During the 1990’s, tutoring and mentoring programs became recognized as an effective avenue for improving the lives of children and youth who live in poverty in our communities. The biggest obstacles to involving more children and caring adults in tutor/mentor programs are the need for more of the programs themselves and the need for operating resources to help existing programs continually improve the quality of the work they do. To address these needs, Cabrini Connections, a Chicago-area tutor/mentor program, launched the Tutor/Mentor Connection (T/MC) as part of its own on-going efforts to build a successful tutor/mentor program by learning from the best work being done anywhere in the country.

We invite members of the Midwest Facilitators Network to share ownership of this cause, and become facilitators of this question:

Visit http://www.tutormentorconnection.org and learn more about our goals and activities

Join a T/MC on-line eGroup and help the conversation move forward :

Tutor/Mentor Leadership Conference Group http://www.egroups.com/group/leadership_conference

Tutor/Mentor City to City Network http://www.egroups.com/group/tutormentorcitynet

Tutor/Mentor Learning Network http://www.egroups.com/group/tmln_group
 
 

Form a MFN eGruops where members of your group can discuss and create forms of involvement: Go to to http://www.egroups.com to set up a FREE eGroup. (You may know of other hosting services which are easier/better to use than this.)

Call Paul Collins/Visit his web page

http://www.jordan-webb.net/tmc

Ask Paul how you can help facilitate workshops during the Spring and November Tutor/Mentor Leadership Conference. As your group begins to reflect on the needs and the work the T/MC is already doing, you’ll generate plenty of action steps which MFN

Become an active

Net-Worker

Actively share this information in your business, social and alumni networks so others can also become part of this work. Put a link from your web site to the T/MC or MFN web sites. See how other business people endorse this movement from their organization’s web sites:

http://www.amphionpro.com/gallery

http://www.edynamicweb.com/CabriniConnectionsGolf
 
 

Become an active Donor. Put Cabrini Connections in your giving plans and encourage others to do the same. Send contributions to Cabrini Connections,

1111 N. Wells, Suite 503, Chicago, Il. 60610 (Cabrini Connections is a 501(c)(3) non profit)

The world will change, one person at a time. MFN members can help facilitate this change. It just takes one or two people to lead this conversation in your organization.