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VOLUNTEER TIME, TALENT TO HELP A YOUTH
Welcome to the Chicago Tutor/Mentor
Program Locator. This web service is intended to help people in the Chicago region
find information about non-school tutoring and/or mentoring programs operating in
different parts of the Chicago region. It is also intended to help these non profit
organizations get the volunteers and financial support each needs to provide effective
services to youth in their areas. Finally, it is intended to serve as a planning
tool to help businesses, faith groups and community leaders form new programs where
none now exist.
Read the
HOW TO pdf tutorials
at the left to learn to use this resource. The more often you use it, the better you will understand
how the features help volunteer-based tutor/mentor programs grow in neighborhoods where they are most needed
Back To School Benefit Concert for Tutor/Mentor Programs, Darkroom August 29th!
Street violence and crime are rampant this year in Chicago. Motivated by fear and helplessness, some citizens are urging a lift on the city's concealed weapons ban, while the state debates sending in the National Guard. However, the wife of slain Chicago police officer Thor Soderberg instead calls for adults to get involved helping at-risk kids. She says that "each young person needs five important adults and one strong adult to provide a positive influence in their lives."
We agree. Since 1995, the Tutor/Mentor Connection (a non-profit student advocacy organization that operates in conjunction with "Cabrini Connections Tutor/Mentor Program" in the Cabrini Green neighborhood), has been organizing an August/September volunteer recruitment campaign to mobilize volunteers and donors to be part of tutor/mentor programs This August the T/MC has partnered with Chicago musicians to help build community involvement in the area’s tutor/mentor programs.
Join us at Tutor/Mentor Jam 2010 on Sunday, August 29, 2010, at Darkroom, a music venue situated in the heart of Chicago's West Town Neighborhood, just west of Cabrini Green.
PURCHASE TICKETS NOW!
This coming-together of bands, entertainers, and the local business community represents a village, coming together to draw public attention and support toward volunteer-based, non-school tutor/mentor programs in high-poverty/high-crime neighborhoods throughout the Chicago region.
Such programs provide safe places where youth can connect with caring adult tutors, mentors, and career coaches who volunteer to help at-risk youth gain the academic and decision making edge that just might be the difference in a few years, when that child is deciding between a book and a gun.
- Back To School Benefit for Tutor/Mentor Programs, programs that aid public school students
- Darkroom, 2210 W. Chicago Ave., Chicago, IL 60622; 773-276-1411
- Sunday, August 29, 2010; 5pm doors and FREE FOOD (cash bar); Shows starts at 6pm
- 21+, $10 Advance July only ($15 in August, $20 door); PURCHASE TICKETS NOW!
Visit the Mapping for Justice blog weekly for more discussion about how we collaborate together, sharing ideas and strategies, for the promotion of more and better tutor/mentor programs everywhere.
In general, leaders from anywhere in the community or world can use these maps, the Interactive Maps
and the Find A Program link at the right to find contact information that can be used to reach out to potential volunteers or donors, or for families to help enroll a student. These tools help leadership visualize which neighborhoods have enough tutor/mentor programs, or where there are too few programs. Volunteers, donors and business partners can use these maps to determine where to offer talent, leadership, dollars and technology to help existing programs provide constantly improving services, and to help create new programs where needed. Together we can help assure that No Child in Chicago is Left Behind.
Learn more about Tutor/Mentor Connection strategies and ways these maps can be used at the Tutor/Mentor Institute web site:
http://www.tutormentorexchange.net
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