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Staying Connected - Rebuilding Cabrini Connections on the Internet

During the past month I have re-connected with the following Cabrini Connections student alumni: Monique Allen, Dashay Bell, Maurice Kirkman-Bey, Monique Kirkman-Bey, Rahsaan Martin, Tawanna Blake Ross, Timothy Purdis, Alberta Duff , Demetris Smith, and Tramaine Montell Ford .

I also connected with former volunteers Bruce Boynick, Aimee Runyon and former Cabrini Connections leaders Gena Schoen and Claudia Crilly Bellucci

Some of these students were part of Cabrini Connections in 1994 through 1998. Others are more recent alumni. They are all connected to Cabrini Connections, each other, and a growing number of adults who don't live in poverty, and may not even live in Chicago, because of the work we've been doing for the past 16 years.

This illustrates how much potential we have for building networks that work during adult lives, when it's even more important to have friends who can help you with jobs, health, family and other issues that we all struggle with every day. I hope you'll all make an effort to be part of this community, now, and in the future. Read about how we can use the Internet to keep kids and volunteers connected
http://tutormentor.blogspot.com/2009/04/building-long-term-networks-of-support.html

Every year since 1992, when we formed Cabrini Connections, I have been reaching out to friends, family, college fraternity brothers, and other people I have met, asking them to make financial donations to support the program.

We're a non profit organization. We depend on charitable donations to operate. We have needed this money each year. We need to ask each year for new donations, to fund that year's work. If we did not do that, and if many had not responded, we would not have the connections that I'm making on Facebook and that so many others have built because there is a Cabrini Connections.

More than 700 volunteers and 500 youth have been part of Cabrini Connections since 1992. Many more volunteers and Cabrini Green residents were part of the Montgomery Ward - Cabrini Green Tutoring Program, which was started in 1965, and from which Cabrini Connections, Tutor/Mentor Connection originated.

Many of these volunteers are already taking the role defined by this graphic. They are the RED dot, reaching out to people in their own network, asking for donations each year.

We need more people to take this role. We need your help now, in May and June, 2009.

However, we will still need your continued help in 2010 and 2011. That's the only way we can build the on-line connections between all of you that can help each of you in your adult lives.

Please visit the donor page at Cabrini Connections and find a way to offer your financial support, and to help us find the donors we need to continue this program.

Thank you from myself, and from all of those who have been connected because of Cabrini Connections, Tutor/Mentor Connection.