2022 note: Due to Covid19 many of these annual conferences have been moved on-line or delayed for a year. Visit the websites to find most recent information.
ILLINOIS AFTER SCHOOL NETWORK SPRING CONFERENCE – CHICAGO & VIRTUAL http://www.ianetwork.org/?id=29 From the web site: "The Illinois AfterSchool Network provides support to the afterschool and youth development field through professional development, leadership and networking opportunities. An annual conference is held in the Chicago region.” Pull down the “professional development” tab to see details of the annual conference and other training opportunities.
BEYOND SCHOOL HOURS CONFERENCE https://foundationsinc.org/beyond-school-hours-conference/ Beyond School Hours Conference- Hosted by Foundations, Inc., this annual conference helps experts and practitioners identify non-school hour program needs and devise action steps to make them happen.
COLLEGE CHANGES EVERYTHING CONFERENCE - https://www.collegechangeseverything.org/events/2024-cce-conference-information.html From the website: "College Changes Everything is a College Access Movement initiated by the Illinois Student Assistance Commission. We want to tall a story, your story on how college or higher education has or will change your life."
EDUCON IS A CONFERENCE AND A CONVERSATION http://2019.educon.org/ From the web site; "Educon is an innovation conference where we can come together, both in person and virtually, to discuss the future of schools. Every session will be an opportunity to discuss and debate ideas - from the very practical to the big dreams."
ILLINOIS CONFERENCE ON VOLUNTEER ADMINISTRATION http://www.icova.info/conference-information.html Conference on Volunteer Administration offers valuable training and networking opportunities for all programs that engage volunteers in their work.
NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON VOLUNTEERING AND SERVICE https://www.pointsoflight.org/points-of-light-conference/ This annual national Points of Light conference brings together leaders of business, philanthropy, government and volunteer programs. Hosted by the Points of Light Foundation and the Corporation for National and Community Service.
NATIONAL MENTORING SUMMIT https://www.mentoring.org/national-mentoring-summit/ Every January MENTOR hosts a gathering of mentoring leaders in Washington, DC.
SKOLL WORLD FORUM ON SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP https://skoll.org/skoll-world-forum/ From the website: "The Skoll World Forum seeks to accelerate entrepreneurial solutions to the world’s most pressing problems by uniting social entrepreneurs with essential partners in a collaborative pursuit of learning, leverage, and large-scale social change. Forum delegates represent more than 80 countries and participate in a range of interactive events to openly share, collaborate, innovate, and, ultimately, advance social entrepreneurship."
THE FORUM FOR YOUTH INVESTMENT EVENTS AND WEBINARS- Read by 21 National Meeting https://forumfyi.org/nationalconference/agenda/ From the website: “We connect leaders to ideas, services and networks that can help them make more intentional decisions that are good for young people, even in the face of limited resources. Before Covid19 an annual conference was held. Watch the site for announcements of future events. Visit the FYI website at https://forumfyi.org/
TUTOR/MENTOR CONNECTION ELEARNING AND NETWORKING http://www.tutormentorexchange.net/conferences-and-online-forums/88-e-learning-goals The Tutor/Mentor Connection and the Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC are two parts of the same organization. The goals are the same. Only the tax structure is different. Both seek to bring together all who are organizing conferences and sharing information intended to help build more effective volunteer-based tutoring/mentoring and education-to-careers programs serving inner city youth and youth living in high poverty areas. This link points to a set of learning and collaboration goals. This link (http://www.tutormentorconference.org) points to the Tutor/Mentor Leadership and Networking Conference, which was hosted in Chicago every six months from May 1994 to May 2015 by the T/MC and T/MI.
UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO MENTORING INSTITUTE & CONFERENCE https://mentor.unm.edu/ The Mentoring Institute at the University of New Mexico provides a variety of services to area mentoring programs, in order to build them up and enhance the culture of mentoring through the university, and the state it serves. Visit the web site to learn about their annual conference.
WORLD CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION WEEK https://wciw.org/ From the website: "World Creativity and Innovation Week is a worldwide community dedicated to celebrating all forms of creativity." This event is one that youth and volunteers in schools and non-school tutor/mentor programs might join in.
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