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Increasing Attention for Tutor/Mentor Programs

Below are 1994 to 2019 Chicago print media stories resulting from Tutor/Mentor Connection strategies (led by Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC since 2011). Not listed are stories about the Cabrini Connections program we also led during these year, nor the numerous radio and TV interviews. As you look at these imagine how many stories you could generate if you duplicated the Tutor/Mentor Connection in your own city.

In this 1995 Commentary in the Chicago Tribune, John McCarron said that Dan Bassill and the Tutor/Mentor Connection has a "master plan" for saving kids. All of the information on this and other T/MC web sites is part of that 'master plan'.  This 4-part strategy of the Tutor/Mentor Connection shows that the T/MC collects information that is hosted on this site and works to increasing the number of stories in print, electronic, internet, business and faith communities that point to where tutor/mentor programs are needed, why they are needed and organizations already operating that need a constant flow of operating dollars, technical support and volunteers to grow from "good to great".  In addition to these media stories look at the number of times T/MC staff have written about other Tutor/Mentor programs in Chicago in blog articles - see pdf.

 

This article printed in the Chicago Tribune in December 1994 outlines the Public Awareness strategy that the T/MC has been leading every year since then.

Below is a list of stories that support this strategy. Click the link to open a PDF and read the story. The ideas shared in these stories are just as relevant today as in the past and the challenges of poverty are even more severe. 


 

This is article from the ChicagoTribune October 21, 2015 paper showing how maps could be used in violence prevention strategies. See text from Internet version of this story.

The most recent stories are at bottom of this list. See more interviews here. Awards here.

See more than 180 media stories creates since 1993. View in Google Drive archive - click here

 

 

Date Newspaper/Company Headline of article or Interview
5/16/1994 
Chicago Tribune Mentors join forces to reach city's youth
6/16/1994 
Shedd Aquarium magazine Aquarium hosts Tutor/Mentor Leadership Conference
8/2/1994 
Chicago Tribune Mentors Getting Their Act Together
11/28/1994 
Chicago Sun-Times He Traded Wards' Job for Tutoring
12/30/1994 
Chicago Tribune For Charities, public relations picks up where goodwill leaves off
1994/95 The Chicago Bar Foundation Report Lend A Hand Program: Lost opportunities in the non-school hours
1994/1995
PCI Newsletter
 Inner city children linked to tutors and mentors
Spring 1995
 CBA News
 Lawyers Lend A Hand
5/15/1995 
Chicago Tribune There is a master plan for saving our kids
5/16/1995 Chicago Defender Tutor/Mentor Confab trains 200 groups
10/29/1995 Chicago Tribune Letter to Editor - Tutoring Works
12/7/1995
Chicago Tribune
 Letter to Editor following death of Carlos Chambers
9/6/1995
Daily Southtown Role Models: Mentor programs have quietly grown into a force for turning young lives around
10/1/1995
CBA Record
 CBA Lawyers Mentor City's Youth
3/17/1996 
The Daily Chronicle, DeKalb Sycamore native's program tries to bust stereotypes
6/3/1996 
Chicago Tribune How to make yourself feel like royalty
8/21/1996 INSIDE (Near North Chicago)
 Volunteers Connect with Youth Through Tutoring Program
9/3/1996 
Chicago Sun-Times Commentary: Give a kid the greatest gift: ability to read
11/14/1996 
Chicago Sun-Times Volunteers get as much out of tutoring as kids
11/24/1996 
Chicago Tribune Tutors need assistance too
12/4/1996 
Chicago Educator Mentor Puts Afterburners in After-School Programs
4-29-1997
 Chicago Sun-Times
Pitching In Is Catching On - Dan Bassill quoted in article
June 1997
Continental Air Express News
 Tutors and Mentors Needed Throughout Chicago
6/19/1997 
The Giraffe Project Honor Role - Dan Bassill named a Giraffe
8/30/1997 
Chicago SunTimes Call goes out for volunteers
1997
Blau Exchange Interview with Dan Bassill, 1992 founder of Cabrini Connections, Tutor/Mentor Connection.
9/3/1997 Chicago Tribune Voice of People: Tutor/Mentor Programs Need You
1/12/1998 Crain's Chicago Business A 'trade group' that distributes knowledge to kids
2/19/1998 Southwest News-Herald Discuss Mentoring Programs for Youths - this article shows how a person coached by Tutor/Mentor incorporates the T/MC idea of "Total Quality Mentoring" into the news article
4/1/1998 Chicago Defender The People Speak: Welfare to Work Can Work
4/30/1998 Chicago Tribune & SunTimes Letter to the Editor in both papers. Tribune - Village Maps; SunTimes - Under Construction
5/21/1998 Chronicle of Philanthropy Opinion: General Powell Needs a Battle Map to Fulfill America's Promise
9/9/1998
Chicago Tribune
 Tutor works for "Connection"
Oct-98 School-to-Work Reporter Mentor projects seek stronger role in STW
4/12/1999 Chicago Sun-Times Letter to Editor: Business Leaders Can Help Students
6/7/1999 Direct Marketing News CD-ROM Drop May Bring More Cash to the Neighborhood
6/11/1999 Interactive PR & Marketing News A Contribution from the Heart, Not the Wallet
7/1/1999 Daily Herald This is where the kids are
11/1999
URISA News
 Community IT/GIS Helping the Kids
1999-2000
Illinois Kids Count Report
 Communities at Work: Tutor/Mentor Connection (see pg 3)
6/23/2001 Ecumenical Child Care Network "Get wisdom! Get understanding,…" Proverbs 4: Verse 5
9/7/2001 Chicago Tribune Small lessons are reward of mentoring
3/2002 Directions Magazine
 Mapping Solutions to Poverty
9/12/2002 Chicago Sun-Times Calling all volunteers: Tutors for kids needed
Jun-03 AARP Connections Guest Article: Lives Can Be Changed
9/2000 Mentoring Coalition of Dade Cty (FL) The Chicago Plan for Mentoring Program Support
9/4/2003 Chicago Sun-Times Tutor-Mentor Programs need you to step up
11/6/2003 Lerner Skyline Cabrini Connections President prepared to turn loan into gift
1/31/2004 Chicago Defender
 Organization Connects Youth Mentors
April 2004
IWU Magazine
 Dan Bassill's Work Helping Inner City Youth is Recognized
9/2004
The Institute for Social Inventions, Global Ideas Bank
 Social Innovation Award Nomination - for mapping idea
1/10/2005 CBA Report Lend-A-Hand Program Awards /$28k. Cabrini Connections Demetrio
8/25/2005 Lerner Skyline Hey, anybody out there have some free time on their hands?
8/31/2005 Streetwise Tutors can set tone for school
Sep-05 Families & Schools, ADI newsletter Tutoring/Mentoring: A Service-Learning Strategy that Changes Lives
8/10/2006
EXTRA NEWS
 Advertising demonstrates strategy for building awareness
2/2006
Project YES newsletter
 Dan Bassill: Bridging Tutor-Mentor Gap
7/2006
YOUTH Today
 Networking & Resources: Cabrini Connections, Tutor/Mentor Connection
2/6/2008 Chicago Sun-Times Still Want to Make a Difference? Here are 5 Ways
Jun-09 YOUTH Today HOW TO…create maps to help kids and Youth Workers
11/2011
Streetwise Popular Chicago Tutor & Mentor Conference Set for November 4
1/25/2012
Streetwise Tutoring/Mentoring Needs Corporate Help
8/12/2013
Crain's Chicago Business
 Mobilizing Village (or big city) to help kids - letter to editor
10/15/15 Chicago Tribune Interactive Maps Could Combat Chicago Violence - Dawn Turner
12/14/16 The Atlantic Mentoring's Promise and Limits - by Larry Gordon
1/30/2019
 Terry Elliott video

Terry's video provides a tour through on of Dan Bassill's concept maps
3/1/22 
 YouTube Video

Interview with Dan Bassill, founder of Tutor/Mentor Connection, with 
Anthony Brogdon, Detroit
4/12/22 
 Facebook Video

Interview with Dan Bassill, founder of Tutor/Mentor Connection, with
Aliyu B Solomon, from Nigeria
Internet between 2000 and 2022
 Visit This Link Read interviews in on-line media
 Search on Google for "tutor mentor"or "Bassill" and see the many places where Dan has interacted in an effort to draw more attention and resources to volunteer-based tutor/mentor programs in Chicago and other cities.

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