Does your volunteer-support strategy combine service with learning? Does it intend to convert tutors and mentors into leaders and capacity builders. This video is a recording of a flash animation created by University of Michigan Grad student to explain sthis concept. Play the flash animation at this link:  http://www.tutormentorexchange.net/images/flash/vol_leadership.swf 

Volunteers Can Use Talent and Time to Help Inner-City Youth. Can  you help?

The Tutor/Mentor Institute is looking for volunteers to help collect and maintain the information in the Program Locator Directory of Chicago tutoring/mentoring programs, and to help build and maintain web platforms that others can use to find different places throughout the Chicago region where they can help.  Help is also needed to organize the November and May Tutor/Mentor Leadership and Networking Conferences.  Visit the Groups section of the Tutor/Mentor Forum and join a group that interests you. 

Volunteer Recruitment Workshop PDF from August 11 ICOVA conference in Chicago.

 More attention. More volunteers! More donors!

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

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 kicks off in early August and runs through September.

Tutor/Mentor Programs Need Your Help

There is no more critical an issue in America today than the education of our kids. The gap between rich and poor is growing because of the huge differences in educational opportunities available to kids in the inner cities and those in more affluent areas.
The real work and responsibility of helping these children must be shared by every business, institution, and individual in Chicago and the suburbs. We all need to continually ask “What can I do to help make a brighter future a reality for our children?”