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1176512-28-2010Qiana Nuruddin, who is chairman of Young Nonprofits Professional Network-Houston, sent e-mail inviting T/MC to share ideas in podcast during Jan Mentoring Month. We talked on phone today.In here email Qiana wrote, "We connected in 2008 when I applied for a position for Cabrini Connections; and although I moved to Houston for a position your commitment to mentoring
and tutoring had a great impact on me." By contacting T/MC to invite us to share ideas she demonstrates how the network building and information sharing of the T/MC is working.		If we can help groups in Houston and other cities adopt T/MC ideas and strategies it will help more tutor/mentor programs grow in those cities and will provide examples that motivate leaders in Chicago and other cities to do the same to help programs grow here. It will also help expand the range of resources supporting the T/MC.
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1176412-10-2010Katie Anderson, a student at Dominican University, and a volunteer with the T/MC, send me a copy of a case study of the T/MC that she wrote for one of her classes. She plans to post it on the Ning site and submit it for a symposium at the university.This tells the story of the T/MC from another perspective, and hopefully will help build understanding and appreciation of what T/MC offers among those who read this. It illustrates the role that students at colleges can take to help T/MC achieve its mission.As more students take roles like Katie and others working with T/MC this will gain the attention of others at their universities and lead to formal engagements and partnerships that unleash tremendous resources to support the growth of tutor/mentor programs all over the country.
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1176112-09-2010Bernard McCune of Chicago Public Schools sent email saying " I would like to engage Tutor Mentor Organization in my mentoring initiatives in the southern suburbs. My wife is currently designing volunteer tutoring program for "Victory Apostolic Church of God" in Matteson and I'm incorporating my mentoring platform. I would like to discuss how we partner to take advantage of our combined resources. I copied Pastor Keith Williams of "Cornerstone Christian Fellowship Church" in Country Club Hills and Pastor Issac Green, Youth
Pastor at Victory Apostolic Church to begin the collaboration. Look forward
to hearing from you.		This is what we want to have happen as a result of the information we share and the networking we do.If we can help leaders in different parts of the region, and in business and faith groups form tutor/mentor programs where they are needed, they can help T/MC get the resources we need to provide this type of support to them.
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1176212-09-2010Met with Joseph Kreul, a graduate student at the Adler School of Professional Psychology, who will intern with T/MC for 10 hours a week from Jan 2010 through June 2010. Reviewed goals and objectives of internship and hopes for building strategic partnership with university.This shows how interns and volunteers are providing the manpower that helps T/MC do what it does, and how T/MC sees these students as bridges who connect others at the university with T/MC ideas and strategies.Our goal is that universities adopt T/MC as their own birth to college then work strategy and unleash a growing range of resources toward the goals of the T/MC. The immediate goal is that T/MC will have manpower to tell its story, raise money and operate in 2011.
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1176312-09-2010Karen Reardon, a doctoral candidate in sociology at the University of Michigan, and co-founder of the Highsight program in Chicago, sent T/MC a draft of a grant she is writing that seeks to fund research she will do to "understand how it is that non profits like Highsight and Cabrini Connections are becoming established and how public and private leaders might help sustain them. My objective is to use findings from the study to understand when, how and why persons are inspired to devote time and financial resources to create an organization" She is proposing that the Tutor/Mentor Connection be her partner in this research.This supports T/MC goals in many ways. It leads to formal research that can help tutor/mentor programs grow, and can s how value of intermediary like T/MC. It also builds connections with universities and the research community, who T/MC seeks to engage in many future projects.If this research is funded it will create important understanding of how tutor/mentor programs are formed, and ways they need to be supported. It can lead to better understanding of T/MC and thus funding for its role.
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1176012-08-2010series of blogposts clarifying different options for funding for informal and formal community projects, ideas, organisations in Surrey, UK

Differences between charitable organisations with registered numbers, social enterprises which can also be charitable organisations, community interest companies which can also trade. Mutual societies may also be any or supporting any of the above.		Difference between applying for grants / funding for fixed periods and projects and looking for more sustainable funding approaches possibly through transition towns or building relationships with local enterprises and local economic partnerships, foundations and local governmentBlog posts written and summarised. Comments have been received which have connected to a Transition project which is more advanced and connected to Surrey Economic Partnership which needs exploring further and also clarification on community interest company options which also need further exploration.
aware of current bid deadlines and meetings / conversations carrying on this week.
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1175812-06-2010Champaign-Urbana One-to-One Mentoring Program (C-U One to One - http://www.cu1to1.org/), based at the University of Illinois, published a document about mentoring, which features the Tutor/Mentor Connection and Cabrini Connections. http://union.illinois.edu/ovp/documents/MENTORING%20issue%20sheet.pdf .This shows how others are educating the community about mentoring and using the T/MC as a reference and resource.As more people do this the traffic on the T/MC site will increase leading more people to use it to build their own mentoring strategies, and some people will use it to give support and partner with the T/MC.
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1175912-06-2010Angie Hocking, from Yonge Street Mission in Toronto, CA emailed to say, "We had touched base a few months back
(see emails below) and I wanted to give you a bit of an update. Over the last few months, I have put together the 'Toronto Mentoring Network'. This group has been created to connect people working with mentoring groups in Toronto to be able to learn from one another and share resources. Maybe we can find a way to connect our group with yours in the future? Also, I am interested in presenting a workshop in the May 2011 conference. "		This illustrates how others are creating mentoring networks, borrowing from our ideas and how they see the conferences as a valuable place for networking. Angie wrote, "I have a few different subjects I could cover and believe I have something to offer from my specific experience working with developing mentoring initiatives in my organization for the past 3 1/2 years. "With help from Angie and others we hope to find donors who will help T/MC continue to offer the conferences. This will result in others building mentoring networks to support local programs and perhaps cross-city collaborations that generate funding for more programs in more places.
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1175711-19-2010Tutor/Mentor Leadership and Networking Conference was held on Nov. 19 at U.S. Celluar Field. 101 people attended including guests from Indianapolis and East St. Louis. This was a one-day conference due to lack of funding needed to secure a location and to do marketing.This was the 34th time since May 1994 that T/MC has hosted a conference to bring people together for networking and idea sharing and to raise visibility for tutor/mentor programs in Chicago and other cities.Some of the people who participated will continue to network with each other and put the ideas shared to use in their programs. Some may work with T/MC to help support its collaboration efforts.
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1175510-26-2010I have been invited to be on an Advisory Board for EPIC, which is a network of creative professionals who support non profit organizations with their talent. http://iamepic.org/ I was introduced by Tim Hogan, a former CC volunteer who has been helping with the Tutor/Mentor Connection. Today Tim and I talked with Katie Kowaloff about ways EPIC might take a role in the Nov. 19 Tutor/Mentor Conference.This is an example of how our volunteers connect us to their own business networks and how those networks might take ownership of T/MC ideas and strategies.If a group like EPIC begins to take on T/MC roles, they can unleash creative talent in many companies, that will build greater 2011 and 2012 visibility and draw more volunteers and donors to tutor/mentor programs.
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1175610-26-2010Talked with Gene Berger of MarketSphere about ways volunteers from his company might support the November 19 Tutor/Mentor Conference. The company web site is http://www.marketsphere.com/Gene was introduced to T/MC via the Tutor/Mentor Jam event held on August 29, by Mark Shore, another volunteer who connected with T/MC in spring 2010. This is an example of how volunteers from different companies might recruit talent and leaders from their company to support one or more T/MC projects.If volunteers from this company begin to look for ways to support the T/MC, we will unleash tremendous talent that can draw volunteers and donors to tutor/mentor programs throughout the Chicago region. In the short term this can help draw sponsors and participants to the Nov. 19 conference.
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1175410-20-2010Attended a graduate student "opportunity fair" at Adler School of Psychology in Chicago. Nearly 50 grad students picked up information about 20 hr/week internships with CC, T/MC that would take place from Jan-May 2011 if accepted.This is an example of how we've been trying to build partnerships with different universities. By getting students involved we create a link that connects others at the university with what we're doing to help tutor/mentor programs grow.This can add immediate low-cost manpower and can help to increase resources available to CC, T/MC to support its work. Long term it can lead to innovations in how volunteers and donors might be motivated to be proactive supporters of tutor/mentor programs on a more consistent basis.
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1175310-08-2010Tutor/Mentor Connection added to the list of Chicago education resources on the Waiting for Superman web site. http://www.waitingforsuperman.com/action/city/chicago

This was done by the MENTOR, as a result of the networking we've done with them for many years.		The movie is attracting public attention and being listed on the page enables potential volunteers and donors to go through the T/MC site to find information about tutor/mentor programs in Chicago.If enough traffic goes to the web site, it will increase support for local programs, and perhaps help T/MC find new supporters to fund it's efforts in Chicago.
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1175209-22-2010Met today with Laura Hauser from Adler School of Professional Psychology in Chicago to discuss intern opportunity for first year graduate students. Students would spend 200 hours over a four month period, working in areas such as grant writing, needs assessment, advocacy, research, etc. Laura is also part of Campus Catalyst, which connect her with similar groups on many universities.This represents a tremendous opportunity to connect Adler with the goals of the T/MC, while expanding resources T/MC has to do its work. It also represents an opportunity to expand the number of universities with learning programs aimed at creating resources for tutor/mentor programs.One or two interns will join T/MC in spring 2010 and as a result new resources will become available to support our efforts, and new universities will be come involved to support similar efforts in many cities.
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1175109-20-2010In past week I've talked via email or phone with Brian Sales, Dare Mighty Things, Washington, DC; Greg Hicks, an Acacia living in Columbus, OH; Christopher T. Gates, Executive Director, PACE-Philanthropy for Active Civic Engagement; Chris Jarvis, Realized Worth, Toronto, CA; Natasha Gore, Executive Director, ECHO Network, Winston-Salem, NC; Brad Rourke, Mannakee Circle Group; and Ericha Ellis, Warren, MichiganSome contacted me to learn about starting a mentoring program, or to learn about being part of the next conference. Some responded to a message I sent to them. These are just a few of the people we're connecting to each other via our web sites, and who we're trying to connect to the T/MC as well.This represents an opportunity to share T/MC ideas in more places, and to gain support from more people for what we do in Chicago. Some, like Chris Jarvis, already passed on T/MC information via Twitter. Others like Ericha Ellis, and Natasha Gore, called to talk. Brian Sales told me he visited the T/MC web site once or twice a month.
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1175009-14-2010Hosted orientation at CC site for 23 DePaul University students who are part of the fall 2010 Coming to Chicago class. These students will use T/MC resources to learn about poverty and tutor/mentor programs in Chicago, and will write about these on their blogs. They will also spend 1-2 hours a week in service, learning about the info in the T/MC library, and sharing this vis the web sites.This is a concrete example showing how groups of people can form an organized process to get to know tutoring/mentoring, and how they can share this information to increase the number of other people who use this information. We want this to happen at many universities, and in high schools, businesses and faith groups.As others see what DePaul is doing it will make it easier for them to see how they can duplicate this effort, and even improve on it. As we build more examples, this will create greater weight, and attention, and lead to even more adoption. The result will be a growing understanding of T/MC ideas and a growing flow of resources to tutor/mentor programs in Chicago and elsewhere.
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1174909-08-2010Attended Loyola Chicago Community Service recruitment fair. Presented information to 15 potential interns plus staff leaders of the Service Learning and Community Engagement programs at LoyolaStudents who get involved with these internships will build a personal understanding of what we do, and will help others at Loyola and in their own network begin to build their own understanding and potential involvement.This expand the network of people who know of Cabrini Connections, Tutor/Mentor Connection and other programs in Chicago and can lead to ongoing efforts at Loyola that increase the impact of the T/MC
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1174809-07-2010Presented information about T/MC and our GIS work to a GIS class at Loyola University, headed by David Treeling. Some students in this class will work with T/MC this fall.This shows how we're connecting with universities, to engage students and faculty and help with our work. One of the other community partners was Daniel F. Murphy Scholarship Fund, who learned about GIS and this opportunity by participating in a mapping workshop at the May T/MC conference.Student work will help us update our GIS workstation, and create more map stories that draw volunteers and donors to tutor/mentor programs. If this partnership continues it will lead to further engagement of other resources of the university in support of tutor/mentor program growth throughout the Chicago region.
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1174708-31-2010Spent about 20 minutes talking with Angoine Mayfield of The Love, Laugh and Life Foundation from Charlotte NC. http://lovelaughlivefoundation.com/index.htm .Mr. Mayfield found T/MC web sites and was looking for ideas for recruiting volunteers. He called to ask for more help. I showed him the various resources on the site and encouraged him to join the T/MC on-line forum. This illustrates how T/MC sites are a resource for people from many places and how we try to connect these people to us and each other.T/MC ideas may be used to help connect kids and volunteers in North Carolina. Mr. Mayfield may connect with us on-line. If he introduces others in Charlotte to us it could lead to involvement from the local universities and their alumni.
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1174608-29-2010Tutor/Mentor Jam concert was hosted at the Darkroom in Chicago. It was organized by Mike Trakan, who creates our maps, and is a local musician. He was helped by many volunteers and staff. The event was attended by about 125 people and the networking leading up to it built an awareness in the general public of tutoring/mentoring that would not have existed if we did not organize this.T/MC has been organizing public awareness events in August every year since 1994, with a goal helping tutor/mentor programs recruit volunteers and donors.The people who connected with us, including members of the bands and people that attended, will help spread the word. This will result in new people becoming involved as volunteers and/or donors, helping us, or helping one or more of the other programs in Chicago.
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1174508-21-2010I was Keynote speaker at Tutor-Mentor Indy Summit held on Saturday in Indianapolis. Among those I met were: John Brandon, ED of McCoyYouth, the ED of . Tonja Eagan, CEO of BBBSCI, Debbie Zipes and Marta Fetterman of the Indiana Afterschool Network and Indiana Youth Pro. I also had lunch with a board member of BBBS who owns a steel company in Indiana and is a member of a network of African American fraternities who have made commitments to help BBBS recruit more mentors. I even met Tisha Reid from the IU School of Medicine, which has a education-to-careers project with the local high schoolThis event was patterned after the T/MC conference in Chicago, and resulted from a 10-year relationship building process that started with the Dean of the IUPUI first year college connected with me at a T/MC conference in Chicago. This shows how we are helping T/MC grow in other cities, not just in Chicago.If we can help T/MC strategies grow in other cities, these will help us grow T/MC in Chicago. Short term results will be more visits to T/MC web sites, more use of our on-line essays, and perhaps more people from Indiana at conferences.
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1174408-16-2010Phone meeting with Brandi Collins, community affairs dept, HSBC North America. Discussed ways to communicate volunteer opportunities to HSBC employees throughout the country that would result in more getting involved with T/MC, and with individual programs.If we can work like this with many companies, and recruit teams to help facilitate T/MC involvement within their own company/organization, we can dramatically increase the number of business volunteers in tutor/mentor programs, and the way they are supported.HSBC will post volunteer wanted ad, with list of Cabrini Connections volunteer opportunities, on their internal portal. CC will provide new message every 3 months, timed to the seasonality of the year. Between now and May, we will track the number of volunteers who respond, with goal of finding one, or two, who will take on the intermediary/facilitator role within HSBC.
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1174308-12-2010Met for hour with Edward Redd, President of Y.E.M.B.A (www.yemba-inc.org), a youth mentoring group on the West side of Chicago. Ed had attended May 2010 conference and was following up to get ideas for building his own organization. Because he has an engineering background I encouraged him to create blueprints of his ideas and strategies, as we do at T/MC.This shows how the conferences bring people together and how some follow up to meet with T/MC for further support and mentoring. As we share T/MC and Cabrini Connections ideas we aim to teach leaders to adopt many of our own strategies into their actions.As we help other programs grow, and adopt these ideas, they return the favor by helping us build visibility and support for their own program, and for other programs in their neighborhood, and the city. Some will become speakers at future conferences, and will write about T/MC in their own blogs.
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1174108-10-2010Met with Bill Curry of Breakthrough Urban Ministries in Chicago. Discussed ways to identify organizations who have similar mentoring models, and ways to increase visibility and funding so all tutor/mentor programs are better able to innovate constant improvement.Working with peers is critically important. Breakthrough is very effective in communicating its ideas via video and web site. They are a faith based org, so also have more potential to enlist faith leaders in the evangelism of tutor/mentor that would lead to increase resource flow.More use of T/MC resources by Bill in his own efforts, and more potential involvement of churches throughout the region via Bill's introductions and leadership.
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1174208-10-2010Went through the Program Locator and checked all links to see which are broken or which do not have a website listedthis is an important step in maintaining the Program Locator and making it more user-friendly and up-to-date-at least 93 program have missing and/or broken links
-15 zip code pages are broken (cannot view any programs within these zip-codes)
-getting in touch with contact people to get their listings updated listings
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1174008-06-2010In phone conversation with Cathy Jenkins and Ellen Christman, Senior Advisor, External Relations, MENTOR, we discussed T/MC taking lead role on Jan National Mentor Month for Chicago, and T/MC becoming formal partner of MENTOR, representing Chicago along with MENTOR helping find resources for T/MC to take these roles.We have been in contact with MENTOR since 1995 and are a logical organization to take these roles, IF MENTOR can help us find the $500k to $1 million needed to be effective. As a start, MENTOR is looking for a loaned executive who could work at T/MC and focus on the National Mentoring Month, while also looking at potential donors to support the Aug. Tutor/Mentor JamThis would obviously have a huge impact on T/MC ability to support tutor/mentor program growth in the Chicago region, if MENTOR will help with finding the resources. It also would enable other cities to learn from some of T/MC ideas and strategies that are not yet widely adopted. This would lead to having "national mentor month" type support programs in place 12 months each year, rather than just January.
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1173708-04-2010Met with Ra Joy, ED of Illinois Arts Alliance. Shared info about T/MC and our mapping and learned about their efforts to build an asset map showing arts-education programs in Illinois.Arts-education programs are natural collaborators with mentoring programs and the T/MC, if we can find ways to work together. This type of outreach shares our ideas and expands our network.This could lead to arts and mentoring programs working together to draw resources to neighborhood locations. It could lead to collaboration on mapping and public awareness strategies.
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1173808-04-2010We organized a brainstorming meeting at the T/MC office and invited over thirty program leaders. The meeting focused on discussing ways we can increase collaboration between programs and T/MC in the coming year.This meeting offered a chance for me to reach out to programs and to begin learning about them personally. It also began conversations about the conference and about possible avenues for collaboration between programs.Introducing myself and Bradley to program leaders, telling people more about the program locator and how to update their entries, learning about where programs are at as they head into the upcoming school year (strengths/challenges/goals/updates on program), brainstorming about the conference, inviting to upcoming events and the next planning meeting.
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1173908-04-2010Meeting to learn InFlow SoftwareThis will enable us to keep working on visually presenting outcomes of T/MC's work. It will also allow us to map networks and connections.Kalyani Misra and I now have a basic working knowledge of the software and can begin working on mapping networks and working through data.
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1173607-28-2010I received an email from my former Academic Advisor at Northwestern University, Susan Johnston-Olsen, who was providing me with information of a current NU student-athlete who is interested in pursuing a career involving working with youth. Susan encouraged me to reach out to him to provide information about what I do here at Cabrini Connections and see if I could assist him in anyway.
I responded by saying that I already knew of the student and that I would reach out to him to see how I could help. But I also communicated to Susan that we should find a time to meet so that we can brainstorm ideas of how Northwestern and Cabrini Connections can form an official partnership since we have a lot of NU alums on staff and as volunteers in the program. She respnded by saying that was a good idea and that Northwestern has a new Center for Civic Engagement led by Prof. Dan Lewis and that would be a good start since he is looking to teach a class on Mentorship. I responded by saying that I not only know Prof. Lewis but I took his class my senior year and we continue to keep in contact.		This exchange of information is important for many reasons. One of the ways is that is gets others outside of organization thinking about the work that we do and thinking of Susan and Northwestern can get involved in someway.

This exchange is also very important in getting closer and closer to establishing an official partnership/bridge between our organization and the University. Over the past couple of years we have more and more staff, volunteers, and donors from NU get involved in the organization and this could lead to even more getting involved.		The result of this exchange could simply lead to a continued unofficial partnership where current and former NU students and faculty continue to get involved with our organization in a variety of ways. But this could also lead to NU taking a real interest in the work that we do and the resources that are needed for our program and many other programs to be successful and make an effort to streamline resources directly from NU to Cabrini Connections, Tutor/Mentor Connection.
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1173507-26-2010Sara Caldwell, a founder of CC, T/MC, now living in California, posted a note showing her involvement on the About Us page of a movie web site she is helping to produce. http://www.houseofgorey.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3&Itemid=2This shows how volunteers who are living in different parts of the country, can continue to draw attention and support to the tutor/mentor programs they support.This can draw new people to our web sites and can demonstrate to other film producers, actors and celebrities ways they can support tutor/mentor progams.
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1173407-20-2010Today I had to convert our email subscription screens from what we've been using for several years to a new version rolled out yesterday by NetWork for Good. I also had to subscribe to the fee-based service launched by Ning, in order to keep the http://www.tutormentorconnection.ning.com siteThe president/executive director of most non profits is not the person doing this type of technology work because they have people on their staff to do this. Small non profits need leaders who have multiple skills, or they just are not able to use technology as well as they need to, or communicate their messages as well as they need to.Because I was able to make these changes within 24 hours of the conversion by Network for Good and Ning, we don't lose any potential subscribers and we can continue doing business without major disruption this might have caused.
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1173307-19-2010Met with Kathleen Boyle of the Northwest Neighborhood Federation of Chicago to share ideas of how we might work together.If we can help neighborhood networks use T/MC resources and strategies to build and sustain tutor/mentor programs in their neighborhoods, we succeed in our mission, and we have models that others would duplicate in other places.May lead to new involvement in conferences and more use of program locator. Could lead to new resources for T/MC.
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1173107-13-2010Met by phone with Adrian Hancock, VP of Marketing, and Chris Masalsky, Grants Manager, of a BBBS of Mass Bay. They were looking to understand the software T/MC uses to create maps and see how they can implement and/or enhance the system, particularly in regard to the printed output maps (e.g., the map of mentoring sites and proximity to commuter rail lines) rather than the interactive map.This illustrates how people in other cities are looking at T/MC maps. Chris and Adrian were both very complementary of T/MC use of maps. During phone call T/MC shared information that this group might use to develop their own capacity.Events like this are intended to build relationships, and collaboration, between T/MC and groups in other urban areas, so we all have the resources we need to help youth in our communities.
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1173207-12-2010Connected via Twitter with Jess Tonn, Web Communications Manager for TASC (The AfterSchool Corporation) of New York City. We exchanged information via email and he has joined the T/MC Ning group.This is an example of how T/MC is building information-sharing connections between itself and leaders of youth organizations in Chicago and other major urban areas.As leaders in big cities connect, they can connect their strategies, and this can draw more resources directly to each urban area, and the tutor/mentor programs in those areas.
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1172706-26-2010Presented information about Tutor/Mentor Connection to meeting of Sound ConneXions Chicago Community Forum, held at Loyola University. This was the first Chicago meeting of a "network of people who are dedicated to developing new ways of working together to create generative solutions to our persistent social problems."These are the type of groups T/MC tries to connect with, showing how maps, visualization, and libraries of information, can be used to support actions and innovations of resource providers and social innovators.T/MC can benefit from the support of members of this group, and we can share ideas that enable them to provide greater and on-going support to others working in the social benefit sector.
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1172606-23-2010Two new interns from China have joined Cabrini Connections, Tutor/Mentor Connection for an 8 week internship that ends August 10. Meet Willow and Jenny at http://tutormentorconnection.ning.comThis is an example of how T/MC works with colleges from around the world to build student involvement, and then on-going university involvement.As a result of the understanding these interns build, and how they communicate it with others, we may gain more support for tutor/mentor programs in Chicago, and others may duplicate this idea in China and Asia
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1172406-22-2010Social Edge is hosting a discussion, facilitated by Charles Cameron, titled Maps, Mapping and What's Possible, using Tutor/Mentor Connection as an example. See http://www.socialedge.org/discussions/business-models/maps-and-whats-possibleThis shows how T/MC is building relationships with others by participating in many on-line forums, and hosting the conferences in Chicago.The goal of this network building is to share information and build partnerships that result in more people supporting the growth of volunteer-based tutor/mentor programs in Chicago and other cities.
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1172506-22-2010Met with Janet Hickey of DePaul University to discuss fall 2010 coming to Chicago class project and collaboration with T/MC. This year's group will build on what was started last year, with some students volunteering at T/MC.This shows how T/MC is working with universities, with a goal of creating ownership among faculty, administrators and student groups who lead on-going projects that build greater understanding, and greater involvement of university and alumni resources.If one or more universities take ownership of T/MC, with endowment from alumni, the number and quality of tutor/mentor programs in Chicago and around the country will grow as a result, leading more kids from poor neighborhoods through colleges and into jobs.
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1172206-21-2010Representative from HSBC North America called to give bad news that company would not be able to continue to fund HSBC Computer Center and eLearning at Cabrini Connections, T/MC in 2010 at $35,000 level from previous years. An exit grant of $5,000 is possible this year. Also received word from BlueCross Blue Shield of Il, that we would not be funded in Dec. Their grant was $5,000 in 2009 and previous.This shows negative impact of the economy on corporations and illustrates how important it is for us to find new donors and build revenue-producing strategies from the services provided by Tutor/Mentor Connection.Without enough continued funding, small organizations like CC, T/MC will go out of business and all of the knowledge we've collected over 17 years will be lost to Chicago and the country.
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1173006-17-2010Back-to-School Event Planning Meeting, Youth Ready Chicago Community Council, Region 2Agencies are coming together to organize a fun event with games, giveaways, entertainment, and more. Since the last meeting, progress has been made with publicity, donations, and, for the event, a map and schedule.At this meeting the flyer was presented. Adjustments were made but the general design was approved and will be ready for distribution shortly. It will also be made available in Spanish. Backpacks for giveaway have been ordered. More entertainment has been confirmed. A map from last year's event will be used as a templete for this year's. A rough schedule was reviewed and we went through the day, hour by hour. Things are looking good!
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1172306-16-2010Net Impact Volunteer Service team presented final report, comparing Chicago's Tutor/Mentor Connection to mentoring partnerships in other cities and states.The report shows that T/MC funding is lower than the rest, yet population served is larger than the others. It also shows T/MC mapping and other strategies unique, while the lack of resources prevents T/MC from doing some things others do better, because of more funding.Hopefully this information can help build a case for future T/MC funding. It also can be used by other partnerships to compare themselves with each other, and the T/MC.
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1172106-08-2010Met with Charles Cameron of Social Edge for two hours to discuss strategies to follow up on Tutor/Mentor Conference and previous discussions on Social Edge. Social Edge has agreed to host a June 22 week discussion focused on T/MC use of Maps, with a goal of expanding the network of people who understand and use these ideas.This meeting is one of many on-going efforts to connect with others who will help expand the reach of the T/MC message to more people, who themselves will become part of the network, helping the T/MC, and helping each other.This network building will ultimately result in new partners and be factors helping T/MC help tutor/mentor programs in Chicago and many other cities. It also will result in other sectors learning to adopt T/MC ideas and use of maps for benefit in their own work.
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1172006-07-2010Spent about an hour on phone with Victor Jasin from London, Ontario, showing him the ideas of the Tutor/Mentor Connection. We met through a Linked in discussion forum.As I share these ideas my goal is that they help others build tutor/mentor programs, or networks, in other places, and that through their own efforts they help me build the Tutor/Mentor Connection and Cabrini Connections in Chicago.Could lead to involvement of social entrepreneurs and university people in Ontario, which could help to implement some of the T/MC ideas better in Chicago.
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1171906-05-2010John Gillespie, CEO of Beyond the Bottom Line, www.beyondtbl.com, emailed to set up a phone conversation, after reading a comment I posted on a discussion he was leading on the www.socialedge.org forum. We talked on Monday, June 7.This is another example of a relationship that started in an on-line forum hosted by Social Edge, which is progressing to a more focused interaction. This expands the number of people T/MC is connecting with who can help support the growth of tutor/mentor programs.If leaders like John adopt T/MC strategy, and share it in their own network, and actions, this will change the way non profit tutor/mentor programs are supported, thus making better programs available in more places.
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1171706-03-2010Deanna Wilkerson invited me to join the ning group she created at http://csiknowledgecenteratosu.ning.com/Deanna joined the T/MC ning group a few months ago, and created her own group based on the T/MC model. This is an example of how the T/MC connects with people on our own forum and in forums they host.Some of the ideas we share may be adopted in Ohio in ways that lead people in Chicago to want to duplicate them here. This can lead to greater support for T/MC and Chicago organizations, as well as a T/MC support system in Columbus and other cities.
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1172906-02-2010Back-to-School Event Planning Meeting, Youth Ready Chicago Community Council, Region 2To continue planning a back-to-school events for youth in Region 2. Agencies are coming together to organize a fun event with games, giveaways, entertainment, and more. Since the last meeting, progress has been made with collaboration and by committees. This meeting was to update everyone on where we stand.Another great meeting. Entertainment is coming together well, which is Cabrini Connections' responsibility. Location of Roberto Clemente High School and the date, August 7th, have been confirmed. Donations are coming in. Flyer will be created soon along with other PR. Lots of agencies have signed up for resource fair, but there is room for more. Event is coming together nicely.
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1171805-27-2010Charles Cameron, a facilitator on www.socialedge.org, presented a workshop at the Tutor/Mentor Conference in Chicago. His presentation is at http://www.tutormentorexchange.net/ohatsThis shows how T/MC builds relationships through on-line interaction, and how this leads to face-to-face interaction and support for strategies of T/MC.If we can connect more people who care about tutoring/mentoring as a workforce development, poverty reduction, and democracy activity, we can build more consistent financial, and human capital support, for non profits who provide these services in Chicago and other cities.
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1171605-27-2010Hosted May 2010 Tutor/Mentor Leadership and Networking Conference at Loyola University Chicago. About 130 attended, including people from Canada, Florida, New York, Iowa, Indiana, Illinois, etc. See attendee list at http://www.tutormentorconference.org/RegistrationList/This event connects people with each other, and with ideas they can use in their own tutor/mentor program. It also connects people with the Tutor/Mentor Connection and our ideas for helping tutor/mentor programs grow in many places. It encourages on-line connections beyond the conference.Some people will build their own strategies, as did Darrell Finch, of the Milwaukee Housing Authority, and then come to the conference to share what they do as a workshop leader. Others will help organize future conferences. Many will use the T/MC site and ideas as resources.
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1171505-11-2010Staff from various programs in Region 2 met to continue planning a regionwide back to school event in August. The was the 2nd of what should be many meetings.This is important because this is the first type of meeting of its kind in Region 2 of combining efforts and resources to host a regionwide back to school event to promote the value of education and positive attendance...but also providing many of the resources that those in the community can and will need in preparation for back to schoolA result of this meeting and many more will hopefully lead to a successful back to school event, but also future collaborative efforts.
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1172805-11-2010Back-to-School Event Planning Meeting, Youth Ready Chicago Community Council, Region 2To organize a back-to-school events for youth in Region 2. Agencies will come together to organize a fun event with games, giveaways, entertainment, and more.This meeting was a great success. Each partnering agency will volunteer to be in charge of a game or booth such as the basketball tournament or facepainting. We also formed committees of multiple leaders to work on items such as entertainment and the resource fair. As for location, it looks like Roberto Clemente High School will be our best option if we can get it.
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1171405-06-2010Received copy of plan developed by 3 Loyola University Students to rebuild the registration, attendee list and speaker presenter list for the Tutor/Mentor Conference web site. This was done as a class project, and will be implemented over the summer. It will fix problems we've had in managing the on-line attendee list and will add a new feature enabling people to view past workshops and find speakers to do training at their own organizations.This illustrates how T/MC engages volunteers from business and universities to help it accomplish its mission. Thus use of talent from many places illustrates the power of the Internet to help small groups of people do much more than they could with working alone in the past.The revision to the web site will make visiting the site and being part of the conference a more valuable experience, and thus more people will attend, and use the information to build tutor/mentor programs, or to build T/MC type support strategies.
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1171304-22-2010Presented workshop on Tutor/Mentor Connection at a University of Iowa Excellence in Education summit. One Keynote was Greg Darnieder, who is now with Dept. Of Education. Greg got his start in the mid 1970s with the LaSalle Street Church program in Cabrini Green, and was active in the tutor/mentor leaders networking from 1976 to 1980 which was the spark for the current T/MC.Sharing ideas in more places encourages others to adopt T/MC concepts and introduces us to other people who could be partners and supporters.Ideal result would be teams of students and alumni from university working to support growth of tutor/mentor programs in major cities where university recruits students.
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1171204-13-2010Met with Tim Hogan of The Royal Order of Design Experience to talk of ways people in advertising, graphic design and other communications industries could communicate T/MC ideas to their own networks. I shared a report showing benefits to companies from volunteering and philanthropy, and suggested that creative professionals could help us draw business attention to this.Tim is on the Board of EPIC (Engaging Philanthropy, Inspiring Creatives) and we met to discuss possibility of T/MC being one of their projects in 2010. This is an example of how T/MC seeks to involve the time and talent of business people.If EPIC were to take this on as a project, the work they could do would attract people from other professions to take strategic roles that spread the TMC message, and keep it reaching more and more people from year to year.
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1171104-12-2010Aparna Katre started a discussion on the Global Challenge Award forum titled Visualization and effective communication of ideas based on conversations we've been having for past few weeks. http://www.globalchallengeaward.org. Goal is to increase the number of youth who are creating visualization of T/MC ideas, as well as the number of people who look at this.This illustrates how T/MC works with other organizations, and how the Internet and competitions can be a strategy for getting more people to think through the ideas T/MC posts on its blogs and web sites.If the number of students producing these visualizations increases so will the number of people looking at them, which will lead to more people becoming volunteers and donors supporting various tutor/mentor programs.
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1171004-08-2010I was the Keynote Speaker at the 5th annual "Connections Count" summit, held in Lafayette, Indiana, and sponsored by Our Kids Are Our Community. Three articles in the local newspaper along with one radio and one TV interview were generated. See http://www.jconline.com/article/20100409/NEWS/4090328I was invited to speak by Steven Wilson, a communications professor from Purdue, who is a participant in the Youth Mentoring ListServ hosted by David DuBois, a professor at the University of Illinois Chicago. The mentoring list serve was started by David and took the place of an earlier Tutor/Mentor ER Room group on Yahoo that T/MC had started after a 2004 conference. This shows how T/MC networking is leading to people beyond Chicago listening to our ideas.If other communities begin to adopt t/mc stategies, this can lead to new channels of support for T/MC and new ways to influence what leaders in Chicago do to support local tutoring/mentoring programs.
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1170603-29-2010Jacob Hipps reported on the progress of the Net Impact Service Project Team that is doing a comparative analysis of T/MC and different mentoring partnerships and citywide youth support strategies around the country.This is an example of how CC, T/MC expands its capacity with the involvement of volunteers, even when dollars are scarce.The information being collected by this team can be used by T/MC, and any other city, to develop more effective strategies to help youth have access to a broader range of youth development and tutor/mentor programs in non-school hours.
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1170703-29-2010Anne Raci, an intern from Dominican University, spent 3 hours in the office working with the Social Network Analysis software. Here's the blog post she wrote showing her work: http://tinyurl.com/TMC-SNA-3-29This is another example of how interns are helping expand T/MC capacity, and support for other tutor/mentor programs, even when money is scarce.Our ability to show how T/MC works as a network builder and how tutor/mentor programs help expand the network for kids, can have a huge impact on changing how people understand what a tutor/mentor program can do, and how they are funded.
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1170803-29-2010Jordan Merlo, an inter from Loyola University Chicago, wrote a blog post, showing progress and learning resulting from her volunteer role at Tutor/Mentor Connection. http://tutormentorconnection.ning.com/profiles/blogs/weekly-report-5This is another example of how volunteers and interns help expand T/MC capacity by donating their time and talent. The articles Jordan writes reach new people who can become involved with Cabrini Connections and other tutor/mentor programs.These articles not only build attention for tutoring/mentoring, but they demonstrate to colleges and high schools "service learning" roles that students can take. From the example of students working with us now we hope to have hundreds working with the T/MC strategy in the future.
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1170903-29-2010Shefali Kakodkar, a student from Loyola University Chicago, sent email to update progress of team of students that is rebuilding the T/MC Conference database as part of a class project at Loyola.This demonstrates another way T/MC is using volunteers and college students to do work that we can't find donors to fund. The conference web site was built by a volunteer a few years ago, so the rebuilding of the database by this group is just another progression of volunteer manpower.Non profits can accomplish much with a few dollars if they learn to harness and focus the talents of volunteers.
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1170503-05-2010This is a link to a new flash animation posted today: http://www.tutormentorexchange.net/images/flash/vol_leadership.swf

It was created by Li Li, a grad student from the University of Michigan School of Information, who was with the T/MC for a one week Alternative Spring Break program.		This shows how students from different universities, and even high schools, can convert T/MC blog articles into flash animations that more people will view and respond to.This presentation may motivate a few more companies, colleges and/or foundations to support the T/MC, or support other tutor/mentor programs who are engaging volunteers in this way. That will lead to mroe and better programs helping inner city kids to careers. It may also lead to other students working on similar projects in the future.
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1170403-03-2010On Tuesday, Ahmed spend time at CC to learn to use SNA software. On Wednesday evening, Katie and Anne met with me to discuss next steps in using SNA software. The Ning group has been used to share ideas. http://tutormentorconnection.ning.com/group/technologyinternswithtutormentorconnectionThis shows how T/MC has four volunteers working to help it use SNA to understand the impact the T/MC has on programs throughout a city, and the impact a Tutor/Mentor program like Cabrini Connections has on expanding the network of adults, experiences and opportunities supporting inner city kids.If this group can demonstrate the impact of T/MC and of CC using visual tools, it can help draw more attention, and funding, to this type of program and service.
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1170303-01-2010Tutor/Mentor Connection was selected to be one of six projects adopted by the Net Impact Chicago chapter for spring 2010. On Monday I met with the three volunteers who will work with the T/MC on a comparitive analysis project that compares services and funding of T/MC with those provided by mentoring partnerships in other cities and states.This can provide a professional, and objective, review of strategies different cities, including Chicago, have in place to help kids connect with mentors, and tutors.This will show strengths and opportunities and help build case for funding support for T/MC in Chicago. It will also show collaboration potential of T/MC with other cities.
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1170202-25-2010Valdis Krebs, of orgnet.com, hosted full day training on Social Network Analysis and use of inFlow Software for Tutor/Mentor Connection staff and interns, and for other potential users.With this software we can build a better understanding of the network of people connected to each other by the Tutor/Mentor Connection, the people we've documented contact with via this OHATS, and the people youth in a tutor/mentor program have met because of their participation in such programs.This can enhance understanding and appreciation of the T/MC, and of single tutor/mentor programs like Cabrini Connections. It can also lead to more people helping us manage the data collection, anlysis, and sense-making that is necessary in order to create larger, and more on-going operating support for tutor/mentor programs throughout the Chicago region.
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1170002-22-2010Jeff Gaunt, from the Illinois State Senate, called to get more information about the legislation Senator Kotowski is working on with Tutor/Mentor Connection.This is part of T/MC effort to improve the flow of operating resources directly to tutor/mentor programs throughout Chicago and the rest of the state.This legislation can provide incentives that help business teams become more strategically involved in supporting volunteer-based tutor/mentor programs all over the state, if it becomes law.
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1170102-19-2010Met with Ivan O. Gonzalez of Willow Creek Church, a mega church in the Chicago suburbs. Demonstrated resources of T/MC and showed ways the church might use them in their own outreach. Showed, ways to use Ning and T/MC portal.T/MC seeks to support growth of leadership strategies from faith groups like this. Ivan has already joined the Ning group, invited one other person to join, and submited new links to the T/MC web site.If others from the church, and other faith groups take on strategic roles, this will lead to more visibility, more volunteers and more donors supporting tutor/mentor programs throughout the Chicago region.
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1169902-12-2010Met with Tio Hardiman, Director of CeaseFire Illinois. Reviewed T/MC resources that his community workers could use. He was enthused and offered to connect some of his people to the T/MC, participate in the Conference, and introduce T/MC to potential supporters that he works with.This is an example of the T/MC strategy. By collecting information, we provide tools that other anti-poverty and anti-violence orgs can use. If they value the tools, and use them, it helps build tutor/mentor programs and other needed resources, and they advocate to others to support T/MC.This can lead to more visibility for T/MC resources, more use of these resources for building community networks of support for tutor/mentor programs, and more support for our efforts.
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1169602-01-2010Deanna Wilkerson of Ohio State University joined the Tutor/Mentor Ning group and invited two of her students to also join the group.The actions of T/MC aim to attract people to our web sites and forums, where they use our information, and the ideas of others, to forumlate their own strategies that they apply in their own organizations or communities.If the T/MC attracts stronger involvement from universities then it will find more people to help do the core work that supports this process, which means we'll have a growing influence on the growth of volunteer based tutor/mentor programs.
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1169702-01-2010Li Li, a graduate student from the University of Michigan School of Infomantics has volunteered to spend a one-week alternative spring break internship at Cabrini Connections, working on visualizatino projects. She registered in the Tutor/Mentor Connection ning group.Our ability to create visual interpretations of our ideas, enables more people to understand and adopt them. Involving interns from different universities expands the talent we have to create these visualizaitons, and connects the T/MC with students, faculty and alumni of that university.The work Li Li does will help drive more visitors to T/MC sites, and provide information more people can use to be strategic in helping tutor/mentor programs grow in Illinois, Michigan, and other states.
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1169802-01-2010Received this into on Facebook: I live in Toronto, Canada in a community very similar to CR.
Both my community St. James Town and Cabrini Green were both built in the 1950s. Both were community built around Le Corbusier's 'Towers in the Park concept.

St. James Town is the largest high-rise community in Canada. It consists of 19 high-rise buildings (14 to 32 stories). These massive residential towers were built in the 1960s. Approximately 17,000 people live in the neighbourhood's 19 apartment towers, making it Canada's most densely populated community and one of the most densely populated neighbourhoods anywhere in North America.

We have many of the same issues of poverty, crime and neglect. Our populations is mostly low income new immigrants. I found out about Cabrini green in learning about the terrible urban planning surrounding our communities. The public housing projects influenced by his ideas are seen by some as having had the effect of isolating poor communities in monolithic high-rises and breaking the social ties integral to a community's development. We have a new non profit working with youth and community members of St James Town to promote human rights issue, with a theme of arts and activism. I've read a lot about Cabrini Green Connections and Cabrini Green Legal Aid and would love to be able to model some of our work here in Toronto after it.		This is another example of how our web site attracts visitors who use our information in their own communities. When those people introduce themselves we make an effort to build a connection via on-line forums such as Ning and Facebook.If people in different communities adopt T/MC ideas and use them locally, they not only help youth in their area, but provide credibility and visibility for the work we do in Chicago and others do elsewhere. If they connect with us on Ning, and actively participate, they can bring talent and resources that T/MC does not have.
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1169501-27-2010Phone conversation with Deanna Wilkerson, Associate Professor HDFS Graduate Studies Chair, Human Development and Family Science, The Ohio State University. Shared info about T/MC and pointed out different resources on site. Suggested ways for students to get involved as first step in building interaction between T/MC and OSU.This type of networking build relationships with people in other places who share same goals and ideas and are part of different networks.If OSU uses T/MC ideas and applies them to Columubus, or other Ohio cities, they may be able to show that the T/MC strategy can have a huge impact. They may also provide student and alumni talent to support T/MC projects such as Social Network Analysis, mapping, OHATs, which we have too few dollars to support adequately.
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1169401-26-2010Received email from Deanna Wilkerson, Associate Professor
HDFS Graduate Studies Chair, Human Development and Family Science, The Ohio State University , "I was pleasantly surprised to find your website today. I am attempting to set up something similar to what you have done although I would like to include a comprehensive set of programs that loosely could be defined as prevention or promotion of healthy development for youth placed at risk of a variety of negative outcomes. I work primarily in the violence prevention /safety area. I was impressed by your site and would like to talk with you further about possible collaborations and knowledge sharing.		By hosting information and ideas on web, T/MC hopes that people like Deanna will find the site and use the information. We also hope some will contact us and want to find ways to learn more, or work together.Universities have huge resources that could be focused on strategies like the T/MC. This contact can lead to a growing involvement of students, faculty and alumni from The Ohio Sate University that helps us in Chicago, while applying our ideas in Ohio and other states.
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1169301-21-2010Telephone meeting with Dr. Jeffrey Williams, and Dr. R. Stephen Green, leaders of the Kauffman Scholars program, based in Kansas City and funded by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. This was an introductory meeting, resulting from a message I posted on their web site after reading about the program in the YouthToday magazine. They were looking for ideas of how to stay connected and have an influence with their youth once they are in college.The goal of the T/MC is to connect with leaders of other programs in on-gong learning, idea exchange. innovation and collective efforts. T/MC was in KC around 1995 to present information to a group that became YouthFriends.If we can share meaningful information, and build relationships, this can strengthen programs in Chicago, Kansas City and other locations. Next steps will be to connect on Ning, and in the T/MC resource library.
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1169201-19-2010Met for 90 minutes with Jerry Roper, President of Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce, Lance Pressl, Foundation President, Michael Mini, Director of Government affairs, and Dan Kotowski, Ilinois State Senator to review the resources and strategy of T/MC. The meeting was set up by Senator Kotowski.This shows how people who get to know T/MC (Sen. Kotowski) can connect us to leaders in the business community who will use T/MC ideas in their own workforce development strategies. Recruiting leaders from business is the most important part of the T/MC strategy.If these leaders begin to use T/MC ideas, and introduce T/MC to others in business, gov't, education, more people will use the maps and long-term strategies and more tutor/mentor programs will become available to help inner city kids stay in school, and move toward 21st century jobs and careers.
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1169101-16-2010I was part of a panel discussion on Poverty held at United Church in Hyde Park, Il. Organized by Jordan Hesterman of We The PeopleJordan introduce me saying "this man has a vision that is so great he's far ahead of others. You've got to get to know him." This is a result of how we network and help others, and shows how we work to enlist others to use the T/MC as a result.One or two of the people who attended may take our information back to others in the faith community, the U Chicago community, or Hyde Park, and this can lead to more support for the growth of tutor/mentor programs in that part of the city, and for the T/MC
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1169001-15-2010Met with Daniel Cortese and Chelsea Haring, Governors State University and introduced them to Janet Hickey, DePaul University. Goal was to help start a Tutor/Mentor Connection strategy at Governors State that would help tutor/mentor programs grow in the South Suburbs of the Chicago regionThis is a key part of T/MC strategy. If universities take ,stratgegic role, they unlesh tremendous student, faculty and alumni talent and resources toward the strategies we've pilotedThe short term result is a team of students at Governors State who do a project similar to that done by DePaul students from Sept through Nov. 2009. Long term is the growth of models that will be duplicated in other universities.
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1168901-06-2010Hosted a 4 hour informational meeting for leaders of a youth network serving Layfayette, Indiana. Included were Steven R. Wilson, Professor, Department of Communication, Purdue University and two of his graduate students, as well as leaders of local BBBS, faith groups, Lafayette Jefferson High School; the Family and Community Resource Center, the Department of Child Welfare in Tippecanoe county.This meeting was the result of T/MC involvement with the youth mentoring list hosted by David DuBois. Steven Miller is also part of that group. This shows our role of sharing ideas that we hope help others build stronger support systems for youth in their own communities, and which generate resources to help with our own work.This can lead to a T/MC model growing out of Purdue University that can influence what happens in Indianapolis and in Chicago and other cities.
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1168701-04-2010Received email from Oliver Miller at The Chicago School of Psychology, saying "I discussed your idea with my supervisor and we decided to send it along to the faculty member in charge of psyD dissertations. We believe this project might be a good opportunity for one student to tackle in depth. I have passed the information along to her and if she has any students that show an interest she will contact me."This is another example of our on-going efforts to get people at universities strategically involved with the T/MC, through student service and/or learning projects. I made contact with Oliver at the Nov. 09 T/MC Confernce.If a university decides to adopt all, or part, of the T/MC, and puts its resources behind it, there will be more and better tutor/mentor programs reaching inner city kids at some point in the future.
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1168801-04-2010Talked with Roy Saldana of Malcolm X College about setting up series of college and career workshops for alumni of Cabrini Connections, and using Facebook to connect the alumni to the information and each other.We've been looking for ways to provide support to alumni and by doing networking workshops at the CC location we can provide information important to them, connect them to each other, and re-connect them to Cabrini Connections.This can provide important help that leads alumni (both students and volunteers) to college and jobs. It can strengthen the ties that bond our alumi to each other and to CC.
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1168612-22-2009Talked with Bart Schultz, Director of the Civic Knowledge Project, at the University of Chicago. Provided tour of T/MC web site and resources and showed how UC could use these resource, or add to them, for their own support of efforts surrounding the University in the South part of Chicago.Our aim is to connect with groups in universities who already are collecting knowledge and supporting the use of this information in communities around the college.If we can develop ways to work together, we expand the resources being shared, and open up new sources of support for T/MC.
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1168112-14-2009Recorded interview with Dan Bassill, President and CEO of Tutor/Mentor Connection.In an effort to better convey what T/MC does, I will be recording audio interviews with people inside and outside of the organization. These short podcasts may have better appeal than text-only blog posts.The interview went really well. We talked about leadership but, within that, covered an array of information applicable to different situations. These audio snippets should be of good use going forth. I look forward to interviewing more people in the near future.
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1168012-11-2009Received email from Robert Harris, Centers for New Horizons, saying "Yesterday I went to Breakthrough Ministries Garfield Park location and met with Bill Curry, who I met at the Tutor/Mentor Conference, I was blown away by his program and areas where he looks for mentors for his participants."This shows how people are connecting to each other as a result of the conferences.This helps programs learn from each other, not just T/MC, and leads to stronger programs all over the city.
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1167912-09-2009Met with Julie Wilen and Mara Botman of the Circle of Service Foundation. This was an open Q&A meeting where they were interested in learing my ideas on the "landscape of tutoring and mentoring in Chicago".This is the type of discussion we hope to be having with every foundation, as well as with business and faith leaders, on an on-going basis. Because there are so many people who need to be connected in such discussions, we believe in the Internet as a meeting place, and the role of many people as organizers and facilitators of these discussions.This can lead to the growth of a philanthropy group of leaders who connect with T/MC and program leaders in an on-going discussion. The outcome will be better support for the on-going operations of programs that demonstrate a strategy that connect youth and adults in a career-focused set of activities.
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1168512-09-2009My friend, Rishi Shah, CEO of ContextMedia, visited Cabrini Connections' Wednesday night tutoring session. He got to see the program in action and he met our staff including Dan Bassill, President and CEO of Tutor/Mentor Connection.To build upon previous talks of collaboration between the two organizations.Mr. Shah is going to bring his staff in to visit Cabrini Connections early next year and he hopes that some of them will get involved as volunteers. He would also like to shoot a short 30 second clip of them at our center to be broadcast on ContextMedia's Diabetes Health Network which reaches a million patients across the country every five weeks.
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1167712-08-2009Phone discussion with Ellen Christman, Sr. Communications Advisor, and Linda Steward, Sr. VP, Partnerships, for the National Mentoring Partnership. Purpose of discussion was to explore options of the Tutor/Mentor Connection becoming a formal partner, and helping to create a formal Illinois Mentoring Partnership.Linda knew about T/MC from when she was director of the Maryland Mentor Partnership, while Ellen knew about T/MC from here time with the Big Shoulders Fund in Chicago. I first connected with the Mentoring Partnership in 1995 when they were MENTOR and not yet National. Building alliances like this can help each of us meet our own goals of helping kids.This can lead to more interaction at the brainstorming and planning stage between T/MC, MENTOR and other city/state leaders. This will lead to shared commitment to actions that draw volunteers and donors to all of us on a more consistent basis.
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1167812-07-2009Linda Wang of Chicago Access TV sent scripts for approval for Tutor/Mentor Slide Show to be run in January 2010. This lead to discussion of reactivating the tutor/mentor bulletin board on Channel 42, which had been used for the volunteer recruitment campaign from 1995 to 2002.This illustrates how T/MC is working with long-term partners to build visibility that draws volunteers and donors to all tutor/mentor programs in Chicago.If we can restart the Channel 42 program it will help programs recruit volunteers and will provide a tool to document the number of people who seek out programs. This can be used with donors to show impact of work.
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1167612-06-2009Submitted application at http://asb.cms-dev.si.umich.edu/node/6 to have University of Michigan School of Information students spend a week in February with Cabrini Connections, Tutor/Mentor Connection, working on an information visualization project.The talent of students is being used to convert ideas I've created with power point into animations that attract more viewers and convey the ideas in a more creative and impactful manner. This illustrates how talent of volunteers can help us mobilize resources to support a social benefit cause, even if the volunteers come from different cities.The involvement of students can lead to strategic partnerships with universities, and to the strategic involvement of their alumni, and the businesses they lead. This will result in more consistent support for volunteer-based tutor/mentor programs, and greater impact on kids and volunteers in these programs.
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1167412-04-2009Joy McDuffe of Buffalo, NY wrote, "I have made substantial progress in Buffalo, however I have not penetrated the top of the food chain. I am interested in forming a parallel group to your Chicago organization." We first met through a Linked in Group several months ago. Joy is involved in GIS mapping for her university.This is a goal of T/MC. If we can help parallel T/MC groups form in different cities their combined impact can draw more attention and resources to tutor/mentor programs in each city than what any of us can do working alone.This can lead to a strategy that supports T/M programs in upstate NY, and provides an example that is duplicated in other cities. If this draws attention to the T/MC role as a facilitator in this process, it can help us attract funding to help us do this role.
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1167512-02-2009Met with Justin Wooley, Development Director of the DIME Child Foundation. DCF is a mentoring program in Chicago with a student-radio component. They will be 2010 Chicago organizer for National Mentoring Month. We shared ideas for how we might work together so the event draws more dollars to tutor/mentor programs in Chicago during January.The National Mentoring Partnership referred Justin to us, even though we're both receiving funds via Lend A Hand. This was the first face to face meeting and there are many opportunities where our collective efforts could help build support for each other, and for all tutor/mentor programs in the region.This can lead to greater web traffic at Dime Child and CC, T/MC, and can create a new element in the National Mentoring Month, that draw more resources to the various tutor/mentor programs in a city.
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1167111-20-2009Bart Phillips, of CB Tutors, hosted discussion at Tutor/Mentor Conference focused on building a multi-organizational collaboration to develop a statistically valid methodology for the quantification of desired frequency tutoring and mentoring programs. Bart recruited Meredith Wroblewski, American Statistical Association, to be part of this effort.This shows how the conference draws together tutor/mentor leaders, who ,over time, begin to take on roles that strengthen the impact of the Tutor/Mentor Connection. Bart started coming to the conferences two or three years ago.The information Bart is trying to create can be used by policy makers and leaders from many sectors to develop strategies that support the growth of tutor/mentor programs in all places where such programs are needed.
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1167211-20-2009Valdis Krebs, Founder and Chief Scientist, http://orgnet.com/ and Jean Russell, Founder, http://nurture.biz/ presented information about "thrivable networks" and "Social Network Analysis". Valdis offered to donate 10 licenses to his software for T/MC and partners to use to map their networks.Valdis and Jean were at the conference as a result of more than 4 years of T/MC networking in forums like Omidyar.net, Ned.com and Social Edge.org. This shows the long incubation period before an action happens that can influence the growth of T/MC capacity to achieve its mission.If we can adopt the SNA tools to map the T/MC network, we can create greater understanding of the value of the T/MC role, and secure greater support for our efforts. We can also show others how to take on a similar role, for the same purposes.
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1167311-20-2009Janet Hickey, a faculty member from DePaul University, and two students, hosted a workshop to describe the work done from Sept--Nov 09 by the "coming to Chicago class". This group researched poverty and the availability of tutor/mentor programs, and wrote blog articles to share what they were learning, as they were learning. They used T/MC info and were coached by the T/MC.The blogs can be seen at http://jhickey50.wordpress.com/. This is an example of the type of group learning and communications that T/MC hopes to see duplicated at every university, in high schools, and in business and faith circles.As more groups take this role, and continue it for many years, they will build organizational understanding of where tutor/mentor programs are needed, how they differ, and ways volunteers and donors from their own networks can support programs in many places. This will increase support for tutor/mentor programs and make them more available throughout a city.
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1166911-19-2009Nearly 155 people attended the Tutor/Mentor Leadership and Networking Conference, held at Northwestern University on Nov. 19 and 20. Participants came from Indiana, Louisiana, New Mexico, Wisconsin and Illinois.By maintaining a database of Chicago programs, a web library of resources, and an email list of people throughout the country, we are able to invite people to connect in this face to face event every six months. This helps people learn to work with us, and each other, and creates public awarness for tutoring/mentoring as a movement.People will use ideas and relationships from the confernce to grow their own tutor/mentor programs, or to build partnerships that help multiple programs grow.
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1167011-19-2009David Neils of International Telementor Program, based in Colorado, presented workshop at Tutor/Mentor Conference. He was introduced by T/MC to Eric Davis, Educational Endeavors, and Ken King, New Concepts.This is an example of how the conference enables T/MC to introduce people we know to each other.David, Ken and Eric may build their own network and activities as a result of this introduction by T/MC