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Welcome to this networking group for Los Angeles T/MC. I hope to encourage the development of a Program Locator and Resource Directory for this region. Please feel free to join the list or email me directly with your referrals or suggestions.

Website: http://www.tutormentorconnection.org/FindaProgram/LosAngelesTutorMentorProgramLinks/tabid/746/Default.aspx
Members: 3
Latest Activity: Jul 20

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The National Mentor Summit 1 Reply

Started by Nalini Lasiewicz. Last reply by Daniel Bassill May. 6, 2008.

Connecting Big City Capacity Building Strategies to Support all tutor/mentor programs

Started by Daniel Bassill May. 5, 2008.

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Comment by Daniel Bassill on July 20, 2009 at 4:05pm: What is the funding climate for tutor/mentor non profits in California? With the state budget in dire shape, it must be tough. What are programs doing to recruit volunteers in August and Sept?

There are lots of celebrities talking about mentoring in January for National Mentoring Month. We need them to step forward as school starts, and not only talk about volunteering, but of providing dollars for operations of the programs where volunteers engage with kids.

Any thoughts?

Comment by Daniel Bassill on February 20, 2009 at 1:36pm: Val, please introduce yourself to Nalini. Maybe the two of you can increase the participation of West Coast leaders and donors in this forum.

Comment by Daniel Bassill on July 5, 2008 at 11:43am: Nalini,

I encourage you and others to read about this major foundation commitment by a group of California Foundations:

http://pndblog.typepad.com/pndblog/2008/07/beyond-ab-624-r.html?cid=121240310#comments

If you can build a T/MC like database and network of purpose focused on LA and other California cities, you might be able to get these foundations to channel their donations through your maps and database to hundreds of tutor/mentor programs throughout the state.

Comment by Daniel Bassill on May 22, 2008 at 2:19pm: I have two interns from Korea working with me this month. They have set up a group at http://tutormentorconnection.ning.com/group/cktmc

If you know programs serving Korean or Asian youth in LA, why not introduce them?

Comment by Nalini Lasiewicz on May 4, 2008 at 12:37pm: My name is Nalini Lasiewicz and I manage a non-profit group called the Lasiewicz Foundation. We encourage civic participation, early childhood music education, and the expansion of tutoring and mentoring programs. Such programs are crucial in connecting the talents of individuals and businesses in the larger community with schools, children and teens throughout our region. Dan Bassil has opened a web page for Los Angeles so that we can begin to build our regional network, using the T/MC portal. I hope you'll join me in the effort! Please feel free to contact me here or by phone at (818) 249-9691.