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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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April - May 2017
- Issue 157
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Support Growth of
Needed K-12 Youth
Organizations in All
High Poverty Areas
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
newsletter. Click
here.
(If you
subscribe,
don't
forget
to
respond
to the
confirmation
email)
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This
Week is 20 Year
Anniversary of
the 1997
President's
Summit for
America's
Future....
Dan
Bassill
and
Tutor/Mentor
Connection
were at
the
Summit
in 1997
as part
of
Chicago
delegation
and as
one of
50
Teaching
Examples
In 1997 I was using
tools available at
that time to show
leaders how they
could use maps as
part of planning a
distribution of
talent, technology
and operating
dollars to help
non-school,
volunteer-based
tutoring, mentoring
and learning
programs be
available to k-12
youth in more high
poverty
neighborhoods of
Chicago and other
cities.
I'm still doing
that.
Unfortunately,
while mapping of
data and indicators
of need is much
easier to do and
more common in 2017
than in 1997, using
maps as part of an
on-going strategy to
identify and support
the growth of needed
youth and family
support services, by
leaders in business,
faith groups,
hospitals and
universities, is not
yet happening in
Chicago or across
the nation.
The America's
Promise
organization was
created in 1997 to
implement the goals
set at the
President's Summit
and hosted a 20 year
anniversary in New
York on April 17 and
18 to celebrate work
that has been done
and focus on work
that still needs to
be done. Click
here to learn
more, view archives
of the celebration
and to see how you
can get involved.
Use hash tag
#recommit2kids
to connect with
others on Twitter.
As I
connected with
others on Twitter, I
encouraged three
actions
* Form personal
learning habits and
learning
organizations in
your company, faith
group, college, etc.
Dig into information
available on the
Americas Promise web
site, the
Tutor/Mentor
Institute, LLC web
sites, and in the
Tutor/Mentor web
library.
* Encourage your
volunteers, board
members, alumni,
etc. to use Twitter,
Instagram, Facebook,
etc. to do regular
"shout-outs" telling
about their role in
your organization
and providing your
web site address.
* Browse the
Tutor/Mentor
Connection list of
Chicago area
non-school tutoring,
mentoring and
learning orgs. It's
organized by
sections of the city
and suburbs. Adopt a
program with your
time, talent and
dollars. See
map and list.
If you know of a
program that needs
to be added, or
moved from one part
of the list to
another, or that
needs to be deleted,
please send info to
tutormentor2@earthlink.net
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On April 4, 2017
Cardinal Blase
Cupich of the
Archdiocese of
Chicago launched a
new campaign to
reduce violence in
Chicago
neighborhoods.
See video of
Cardinal's
announcement and
Tutor/Mentor
Connection
comments
at this link.
I point
to web
sites of
more
than 200
Chicago
non-school
programs
in one
section
of the
Tutor/Mentor
Connection
web
site. In
other
sections
of the
library
I point
to
youth
programs
in other
cities,
or who
don't
have a
volunteer
tutor/mentor
strategy.
I
encourage
volunteers,
board
members
and
staff to
spend
time
looking
at what
other
programs
are
doing,
with the
goal of
borrowing
ideas
that
might
work in
your own
programs.
If
leaders
of faith
groups
were to
fill the
blue box
on the
graphic
at the
left, (connecting
people
who can
help,
with
information
they can
learn
from,
and
programs
in
places
where
help is
needed),
they
could be
providing
on-going
leadership
that
helps
fill
high
poverty,
and high
violence,
neighborhoods
with a
wide
range of
needed
tutoring,
mentoring,
learning
and jobs
programs.
Building
great
programs,
and
helping
kids
from
first
grade to
adult
jobs and
careers,
is not a
short
term
solution,
which is
why
anchor
organizations,
such as
faith
groups,
banks,
hospitals
and
universes
, as
well as
police
stations
and
libraries,
need to
take
this
role and
support
the
growth
and
operations
of
needed
programs
for
decades,
not
months.
These
articles
are part
of a
knowledge
base
that is
available
to
leaders
in faith
groups,
business,
universities,
etc.
Read:
*
Strategic
Plan
(vision)
for a
Hospital
Tutor/Mentor
Connection
-
click
here
*
Forming
University
based
Tutor/Mentor
Connection
-
click
here
* Creating a deeper
understanding of
problem and
potential solutions
-
click here
Use these and other
ideas shared in this
newsletter, and on
Tutor/Mentor web
sites as a resource
for your own
planning and
involvement.
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Program Design -
How Do You
Communicate
This?
As we near the
end of one
school year, we
look forward to
the start of the
next. Use this
time to think
about program
design and how
what you do
expands the
network of
support for kids
who come to your
program. Share
this on your web
sites.
How does your youth
program connect
students to
volunteers from
different work
backgrounds and
provide learning
experiences that
expand a student's
aspirations?
The graphic above,
and the one at the
left, illustrate
that volunteers
coming from
technology, arts,
finance,
engineering,
performance,
journalism, and
other backgrounds
can not only model
the work they do,
but could be helping
to set up extra
learning activities
in tutor/mentor
programs that enable
youth to learn
skills related to
different types of
careers.
I posted an article
recently about urban
farming in Chicago.
This could be an
activity of many
site based programs.
read here
The PDF titled " Total
Quality Mentoring"
is intended to show
how volunteers from
different industries
could help expand
learning
opportunities in
site based
tutor/mentor
programs.
These are just a few
of many learning
activities that
volunteers could
help make available
to youth, or that
industries could
make available to
youth in multiple
programs. However,
unless you create a
page on your web
site to show your
theory of change,
and your interest in
developing extra
learning activities,
volunteers and
donors won't know
what you do, and are
less likely to help
you.
As part of many
extra learning
activities, youth
could help programs
communicate their
strategies. See
video on
this page of
animation created by
intern.
Other resources
to look at
* Business support of
youth organizations - a
virtual corporate office
-
click here
When you look at my blog
articles, think of how I
have written similar
stories every week for
more than 10 years. If
many others do the same
we might be able to
capture more public and
donor attention to
support the work
non-school tutor, mentor
and learning programs
do. Read
this article about a
Tutor/Mentor Connection
"do-over".
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Make Time for
Learning. Encourage
Volunteers, Board
Members, Donors and
Students to Draw
from On-Line
Resources
The
Tutor/Mentor
web library
includes
articles for
resource
providers as
well as
program
leaders and
volunteers.
There is a huge
amount of
information in this
monthly newsletter,
and on Tutor/Mentor
blogs. It's not
intended to be read
and digested in a
single sitting. It's
intended to be part
of on-going learning
and process
improvement.
Additional
resources to help
Chicago area
organizations and
supporters connect,
learn and work
collectively to help
build support
systems for youth:
* May 30-31 #ILGive
fundraising event -
click here
* August 2017
Illinois Conference
on Volunteer
Administration -
click here
* Chicago
Organizations in
Intermediary Roles -
click here
* Tutor/Mentor Blog
article with
frequently used
links -
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.
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