Tutor/Mentor Leadership Conference, May 2004

Tue Apr 20 16:13:53 EDT 2004

Tutor/Mentor Leadership Conference
May 17 and 18, 2004
Linking ideas, programs and people to help inner city kids.  A Program of 
Cabrini Connections.

April 19, 2004

CONFERENCE NEWS UPDATE

National Volunteer Week, April 18- 24, 2004.  Thank you to everyone who 
volunteers time with the Tutor/Mentor Connection.  Learn how you can 
recognize your volunteers. Visit http://www.pointsoflight.org/nvw/nvw.cfm

Good Volunteer-Based Tutor/Mentor Programs are not FREE.  Come to the 
Tutor/Mentor Leadership Conference in Chicago and network with peers to 
develop strategies that increase the flow of dollars, volunteers and 
leaders to your program.  The Workshop Schedule for the May 17 and 18 
Tutor/Mentor Leadership Conference at Richard J. Daley College in Chicago 
is now posted at http://www.tutormentorconference.bigstep.com

Below are speakers who have volunteered time to help share information in 
this conference. We thank them and encourage you to register for the 
conference and join them.  The early registration ends May 1, 2004

Janet Takehara, Program Manager, Pathways to Development, a program of 
Youth Campus. 
Marcus Spencer, Mentoring Network for Juvenile Court Wards, Circuit Court 
of Cook County, Juvenile Justice Department
Brian Schultz, who teaches fifth grade at Richard E. Byrd Community 
Academy in the Cabrini Green area of Chicago. Brian is also a Director at 
Cabrini Green Tutoring Program, Inc..
Rebekah Levin, Ph.D, Executive Director, and Lise McKean, Ph.D, Deputy 
Director, Center for Impact Research (CIR)  http://www.impactresearch.org
Paul Collins, http://jordan-webb.net
Ed Mulvaney, Mayor of Rock Falls, and member of Big Brothers Big Sisters 
of the Sauk Valley
Mary Mahan-Deatherage, Director of Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Sauk 
Valley.
Gary Goldman, President, International Quality Leadership Institute  http://www.iqli.com
Rob Chambers and Mary Scruggs, The Second City Training Center  http://www.secondcity.com
Jan Fitzsimmons, program administrator for the North Central College 
Junior/Senior Scholars Program,
Eliza Duenow, Director of Education, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago.
Romeldia Salter, City Year Chicago
Emmy Bright, School Partnership Program Manager, Office of Community Arts 
Partnerships, Columbia College of Chicago http://www.colum.edu/ocap
Latesha Dickerson, Middle School teacher of Math & Science for ACT Charter 
School.
Avital Rabin, Coordinator for the Jane Addams Hull House North Side Family 
Literacy Program
Gary Kosman, Founder and President, America Learns  http://www.americalearns.net
Charles Brooks, South Suburban Toastmasters Club #5534 and Chicago 
District 30 Governor 2003-2004 http://www.toastofchicago.org
Bill Conrad, Institute for Voluntary Organizations.  http://www.ifvo.org
Renee Tucker, Associated Colleges of Illinois
City Year of Chicago and the Center for School Improvement
Beth Swanson, Chicago Public Schools, http://www.cpsafterschool.org/home.html
Annette Kelly, President of FOUS Consulting Service, Evergreen Park, 
Illinois
Sue Snyder Ross, President, Strategic Development Consulting
Christine Wilczura, President of Crossector Solutions, LLC
Sandra Beauford, Toastmasters Club of Chicago, http://www.toastofchicago.org
Dr. Steve, Roussos,=A0Akouo, Inc. http://www.akouo.org
Dr. Sridhar V. Iyler, CEO, Socratic Learning  http://www.socraticlearning.com
Stanley Cole and Tom Bransford, Milwaukee Violence Free Zone
Cindy Yang, , Vice President, Associated Colleges of Illinois  http://www.acifund.org
Dr. Edward Gordan, President, Imperial Consulting Corporation  http://www.imperialcorp.com
Deborah Baker, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metropolitan Chicago http://www.bbbschgo.org
Rev. Lorraine Bogan and the Over-Commers, The SAFE Program, Chicago, Il.
Karina Ayala, Executive Director, Lend-A-Hand Program, http://www.lend-a-hand.net
Dr. Daniel F. Bassill, President, Tutor/Mentor Connection  http://www.tutormentorconnection.org
Tom Brainsford, Milwaukee Violence-Free Zone
Stanley Cole, Milwaukee Violence-Free Zone
Alison Redman, Long Beach BLAST.  http://www.lbblast.org/

If you cannot come to Chicago, participate in the Leadership eConference 
Overlay, May 14 and 19
Thanks to help provided by the Digital Workforce Education Society, based 
at the City Colleges of Chicago, as well as from the IT Department at 
IndianaUniversityPurdueUniversity, the T/MC will offer an Internet overlay 
to the May conference.  This will enable speakers and tutor/mentor 
stakeholders to participate in the Tutor/Mentor Leadership Conference, 
even though they will not travel to Chicago.  We hope that the eConference 
Overlay will increase value for those who attend the Chicago conference 
AND ALSO REGISTER FOR THE ECONFERENCE and will draw others from remote 
locations to the conference and the networking of tutor/mentor leaders.

Confirmed eConference speakers include:
Keith Topping, Professor of Educational & Social Research, University of 
Dundee, Scotland, UK
Dr. Sridhar V. Iyler, CEO, Socratic Learning http://www.socraticlearning.com
Andrew Pincon, Digital Workforce Education Society, City Colleges of 
Chicago, http://www.alado.net
Masami Kikuchi (Japan)  http://www.onlineworkshop.net

<p>TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE, and the eCONFERENCE, OR TO 
REGISTER, GO TO http://www.tutormentorconference.bigstep.com

ADDITIONAL TUTOR/MENTOR CONNECTION RESOURCES

Have you checked it out yet?  Chicago Area Tutor/Mentor Program Locator 
Have you checked to see if your Chicago Area Tutor/Mentor Program is 
Listed in the T/MC Program LOCATOR? http://www.tutormentorexchange.net/Partner/CC/Program_Locator  If you're not listed, or if you want to update your information, email 
tutormentor2 at earthlink.net and we'll fax you a form that you need to fill 
out.

Have you checked it out yet?  Tutor/Mentor On-Line Program Survey
The T/MC has been hosting a Tutor/Mentor Survey during past conferences 
and we now have nearly 180 T/MC Survey's on line. You can review the 
results and take the survey yourself at  http://www.jordan-webb.net/tmc/webiq/index.html

Chicago Lawyers Doing Good!
Dan Cotter, President of the Young Lawyers Section of the Chicago Bar 
Association is a big guy with a big heart.  On Saturday, May 8, 2004, Dan 
is competing in the 22nd Annual Viking Open.  The competition is a 
powerlifting meet, and the total weight lifted is computed by adding 
together the highest lift in each of the 3 lifts:  1) squat, 2) bench and 
3) deadlift.  For each of the three lifts, each lifter has 3 chances to 
successfully complete the exercise using the weight of his or her choice. 
The meet itself is not a fundraiser, but Dan decided to combine his bar 
involvement and hobby to create a somewhat unique fundraising idea.

It works like any other pledge - make a pledge by the pound (or a flat 
pledge amount); after the meet, Dan will report his total weight lifted in 
pounds and, if you pledge by the pound, will round the pledge amount to 
the nearest dollar and notify you of the amount due.  All money raised 
will be given to The Chicago Bar Foundation, a 501(c)(3) organization, and 
all checks should be made payable to the Chicago Bar Foundation.  The Bar 
Foundation will then direct the money to the Lend-A-Hand 
program.)www.lend-a-hand-net, which awards this money as grants to 
one-on-one tutor/mentor programs in Chicago.   If you are interested in 
making a pledge, email Dan at DCotter at unitrin.com

Heroes in the Legal and Corporate Community who Have Mentored Young People
The Chicago Bar Association's Lend-A-Hand Program (http://www.lend-a-hand.net) will hold its First Appreciation Luncheon at the Chicago Bar Association 
on June 3, 2004.  Chicago area programs are encouraged to nominate unsung 
heroes in the legal and corporate community who have mentored young 
people.

Karina Ayala, Executive Director of the LEND A HAND program will do a 
workshop to explain 2004 Grants, and the Lend-a-Hand Program at the 
Tutor/Mentor Leadership Conference, on Tuesday, May 18th.  Even if you're 
not from Chicago, you should attend to see how you can duplicate this 
program in your own city.

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The Tutor/Mentor Connection is a small non profit based in Chicago. Learn 
more about its goals at http://www.tutormentorconnection.org and http://www.tutormentorexchange.net.  We also operate a neighborhood tutor/mentor program, serving teens 
living in the Cabrini Green area of Chicago (http://www.cabriniconnections.net).  Every newsletter and email that we send is an invitation for those who 
receive the newsletter to join us in our work, support us and other 
tutor/mentor programs with contributions, or learn from what we do to 
build better tutor/mentor programs for kids living in poverty.  Please 
forward this to others who may be interested.

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