Tutor/Mentor Connection
From Networked Advocacy
Tutor/Mentor Connection
Mission Statement The Tutor/Mentor Connection engages workplace adults in structured activities that make a life-changing difference for children and youth living in economically and educationally disadvantaged neighborhoods of major cities like Chicago.
Values Statement The Tutor/Mentor Connection will be recognized throughout the world as an innovator, an organization that gets results, and an organization that makes a difference in the lives of urban youth and the volunteers who become involved in programs that serve these youth.
The T/MC is non-profit that operates like a for-profit. Our customers are the youth and youth-serving organizations we seek to influence, as well as resource providers that must be more strategically involved in a mentoring-to-career strategy. We seek to emulate the best practices of for-profit businesses, with an on-going emphasis on quality improvement and shared ownership and involvement all stakeholders of the organization.
Vision Statement We will help educationally disadvantaged children and youth reach jobs and careers.
As a result of our actions, thousands of educationally disadvantaged children in major cities like Chicago will participate and benefit from comprehensive, mentor-rich programs that stimulate children's desire to learn, increase their self-esteem, and reinforce classroom teaching through lessons and friendships with adult role models. Such program will mentor adults into greater involvement while mentoring youth, thus creating a mentoring-to-careers network of adults who will open doors to scholarships, jobs and careers, as youth become young adults.
Core Business The Tutor/Mentor Connection (and Cabrini Connections) provides products and services that help tutor/mentor programs increase volunteer involvement, improve quality, and reach more youth. Our services are provided to leaders of t/m programs and to business, volunteers, donors, etc. who are needed to support the long-term success of these programs. One of the tutor/mentor programs that we help is our own Kids' Connection, which serves Cabrini-Green area teens.
Role as Network Weaver By collecting and hosting information about tutor/mentor programs operating in Chicago, where they are located, why they are needed, etc., we create a central point which anyone in the region or the country can draw from to support their own decisions. By organizing activities that bring people together we encourage networking and sharing ideas among everyone listed on our web sites. By creating maps to show where poverty is concentrated in Chicago we focus attention of volunteers and donors on all of the places in the region where help is needed, and encourage collaboration among all programs, as well as business, faith groups, universities, etc. to support strategies that help more kids connect with tutors/mentors and programs that will give them hope, opportunity and networks of adults who help them out of poverty.
By sharing this information in forums like this and via the internet we enable our ideas to be used in all parts of the world, while recruiting volunteers to support or advocate for our efforts.
CMap of Tutor/Mentor Connection mission, goals and strategy http://cmapspublic.ihmc.us/servlet/SBReadResourceServlet?rid=1178301962705_378512451_14531&partName=htmltext
Visit these web sites to see this work in progress
http://www.tutormentorconnection.org http://www.tutormentorconference.org http://tutormentor.blogspot.com http://tutormentorconnection.ning.com http://www.cabriniconnections.net
