Tutor/Mentor Leadership and Networking Conference
May 28-29, 2009
I attend to the conference for two days in Northwestern University Law. I had attended several conferences while I was in the work shop, and I spend my almost time to take a picture of process about conference.
First of all, there were many kind of people in their and each of thwy have many different environment, background, education, face…
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Added by Gunwoong Go on June 1, 2009 at 2:03pm —
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I attended the Tutor/mentor leadership and networking conference from may 28 to may 29,2009. The conference was
held at the Northwestern University School of Law. I was worried about talking with many people because I can't speak
English well. I realized that I don't need to worried about what I worried because most of them told me first. I can have
courage about talking with people. There are impressive workshop for…
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Added by SungJoong Kim on June 1, 2009 at 2:00pm —
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Three of the guests at the Chicago conference last week were interns from Korea and China, by way of the Illinois Institute of Technology. Here are photos taken by Kg.
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Added by Daniel Bassill on June 1, 2009 at 12:30pm —
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Hi everyone,
My name is Gunwoong Go and just call me 'Kg'. I'm from South Korea and exchange student in Illinois Institute of Technology. My majors are media and mathematics, and specific skills are game development and team management. I can use programming languages, C, C++, Direct X, but those are not my talent. I can use some software, Illustrator, powerpointer, and etc. I was working in a game company named 'NCsoft' where is the most big and famous game company in Korea during…
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Added by Gunwoong Go on May 27, 2009 at 2:00pm —
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My first day started a little nervous in the morning. Because it is my first time to work for the America company in U.S.
In fact, I already had two-years working experience in Shanghai, which specialized in media industry. But I am still looking for working for different sectors and full fill my life.
Dan,who is the president of Cabrini Connections ask me to introduce myself. I just want to let other staff know their new members. My name is Liye Lin, who was born in the east of…
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Added by LIYE LIN on May 27, 2009 at 1:58pm —
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Hi everyone
My name is SungJoong Kim. You can call me Karse. I'm from south korea. I'm here for exchange student in IIT. My major is computer science. I'm Junior in University. I am accustomed to handle computer, that means I can learn anythings faster than other people. Also, I like computer programming which can handle Java,C language. I've been stayed here for 4month. I'm going to work with cabrini connection for 6 weeks. I'm really interested in working with cabrini connection.…
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Added by SungJoong Kim on May 27, 2009 at 1:50pm —
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I encourage you all to download and read
this study from Public/Private Venture's. It's a report from a three-year study of the role Boys & Girls Clubs play in the lives of the youth they serve.
Making Every Day Count examines how Club participation is related to youth's positive and…
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Added by Daniel Bassill on May 14, 2009 at 12:23pm —
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This graphic illustrates how non profits are all competing with each other for a limited pool of resources. Most are not as successful at getting resources as they need to be, or at keeping these for many years needed to have a social impact, such as helping a first grader move through high school graduation and into a job.
The graphic illustrates the role Tutor/Mentor Connection is taking, to try to draw donors and volunteers…
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Added by Daniel Bassill on May 7, 2009 at 4:16pm —
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Here's a link to a
Community Collaboration web site that might be a useful networking tool for many of the people who are members of the Tutor/Mentor Connection on ning.
Added by Daniel Bassill on April 15, 2009 at 11:55am —
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Most non profits are chronically short of dollars to hire all of the staff they need, and during this economic turmoil, this is particularly true. Thus, it's great when the non profit can recruit interns to help do important work.
If you browse the
groups section you can see how interns from Korea, Michigan and IIT have been helping the Tutor/Mentor Connection visualize some of its ideas. You can connect with interns who were…
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Added by Daniel Bassill on April 13, 2009 at 3:38pm —
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Hello All
In response partly to an earlier message from Dan Bassill regarding raising support on behalf of grassroots organisations in the developing world.
I am co-founder of a small trust operating in Zimbabwe. We provide drama and arts based activities with young people living on the street.
Would anybody like to consider volunteering in this country in the not too distant future?
I am currently engaged in remote fundraising support by way of project bids…
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Added by James Robinson on March 28, 2009 at 7:30am —
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At Kids Learning Adventure, I help by giving them snack and after snack I help them with their Homework. When they are playing I just make sure everything is okay.
Added by Lori Beth Burstein on March 27, 2009 at 7:36pm —
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Public Allies Chicago Presents: A Forum for Nonprofit Leaders
March 25, 2009
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What can we expect from the philanthropic community in this new economic environment?
Consuella Brown, The Woods Fund
The bad news:
• Don’t rely on government stimulus money – most of it has been or will be spent to plug up deficits.
• Foundations have experienced significant drops in assets. It’s serious enough that they are having to consider cutting staff. While…
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Added by Nicole Sutton on March 27, 2009 at 7:32pm —
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This map is one of the images I shared in the March 2009 Tutor/Mentor Connection eMail newsletter, which you can find on the
T/MC web site.
This map can also be seen at the
Mapping for Justice web site, along with an article explaining…
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Added by Daniel Bassill on March 26, 2009 at 12:12pm —
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Dear Community Partners,
This summer, the Youth Ready Chicago program will provide up to 7,300 youth
with a government-subsidized paid work experience operating via a system of hubs
and worksites. The Department of Family and Support Services (FSS) is seeking
proposals from qualified organizations to serve as hubs for the Youth Ready
Chicago program.
Successful respondents will be able to demonstrate strong experience with
Workforce Investment Act…
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Added by Marcus Flenaugh on March 24, 2009 at 12:08pm —
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Children cannot focus on learning when they are worried about living.
Editorial from Chicago SunTimes
March 9, 2009
In this school year alone, 25 Chicago Public Schools children have been murdered. As shocking as that is, that number doesn't begin to tell the real story of how deeply violence is a part of the everyday life of Chicago's children.
Try this…
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Added by Daniel Bassill on March 10, 2009 at 9:44am —
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Chris Warren, who is serving a one year fellowship with Cabrini Connections, Tutor/Mentor Connection, has written a blog post showing how the T/MC seeks to work with teams from universities, professions, businesses, hospitals, etc.. You can read this at http://chrispip.blogspot.com/2009/03/campuscatalyst-cabriniconnections_07.html
We have many groups growing within the Tutor/Mentor Connection Ning.com page, and our aim is to help each group adopt the ideas Chris is writing about, so…
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Added by Daniel Bassill on March 8, 2009 at 12:32pm —
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I encourage you to visit the groups section to see work done since January by interns from Korea and India (by way of Illinois Institute of Technology and the University of Michigan.
The work one team did was to convert the graphic on this page to an animated presentation which you can view from the UMichigan…
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Added by Daniel Bassill on March 5, 2009 at 9:47am —
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Softscripts was established in the year 2003. Our main motto is to help in eradicating illiteracy from the world ,so we developed a platform connecting tutors ,teachers and professors with students and renting books online in an easier way . Teachers can showcase their classes to the world. Students can reach teachers in a better way .
Find-guru.com started online quiz for students, teachers. Any one can play weekly quiz and win exiting…
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Added by Srinivas nunna on March 2, 2009 at 8:26am —
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In May 2008 I invited interns from Korea who were spending a month in Chicago as interns with the Tutor/Mentor Connection to look at the
Chicago Tutor/Mentor Programs listed on the T/MC web site, as a first-time visitor.
Here are questions we've asked them to consider:
* Home page features "mentoring or tutoring" with headline words and/or pictures
*…
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Added by Daniel Bassill on February 4, 2009 at 1:08pm —
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