During the next six weeks people in the US and the world will be more generous than they are at any other part of the year. How can we combine our messages on this and other forums, so more donors are choosing non profits represented by members of this forum?
One way is to write a blog talking about what you do, and where you communicate your own message to the public. If you link to this forum on those blogs and Facebook pages, then the people you talk to in other forums will come here, and th…
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Added by Daniel Bassill on November 10, 2009 at 10:16am —
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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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Added by Daniel Bassill on October 15, 2009 at 10:27am —
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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…
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Added by Daniel Bassill on October 5, 2009 at 9:29am —
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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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Added by Daniel Bassill on October 3, 2009 at 9:18am —
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Below is a
strategy map that illustrates our goal of helping kids born in poverty be starting jobs and careers by age 25. You can follow the links on this map and find many ideas that you can use to lead this strategy where ever your may be.
If you share the same goal, I encourage you to create concept maps that provide your vision and blueprint, and il…
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Added by Daniel Bassill on September 20, 2009 at 10:21am —
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Last night Channel 2 News did a story about Cabrini Connections, showing a bit about what we do and conveying a message of "help wanted" to potential donor/viewers. You can see the
story on their web site.
This illustrates that while we're leading the Tutor/Mentor Connection, and trying to help all of you, and many others, get the volunteers, dollars, ideas, that you need at your programs, we'r…
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Added by Daniel Bassill on September 8, 2009 at 8:27am —
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On the main Tutor/Mentor Connection web site I have a
map that you can use to show where you are located in the world, and who you are.
There are other versions of this type of service available, and if someone can figure a way to add it as a feature on this Ning page, please offer it. Until then, the guest map that is on the T/MC…
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Added by Daniel Bassill on August 30, 2009 at 10:16am —
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You can find the August 2009 newsletter for Tutor/Mentor Connection
here. It has lots of links to articles that people involved in volunteer-based tutor/mentor programs should value.
The next Chicago Tutor/Mentor Conference is Nov. 19 and 20 and Nicole White is looking for volunteers to help organize and market the conference, and a few sponsors to help pay for it.
Introduce yourself to Nicole in the…
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Added by Daniel Bassill on August 26, 2009 at 3:37pm —
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I hope you'll all take a few moments to read the
July eNewsletter on line. You can also subscribe to the newsletter from that site.
I focus on Volunteer Recruitment in this issue, because with school starting soon, most tutor/mentor programs are beginning the work of recruiting volunteers and students. At
Cabrini Connect…
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Added by Daniel Bassill on July 28, 2009 at 10:55am —
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For the next three days, volunteer and business leaders from around the nation will gather in San Francisco for this year's
National Conference on Volunteering and Service.
This year's conference is using blogs and other social media to connect with people who cannot be at the conference. I'll be connecting from my
tutor/mentor blog and on
http://www.twitter.com…
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Added by Daniel Bassill on June 23, 2009 at 4:51pm —
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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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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 h…
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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 gra…
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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.
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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 with us fo…
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Added by Daniel Bassill on April 13, 2009 at 3:38pm —
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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…
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Added by Daniel Bassill on March 26, 2009 at 12:12pm —
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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 number out for size: A to…
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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 that they i…
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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…
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Added by Daniel Bassill on March 5, 2009 at 9:47am —
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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
* Home page has easy-to-find subfea…
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Added by Daniel Bassill on February 4, 2009 at 1:08pm —
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