the golf web site to see
and learn more about how you can help raise funds and
visibility for tutoring/mentoring in Chicago. Email tutormentor2@earthlink.net
to be involved. |
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July 30 ,
2008 |
MY HERO Awards Lunch,
hosted by SunTimes Marovitz Lawyers Lend A Hand Fund. Join lawyers, law firms,
judges and celebrate the involvement of the
legal community in volunteer-based tutor/mentor programs.
Visit the web site to learn how to nominate a lawyer for
a My Hero Award.
Learn about Lend A Hand Funding of Chicago
tutor/mentor programs. Visit
http://www.lawyerslendahand.org
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Aug - Sept 08 |
Chicagoland Tutor/Mentor Volunteer Recruitment Campaign
While we're still recruiting volunteers for 2007-08,
begin planning for how you can help mobilize volunteers for Chicago area
tutor/mentor programs in the 2008-09 and future school
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2009 |
National
Mentoring Month. January '08 - learn more at
http://www.mentoring.org
Tutor/Mentor Connection theme for January is: Share what you've earned. Make a donation to support a tutor/mentor program.
Visit the
Donor
section
to see how your dollars can help make effective
volunteer based mentoring possible.
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Visit the Tutor/Mentor Connection Event
Calendar |
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Help keep our services FREE
to those who need them most.
Click HERE
to
make contribution to support the Tutor/Mentor Connection
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Established
September 2000
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Our Sponsors
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Tutor/Mentor
Connection |
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