Help Spread the Word!

I've been receiving more and more invitations from consultants who are offering seminars and workshops to help non profits learn to raise money in tough times.

It's been tough times since 1993 when we created Cabrini Connections and the Tutor/Mentor Connection. Sometimes, I think the only one making money from these seminars are the people offering them.

Why? Because the donor pool is not growing.

This picture shows teens and volunteers at Cabrini Connections being coached in using technology by our eLearning Coordinator. On the eLearning blog you can see how we're trying to coach teens and volunteers to use the technology to find problem solving information on our web sites, such as homework help, career resources, leadership and service ideas.

Three sections that I'd like our volunteers, leaders, and donors to learn to use are:

a) challenges facing non profits

b) research articles on poverty, high school drop outs, education, illustrating the need for kids in high poverty to have extra learning and mentoring supports

c) fund raising and marketing blogs - with loads of ideas for how non profits, and their volunteers, can raise money

If you are a volunteer, alumni, or someone who believes in the power of tutoring/mentoring, I encourage you to consider your own donation to Cabrini Connections, and become an evangelist to enlist 2 other people each month, to add their donation.

If you'd prefer to make a donation as a sponsor of an event, or as part of your fee to play in a golf outing, please support the July 16, 2009 golf benefit. You can use the Pay Pal button on the sponsor page to make your donation, or to register a group.

Without your help, all of the fund raising workshops in the world will not make us more effective in finding the donors needed to help Cabrini Connections, Tutor/Mentor Connection keep the lights on and the rent paid.