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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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October -
November 2018 - Issue
175
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Help
Volunteer-Based
Tutor and/or
Mentor Programs
as You Head into
Holidays
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.
Encourage
friends,
family,
co-workers
to sign
up to
receive
this
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here.
(If you
subscribe,
don't
forget
to
respond
to the
confirmation
email)
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Youth
Tutor/Mentor
Programs Have
Started New
School Year. Is
it Too Early to
Think of Next
Year?
While most
organized
programs are
now focusing
on helping
students and
volunteers
connect, and
stay
connected,
there are
still too
few programs
in many
areas, and
finding
flexible
operating
dollars
remains a
challenge
for most.
Do you plan three,
six, nine or 12
months into future?
Most non profit
youth programs
constantly focus on two
functions.
a) first is providing
on-going support to
youth and volunteers;
which also includes
recruiting new
volunteers to fill needs
and/or to replace
volunteers who start to
drop out of a program
and working with parents
and schools.
b) second is building
public attention and
doing donor research to
find money to pay the
operating costs
associated with a
well-run youth
tutor/mentor program
The graphic above is
intended to help
programs organize their
planning. See how I
include this graphic in
one of my blog articles.
Build a
year-round strategy:
Since the year-end
holidays are fast
approaching, fund
raising efforts that
attract year-end donors
are a priority.
However, the
National Mentoring Month
in January will create
new attention for
programs. Can your
organization, or city,
use this attention to
draw support to your own
program? Can you use it
to help you energize
your volunteer base as
you move into February
and March, or to help
you recruit replacements
for volunteers who have
left the program?
As the school year ends
in May what plans do you
have to celebrate work
done during this year,
while also recruiting
veteran volunteers to
use their time and
talent to help you with
the planning that leads
to the start of the next
school year in August
2019?
Throughout this process
are you building
relationships with
business, media and
others who will use
their own resources this
year, and in coming
years to help you
attract the talent,
technology, volunteers
and dollars needed?
Read more:
* Planning calendar -
click here
* Steps to Start a
Program -
click here
* Shoppers Guide -
click here
If you have a planning
calendar like this I
encourage you to write
about it on a blog and
share your strategies
with other programs.
Send me the link and
I'll add it to my blog
roll.
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What
Resources Are
You Sharing With
Students,
Volunteers,
Staff, Board
Members and
Donors?
Are you
creating
a
learning
organization,
providing
a
library
resources
and
ideas to
support
your
community?
Learn
about
resources
in
Tutor/Mentor
web
library
-
read
article
Here are three sets
of links in the
Tutor/Mentor web
library that you can
point to from your
own web site.
With so much
information
available to you and
your community, I
encourage programs
to focus on creating
a "Learning Culture"
in which your
volunteers and
students are going
to your web site,
then to sites you
point to, such as
the Tutor/Mentor
library, for
additional ideas and
information when
they are looking for
more help or for a
deeper understanding
of the challenges
facing kids and
families in high
poverty, segregated
neighborhoods of
cities like Chicago.
The Tutor/Mentor
library is a vast
resource. I've
created concept maps
to show additional
resources in the web
library.
* the
cMap at left
points to a sub
section with
articles related to
social justice,
poverty, racism,
inequality, housing,
prevention, etc.
* Research - why and
where are programs
most needed?
click here
* Resources to help
you lead non profit
-
open
Encourage staff,
volunteers and
supporters to spend
a little time each
week getting to know
what's available to
them.
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Videos and Strategy
Visualizations from
Tutor/Mentor
Connection/Institute,
LLC
Over past 12 years a
variety of videos
and visualizations
have been created to
communicate ideas
and strategies
intended to help
youth tutor/mentor
programs grow in
every high poverty
area of Chicago and
other cities.
Here's
an
example.
This
is a
short
video
encouraging
people
to
visualize
steps
that
need
to
be
taken
to
get
from
"where
we
are
now"
to
"where
we
want
to
be
at
some
point
in
the
future".
This
could
be
helping
first
graders
move
through
school
and
into
jobs,
over
a 20
year
period
of
support,
or
could
be
dramatically
reducing
police
violence
against
people
of
color
in
the
US.
See
the
video.
This
link
points
to a
set
of
pages
where
several
dozen
videos
created
since
2005
are
available
for
viewing.
Two
more
videos
from
the
library:
Here's
a
video
created
by
an
Intern
from
South
Korea
that
shows
work
done
by
other
interns
in
previous
years.
Here's
a
page
with
a
collection
of
videos
and
visualizations
done
by
interns
between
2013
and
2015.
Imagine
this!
You
could
be
hosting
a
page
on
your
school,
faith
group,
company
or
youth
organization
web
site
that
points
to a
collection
of
videos
and
visualizations
like
these,
created
by
your
own
students
and
volunteers.
Imagine
a
learning
process
in
your
school
or
non-school
youth
program
where
volunteers
help
students
learn
to
create
similar
projects
showing
the
design
and
strategy
of
your
own
program,
or
showing
the
need
for
similar
programs
in
different
parts
of
Chicago...or
other
cities
in
the
USA,
or
the
world.
If
you're
already
doing
this,
please
share
the
link.
If
not,
ask
me
to
be a
consultant
to
help
you
develop
this
strategy.
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With so Many
Problems,
Locally and
Globally, How
can Youth
Tutor/Mentor
Programs Expand
their Slice of
the Funding Pie?
While each
program competes
with all others
for available
resource, how
can we convince
everyone that "a
rising tide
raises all
ships?"
Helping
youth in
poverty
areas:
Addressing
Fund Raising
Challenges.
click here
One section
of the
Tutor/Mentor web
library focuses
on Fund Raising
issues and
resources.
Another section
points to blog
articles that
anyone can learn
from, to improve
their fund
raising skills,
which means,
improving your
ability to
compete with
others for a
small pool of
dollars.
What if there
were teams of
people in every
industry and
social sector
working to
mobilize
resources from
their sector to
support youth
serving
organizations in
places where
they do
business, where
employees or
customers live,
or where the
costs of poverty
are too high to
make a business
profitable?
In this year's
#Chicago Ideas
event I attended
a
session titled
" 2
Miles, 16 Years:
Chicago's
"Death Gap" is
a Crisis"
which showed how
where you live
in Chicago
affects how
long, and how
well, you live.
The panel
discussion
featured leaders
of hospitals on
Chicago's West
side. This
session was not
recorded, but if
you search
#ChicagoIdeas
on Twitter, then
scroll back and
view Tweets
posted on
October 15, you
can see much of
information that
was shared.
You'll find my
@tutormentorteam
posts there,
too.
In the graphic
above ( view
here), I
share resources
that hospitals,
universities and
others could be
using to build
and sustain a
wide range of
youth and family
supports, with
the hospital
serving as the
anchor
organization.
If teams of
people in each
hospital were
spending time
looking at these
resources they
would have a
broader range of
ideas to apply
in their own
efforts.
The ROLE OF
LEADERS graphic
at the right encourages
leaders from every
sector to form teams of
employees who do the
reading, thinking,
research and idea
generation that leads to
more comprehensive,
longer-lasting efforts
to help kids in high
poverty areas move
through school and into
jobs and careers. These
ideas and strategies can
apply in other cities.
This and many of the
graphics I share include
maps of Chicago, with
high poverty areas
highlighted. This is
intended to support
mobilization and
distribution of
resources into every
poverty area of a city,
so that needed
tutor/mentor programs
and other supports can
grow and stay in place
for many years.
Read more:
* View ROLE OF LEADERS
strategy presentation on
Slideshare-
click here
* Building Non-School
Support System for kids
in poverty -
click here
* Building Planning
Teams within Business -
click here
If you are using maps
the way I show on these
blogs please connect and
share your strategies.
See the social media
links at the bottom of
this newsletter as
places we can connect.
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More Resources from
Tutor/Mentor
Institute, LLC
Each
month new
links are
added to the
Tutor/Mentor
web library.
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:
* To&Through Chicago
Project focuses on
college success. -
click here
* The Death Gap: How
Inequality Kills -
click here
* Digital Redlining
- limiting of
learning
opportunities -
click here
* The Art of
Facilitating Change
- article with
models to learn from
-
click here
* Commitment to
Reducing the
Inequality Index -
Oxfam blog -
click here
* Zinn Education
Project - Teaching
People's History -
click here
*The Opportunity
Atlas: Mapping
Childhood Roots of
Social Mobility -
click here
* More than a
Mentoring Program:
Attacking
Institutional Racism
- click here
* Building
Personal
Learning Network
on Twitter -
click here
* How Does Where
You Live Affect
How Long You
Live? -
click here
* Read about
Indigenous People's
Day - plan for 2019
-
click here
* Mapping
Opportunity -
Casey Community
Opportunity Map
-
click here
Additional
resources to help
Chicago area
organizations and
supporters connect,
learn and work
collectively to help
build support
systems for youth:
* Civil Liberties -
resource map
(recommend other
links). - click
here
* Chicago
Organizations in
Intermediary Roles -
click here
* Hashtags I follow
on Twitter. Use to
expand your own
network -
click here
Dan Bassill (that's
me) is available to
discuss any of these
ideas with you, or
others, via Skype,
Google Hangouts or
in person if you're
in Chicago.
Can you help Fund
the Tutor/Mentor
Institute, LLC? If
just 40 people make
$25 contributions I
cover the annual
costs of sending
this email
newsletter each
month.
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