Partners for the Tutor/Mentor Conferences

The conference is part of a Collaboration Strategy, where each partner does as much as he/she can to help tutor/mentor programs grow in many places.   This animation shows the T/MC event strategy, and illustrates how individuals from many places can take leadership roles.  Interns from IIT, Loyola, Northwestern, Michigan, and other universities are doing this work, which illustrates a creative way for others to use their talent to mobilize resources for tutor/mentor programs in Chicago and other cities.

The Tutor/Mentor Connection (T/MC) depends on the volunteer actions of many individuals and organization to organize the May and November Conferences each year. All of our speakers are volunteers who donate their time. Many come from other cities and pay for their own travel and lodging expenses. Without this help, we could not keep the fees for the conference so low or offer as many scholarships as we do. In this way, all of our speakers are partners in this effort.  We thank you all.

2010 Conference Planning Team

Want to help plan the November 2010 Conference?:         Next Conference Planning Meeting: September 21st at 12pm (T/MC office: 800 W. Huron).     If you would like to learn more about getting involved, please contact us.

Join the Conference planning conversation online!

We seek partners who view the T/MC conference as part of their own commitment to make more effective volunteer-based tutoring and/or mentoring programs available to economically disadvantaged kids living in neighborhoods with high violence, high poverty, and many poorly performing schools.  Partners can come from businesses, universities, local tutor/mentor programs, schools, foundations, and any sector of society. They can even come from beyond Chicago. They even come from other countries.  

 

May 2010 Conference Planning Team:                                                                                  See conversations from the May 2010 Conference Planning Team online .

*Kathy Anderson, Wicker Park

*Mary Gerace, Marketing and Publicity Services

*Catherine Gottfred, LEAP Learning Systems

*Toinette Gunn, Partnership to Educate and Advance Kids (PEAK)

*Sherisse Holmes, Literacy Volunteers of Illinois, Jump Start at IYC

*Rose Mabwa, Mercy Housing Services

*Dorothy Mars, Artay Clanton, Anthony Davis, Laura Doligosa, David Tatum, Antonio Thomas, William Thomas, and Victor Wilkins, Firman Community Services
* El Da'Sheon Nix, Bradley Troast and Toni Pullen of Cabrini Connections

*Molly Topper, Communities in Schools
* Nicole White and Dan Bassill, Tutor/Mentor Connection.

 

May 2010 Conference Host

Loyola University Chicago - Lakeshore Campus

Tutor/Mentor Connection is appreciative of the opportunity to be able to host this May's Tutor/Mentor Leadership and Networking Conference at Loyola University Chicago's Lakeshore Campus. We hope that having the conference at a central location at one of the nation's top universities will afford a greater interaction between tutoring and mentoring not-for-profits and students and professors at Loyola.

Speakers and workshop presenters
All of the people who make time to do presentations are volunteers, who partner with the Tutor/Mentor Connection to make this conference possible.  See the complete list of speakers who are participating in the May 2010 conference.

Would you like to bring your network and knowledge to this conference?  Contact us now!