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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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February-March
2017 - Issue 155
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It Takes A Village
to Build and Sustain
a Youth Tutoring,
Mentoring Program
Don't
try to do
everything by
yourself.
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.
Spend a
little
time
each
week
reading
the
articles
and
following
the
links.
Use in
group
discussions
with
people
who are
concerned
about
the same
issues.
Create a
blog
like
this
sharing
your own
ideas.
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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Don't
Depend on Good
Luck To Bring
Resources Needed
to Build Youth
Programs Where
Needed
Apply the
ideas shared
in
Tutor/Mentor
Institute,
LLC web
sites and
library.
Create your
own good
luck.
Helping
youth
move
through
school
and into
adult
lives
requires
on-going
effort.
Read
article.
In the graphic above I
point to four on-going
steps that any
organization can use to
build and sustain high
quality non-school
tutoring, mentoring and
learning programs.
Briefly,
these are:
1. Build a library
information about
existing
tutor/mentor
programs, where they
are needed, what it
takes to help them
succeed and what
individuals,
business, faith
groups,
universities, etc.
can do to help.
2. Build
communications plan
to increase number
of people who are
looking at the
information in the
library, and using
this information to
help you build or
sustain a new or
existing program.
3. Create learning
circles, study
clubs, on-line
courses, etc. Help
people understand
and use the
information you're
collecting in your
library to help
local programs grow.
4. Create an
on-going
call-to-involvement
so people who are
looking at your
information are
offering time,
talent and dollars
to help you build
and sustain local
programs. As you
increase the number
of volunteers
involved, and
support their
on-going learning,
you increase the
number of people
working to help kids
overcome challenges
of poverty.
View Concept Map -
click here
See this strategy
explained in
this PDF
presentation.
See the graphic
included in
a blog article.
"Changing the
Fortune for Youth
Living in Poverty?"
See a the strategy
explained in
presentations
created by a student
interns.
click here
How to get
started?
Recruit youth and
volunteers to dig
through the
information on the
Tutor/Mentor
Institute, LLC web
sites and then
create their own
presentations to
share that
information with
your network,
organizations and/or
community.
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What Will It Take
for Chicago to Get
from "here" to
"there"? What's the
Plan?
Poverty, poorly
performing schools,
urban violence, etc.
are not new problems
in Chicago. Only the
President of the USA
Tweeting about the
problem is new..
In the above
graphic the
image at the
right is my
"here to there"
graphic. It's
intended to
motivate people
to build
comprehensive,
long-term
strategies that
make needed
youth and family
services,
including jobs,
available in all
high poverty
areas.
You can find
this graphic in
this article where
I talk about
building
year-round
support for
youth tutoring,
mentoring
programs.
I've
been
creating
concept
maps
since
2005 to
show the
commitment
leaders
in all
sectors
need to
make. A
version
of the
map
below
could be
on a
business,
faith
group,
college,
celebrity
or
political
web
site.
See map
here
.
If you
click on
the
small
boxes
with
each
node on
the map
it will
open to
a new
web page
(by
clicking
box on
left) or
a new
concept
map (box
at
right).
Below is
another
map,
that
shows
the
planning
process
that can
lead to
the
growth
of
needed
programs
in more
places.
Note the
use of
maps.
Click
here
to see
actual.
Recommended
Reading:
*
Duplicate
support
kids
have in
affluent
areas,
via
non-school
programs.
read
more
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Divided
Nation.
Rural vs
Urban
America
-
click
here
(Note:
on this
blog
article
I'm
aggregating
links in
the
comment
section
to other
articles
on this
topic.
While I
live in
Chicago,
and
focus on
urban
poverty,
I feel
we need
to focus
on the
issues
that are
causing
serious
divisions
within
America.)
Nothing happens
until someone reads
these articles, then
invites others to do
the same. This is an
on-going process,
where many can take
leadership roles.
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Step #1. Build
Your List of
Local Programs.
Help existing
programs get
talent, ideas
and dollars
needed to become
great at
connecting
youth,
volunteers and
opportunities,
then help new
programs grow to
fill areas where
no programs
exist.
To do this you need
to build and
maintain a list of
existing programs.
Once you have a
list, use it to
bring programs
together to learn
from each other,
while creating
advertising that
draws a consistent
flow of volunteers
and donors to
programs in every
neighborhood, not
just to a few high
profile programs.
Looking
for Chicago
Tutor/Mentor
Programs?
This
concept map
points to lists of
Chicago area
non-school tutor and
mentor programs that
the Tutor/Mentor
Connection/Institute,
LLC has been
collecting since
1993. It also points
to directories being
managed by others.
Learn to use all
available resources
to locate programs
in different zip
codes.
Step #2 -
Find ways to connect
all who need to be
involved in
face-to-face and
on-line forums.
Over the past 20
years I've
created many
different
graphics to
illustrate all
who need to be
involved in
helping reduce
poverty and
inequality in
Chicago and
other cities.
I've become
passionate about
using the
Internet as a
meeting place
because in any
meeting with
more than a few
people, only a
few people get
to share their
ideas, and few
ideas are
discussed with
any depth.
Because of
people's
work/life
commitments, few
engage regularly
in learning
about how they
can support
youth programs
in poverty
areas.
I hosted
Tutor/Mentor
Leadership and
Networking
Conferences in
Chicago every
six months from
1994 to May
2015, so I know
how valuable
face-to-face
meetings can be
to energize
people and help
relationships
grow. I just
think they need
an on-line
component so
people can
connect more
frequently, over
more years, and
with more people
and ideas.
In many
of my graphics I
show the role of
intermediaries,
or third party
individuals
and/or
organizations
who use their
own talent and
communications
tools to draw
attention and
support to youth
serving
organizations on
a regular, and
on-going basis.
YOU do
not need to be
part of an
existing
nonprofit youth
organization to
take this role.
In fact, it more
people in
business,
religion, social
clubs, media,
sports, etc.
take this role,
every youth
serving
organization
will have a
better flow of
the daily
resources they
need. Students
can learn to
take this role,
starting as
early as middle
school.
Here's
article
illustrating
role students
can take.
Here are some other
resources to look at .
* Video Annotation using
Vialogues:
a - Annotation of
Data Storytelling video
-
click here
b - View Tutor/Mentor
Video using Vialogues -
click here
* Program Design -
Supporting Long-term
Tutor and Mentor
Programs -
click here
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Additional
Resources
* Media Literacy:
Five Ways Teachers
are Fighting Fake
News -
read article
* 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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Connection,
Tutor/Mentor
Institute, LLC
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3303, Chicago, Il 60654
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