Tutor/Mentor Volunteer Recruitment Campaign 2005

2005 CAMPAIGN NEWS

2005 Recruitment Campaign Fair Sites -

Sign up now for Sept. 8th Recruitment Fair at James Thompson Center in Chicago.

Recruit at Borders Books & Music stores in Chicago.

See how Lend A Hand is mobilizing lawyers in Chicago. Use this presentation to mobilize lawyers in your own community.

If your company, church, CBO is organizing a recruitment campaign, send info to the T/MC so we can post it on this calendar. Email T/MC at tutormentor2@earthlink.net

IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR A PLACE TO VOLUNTEER....

Visit our Links to Chicago Youth Programs section and choose a program where you can be a volunteer, a donor, an advocate.

Visit our PROGRAM LOCATOR service. Use the searchable database to find contact information for Tutor/Mentor Programs in different parts of Chicago or its suburbs.

2004 Recruitment Campaign Fair Sites
These are locations where volunteer recruitment fairs were held in the Chicago region on Friday and Saturday, September 10 and 11, 2004. As the fall 2005 campaign comes closer, we'll list recruitment sites here.

Invite your mayor to join the 2005 tutor/mentor volunteer mobilization.

LINK TO T/MC MAPS Library.
These maps show where tutor/mentor programs are needed in Chicagoland and where current programs are located.

Volunteer Opportunities with Tutor/Mentor Connection

The Chicagoland Tutor/Mentor Volunteer Recruitment Campaign is a year-round effort that peaks every year as school is starting.

HELP SPREAD THE WORD!

The Chicagoland Tutor/Mentor Volunteer Recruitment Campaign is aimed at raising awareness and recruiting volunteers for any Chicago-area volunteer-based tutor/mentor programs that help youth who are in need of educational, career, and life skills assistance.

Become a leader, advocate and spokesperson for volunteer-based tutoring/mentoring in your community.

Tutor/Mentor Connection maps, such as those in the Map Gallery and the Program Locator of this web site, show where poverty and poorly performing schools are located in the Chicago area and where existing tutor/mentor programs operate. The campaign aims to draw volunteers to tutor/mentor programs operating in these parts of the city.

Through this web site, the T/MC also aims to help parallel campaigns form in other major cities, so that the collective efforts of everyone can add up to more visibility, volunteers and dollars than any single organization can reach on their own.

The campaign’s timing is linked to the start of each school year when all tutor/mentor programs in the region are looking for volunteers. The campaign officially kicked off in early August with the release of press releases and the launching of a special tutor/mentor bulletin board on Chicago Cable Access CAN-TV 42.

Goal of Campaign:

1. Continue to attract an increasing number of individuals to volunteer to be a tutor or mentor with one of the over 300 programs in the Chicago area.

2. Provide support to other communities to expand the campaign and T/MC strategies throughout Illinois and the nation.

3. Expand partnerships with businesses, hospitals, universities, and faith groups. Enlist campaign Chairpersons from these networks to provide leadership and communications support needed to mobilize more volunteers and dollars for all tutor and mentor programs state wide. The Lend A Hand Program at the Chicago Bar Association is a model we hope will be duplicated.

4. Enlist media and corporate sponsors to help create marketing and advertising strategies that promote the campaign's "Get Informed, Get Involved" call for tutors, mentors and donors. Read ROLE OF LEADERS

5. Increase faith-group involvement. Build commitment to quarterly messages from the pulpit, as a means of building awareness through faith communities to business, social, and alumni groups in which members participate.

6. Establish additional neighborhood and community recruitment collaborative efforts to help promote and support tutor and mentor programs within their business areas during the campaign and year-round.

7. Expand participation in Internet-based volunteer recruitment planning groups, blogs, web sites, etc..

Review a power point presentation of Recruitment Campaign Goals: Recruitment Campaign

Click here to review a power point illustrating the benefits to corporations, employees and the community from a volunteer involvement strategy.

Read the Tutor/Mentor Bog

Campaign planning is a year-round process

The 2004 campaign was the 10th since 1995. Many agencies have participated in this campaign each year. Others have joined as the campaign spread to the Chicago suburbs or as literacy programs became involved. A core group of organizations collaborates on year-round planning that leads up to the August/September campaign.

A growing number of businesses and professional organizations support the campaign.

Major bookstores, such as Borders Books and Music have been involved for the past five years. Public Communications, Inc. and the Chicago Bar Association/Foundation have been involved with the T/MC since 1994. Chicago Access TV has supported the campaign since 1995. MB Financial Bank has supported the campaign for the past two years and Starbucks Coffee locations supported the campaign in 2003. As this support grows, it will lead to a greater flow of volunteers and dollars to every tutor/mentor program in the Chicago area.

If you, or an organization that you work with, in Chicago or in any other city, would like to work with the T/MC on this volunteer mobilization, email tutormentor2@earthlink.net

The Recruitment Campaign is part of a year-round strategy led by the Cabrini Connections Tutor/Mentor Connection. Visit the other pages of this web site to learn more. If you'd like to find ways to launch a similar campaign in your company, or in another city, or to link your campaign to the Chicago Campaign, email tutormentor2@earthlink.net.

Go to the Links to Chicago Youth Programs and find a program where you can help.

NOTICE: There are not enough programs in some parts of the city and suburbs. Many parents and prospective volunteers are calling the T/MC looking to join programs. However, some programs are already over-subscribed and cannot expand the number of kids/volunteers. In other cases, there are no programs at all, especially for junior high and high school. If you find that there are no programs, or not enough spaces in existing programs, consider taking on a role of organizer or capacity builder. The only way a program will grow in an area with no programs is if a core group of adults takes the lead to form a program -- and other groups take the responsibility to help them have the funds needed to operate and grow the program. The information on this web site and the www.tutormentorconnection.org web site is intended to help new programs form. If you find that you need to help start a program, please use these resources often.

TUTOR/MENTOR LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE After we recruit volunteers, our job is to train them and help them become effective tutors, mentors and leaders. Sponsors are needed to help the T/MC offer training and networking opportunities for tutor/mentor volunteers and program leaders. Make a difference with your dollars!

Help Raise Funds for Tutor/Mentor Programs. Visit the Lend A Hand section to see how you can make a contribution

Learn more about the Kids’ Connection operated by Cabrini Connections