Dan... You have been organizing volunteers and numerous activities for more than 30 years now. Your track record is hugely impressive, especially considering that so much of this work has been done outside regular working hours.
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Since September 2000, the T/MC has been using an on-line documentation system to show actions that we and volunteers working with us have taken to help comprehensive, constantly-improving, volunteer-based tutoring and/or mentoring programs operate in high poverty areas of the Chicago region, or in other cities. We call this T/MC OHATS (Tutor/Mentor Connection Organizational History and Accomplishments Tracking System).
The articles in this section illustrate strategies that businesses, hospitals and faith groups might embrace to adopt neighborhoods with their employee volunteer and philanthropic strategies, instead of just adopting schools that only reach kids from 9am to 3pm on school days and 9 months each year. Such strategies create greater public awareness for volunteer-based tutoring/mentoring and draw volunteers and donors to programs in different neighborhoods, the way retail advertising draws customers to stores in different places.
HELP SPREAD THE WORD!
The Tutor/Mentor Institute is a web site of the Tutor/Mentor Connection (T/MC) where we share our own vision and strategies. In the various sections of this web site we provide short pdf essays illustrating ways leaders in business, faith groups, hospitals, media and politics can use their own visibility and communications to support the growth of volunteer-based tutor/mentor programs in different parts of Chicago and in other cities. We encourage you to read these and share them with others, then adopt these in your own leadership actions.
The articles in this section illustrate ways organizations, businesses, faith groups and others in Chicago and in oth3er cities can connect to share ideas, learn, and innovate new solutions to problems individual programs cannot solve by working alone.