 Daniel F. Bassill
DANIEL F. BASSILL, D.H.L., is Founder and President, Tutor/Mentor Institute LLC & Tutor/Mentor Connection, and an Award-winning Advocate for Youth, and Advisory Director, The Institute for Open Economic Networks (I-Open)
Daniel F. Bassill, D.H.L., occupies a prominent niche in the Chicago youth advocacy arena. His expertise is sought by organizations striving to do what he has done for over 36 years: lead comprehensive, volunteer-based, non-school tutoring and mentoring programs serving inner-city children and youth. His hands-on leadership in both the business and nonprofit realms makes him a premier “go-to guy” for counsel on the newest, most innovative facets of development, sustainability and efficacy for community-focused tutor/mentor programs. |
Articles by Daniel F. Bassill at I-Open:
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While endorsing the traditional funding sources of government and philanthropic grants as necessary to the operation of nonprofit tutor/mentor organizations, Bassill espouses a more sophisticated paradigm for this work. His long reputation advancing the causes of youth in underserved urban neighborhoods grew from his awareness that high quality programs of this nature require strong strategic involvement of corporate leaders. Committed, large-scale corporate talent and resources, both human and financial, beyond the usual one-on-one tutor/mentor volunteer model, is imperative to the future of youth mentoring. Bassill’s quest is to spur widespread corporate sponsorship cooperation for tutor/mentor programs until it is a common business practice. He champions the wise integration of successful business strategies into grassroots endeavors.
Bassill’s career includes many years as a corporate department store retail advertising manager, Director of the Montgomery Ward-Cabrini Green Tutoring Program, Executive Director of the Cabrini-Green Tutoring Program, Inc, and President, CEO of Chicago’s acclaimed Cabrini Connections, Tutor/Mentor Connection program. As president of the consulting company Tutor/Mentor Institute (formerly a nonprofit entity and now established as an LLC) since 1999, he also stewards Tutor/Mentor Connection, its companion international online “idea resource.”
A U.S. Army military intelligence veteran and graduate of Illinois Wesleyan University, Bassill is the recipient of an IWU honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters. He currently serves on the National Advisory Council of Mentors, Inc. He is a former delegate to the President’s Summit for America’s Future, and served as the State of Illinois Commissioner on Volunteering and Community Service from 2002 to 2009. Among the many honors bestowed on Bassill are the , the PCH Good as Gold Award, the Giraffe Foundation Award, the Chicago Sun-Times Thomas Jefferson Award (read the article, "Dan Bassill and the Tutor Mentor Institute" at the Jefferson Awards for Public Service website here) and the Target Group Inc. Prime Mover Award.
Bassill’s career includes many years as a corporate department store retail advertising manager, Director of the Montgomery Ward-Cabrini Green Tutoring Program, Executive Director of the Cabrini-Green Tutoring Program, Inc, and President, CEO of Chicago’s acclaimed Cabrini Connections, Tutor/Mentor Connection program. As president of the consulting company Tutor/Mentor Institute (formerly a nonprofit entity and now established as an LLC) since 1999, he also stewards Tutor/Mentor Connection, its companion international online “idea resource.”
A U.S. Army military intelligence veteran and graduate of Illinois Wesleyan University, Bassill is the recipient of an IWU honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters. He currently serves on the National Advisory Council of Mentors, Inc. He is a former delegate to the President’s Summit for America’s Future, and served as the State of Illinois Commissioner on Volunteering and Community Service from 2002 to 2009. Among the many honors bestowed on Bassill are the , the PCH Good as Gold Award, the Giraffe Foundation Award, the Chicago Sun-Times Thomas Jefferson Award (read the article, "Dan Bassill and the Tutor Mentor Institute" at the Jefferson Awards for Public Service website here) and the Target Group Inc. Prime Mover Award.
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An Illinois native, Daniel Bassill currently resides in Park Ridge.
Read Dan's blog at tutormentor.blogspot.com
Contact information:
Daniel F. Bassill, D.H.L. Tutor/Mentor Connection Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC Merchandise Mart PO Box 3303 Chicago, Il. 60654 http://www.tutormentorexchange.net |
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