Cynthia's Page

Hi Cynthia,

I'm in Chicago, but am on the National Advisory Board of a DC group called Mentors Inc. I also helped start a Detroit area Mentoring network. I lead the Tutor/Mentor Connection and have been using the internet to gather and share information related to helping inner city kids access an expanded network of adult support and learning via non-school, volunteer-based tutor/mentor programs.

I'm piloting some uses of Geographic Information Systems for this purpose, and focusing on capacity building, e.g., helping all of the different tutor/mentor programs in the city get the dollars, volunteers, ideas, etc. each needs to innovate better ways to connect kids and volunteers. See some maps on this blog.

I hope you and AIR will follow our work and share it with others.

I'm also not on Twitter yet.