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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 2018
- Issue 169
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April is #National
Volunteer Month. May
is when many youth
organizations
celebrate completion
of another school
year.
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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don't
save
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and past
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What Are Ways You
Connect with People
and Ideas?
The school
bus doesn't just
carry kids. It
should include
adults, too. It
represents a
collection of
people moving
toward a common
goal.
I hosted Tutor/Mentor
Leadership and
Networking Conferences
in Chicago every six
months between May 1994
and May 2015. While as
many as 350 people
attended in the late
1990s and as few as 75
at the first one in 1994
and last one in 2015, I
could still only connect
in one-on-one
conversations with a
few. And those who
attended were only a
fraction of all the
people in Chicago who
were already involved in
helping kids move
through school, or of
those who needed to be
involved.
That's why I've spent so
much time on the
Internet over the past
20 years and why I keep
inviting people working
with kids to connect
with me on Twitter,
Facebook and/or Linked
in, and to draw from
ideas I share on the
Tutor/Mentor Blog,
the
Mapping for Justice
blog, and the
Tutor/Mentor Institute,
LLC web site.
I did not originate the
bus graphic shown above.
A version was created
this spring by
Melva Kurashige, an
educator from Germany,
who I met via a
Connected Learning
community that I first
joined in 2013. I just
copied the image when
she shared it, then
added my own additional
message. Here's
another article
where I did the same.
You can find the #clmooc
Twitter group on
this
hashtag cMap, along
with several dozen other
communities that I
interact with. I
encourage you to spend
some time opening the
links and looking at
"latest" conversations.
One that I encourage is
called "New Teachers to
Twitter, # nt2t"
which helps new users
become comfortable in
the Twitter world.
Others can follow chats
like this, learn from
what's said, and share
your own experiences.
Or you can launch your
own. Perhaps
"Tutor/Mentor Ecosystem
on Twitter" could become
a chat. #TMET anyone?
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HOPE.
It's a Powerful
Medicine.
In what
ways is the
youth
organization
you lead or
support
providing
hope and
opportunity
to the youth
who
participate?
In the cMap
featured above I
point to sections of
the Tutor/Mentor web
library that focus
on hospitals and
universities as
anchor organizations
which could be
supporting the
growth of
mentor-rich
non-school
organizations in the
area surrounding
each hospital or
university. You
can find the graphic
in this
Dec. 2017 article
I've been creating
strategy
visualizations since
the mid 1990s and
cMaps since 2005.
Unlike PowerPoint
visualizations, in
most cMaps I can
embed links to web
sites and to
sections of the
Tutor/Mentor
web library,
which I've been
building since the
late 1990s. I can
also point to other
cMaps.
When I say
"mentor-rich" I am
describing an
organization with
volunteers from many
different
backgrounds,
colleges and careers
who help make a wide
range of learning
available to youth
in each program.
Does your
organization try to
do this? How do you
visualize such a
strategy?
Here's some
ideas:
Volunteers
can help you
build a
mentor-rich
program. -
read more
Mentor Role
in Larger
Strategy -
read more
Steps to Start
and Sustain a
Volunteer-Based
Tutor/Mentor
Program -
read more
As you and your
leaders and
volunteers plan for
the start of the
2018-19 school year
the links and
articles I point to
are intended to help
stimulate your own
thinking about what
you'd like to
include in your
program, while also
motivating donors to
provide the
resources to help
you.
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How Many High
Poverty Youth are in
Different Chicago
Community Areas? New
Report
Available....Free.
45 of Chicago's
community areas
have more than
1,000 youth, age
6-17, below
poverty line.
How many k-12
tutor and/or
mentor programs
are available in
each area to
serve them?
The report
includes map
views like shown
above for
different
sections of
Chicago. The
yellow numbers
are data from
2011 used when I
first issued
this report in
2013. In each
box I show the
number of high
poverty youth
and what percent
this represents
of total youth
in the age 6-17
age group, for
each community
area.
The blue boxes
show data
received from
the
Social Impact
Research Center
at the Heartland
Alliance in
2018. You can
see how the
number and
percent total
has changed, up
and down, for
every community
area.
The
green
stars on
the map
are
locations
of known
non-school
tutor
and
mentor
programs.
I've
been
collecting
this
information
since
1994 and
I point
to web
sites of
more
than 200
Chicago
non-school
programs
in this
section
of the
Tutor/Mentor
Connection
web
site.
The
graphic
at the
right is
from
this
article.
It
visualizes
the need
for a
team of
volunteers
and paid
staff to
be
supporting
each
individual
program
in
Chicago
to help
it be
the best
it can
be.
However,
it also
suggests
that
such
teams
need to
be in
place,
and
focusing
on
individual
community
areas,
so each
area has
a full
range of
programs
and is
reaching
a
growing
percent
of the
k-12
youth,
and
opportunity
youth,
living
in each
community
area.
In
addition,
there
should
be a
team in
the
city, in
the
Mayor's
office,
and in
different
industry
and
education
groups,
looking
at every
community
area,
with the
goal of
filling
each
with a
wide
range of
constantly
improving
non-school
tutor,
mentor
and
learning
programs.
What
makes
what
I've
been
doing
unique,
and what
I hope
others
will
duplicate,
is an
on-going
effort
intended
to draw
attention,
volunteers
and
dollars
directly
to each
tutor
and
mentor
program
in my
on-line
directory,
with the
program's
web site
serving
as the
information
people
use to
decide
who to
support,
and in
what
ways.
I've
been
sharing
this
message
for many
years,
but it's
difficult
to know
who has
been
responding.
As
youth,
volunteer
and
staff
researchers
and
community
organizers
find web
sites
showing
uses of
maps the
way I've
been
describing,
please
send the
links to
me, and
share
them on
Twitter,
so I can
add them
to the
Tutor/Mentor
library
and
others
can
learn
from
work
already
being
done.
Examples
can come
from
Chicago
or any
other
city in
the US,
or the
world.
Like what
you are reading?
Share with others.
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newsletter. However,
contributions are
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continue to make
this available.
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Involving Youth
and Volunteers.
Are your
students and
volunteers
involved in
research,
planning and
capacity
building that
helps your
Tutor/Mentor
program grow?
Last month I
watched the #MarchforourLives
speeches
delivered in
Washington,
DC and was
impressed by
the poise
and
thoughtfulness
of each
speaker. I
included the
photo at the
left, and
the concept
map shown
above, in
this blog
article
.
In
the past
month I was
a virtual
participant
in several
other events
that drew
together
hundreds of
non profit
leaders,
social
entrepreneurs
and
philanthropists.
Three were:
* Policy
Link Equity
Summit 2018
(held in
Chicago) -
click here
Issues of
philanthropy
were
discussed in
all three.
In two of
these the
same person
was on the
panel. That
was Vu
Le, of
Rainier
Valley Corps
in Seattle.
Here's the
link to the
two videos.
I encourage
you to
watch.
Collective
impact video
-
click here
Vu Le starts
talking at
1:14 point
in video
For
movements to
succeed,
or for youth
tutor/mentor
programs to
have
long-term
impact,
innovating
new ways to
draw
consistent,
on-going,
flexible
funding to
every
program in
every high
poverty
neighborhood
has to
happen. In
this section
of the
Tutor/Mentor
library is a
collection
of links
showing
challenges
and
opportunities
of
philanthropy.
More
resources
added
recently to
Tutor/Mentor
web library
* Promise of
Place -
report from
Campaign for
Black Male
Achievement
-
click here
* Sargent Shriver
National Center on
Poverty Law -
resource toolbox -
click here
* The Equality of
Opportunity Project
- Race and
Opportunity in the
US -
click here
* Long term study
shows impact of race
on Black boys -
click here
See more resources
below. Use them to
build a deeper
understanding of issues
and to see how some
people are already
finding paths to
solutions which could be
duplicated in other
places.
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Plan to
attend
MENTOR
Illinois May
18 awards
breakfast in
Chicago.
Nominations
for awards
due April
25. Find
details
here.
Additional
resources to
help Chicago
area
organizations
and
supporters
connect,
learn and
work
collectively
to help
build
support
systems for
youth:
* ILGiveBig Spring
Giving Day - May 3,
2018. Details
* 2018 #OnTheTable,
May 8, 2018 - click
here
* Illinois
Conference on
Volunteer
Administration, Aug.
15, 2018 -
click here
* To&Through
Project website.
Find information
showing progress
of CPS freshmen
to and through
4-year college.
Find ways to
help. click
here
* MENTOR
Illinois
resources for
mentors page - click
here
* Chicago
Organizations in
Intermediary Roles -
click here
* Tutor/Mentor Blog
article showing list
of frequently used
links -
click here
* Strategy
Presentations in
Tutor/Mentor
Institute, LLC
Library -
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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