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 Our challenge: Connecting busy people from multiple sectors.
Changing flow of resources.
* Join forum at Tutor/Mentor Connection Ning site
* Join discussion at Debategraph site hosted in UK
* Join on Social Media sites.
Using maps, charts, on-line learning and networking and other forms of face-to-face and web based communications, the T/MC aim is to focus daily attention on issues of poverty and strategies that connect those who can help with those who need help. We hope to educate volunteers and donors to be shoppers, who search the Chicago Tutor/Mentor Program Locator to find places where they give time, talent and dollars to help expand the network of support for inner city kids attending poorly performing schools.
By showing what's possible, we hope to move corporations, foundations, media and organizations that already operate youth development, tutoring and/or mentoring programs beyond what they are doing to what they can be doing. |
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Tutor/Mentor Leadership and Networking Conference held in Chicago since May 1994. Next Conference June 7 at Metcalfe Federal Building in Chicago.
Every six months since May 1994 a conference has been hosted in Chicago with a goal of bringing people together to share ideas and expand resources available to volunteer based tutor/Mentor programs in every high poverty neighborhood of the Chicago region. Since 1998 this strategy has been shared with people in cities all over the world via the Internet and a variety of T/MC hosted web sites. Maps like the one at the left show conference participation and demonstrate our ability to bring people together. See more on the conference strategy here and conference maps here.
This strategy recognizes that no organization can attend every conference that is offered. Few people will ever attend the T/MC conference. Thus, our goal is that before and after the May and November Conferences people connect through the Internet.
There are a growing number of ways to connect. Facebook, Linked in, Twitter, and on-line groups like http://tutormentorconnection.ning.com are now available. In the past few years MOOCs, or 'massive open on-line courses" have grown in popularity and scope. Read more about MOOCs.
Blogs can be stand alone web pages, or part of on-line communities. The Tutor/Mentor Connection blog is http://tutormentor.blogspot.com. On this page you can see blog articles written by interns working with us in Chicago.
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Conferences and OnLine Forums
Register now for June 7 Tutor/Mentor Leadership and Networking Conference in Chicago.