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| Edition:
Dec. 28, 2011 Issue No. 105 |
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| * Happy Holidays * January National Mentoring Month * What Information is Available? * Help Collect Information about Chicago Programs * President's Message - New Ways to Share Ideas |
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| Tis the Season of Giving Thanks and Giving Hope and Opportunity |
Each year I meet new people through the conferences and networking and that enriches my world in many different ways. I thank you all for the work you do and for sharing the information I send in these newsletters.
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| January 2012 National Mentoring Month Activities | |
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| What Information is Available to Support Collective Efforts to Help Kids to Careers? How do we increase the number of people using this? | |
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There is a wealth of information on
the Internet that program leaders, volunteers and supporters can all
learn from. Below are links to articles that might be read and discussed
during January's National Mentoring Month. * Public/Private Ventures Brief, titled Mentoring, Policy and Politics, http://www.ppv.org/ppv/publications/assets/224_publication.pdf * Strategies for Quality After School Programs & Activities | The Wallace Foundation - http://www.wallacefoundation.org/cost-of-quality/quality-strategies/Pages/default.aspx#gqs* Long-term mentoring – read article about Friends of the Children. http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/06/for-children-at-risk-mentors-who-stay/ Mentors in this program are PAID and make minimum 3-year commitments. What can volunteer-based tutor/mentor programs learn from this model that will recruit volunteers and keep them involved with youth for multiple years? * Mentoring Kids to Careers. Add your own ideas to this map. Use any of these ideas in your own planning and operations - http://debategraph.org/mentoring_kids_to_careers * Challenges facing non
profits – how does this affect our sector? * Using maps to
understand availability and distribution of different types of tutoring
and/or mentoring programs at schools and in non-school hours.
http://www.tutormentorexchange.net/mapping-the-programs
Visit the Tutor/Mentor Connection Links Library for more resources to use in organizing and sustaining volunteer-based tutoring and/or mentoring programs. http://tinyurl.com/T-MC-Library
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| Help collect information about Tutor/Mentor Programs in Chicago region (you can apply this same information to duplicate this in other cities) | ||
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 president's
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| Finding new ways to share ideas. |
by Daniel F. Bassill |
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This page shows videos from the November
Conference Executive Director panel along with other videos created
by the Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC and Tutor/Mentor Connection.
http://www.
This page shows how ideas can be posted and shared on Scribd.com. I started posting on October 20 and have recorded more than 1700 reads since then. If you post your own ideas and vision this way it can help us build more understanding of the value of tutor/mentor programs and expand the pool of resources supporting all of us. http://www.scribd.com/daniel-f-bassill-7291 Young people can help create and communicate these ideas. Follow blogs at http://tutormentorconnection.ning.com/profiles/blog/list . Enlist young people in your own area to do this type of work to help tutor/mentor programs become more available in more places. Dropout Crisis continues to cost all Americans Read blog articles I've written since new information was published in December. Follow the links to more resources on this topic. http://tutormentor.blogspot.com/search/label/drop%20out Learn about January 16-23, 2012
Jelly Week collaboration event connecting communities from
around the world.
http://jellyweek.tumblr.com/ Learn about Jan 19, 2012
event where I'll be sharing ideas with a group in Sweden.
http://www.facebook.com/events/275713469145061/ There are two major events in Chicago in May and June, including the National Conference on Volunteering. At this point a sponsor has not come forward to help pay for a spring Tutor/Mentor Conference and a date has not been set. Learn more about ways to sponsor at http://www.tutormentorconference.org/sponsor.asp Help needed with Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC and Tutor/Mentor Connection Time, talent and dollars are always needed to do what we do to try to help hundreds of tutor/mentor programs reach thousands of kids. Since we're operating as a LLC and not a 501-c-3 new ways of asking for donations and raising money are needed. Yet, if you support the ideas we share and the work we're trying to do, a tax deduction should not be the motivation for helping. If you agree read more at http://www.tutormentorconference.org/hope_and_opportunity.htm Thank you for reading.
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| Daniel F. Bassill President Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC and Tutor/Mentor Connection |
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