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CVS Locations in Chicago Area
An article in the Chicago Sun-Times on August 26th with the headline "CVS Finds Its Inner Beauty" tells how the
CVS "Beauty 360" boutiques are an example of mass market retailers such as Walgreens and CVS positioning
themselves in health, beauty and wellness areas. According to the CVS
company web site, their interest extends beyond this effort, to developing the community's
wellness in other ways.
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There are many ways companies in the Chicago area could help, including support for tutoring and
mentoring. This could range from simply adding a link to the Tutor/Mentor Connection from their company
web site, to sharing marketing strategies that could be applied to volunteer recruitment.
To read more, go to the
Mapping for Justice blog
Use the
Zip Code Map
and
Chicago Programs Links,
to find contact information for organizations that provide various
forms of volunteer-based tutoring and/or mentoring.
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Chicago Hospitals and Poverty
This map shows hospitals in different parts of Chicago. The
aim of the T/MC is to help leaders of individual hospitals
build volunteer-based leadership teams and leadership strategies that
engage a growing number of their employees, board members, jobs, technology
and facilities as resources used to support the growth of
career-focused volunteer based tutor/mentor programs in the areas
surrounding the institution.
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This type of
strategic thinking
will nuture a future workforce to fill the many diverse and critical staff positions within the hospital.
As a growing number of institutions take a leadership role in their own
part of the city, this will lead to a greater availability of tutor/mentor
programs in the entire city, as well as a sharing of ideas between
organizations that stimulates constant growth and improvement of these
efforts.
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Role of Engaged Universities - Downtown Chicago
One of the aims of the Tutor/Mentor Connection is to share information so that teams in universities can have an impact
in helping tutor/mentor programs grow throughout Chicago. As they begin to develop their own ideal of what type of
program structure is best, they can begin to take on a responsibility for helping such programs grow in the area
around the university. The elementary school kids they work with today can be college freshmen in 6 to 12 years,
and college alumni who support the university, and its neighborhood tutor/mentor programs.
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If you're at Dominican University in Oak Park, you could be supporting programs in Austin and on the West side of
Chicago. If you're at the University of Illinois at Chicago, you could also be supporting the entire West side.
To read more, go to the
Mapping for Justice blog
Use the
Zip Code Map
and
Chicago Programs Links,
to find contact information for organizations that provide various
forms of volunteer-based tutoring and/or mentoring.
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Role of Engaged Universities
During the June 2008
National Conference on Volunteerism
President Jimmy Carter said "We have some of the best
institutions of higher education in the world. Yet many of them are surrounded by slums."
His purpose was to encourage the growth of campus-community partnerships and student-led community service
learning. This map shows universities in Chicago.
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The map's aim is to help students, faculty and alumni from
each university create support groups to help volunteer-based tutor/mentor programs grow in the areas around
the college or university. To read more, go to the
Tutor/Mentor Connection blog.
Use the
Zip Code Map
and
Chicago Programs Links,
to find contact information for organizations that provide various
forms of volunteer-based tutoring and/or mentoring
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Lawyers Lend a Hand to Youth
The organization
"Lawyers Lend-A-Hand to Youth"
is a perfect example of how professionals can rally support
and leadership for tutoring and mentoring among a network of colleagues. Founded in 1995 by the Chicago Bar
Foundation and the Chicago Bar Association, the group's overall goal
is to support one-to-one tutor/mentor programs serving young people in disadvantaged Chicago area
communities by providing the guidance and support they need to both succeed in school and reach their
full potential as an independent, productive adult.
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How do they accomplish this? They invite attorneys to volunteer their time as mentors, tutors, or
Board Members throughout Chicagoland. In addition, and perhaps most importantly, the Foundation awards
dozens of grants, annually, to deserving grassroots mentoring programs. Over the years, the grants
have totaled in excess of $660,000. The following map displays tutor/mentor programs that are currently
connected to the
Lawyers Lend-A-Hand to Youth
program.
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