2009 Golf Benefit Event Sponsors
Sponsors for the 2009 Golf Benefit are now being recruited. If you would like to take a lead role, call Dan Bassill at 312-492-9614

Thank you Ed Wehmer, CEO of Wintrust Financial Corporation, for becoming a 2009 Golf Benefit Event Sponsor. www.wintrust.com

Event Sponsors ($5,000 each) are the corporate leaders who help make the Golf Benefit possible and assure that we are successful in raising funds to support volunteer-based tutoring/mentoring in Chicago.

If your company would like to be a 2009 sponsor, at any level, or you would just like to make a donation, you can submit your sponsor donation using the forms and Pay Pal donation system on the Sponsor page of this web site.



2009 Golf Benfit
The 2009 Jimmy Biggs Memorial Cabrini Connections Golf Benefit will be held July 16, 2009 at the Highland Park Country Club.

Steven Miller, President of Legacy Home Mortgage and Kurt Kittner, former University of Illinois and NFL quarterbacks, will serve as co-chairs for the event. Miller and Kittner are both members of the Cabrini Connections, Tutor/Mentor Connection Board of Directors.

If you would like to be part of the Golf Benefit committee, email tutormentor2@earthlink.net or call 312-492-9614 to introduce yourself.



Cabrini Connections, Tutor/Mentor Connection Fund Raising Opportunities
While the Annual Golf Benefit was in July, the Cabrini Connections, Tutor/Mentor Connection offer different opportunities throughout the year for volunteers and donors to help inner-city kids connect with tutors/mentors.

Visit to make a donation and find other ways to take a role with Cabrini Connections, Tutor/Mentor Connection.



Mapping Strategies
The 2009 Golf Benefit will be held on July 16 at Highland Park Country Club. I encourage you to view the maps at
http://mappingforjustice.blogspot.com and at
http://tutormentor.blogspot.com to see how businesses and faith groups from throughout the Chicago region can work with the Tutor/Mentor Connection to help connect volunteers and youth in volunteer-based tutor/mentor programs.

Join the committee for the Golf Benefit, or the groups working on other public awareness activities, and you can raise your visibility, while helping us help raise kids living in distressed economic neighborhoods.



Directions to Highland Park Country Club
The July 16th Golf Benefit will have a 1pm Shotgun start. Registration begins at 10:30am so you can have lunch and go to the driving range.

From the North - take U.S. 41 (or Edens Expressway) South to Park Avenue West. Go east and the course will be on the left side (less than 1/2 mile from U.S. 41)

From the South - take Edens Espressyay / U.S. 41 North to Park Avenue West. Go east and the course will be on the left side (less than 1/2 mile from U.S. 41)

From the West - Take I-294, exit at Deerfield Road East. Take Edens Espressway / U.S. 41 North to Park Avenue West. Go east and the course will be on the left side (less than 1/2 mile from U.S. 41)

To call Highland Park Country Club for directions, the number is 847-433-4000



Success Stories from Cabrini Connections
Visit our web site and meet some of the teens who are succeding thanks to the help of Cabrini Connections and its volunteers. Your sponsor dollars and golf fees help make this possible http://www.cabriniconnections.net



Golf web site tops on Google
I encourage you to search for the words "Chicago Golf Benefit" on the http://www.google.com search engine. The Jimmy Biggs Memorial Golf Benefit site came up first in today's (10/4/08) search!

As a sponsor, your link on our sponsor page gets a potential hit every time someone in the Chicago region searches for a golf benefit!

Call 312-492-9614 to join the golf committee or become involved with the work we do to connect inner city kids with workplace volunteers.



Meet Jimmy Biggs - View Cabrini Videos
Jimmy Biggs was one of the student-founders of the Cabrini Connections video group. For those who attended the 2007 Golf Benefit we showed one of the videos Jimmy helped create to tell others about Cabrini Connections. You can see two of these videos by following these links:

The Real Cabrini

Cabrini Connections Music Video

When you view these videos, you can also find additional videos that have been created by our teens and volunteers. Show these to your friends and co-workers and help recruit other volunteers and sponsors to support this work.



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You can now stay connected to Cabrini Connections, Tutor/Mentor Connection on http://www.twitter.com/tutormentorteam