Use Tutor/Mentor Connection
on-line library.
While you can use a search engine
like Google and find information to
help you build and sustain a
volunteer-based tutor/mentor
program, you can also use the T/MC
library.
The library has aggregated and
categorized more than 2000 links to
information leaders, volunteers and
donors can use to build a collective
understanding of where and why
tutor/mentor programs are needed, as
well as ways to support them more
consistently for a longer period of
years.
Many of these links focus on
Chicago. If you're collecting
similar information, focused on a different
city, please share the link to your library
and I'll add it. If you'd like to submit a
link to the library just register, log in,
and use the "Add a New Link" feature to
suggest a link. These are moderated and if
approved, your link will be added to the
site.
What's New in the Library?
Use the
sort feature to see most recent entries
to the library.
Information Categories in
Library
Research
Topics:
* education reform
* social capital
* drop out crisis
* mentoring
* tutoring
* prevention
* policy issues
Fund Raising
and Philanthropy
Topics:
* general operating
* challenges facing NPOs
* understanding philanthropy
* workplace giving
Volunteer Recruitment portals and
resources
Blogs by leading thinkers
,
consultants, tutor/mentor programs, etc.
Link to
There are many additional categories
in the library. Spend some time
browsing the sections and bookmark those
you'd like to visit again.
Illustrated PDF strategy essays
in Tutor/Mentor library.
Click here.
Visualizations of strategy
in Tutor/Mentor
Pinterest library
Mapping for Justice blog,
with examples of how GIS maps can be used. Click
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How are you telling your
story? How are you recruiting
volunteers and donors?
As newspapers are
featuring stories about
the riots in the St.
Louis area, or the
violence in Chicago, or
the heroics of the
Jackie Robinson Little
League Team, how are you
competing to attract
volunteers to your
tutor/mentor program as
the new school year is
starting?
If you're like most
smaller nonprofit youth
serving organizations,
building attention and
attracting volunteers
and donors is a huge
challenge.
In this monthly
newsletter I feature
articles from the
Tutor/Mentor Institute,
LLC blog, which are
intended to serve as
examples that other
people duplicate in
their own blogs.
This one uses the
graphic above.
If people who are
volunteers, directors,
donors in existing
tutor/mentor programs
roles duplicate these
articles thousands of
messages every week will
be encouraging
volunteers and donors to
support tutor/mentor
programs in
EVERY high
poverty neighborhood of
Chicago and other
cities.
When you
encourage people to
volunteer or donate,
point to
this page
showing web sites of
more than 200 youth
serving organizations
throughout Chicago, in
addition to pointing to
programs you may be
directly involved with.
See more ideas
about volunteer
recruitment on
this page. Find more
resources on volunteer
recruitment in
this section of
library.
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Once You've Recruited a
Volunteers, You Need to Provide
On-Going Support
In
this section of the
Tutor/Mentor Connection web
library you can find links to
tutor/mentor organizations
around the country.
In this section you can find
links to
training that can be used to
support tutors and mentors.
If your organization
spends time browsing these web
sites you can find many
ideas that you can apply to
support your own volunteers and
youth. This is an on-going
learning process.
Network, Learn from
Peers in Chicago Area
While most organizations are
spending September and October
helping volunteers get started
in their own programs, I've
hosted a
Tutor/Mentor Leadership and
Networking Conference
conference every November since
1994 to help programs connect
and learn from each other. In
addition, the I've used the
attention generated by the
conference to try to educate
donors on the importance of
tutor/mentor programs so that
more would use year-end giving
budgets to support tutor/mentor
programs in different parts of
Chicago.
The next conference will
be held at the Metcalfe Federal
Building in Chicago on Friday,
November 7, 2014. I am
organizing workshops now and am
interested in finding speakers
who will talk about ways to
train and support volunteers as
well as activities that provide
extra learning and motivation
for youth to participate on a
regular basis. Visit
this page to learn about
presenting a workshop or
organizing a panel discussion.
See photo album from past
conferences
here.
See
articles written by
May 19, 2014 conference
participants.
Visit the Tutor/Mentor Institute
Video Channel to see more
ways to support the growth of
youth tutoring,mentoring
programs..
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Volunteers can help
Build Organizational Capacity.
Develop this Talent.
This graphic
illustrates the
infrastructure needed at
every single long-term
tutoring and/or mentoring
organization. This
talent map shows skills
needed by each organization,
and skills needed to support
the growth of tutor/mentor
organizations in all high
poverty areas of
metropolitan areas like
Chicago.
This
article, titled "Mentor
Role in Larger Youth
Development Strategy", is
one of many in the
Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC
library. These can
be used by any organization
to help recruit talent and
donors needed to build and
sustain a distribution of
resources to all of the
areas with high poverty,
poorly performing schools,
and other indicators showing
need for volunteer-based
tutor, mentor and learning
programs operating in
non-school hours..
Below you can see a
graphic showing four times a
year when our
collective efforts can help
build public greater
awareness and draw needed
resources directly to the
different tutoring and/or
mentoring programs operating
in the Chicago region.
This
is
an event cycle
that repeats every year. You
can read about this
here
. Apply the thinking in
this article to helping
volunteer-based tutor/mentor
programs grow in more
places.
This is a strategy
that is needed in every city
with large pockets of
concentrated poverty. If you
already have a strategy in
place, please connect with
us in Chicago.
This graphic is from an
animation created by an
intern to provide a new
interpretation of the
"iceberg" graphic above.
Youth in many
tutor/mentor programs could
be creating visualizations
like this as part
of their own skill-building
and leadership development.
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Notices:
Thrive Chicago Survey seeks
to collect information about K-8
youth serving organizations.
Learn
more
This survey seeks to collect
information from people who
have been mentees in
volunteer-based
organizations.
Learn more
SmartForce Student
Summit, Chicago,
Sept. 8-13, 2014
Learn about careers in
manufacturing technology.
Free to middle school, high
school students. Learn more
at
this link.
Lights on
Afterschool, October 23,
2014. Do you have an event
planned?
Learn more.
November 4, 2014
Election Toolkit, from
Voices for Illinois
Children.
Click here
Have event
announcements?
Share with me on
Twitter.
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President's Message.
What I'm Reading...
Riots in St. Louis,
Violence in Chicago, Little
League Champions have been front
page stories, as have conflicts
in different parts of the world,
and constant political
commentary.
However, few of these
stories do much to encourage
people to form learning
communities, reading clubs, etc.
that lead to deeper
understanding of problems and
greater on-going commitment to
solutions.
I created this graphic
to show the purpose of all of
the articles I write,
and of the information you can
find in the links included in
this newsletter.
Newspaper stories, blog
articles, Tweets and messages on
Facebook can draw people from
all parts of a metropolitan area
like Chicago to information
those people can use to build
and sustain youth serving
organizations that help youth
move through school and into
jobs and adult responsibilities.
Most of my blog articles include
maps and graphics that illustrate
the long-term process of helping
kids move through school and into
jobs.
I've posted more than 100
graphics on
Pinterest, with
links to blog articles
showing how the graphic was
used. For instance, this
graphic is included in this
blog article.
As you read
about the Jackie
Robinson Little League
team, think of
ways you could help
sports teams reach youth
in all high poverty
areas of Chicago and
other cities.
As you read
about violence and race
riots in Chicago and St.
Louis, think of
ways you and others
could help build
learning, mentoring and
jobs programs in
neighborhoods where
people are isolated and
have fewer
opportunities.
My hope is that others
will create their own
graphics, or borrow
mine, and create similar
stories that mobilize
volunteers and donors to
support tutor/mentor
programs. If you search
Google for "tutor
mentor" then click on
the images button, you
will find this and many
additional similar
graphics.
As you find articles,
use your Twitter,
Facebook and other
social media to tell
others to look at the
same articles you are
reading, or to gather in
the same meetings that
you are attending.
Anyone can take
these roles.
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The next Tutor/Mentor Conference
in Chicago will be Friday, Nov.
7, 2014.
Sponsor donations are needed
to help organize and pay for the
conferences, and cover part of
the costs of maintaining the web
library and mapping resources.
Sponsor donations are now
eligible for tax deduction. Read
about
Becoming We the People
taking role of fiscal agent for
tutor/mentor conference.
There's a lot of information in this
newsletter. I hope you'll save it,
and refer to it often in the coming
month. Thank you for reading. If
you'd like to connect with me, just
reach out via one of the social
media links below.
Sincerely,
Daniel Bassill
Tutor/Mentor Connection
Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC
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