Tutor/Mentor NEWS: Volunteer Recognition and Conference Report

Tue May 25 18:25:08 EDT 2004

Tutor/Mentor Connection NEWS
Linking ideas, programs and people to help inner city kids.  A Program of 
Cabrini Connections.

May 24 , 2004

T/MC REPORT ON-LINE, Issue #19

In This Issue: 
Tutor/Mentor Leadership Conference Report
Help Salute Chicago's Heroes - June 3, 2004 Event
On-Line Volunteer and Donor Resources
Editorial -Are You Ready for 2004-5?

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<p>On May 17 and 18, 2004 nearly 200 other tutor/mentor leaders gathered in 
Chicago for workshops intended to build the capacity and quality of 
volunteer-based tutor/mentor programs. Participants at the Chicago event 
came from Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, Indiana, Kentucky, Texas, 
Arkansas, Florida, California, Nebraska and New York.  At the same time, 
more than 50 people from around the world participated in workshops and 
on-line networking during the first Tutor/Mentor Leadership eConference 
overlay. Many of these workshops were recorded and can be found in the 
archives of the eConference  at http://www.tutormentorexchange.net/Partner/CC/Conference/May2004/agenda.htm

The Tutor/Mentor Connection thanks all of those who volunteered time to do 
workshops or to share their time by attending the conference, as well as 
those who donated money to help keep conference fees low.  Visit http://www.tutormentorconference.bigstep.com to learn more about the May Conference and to become part of the next 
conference, which will be held in November 2004.

Help Salute Chicago's Heroes.  Thursday, June 3, 12:00pm, at The Chicago 
Bar Association, 321 S. Plymouth Court, Chicago, Il.  For information, or 
tickets, call Karina Ay ala-Bermejo at 312-554-2041. The Abraham Lincoln 
Marovitz Lend-A-Hand Program invites you to help celebrate heroes from the 
legal community who are making a difference in the lives of children every 
day.  Awards will be given to individuals and organizations at this first 
annual event. Money raised is awarded as grants to one-on-one tutor/mentor 
programs serving the Chicago area.

The award recipients are as follows:

Making a Difference Award
Gary S. Caplan, College Bound
Daniel Cotter, The Abraham Lincoln Marovitz Lend-A-Hand Program
Rose A. Wehner, Family Matters

My Hero Award
Jeff & Debbie Winton

Mentor of the Year
Janna Bounds

Tutor/Mentor Program of the Year Award
Jenner & Block
Young Women's Leadership Charter School & Fairfield Academy (Anton 
Valukas)

Finalists:
Tutor/Mentor Program of the Year Award Finalists:
Sidley Austin Brown & Wood (John Levi, Kannon School);
Juvenile Court Adopt A School Program (Judge Carol Kelly, Grant School);
Courthouse Girl Scout Troop (Judge Paddy McNamara)
My Hero Award Finalists:
Dorothy Brown, Clerk of the CircuitCourt
Elizabeth "Libby" Moore, Chief of Staff to Oprah Winfrey

Visit http://www.tutormentorexchange.net to find a PDF copy of the invitation for this event or to learn how a 
program like this might be duplicated in your community, or by your 
professional or social organization. 

<p>Volunteer and Donor On-line Resources
These are web sites where you can learn about places where you can 
volunteer, or where you can make a financial contribution to support 
effective volunteerism and community service.

State of Illinois - Volunteerism & Community Service
http://www.illinois.gov/volunteer/
Chicago's Community Resource Network http://www.chicagovolunteer.net
http://www.ServeNet.org
http://www.volunteermatch.org
http://www.NetworkforGood.org

<p>Editorial:   Are you ready?

While we've not yet ended this school year, we're only 12-13 weeks from 
the start of the 2004-05 school year.

Without a strong public awareness and volunteer recruitment effort, many 
children and youth will be starting classes next fall without any hope for 
a tutor or mentor in their life.  Thus, our focus now turns to the 
Aug/Sept. Chicagoland Tutor/Mentor Volunteer Recruitment Campaign. The 
T/MC is working without a campaign coordinator this year because the 
foundation that had provided $26,000 to fund the campaign for the past 
four years was not able to continue its funding.  No one else has stepped 
forward to take their place, so we're moving forward with the help of 
volunteers.  If you or your organization, or company would like to take a 
role in the Chicago campaign, or would like ideas for launching a similar 
campaign in your own community, we'd like to help you become a leader in 
this effort.   As that happens the August/September Recruitment Campaign 
will be a campaign with many leaders drawing the media spotlight to 
tutoring/mentoring.

Visit the Program Locator section at http://www.tutormentorexchange.net to learn where tutor/mentor programs are needed, and to contact 
individual tutoring and/or mentoring organizations serving specific parts 
of Chicago and its suburbs.  If you operate a program in this area, but 
are not listed, email tutormentor2 at earthlink.net

While recruiting volunteers and building stronger programs is the goal of 
the Tutor/Mentor Connection, none of us will be as successful as we need 
unless we improve the flow of dollars to tutor/mentor programs in all 
parts of big cities like Chicago. That's why the work of the Abraham 
Lincoln Marovitz Lend-A-Hand Program at the Chicago Bar 
Association/Foundation is so important. It models what any business or 
professional association could do to mobilize its members to be 
volunteers, leaders and donors in one-on-one tutor/mentor programs 
throughout a city.  Visit http://www.lend-a-hand.net to learn more. 

If you'd like to be part of the Chicagoland Volunteer Recruitment planning 
effort, I encourage you to subscribe to this on-line group at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/volunteer_recruitment/

If you'd like to take a role in planning the next Conference and 
eConference, I encourage you to subscribe to the Leadership Conference 
Group at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/leadership_conference/

If you have ideas you'd like to discuss, or want to duplicate the T/MC 
process in another city, please email me at tutormentor2 at earthlink.net, or 
call 312-492-9614. 
----Dr. Daniel F. Bassill, President, CEO of Cabrini Connections and the 
Tutor/Mentor Connection

Please forward this e-newsletter to all friends, family, colleagues and 
business partners who want to help youth born in poverty get the adult 
support they need to be entering jobs and careers by age 25.
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