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Tutor/Mentor Connection Calendar

Each event intends to draw visibility, volunteers and dollars directly to every tutor/mentor program in Chicago. These sequence throughout the year and build momentum from year-to-year.

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LEARN TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF NATIONAL EVENTS THAT DRAW ATTENTION TO THE NEEDS OF CHILDREN AND YOUTH!

Jimmy Biggs Memorial Cabrini Connections Golf Benefit, July 17 at Highland Park Country Club. See how you can help.

Aug/Sept/Oct.

August tbd 2008, My Hero Award Lunch

Aug. 1 - Sept. 30 Chicagoland Volunteer Recruitment Campaign

Nov/Dec

Nov.Tutor/Mentor Leadership Conference

January thru April

Jan - National Mentoring Month

May thru July

May 2008 e-conference

May 29 & 30, 2008- Tutor/Mentor Leadership Conference

July 17, 2008 Golf Benefit

Learn ways to support Cabrini Connections and the Tutor/Mentor Connection

January - National Mentoring Month
Now in its fourth year, National Mentoring Month (NMM) focuses national attention on the need for mentors, as well as how each of us - individuals, businesses, government agencies, schools, faith communities and nonprofits - can work together to increase the number of mentors and assure brighter futures for our young people. Learn more about National Mentoring Month at http://www.mentoring.org

February - Event needed to draw visibility and recruit volunteers to volunteer-based tutor/mentor programs. Email T/MC to discuss -- tutormentor2@earthlink.net

May 29 and 30, 2008 - Tutor/Mentor Leadership Conference
The conference brings programs together to share training ideas, build visibility, recruit additional volunteers and raise money to fund tutor/mentor programs. The May 2008 conference will be held at the Northwestern University Law School in Chicago. Contact the T/MC to help organize the conference, be a workshop presenter, or be a sponsor or advertiser. Learn more about the eConference overlay.

Jimmy Biggs Memorial Cabrini Connections Golf Benefit
While the Golf Benefit recognizes volunteers and raise money for Cabrini Connections and the Tutor/Mentor Connection, it also helps raise visibility for all tutor/mentor programs and their needs. Visit the new Golf Benefit Web site and see how you can get involved!

Aug. 1 - Sept. 30 - Chicagoland Volunteer Recruitment Campaign
The Campaign peaks the first week after Labor Day with recruitment fairs at multiple sites throughout the region. During this time individual organizations are also leading their own program-centered campaigns.

Aug , 2008 - My Hero Awards and Volunteer Recognition Luncheon, sponsored by Abraham Lincoln Marovitz Lend-a- Hand Program of The Chicago Bar Association.
Nominate a volunteer for a MY HERO award. Nominations due July 15. Learn how one professional association works with the T/MC to mobilize volunteers, build public awareness, and raise operating dollars for one-on-one tutor/mentor programs in Chicago. Visit http://www.lend-a-hand.net

November 2008 - Tutor/Mentor Leadership Conference
The 2007 onference was held Olympia Fields Country Club in Olympia Fields, Illinois (a Southeast Suburb of Chicago). Can your company or university host the 2008 November conference?

Volunteer recruitment continues throughout the year. However after September our efforts focus on volunteer training, retention and converting some volunteers into leaders. Visit www.tutormentorconference.bigstep.com to read about Monthly Learning opportunities.

Read the Cabrini Connections and Tutor/Mentor Connection 2005-2006 Annual Report and Meet our Leaders (pdf)

As local communities and individual programs learn to "PULL" attention, volunteers, partners and dollars to themselves during periods when national organizations are creating public awareness, more programs will generate a flow of these critical resources into their own agencies and neighborhoods.