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 "When nonprofit and community leaders share ideas, insights and information in ways that promote social impact...knowledge-sharing can improve organizational effectiveness. When we share what works and what doesn't... it results in accelerated learning, less reinventing the wheel, better service, and measurable results."
2003 quote by Mr. Tim Wilmot. Chief Knowledge and Evaluation Officer, Charles and Helen Schwab Foundation
The Tutor/Mentor Connection (T/MC) puts this thinking to work every day. The T/MC mission is: To gather and organize all that is known about successful non-school tutor/mentor programs and share that knowledge to expand the availability and enhance the effectiveness of these services to children in inner city Chicago and other poverty areas. Intro to T/MC and Cabrini Connections (pdf) The information on this web site is for anyone who wants to create better strategies and programs to help kids in high poverty neighborhoods of big cities. It's for resource providers, political and faith leaders, business leaders, and for those who lead and volunteer in non profit organizations working with inner city youth. |
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Chicagoland Tutor/Mentor Volunteer Recruitment |
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 School starts in less than 6 weeks. Volunteer-based tutor/mentor programs are looking for tutors and mentors. Can you help?
The Tutor/Mentor Connection seeks to help local non profits recruit volunteers throughout the year. However, as school starts each year, we lead an extra effort to mobilize volunteers for tutor/mentor programs. See how your business, faith group, or social network can take a lead in this effort.
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Help mobilize volunteers, raise dollars, support tutor/mentor programs. |
 Thanks to all who participated in the August 29, Tutor/Mentor Jam Concert - Musicians donated time and talent to help mobilize volunteers for Chicago area tutor/mentor programs. Visit http://www.tutormentorjam.org to learn more. Read the story of how one student's life was changed by a mentor. Meet Isaiah Brooms, who was first connected to Sara Caldwell when he was in elementary school, and living in the Cabrini Green neighborhood of Chicago.
Your donations help make tutor/mentor programs and stories like Isaiah's possible. If you can make a donation, be a sponsor, or help raise needed dollars in any way, please act now so we have the resources to give support to tutor/mentor programs and inner city youth as we start the 2010-11 school year. Click here to use PayPal to submit a donation. Call 312-492-9614 for more information on becoming a sponsor, donor or benefactor to support the work of Cabrini Connections and the Tutor/Mentor Connection. |
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The Tutor/Mentor Connection operates from at least seven web sites that we own, and hundreds of other sites owned by others. In the Tutor/Mentor Connection.org site we host more than 1500 links, pointing to information created by others around the world. Our goal is to help you learn to use that information to expand your understanding of where volunteer-based tutor/mentor programs are needed, the differences between different types of programs, and the actions people in business, philanthropy, government and other sectors can do to help world-class tutor/mentor programs operate in every high poverty neighborhood. 
Throughout each year Tutor/Mentor Connection organizes events to build public awareness for tutoring/mentoring, introduce new leaders to tutoring/mentoring, and raise money to pay to keep the lights on. We'll post some of these on this web site and at
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