Tutor/Mentor Connection - Connect knowledge, volunteers, youth and make a difference.

Connect knowledge, volunteers, youth and make a difference.

This is a place for volunteer-based tutoring/mentoring leaders to collaborate. Not a commercial site. Due to spam, members need approval.

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Building a Non-School Strategy

Engaging students in learning

Birth to Work Pipeline - White Paper

Network Building - Expanding the Choir

Lowering the HS Drop Out Rate - Heavy Lifting to Do

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Beyond the Bricks doc trailer

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Christmas Celebration 2008

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Tutor/Mentor Leadership and Networking Conference

November 19, 2009 to November 20, 2009 – Northwestern University, Evanston

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Tutor/Mentor Programs part of Workforce Development - Are you Aligned?

I attended a High School Drop Out Summit in Illinois this week, and one of the papers I read was a "Birth To Work" white paper. I wrote about it and provide a link on my blog. The co-author was a senior executive of The Boeing Company and he ca...

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Tutor/Mentor Connection History and Tracking System (OHATS)

Since 2000 we have been documenting actions intended to help grow volunteer-based tutor/mentor programs in the Chicago region. These actions relate to

a) gathering and sharing information
b) increasing public awareness and the number who look at the information
c) increasing results for tutor/Mentor programs as a result of the first two steps
d) helping people understand and use the information (training & facilitation)
e) integrating technology in to these goals
f) creating events to help achieve these goals

View the Metrics pages at http://www.vattsystems.com/ohats/Home.aspx and you can see how we show the number of documented actions in each category.

I've set up a group on this ning.com page for discussion of the metrics charts. If you'd like to join the group let me know.

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Help Tutor/Mentor Connection win donations in America's Giving Challenge

Can you make a $10 donation to help us keep hosting this web site, and the other resources of the Tutor/Mentor Connection? Can you encourage 10 people you know to also make a $10 donation, and to encourage 10 people they know to do so?

We're competing in the America's Giving Challenge on Facebook, where the non profit getting the most donors by Nov. 6 wins $50,000 in addition to the money from those donors.

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Posted by Daniel Bassill on October 15, 2009 at 10:27am

Programs for at-risk students in Chicago, including matching with jobs, mentors, and counseling

There's funding for programs to mentor and get students off the streets into more supportive environments.
Excerpts from the Wall Street Journal:

"In response to the violence, Chief Executive Officer of Chicago Public Schools Ron Huberman last month announced a safety and security strategy that will target nearly 10,000 high-school students identified as at risk of becoming shooting victims. The project will connect some of them with mentors and part-time jobs in hopes of keeping the teens off… Continue

Posted by Lara B Colvin on October 10, 2009 at 10:59am — 1 Comment

Television Shows Promote Volunteering - How does this help you promote your own program?

Television viewers will notice the week of October 19 – 25 that their favorite characters and actors are promoting volunteerism to a level never before seen in the entertainment industry.

The effort is part of a multi-year initiative from the Entertainment Industry Foundation (EIF) titled "I Participate," which will encourage Americans to embrace a new way of thinking about service and aims to persuade millions of people to volunteer regularly. For more information about "I Participate," visit… Continue

Posted by Daniel Bassill on October 5, 2009 at 9:29am

Visualizations can help create shared understanding

On my blog at Tutor/Mentor Connection I post graphics like the one below, to help explain concepts that I feel would result in more resources for tutor/mentor programs, thus, more and better programs reaching more kids. The one below illustrates a goal of educating donors and volunteers so they are visiting forums like this, and our web sites, to learn what we do and decide who, and how, to help.

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Posted by Daniel Bassill on October 3, 2009 at 9:18am

Educating Black Boys: A Film Screening of "BEYOND THE BRICKS"

You are cordially invited to join us at the 2009 Congressional Black Caucus Foundations Annual Conference (Washington D.C) Screening of "Beyond the Bricks".
September 24th, 2009 2-3:30pm at Washington Convention Center Rm 146-C.
In the meanwhile, please connect with us at www.beyondthebricksproject.com

Hope to see you there,
Ouida

Ouida Washington
Washington Koen Media
www.washingtonkoenmedia.com
212 234-3925 ph

Posted by Washington Koen on September 22, 2009 at 1:48pm — 1 Comment