Recommended Reading Posted by Daniel Bassill on May 10, 2008 at 3:42am in What are the challenges of operating a volunteer-b The Tutor/Mentor Connection maintains an extensive on-line library with links to articles that help us understand where and why volunteer-based tutor/mentor programs are most needed. I encourage you to launch discussions about these articles in the Ning forum, or in the Tutor/Mentor Connection forum. You can also add new articles. Each of the links below point to articles which illustrate where and why tutor/mentor programs are needed. Share these with business, church and community leaders. Use them to develop your own volunteer-recruitment and tutor/mentor program support strategy. Reframing school drop out as a Public Health Issue http://tutormentor.blogspot.com/2007/09/reframing-school-dropout-as-public.html Cities in Crisis - Dropout rates highest in 50 biggest cities http://tutormentor.blogspot.com/2008/04/mapping-drop-out-and-public-health.html Building Systems of Support - a response to No Child Left Behind http://tutormentor.blogspot.com/2008/03/frameworks-for-systemic-transformations.html Make Peace, Not War. If we don't want to lose our inner city kids to street violence, poor schools, and limited futures This link points to a series of articles .... http://tutormentor.blogspot.com/search?q=enough+is+enough Creating a pipeline to jobs and careers http://tutormentor.blogspot.com/2007/10/creating-pipeline-to-jobs-careers.html Challenges of building and sustaining strong non profit organizations http://tutormentor.blogspot.com/2008/02/non-profit-congress-for-common-good-of.html You need to be a member of Tutor/Mentor Connection to add comments! Join Tutor/Mentor Connection Email me when people reply – Follow
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Learning to Finish Wiki - http://www.learningtofinish.org/doku.php?id=act_now
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Social Edge Forum for Social Entrepreneurs - http://socialedge.org
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