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Use the ideas and
resources shared monthly to help
youth in your zip code have
opportunities to participate in
well-organized, mentor-rich,
non-school programs.
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The ideas shared in
this monthly
newsletter can be
used by youth
organization
leaders, resource
providers, political
leaders,
universities,
volunteers and youth
to help mentor-rich
programs thrive in
all of the
neighborhoods where
they are most
needed.
While I
try to
send
this
only
once a
month, I
write
blog
articles
weekly.
In the
sections
below I
post
links to
a few of
the
articles
published
in the
past
month or
earlier.
I
encourage
you to
spend a
little
time
each
week
reading
these
articles
and
following
the
links.
Use the
ideas
and
presentations
in group
discussions
with
other
people
who are
concerned
about
the same
issues.
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co-workers
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Maps
Show Chicago is
Divided City -
and Divided
Region. How Do
We Make Mentor
Rich Youth
Programs and
Digital Learning
Opportunities
Available to
Kids in
ALL Low
Income Areas?
In recent
WBEZ
articles
maps have
been used to
show the
growing
divide
between rich
and poor in
Chicago, and
the growing
digital
learning
access
divide. See
these maps
in blog
articles
here,
here and
here.
Why
maps?
Maps force
us to think
of all the
places where
people need
help.
Without
them, we
focus on a
few great
programs,
operating in
a few
places.
Concept maps
work like
blueprints,
showing all
the work
that needs
to be done,
for many
years.
Without them
we have
great pieces
of a
solution,
but not
enough to
fix complex
problems.
In the blog
articles and
PDF
presentations
I point to
you'll see
multiple
uses of
geographic
maps and
concept
maps.
Here's
one article
where I
share a few
of the key
concept maps
from my
collection.
You
can use this
information,
as part of a
community
group, or
Board of
Directors, a
business,
faith group
or
philanthropic
organization,
that works
to make
mentor-rich
programs
available in
one or more
neighborhoods
of Chicago
and/or its
suburbs (or
in another
city).
Tutor/Mentor
Connection (T/MC) formed
in 1993, and
Tutor/Mentor Institute,
LLC, formed in 2011,
point to these maps in
efforts to stimulate
thinking and actions of
more people throughout
the Chicago region and
in other cities.
a) T/MC maintains a list
of non-school
tutor/mentor programs
and seeks to draw
on-going ideas and
support to each program,
and the youth and
volunteers they serve;
b) At the same time, we
seek to building public
attention and draw more
people to the library of
information and ideas
that are hosted on the
T/MC web sites.
This information base is
intended to support
actions of youth
programs and resource
providers, to help every
non-school tutor, mentor
and learning program in
the city get the
resources needed to
sustain operations and,
hopefully, constantly
improve by learning and
borrowing ideas from
others.
Planning teams, within
programs, at the
neighborhood level,
and/or within high
schools and colleges,
could be digging into
these platforms, and
then drawing people
together to discuss ways
to support existing
non-school programs and
to help new programs
form to fill voids.
This should be an
on-going process, but if
it starts now, by August
new strategies could be
in place to draw
attention and resources
to existing programs,
and a few new programs
might also have been
created.
Read more:
* Tipping Points:
Actions That Might
Transform Lives of Inner
city Kids -
click here
* Mentor Role in Larger
Youth Development
Strategy -
click here
* Role of Leaders: How
CEOs can help youth move
from birth to careers -
click here
* Total Quality
Mentoring: A Vision For
Mentor-Rich Youth
Programs - cli ck
here
These are just four from
a collection of more
than 60 illustrated
strategy essays you can
find in the Tutor/Mentor
Institute, LLC
web library. Use as
discussion starters in
big or small group
planning and learning.
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What Tutor /
Mentor Programs
Are in Your Part
of Chicago? Are
there Enough?
View
this map
in
this
blog
article
Learn
about
resources
in
Tutor/Mentor
web
library
-
read
article
I've been
maintaining a list
of Chicago area non
school,
volunteer-based
tutor and mentor
programs since 1993.
Every spring I open
each link to make
sure it works, see
what the program is
doing and then try
to draw attention to
them with a Tweet,
or Facebook post.
Below you can see
how programs are
listed in the
Tutor/Mentor library.
You can sort the
list, or re-order it
from newest to
oldest. Under each
listing is a count
for how many times
that site has been
viewed by a visitor
to the T/MC site. No
one pays for this,
so each click is a
potential volunteer
or donor, at no
cost.
This information is
used to create the
maps shown at the
top of this article.
You can find the map
I've been using
since 2016 at
this link.
NOTE:
There is a wide
difference between
the type of
programs, both in
what they do, and
how they show what
they do on their web
sites. Volunteers
with communications
and technology
backgrounds could
reach out to any of
these organizations
and offer help in
shaping and
communicating their
messages.
View the "Shoppers
Guide"
presentation to see
some things I feel
should be shown on
every youth program
web site.
In the
maps section of
the Tutor/Mentor
blog I show a few
other sections of
the city, but
ideally, maps like
this would be
created for every
section of the city,
then used by
community leaders to
find ways to support
existing programs,
and help new ones
form if more are
needed.
I'm available
for a one hour Skype
session, at $250, to
walk you through the
process of creating
these map views.
This could be done
for other cities,
too. However,
someone has to be
doing the initial
work of building a
library of existing
programs, and
keeping it
up-to-date.
Help Needed.
I need help updating
this information,
and sharing it with
others. What I do
could be a
student/volunteer
project of a school
or faith group, a
youth program, or a
college project.
As poverty has
moved into the
Chicago suburbs,
the growth of
youth tutor,
mentor and
learning
programs has not
kept pace. For
instance, my
library only
includes three
groups in the
South Suburbs.
There must be
more. Or there
needs to be
more.
My goal is that
teams adopt specific
sections of the city
and suburbs and
build a deep
understanding that
not only builds
better information
about existing
programs, or the
need for more
programs, but also
draws people
together to use the
information to help
build and sustain
needed programs.
Use the contact
information below to
connect with me if
you'd like to talk
about helping.
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Creating a
Tutor/Mentor Program
Is Easy. Keeping it
in Business for
10-20 years, and
making it Great at
Helping Kids Through
School, is much more
difficult.
The
graphic
above
reminds us
of the many
experiments Thomas
Edison did
before
getting a
working
light bulb.
Few people
think of
what it took
to make
electricity
available
throughout
the world,
so there
would be
light bulbs
in most
homes.
If you're a
parent you
know that
each of your
kids is
unique, and
constantly
changing.
You also
know you had
little
training for
the job of
raising
kids. Thus,
you're
learning as
you go.
Being a
volunteer
and/or
leading a
tutor/mentor
program has
many of the
same
challenges,
but with
many others
added on.
That's why
the
Tutor/Mentor
Connection
was created
in 1993.
The ideas
shared on
Tutor/Mentor
blogs and in
the web
library are
intended to
support the
efforts of
people in
Chicago and
in other
places who
are trying
to build and
sustain
systems of
support that
help kids in
poverty move
safely
through
school and
into adult
lives. Take
some time to
browse the
library and
get to know
what's
available.
An extensive
web library
is
available.
Each month
new links
are added.
View this
short video to
see how you can find
recently added
links.
Below are a
few new links added
recently to
Tutor/Mentor web
library:
* 1.3 Million
Homeless Students in
US -
click here
* 2018 GradNation
report. Progress
slowing.
click here
* How racial and
regional inequality
affect economic
opportunity -
click here
* Resilient Chicago
- A Plan for
Inclusive Growth -
click here
* 13 Steps That Help
Define A Quality
mentoring Program -
click here
* A Generation of
School Closings in
Chicago - WBEZ 2018
article -
click here
* Study of High
Net-Worth
Philanthropy -
click here
* Four Pathways to
Greater Giving from
High Wealth Donors -
click here
* Our Shared Digital
Future - World
Economic Forum -
click here
* March Connected
Learning #clmooc
Reading - Affinity
OnLine -
click here
Additional
resources to help
Chicago area
organizations and
supporters connect,
learn and work
collectively to help
build support
systems for youth:
* Resources to find
Chicago Tutor and/or
Mentor Programs -
click here
* Homework help &
learning resources
in Tutor/Mentor
Library -
click here
* Civil Liberties -
resource map
(recommend other
links). - click
here
* To & Through
Project web site -
click here
* Incarceration
Reform Digital
Resource Center -
click here
* City of Chicago,
CPS, links -
click here
* Chicago
Organizations in
Intermediary Roles
-
click here
* Hashtags I follow
on Twitter. Use to
expand your own
network -
click here
There's a lot in
each monthly
newsletter. Bookmark
it, or use this
ARCHIVE page to
find this and
previous issues.
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Can You Help Me
Pay the Bills?
I've had no significant
funding to support the
Tutor/Mentor Connection
and Tutor/Mentor
Institute, LLC since
2011. Thus, I appeal to
those who read this
newsletter and use the
resources to offer your
support.
To get a sense of
what I do, view this
document in my
Google Docs file,
that shows some of
my interactions over
the last two months
of 2018 and the
logic behind the
information I share
on an ongoing
basis. Here's are
similar docs for January
2019 and
February 2019.
If you agree this is
a value, then CLICK
HERE to
and use the PayPal,
or mailing address,
to send a
contribution.
If you'd like to
help re-build the
Tutor/Mentor
Connection and/or
bring it to your own
city, let's start a
conversation.
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