[YL] Tutor/Mentor News Update: News to Use

[Dan Bassill]

Join with other tutoring and/or mentoring leaders in on-line forums. Learn
to learn and network in on-line communities.  The ideas you use to improve
your organization could come from the other side of the world!

Below is a schedule of learning events, mostly on the Internet, that I
encourage you to participate in.
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Today and Tomorrow:  Using Social Networking Applications in the Nonprofit
Community
TechSoup, is hosting a a free, two-day online event at:
http://www.techsoup.org/socialnetwork
This event will be an asynchronous discussion that will occur in the
TechSoup.org forums. It will be hosted by Chris Law, co-founder of
Tribe.net, Neal Gorenflo, Director of Business Development of
Care2Connect.com, Alex Mouldovan, founder of CrowdFactory.com and John
Lorance, Associate Director of CompuMentor¹s TechCommons program, and will
feature representatives from LinkedIn.com, Gather.com, and others.

The Tutor/Mentor Connection is an example of a social network and the
Tutor/Mentor Leadership Conference and on-line forums are part of our
efforts to draw people together and to encourage idea sharing and
collaboration. By participating in the Tech Soup forum I hope everyone
learns more reasons for participating in the other tutor/mentor forums
schedule in May and June.
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What boards and funders can do to help nonprofit leaders, CAN TV (Channel
21) on Saturday, April 22, at 9 p.m
The Donors Forum held a program on March 22 to discuss a recent CompassPoint
report on nonprofit leadership issues. If you missed the program, tune in to
CAN TV (Channel 21) on Saturday, April 22, at 9 p.m. More than 400 local
nonprofit leaders attended the event to discuss issues of succession
planning, executive burnout, and what boards and funders can do to help
nonprofit leaders.

Read the complete CompassPoint report, Daring to Lead 2006: A National Study
of Nonprofit Executive Leadership
<http://www.informz.net/z/cjUucD9taT0yNTY3NDQmcD0xJnU9NzcyNjE1MjMmbGk9NjM1ND
c5/index.html> . 

One of the workshops during the May 17 eConference hosted by IUPUI will be a
panel of tutor/mentor leaders who attended the March 22 Donors Forum
meeting. They will talk of how this information impact their own
organization and what we as a community of organizations might do to
increase the flow of resources to all volunteer-based tutoring and/or
mentoring programs as part of a strategy to keep programs connected to youth
for more than a few months or years.  If you lead a non profit and would
like to be part of this panel, email Dan Bassill at
tutormentor2 at earthlink.net. You don't need to be from Chicago.
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Below are on-line forums scheduled at various locations in May 2006.  We are
still adding to this list so if you'd like to participate, email
tutormentor2 at earthlink.net

May 1-5 at http://msg.uc.iupui.edu/TMC/html/index.php
Low Budget Doesn¹t Mean Low Quality Mentoring² , hosted by Jim Smith,
Program Administrator at Big Brothers Big Sisters of Berks County, PA.

May 1-5 at the Social Edge forum, http://www.socialedge.org
Creating Networks Of Purpose, hosted by Dan Bassill, President of the
Tutor/Mentor Connection
Can social networks also become resource networks for members? Can the
traditional two-part exchange of goods and services for dollars be expanded
to a three part network for social good?

May 8-12 at http://www.mentoring.org/community
Mentor Recruitment: Strategies to Increase the Effectiveness of Recruitment
Campaigns, Hosted by MENTOR, from
This forum will discuss best practices, resources and strategies. Topics to
be discussed include: developing targeted recruitment messages, recruiting
male mentors and corporate volunteers and collaborating with business and
government leaders. For more information on this free event and the online
community, visit MENTOR's Community Forum at www.mentoring.org/community or
the Discussion Forum at
http://msg.uc.iupui.edu/TMC/html/index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=viewtopic&t=49


May 17, hosted at http://econference.uc.iupui.edu/
Sharing Solutions in Mentoring Youth to Careers - a one day conference
hosted by University College at IUPUI and the Tutor/Mentor Connection.
Take a break from global problems that you can't control and take this
opportunity to actively participate in resolving issues that you can. The
University College & Tutor/Mentor E-Conference provides to you an
entry-point for this vision. You are invited to join.  Workshop speakers and
schedule is still forming. If you'd like to participate email
tutormentor2 at earthlink.net or email Nathan Harris at IUPUI Nathan Harris
<natharri at iupui.edu>

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May 25 and 26th Tutor/Mentor Leadership and Networking Conference,  to be
held at the Northwestern University Law School in Chicago.  Register Now.
Help Spread the Word!
While the on-line events help you expand your network and your knowledge,
the face to face conference enables you to meet with people who you've first
met on-line.  Visit http://www.tutormentorconference.bigstep.com to review
the latest update on speakers and workshops. Registrations are coming in,
but I encourage everyone to help us build participation by forwarding this
information to your own network.   Group rates, half day registration and
scholarships are available.  Email tutormentor2 at earthlink.net or call
312-492-9614 for information.

Sponsors needed to help support May and November conference.  Please forward
this address to anyone in your network who might be willing to become a
donor to support the May and November conferences. This is what enables us
to keep fees low and offer scholarships.  It also will enable us to confirm
a date and location for future conferences with more lead time for planning.

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