Connect Me has renewed its Executive Board and Board of Directors for the 2023-2024 season! The Board of Directors focuses on high-level strategy and development, along with assuming financial responsibilities for the nonprofit. The Executive Board focuses on the day-to-day running of the organization, utilizing the nonprofit’s resources to expand and grow Connect Me from […]

On September 8th, 2021, Connect Me received a letter of recognition from Michigan Senator Jim Runestad! This is an incredible honor for our team, and we would like to thank all of our devoted and amazing tutors for all the time and effort they put forward with each and every one of their students. Without […]

By Diksha Lal When Connect Me first started, it had just a few members operating the nonprofit in Michigan. Over the last three years, we have grown to have over 300 members actively tutoring more than 1,000 students. In our early years, we’ve been featured on Fox News and have even started up an internship […]

By Moira Du By being innovative, you're allowing yourself to create something groundbreaking. As groundbreaking as Google or Amazon? Perhaps. It's all up to you and whether or not you embrace your innovative side. In this blog post, we'll tackle innovation and how you can use it to your advantage. What is innovation? Innovation has […]

By Moira Du Innovation is a word that’s constantly thrown around. Business schools around the world will tell you to “be innovative”. In fact, 28% of business schools have the word “innovation” and its different variations in its mission statements proving just how much being innovative can help you. The thing is, no one can […]

Connect Me Free Tutoring & Mentoring, a nationwide student-led nonprofit organization, has recently hit its 3-year anniversary. Connect Me’s mission is to give back and support the community as volunteers with a passion for tutoring and mentoring, focusing on students with low income or having attended virtual school because of the Coronavirus pandemic. Over the […]

Having a good mindset is important. If you want to pave your way to success, you need to fix your mindset. An important mindset to have is the growth mindset. When you experience failure, what’s important isn’t that you’ve failed. It’s how you react to that failure. With this, let’s take a look at a […]

By Moira Du When you want to excel in something, most people would tell you to work hard; but some people would argue that working hard doesn’t work. You’re either born with certain skills or you’re not. Working hard won’t help you improve on skills you are not born with. Studies would beg to differ. […]

By Diksha Lal Connect Me Free Tutoring & Mentoring is a nationwide nonprofit that pursues a mission to help students struggling with certain academic skills. Approximately two months ago, the founder and chair of Connect Me, Mehmet Tascioglu, initiated a GoFundMe campaign to secure additional funding, mainly with website fees and Zoom meetings, to help […]

COMMUNICATION: THE KEY TO SUCCESS Everyone talks about communication and its importance but does everyone really understand why? More importantly, does everyone know how to properly communicate?  In this blog post, we’ll discuss everything there is to know about communication, why it’s the key to success, and how you can properly communicate within the workplace. […]

Everyone can talk but there is a difference between talking and communicating. The problem with most people nowadays is they are fully capable of speaking but they never properly communicate.  The good thing is, we’re here to help. Here’s everything you need to know about the trait of the month: communication. What is communication? Communication […]

Everything changes. To the average human, adapting to said change can be incredibly difficult. Fortunately, this article will help you learn to improve flexibility, and help you better understand how you can adapt to change. What is flexibility? There are various definitions for flexibility. For now, we’ll focus on two: one pertaining to one’s personal […]