The staff and volunteers of MEF, Midtown and Metro have banded together to launch the MEF Alumni Network! We hope you will enjoy participating in the ever-growing community of former students from Midtown and Metro. The Alumni Network mission is simple:
Engage through resources and opportunities that match your needs throughout life
Affiliate for time, talent, and information exchange
Contribute so more inner-city kids can benefit from MEF programs
If you're an alumnus, volunteer, or are interested in how MEF is growing, please bookmark this website! Through the Alumni Network, you'll find:
News about volunteer opportunities
Resources for career and job changes
Resources for college preparation, enrollment, and adjustment
Event Calendars, Picture Galleries, and much more...
We're working hard to spread the word, so please share this URL with your Midtown and Metro classmates. You can help build this Alumni Network, so please register now -- just click the Register/Login menu button!
Volunteer Tutors Needed!
Midtown Educational Foundation Tutoring Plan
The Need
Sub-standard educational settings combined with challenges in their home environment can impede inner-city students from realizing their personal & academic potential. Without solid guidance and quality education they may fail to see possibilities for their own future. Many students also feel that success in academics is unattainable and thus become discouraged or develop bad attitudes toward school and society.
We need your help recruiting quality tutors. So if you're interested or know someone who might be, please direct them to this web page or let us know.
Midtown Educational Foundation Tutoring Plan
Volunteers help students build character through friendship and trust, by helping students to know their strengths and weaknesses, and improve through goal setting, example of the tutors, and by participating in talks which explain good habits.
The Midtown Center for boys and Metro Achievement Center for girls offer individual attention through the Walgreens One-on-One Tutoring Program to disadvantaged inner-city 4th, 5th & 6th grade students of average ability and potential. Students and tutors meet once a week.
Volunteers help students with their academic weaknesses, teach them how to think through problems and be resourceful.
Volunteers help students build character through friendship and trust, by helping students to know their strengths and weaknesses, and improve through goal setting, example of the tutors, and by participating in talks which explain good habits.
2006 Fall Semester:
Boys
Bucktown neighborhood: September 18th – December 16th. Waukegan: September 25th – December 16th. Contact: Angel Diaz, Program Manager, 773-292-2662,
Girls
Downtown Chicago: September 25th - December 15th. Waukegan: September 19th - December 16th Contact: Angela Albrecht, (312) 226-4886 x226,
Joe Major, a forty-year veteran of the Midtown Center for Boys, is retiring. Midtown alumni who wish to send congratulations to Joe Major may do so by clicking on the link in the news article about Joe, or by clicking the menu item called Memory Books.
