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The Tutor/Mentor Connection idea originated between 1975 and 1990 as Dan Bassill led the Montgomery-Ward Cabrini Green Tutoring Program in Chicago. During those years he also held full time advertising management roles with the Montgomery Ward Company. In 1993 Dan and six other volunteers created Cabrini Connections, a tutor/mentor program serving 7th to 12th grade inner city teens. At the same time they decided to try to fill a leadership void, and created the Tutor/Mentor Connection to help volunteer-based tutor/mentor programs throughout the city get the resources needed to grow. Over the past 18 years (1993-2011) The Tutor/Mentor Connection (T/MC) has become a knowledge-based intermediary that seeks to help volunteer-based programs like Cabrini Connections be operating in every high poverty neighborhood of Chicago and similar large metropolitan areas. This organization has history dating back to 1965 when employees of the Montgomery Ward corporate headquarters in Chicago began tutoring 2nd to 6th grade youth from the Cabrini-Green public housing project. Bassill became a volunteer tutor in 1973 and the leader of that program in 1975. See what a small group of people with a big vision can accomplish. The 1993-2011 work of Cabrini Connections and Tutor/Mentor Connection was accomplished with many donations of time and talent.
These timelines show the growth of tutoring/mentoring and Cabrini Connections since a small program was started by employees of the Montgomery Ward Corporation in 1965. This timeline shows growth of Cabrini Connections and T/MC since 1992. The strategy of the T/MC is blueprinted in this Strategy Concept Map. This article, written in 1997 by one of the founders of CC, T/MC, shows how this all began. These pdfs show some of the people involved from 1993-2003 Dan Bassill, the founder of Cabrini Connections, Tutor/Mentor Connection, and President/CEO since 1993, left the Cabrini Connections organization in July 2011 and created the Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC as a new structure to support the growth of the Tutor/Mentor Connection in Chicago and to help similar intermediary organizations grow in other cities. Dan is available to share the ideas presented in this web site via workshops or one-on-one consulting. This fee structure is a suggested range of fees for such idea-sharing. If you would like to offer help please email tutormentor2 at earthlink dot net. Mailing address: Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC, Merchandise Mart, PO Box 3303, Chicago, Il 60654 Email:
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