2nd

2nd of

4 Strategies

Tutor/Mentor Connection

2nd strategy is our core strategy.

Expand/Develop Quarterly Events

Conference

Business School Connection

T/MC leads actions intended to increase frequency of T/M stories in articles, social media, faith communities, advertising, internet, leadership communications.

We hold conferences May and November. We also hold recruitment campaign August and September. Forum, web site and blogs are on-going. We need more volunteers, ideas, university engagement, and on-going operating dollars.

If you want to learn more about our conferences, visit here:

http://www.tutormentorconference.org

The conference serves three purposes:

• It connects leaders and supporters of volunteer-based tutoring, mentoring and education-to-career programs with each other.
• It builds visibility so that more volunteers and donors will choose to support tutor/mentor programs in the Chicago region.
• It helps T/MC maintain its Chicago Area Programs List of area tutor/mentor programs.

The Business School Connection is an concept strategy created by the Tutor Mentor Connection in the mid 1990s.

There are multiple reasons why this link is mutually beneficial:

1) Business schools have an interest in achieving diversity in their programs.

2) Business schools have an interest in making connections with their surrounding communities.

3) Firms that recruit from business schools are also looking to diversify their employee base.

4) Universities are being encouraged to engage strategically with their communities, by leaders such as former President Jimmy Carter.

The next conference will be June 14, 2012

Want to be on panel? See Agenda :

http://www.tutormentorconference.org/agenda.asp

Chicagoland T/M Volunteer Recruitment Campaign

You can help us with

your talent, treasure,

and your time!

We're now seeking new students to join this project.

Social Media

In 1994 the T/MC begin a survey to learn what organizations in Chicago offer forms of volunteer based tutoring/mentoring. From the responses to this survey the first conference was organized in May 1994.

In spring 1995 the T/MC began to plan an August/September Chicagoland T/M Volunteer Recruitment Campaign.

The grant for the volunteer-recruitment organizer was not refunded after 2002 and no new donor stepped in to fund the role. The economic decline post 9/11 caused PCI to cease its support . The lack of funds caused the T/MC to reduce all efforts at print communications and its support for the volunteer recruitment fairs.

However, the partnership with Access TV continued and slide shows in August and November on Cable Channel 27 encourage volunteer involvement. In addition the on-line visibility for the Tutor/Mentor Connection continues to grow and now a search for "tutor mentor" on Google results in T/MC web sites on the first page.

We hope to recruit from the list of top 50 business schools in the USA, shown below, or from lesser known schools who want to demonstrate top 50 thinking and leadership. We also hope that students from other countries will join this project, focusing it's impact on poverty and youth development issues in cities like London, Paris, New Delhi, Sydney, etc. One way to get involved is to join the on-line discussion of this topic, hosted in the T/MC Business School Connection Forum.

Another forum where members from Northwestern, Michigan, IIT and other universities can connect and brainstorm these strategies is the groups section at http://tutormentorconnection.ning.com

If you're interested in being a leader who helps shape this idea into a real strategy that has an impact in every major city in the world, introduce yourself in these forums and let's see how your time and talent can move this vision forward.

We collect information and host it on our web sites. Now we need to create a communications campaign that engages people daily with this information. Facebook, Linked In, Google+ and other forums offer possibilities, as do our blogs, conferences and other events. Yet, with limited dollars for promotion and advertising, what are strategies that might draw more people to the T/MC sites and ideas on a daily basis.

Awards For Best Practice

During the 1990s "Best practice" awards were given at the November and May conference. This photo shows Barak Obama giving one of the awards. This page shows photos of other award winners. The Lend A Hand Fund grant was also one of the awards presented.

Our 2nd Strategy is

"Intend to increase public awareness, advertising"

Rest Of Story Campaign

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Collecting and organizing information is only the first challenge of the Tutor/Mentor Institute.

Creating Civic Engagement where thousands or millions of people are looking at this information daily and using it to support their involvement in tutor/mentor programs and in helping inner-city youth is an even greater challenge.

Using Negative Media to Build Public Awareness

Maintain/Improve websites

1. Introduction to T/MC:

http://prezi.com/lt6msdiwtxf-/tmc-intro/

2. Collecting & sharing knowledge (1st Strategy):

http://prezi.com/lxqtellgyhpd/1st-/

3. Increasing facilitation and helping others

understand (3rd Strategy):

http://prezi.com/vzfrfvhdvvnb/3rd/

4. Motivating actions that support programs

(4th Strategy):

http://prezi.com/lrfhrmqdpdaa/4th/

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.

http://debategraph.org/Stream.aspx?nid=116876&iv=05

Build University Partnerships

We work from many different web sites because they serve different purposes and/or they were created by different volunteers at different times. All of our web sites were developed by volunteers.

Image on the right is an outline of the Tutor/ Mentor Institute goals with links to various web sites. This is hosted on Debate graph, created by a partnership in the UK. It can be edited by anyone and perhaps will aid in building understanding of what we're doing as well as building resources to help us do it.

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.

Creating University Partnerships has been a long-term goal. Embedding the Tutor/ Mentor Institute into one or more universities can unleash the talent and resources of the university and its alumni.

Growth of volunteers

in a tutor-mentor program

This PDF was created by a team of DePaul students in early 2000 as a "strategic plan" that universities could use as a starting point.

http://www.tutormentorexchange.net/images/PDF/UniversityTMC.pdf

Tutor/Mentor Institute :

http://www.tutormentorexchange.net

Tutor/Mentor Connection :

http://www.tutormentorconnection.org

Tutor Program Locator :

http://www.tutormentorprogramlocator.net

Tutor/Mentor Blog :

http://tutormentor.blogspot.com

T/MC Ning sites : http://tutormentorconnection.ning.com

Facebook : http://www.facebook.com/groups/225694987463116/

Twitter :

http://www.twitter.com/tutormentorteam

We can create more of these and we can create more professionally done videos as we find the talent, partners, inspiration to do so. If we distribute these via social media we can educate, entertain, and increase the size of the network.

We can even create competitions and video festivals focused on telling the story of T/M programs.

What is needed:

A Project Manager, co-owner, partner who will take the lead. A sponsor/produce who will provide funds to hire a project manager.

This map shows departments and organizations at Northwestern University that could be a source of partnership, volunteers, interns, ideas and support for Tutor/Mentor Connection.

Read more at :

http://tinyurl.com/TMC-Intern-Start