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 When the Tutor/Mentor Connection was created in 1993 one of our goals was to "collect all that is known" about tutoring/mentoring and education-to-careers in a "library" of knowledge that anyone can draw from at any time to help kids from a poverty neighborhood get the adult support they need to move to careers. As the Internet became available, this process began to collect ideas from all over the world.This "mentoring kids to careers" graphic illustrates the career focused goal of the T/MC. This knowledge map, illustrates the different types of information being collected. This Debategraph outline is another way of trying to engage people from many places in this discussion. These are intended to serve as a "blueprint" which anyone can draw from, or contribute to. While we will never map all of the knowledge, the ideas we do collect may reach a tipping point where the broader range of ideas leads to more comprehensive solutions applied in more places around the world to help kids move out of poverty and into jobs and careers. In 2011 the Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC was created to support the continued operations of the Tutor/Mentor Connection in Chicago and to help similar intermediary groups form in other cities. Throughout our web sites you'll see the names Tutor/Mentor Connection and Tutor/Mentor Institute used interchangeably. They both focus on the same mission but represent a non profit and a for-profit structure for generating resources. Read more about the T/MC goals in the Vision and Mission sections |
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 The book titled, The Starfish and the Spider, illustrates the T/MC role as a catalyst in building a decentralized network of leaders who support volunteer-based tutor/mentor programs.
Role of Catalyst in Building Network. In a book the role of a catalyst who inspires the growth of a decentralized network of people focused on a common goal is described. This is a role Cabrini Connections, and the Tutor/Mentor Connection (T/MC) have taken since 1993. The chart below illustrates how volunteers and leaders reaching into their own networks on a regular basis, can draw volunteers, donors, partners, etc. to information hubs like the http://www.tutormentorconnection.org web site, then on to various neighborhoods in Chicago, or any other city, where they become volunteers, donors, leaders, etc. at existing programs, or where they help form new programs to fill voids. In a single program, where each volunteer works one-on-one with a student, and all students are different, this same concept applies. The volunteer is accessing all of the resources of the program, and fellow volunteers, to find ways to help the youth take charge of his/her own future. |
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 The Tutor/Mentor Connection seeks to connect non profits, businesses, media and other stakeholders in a virtual network that supports the growth of comprehensive, volunteer-based tutor/mentor programs in cities all over the country.
View this animated presentation that illustrates the steps needed to help more kids stay in school, stay safe in non-school hours, and be better prepared for jobs and careers. NEW 2011 Can you help us build this village of support for kids living in high poverty neighborhoods? Click here to see an animated view of this village concept.
These articles illustrate Tutor/Mentor Connection ideas:
- Creating a Network of Purpose – The Tutor/Mentor Connection
- Role of Tutor/Mentor Connection, and Intermediaries, in a Community Building Strategy
- Role of talent volunteer (pro bono, other) in building network of programs (added 1/7/2010)
- Tutoring/Mentoring as a form of Service-Learning
- Growing the Tutor/Mentor Learning Network
- Collaboration Goals
- Tutor/Mentor Leadership e-Conference – Introduction and Overview
- Tutor/Mentor Connection Quarterly Events. Creating year round visibility. Flash (added 2/2010)
- Role of many leaders - version 1 (flash) (added 2/2010)
- Role of many leaders, version 2 (flash). (added 2/2010)
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 Within the Tutor/Mentor Connection web site there are more than 1400 links. Each of these has links to many other sites. This is a worldwide network of people and organizations with common interests. The T/MC uses its May and November Chicago Conferences, and a variety of on-line forums, to build connections between these different groups, and to create public awareness that draws more viewers to each web site, and draws volunteers and donors to youth serving organizations in Chicago and in other cities.
Visit Conferences and Forums to learn more.
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See animated explanation of this event strategy. This calendar of events has been developed over the past 18 years as part of an effort to bring more attention and resources to volunteer-based tutor/mentor programs operating in Chicago and other cities. Due to a June 2011 change in organizational structure the Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC was created to keep this calendar of events in place. We are still looking for partners/sponsors. Read more. Annual Calendar of Events supporting tutor/mentor program growth in Chicago Email
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for more information. January 2012 - National Mentoring Month. 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.
January 30, 2012 - Mentoring Panel Discussion, 7pm-8:30
First Unitarian Church, Hyde Park, IL. See details (pdf)
May/June 2012 - Tutor/Mentor Leadership and Networking Conference in Chicago area. This conference has been hosted every six months since May 1994, but is not yet scheduled for 2012 due to a lack of sponsors. Learn more at http://www.tutormentorconnection.org View conference attendee list. To discuss your involvement, email
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June/July 2012 - Chicago Programs update your contact information and tutor/mentor survey in the Chicago Tutor/Mentor Program Locator Database. Contact Tutor/Mentor Institute to add or update information on the map/database.
Chicagoland Tutor/Mentor Volunteer Recruitment Campaign. Help recruit mobilize volunteers for Chicago area tutor/mentor programs in the 2011-12 and future school years. Use your communications tools to point volunteers and donors to web sites of tutor/mentor programs throughout Chicago or in the city where you live. View this PDF essay to learn more.
Fall Tutor/Mentor Leadership and Networking Conference in Chicago. This conference has been hosted every six months since May 1994, but is not yet scheduled for 2012 due to a lack of sponsors. Learn more at http://www.tutormentorconnection.org View conference attendee list. To discuss your involvement, email
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Collaboration and Capacity Building
