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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
2018 - Issue 167
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Olympics,
Football,
Baseball - What
Can Youth
Organizations
Learn about
Building Great
Teams?
Want to know
more about Dan
Bassill (me) and
the goals of the
Tutor/Mentor
Institute, LLC?
Listen to
this podcast
interview.
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.
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Great
Youth-Serving
Organizations
Need Same
Support at
Winning Sports
Teams & Olympic
Athletes
While
there are
only one or
two pro
sports teams
in most big
cities, and
only a few
athletes
make it to
the Olympic
Games, many
great K-12
tutor,
mentor and
learning
programs are
needed in
every large
city.
You can find this
graphic in this
Tutor/Mentor
blog article.
Maps of Chicago and
other cities show where
poverty is most
concentrated. These are
areas where youth and
families need good
schools, and where they
need great non school
tutor, mentor and
learning programs.
If you think of the time
and effort spent by
individual athletes,
such as pro football
players or Winter
Olympics stars, none
became great without out
the help of coaches,
trainers, sponsors,
parents and many others.
No youth program starts
off great. It takes a
few years to build
trust, participation, a
culture, and a support
system. And, it takes
12 years for a first
grader to finish high
school.
Each program needs a
board of directors and
diverse base of
volunteers along with
community support and a
consistent source of
funding to become great,
then stay great for many
years.
This is not a
new message. It's one
that I start every year
with and that I support
throughout the year with
blog articles, social
media posts and many
one-on-one
conversations.
One role anyone
can take, even
professional athletes,
is to read these, then
share them with your
friends and fans. Help
increase the number of
people working to help
mentor-rich youth
programs reach k-12
youth in all high
poverty neighborhoods.
Recommended
reading:
* Chasing the Holy Grail
of Outcomes. Does this
resonate with you?
article
* Understand challenges
facing nonprofits - map
of book "Uncharitable".
read
* NANOE - reformation
needed in non profit
funding -
read
* Articles in
Tutor/Mentor library -
re: Funding/Philanthropy
- take time to
read
* Sports and Violence in
Chicago. Solutions
needed.
read
Read, reflect, share,
discuss --- then apply
these ideas.
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We all want the
same result, don't
we?
I don't focus on
just the acts of
tutoring and/or
mentoring. I focus
on the work needed
to build and sustain
long-term programs
that help more youth
stay in school, be
safe in non-school
hours, graduate from
high school, and
move on through next
levels of learning
and into jobs,
careers and adult
responsibilities.
You can find this
graphic in
this article
where I ask "What do
we need to do to
fill every high
poverty neighborhood
with great
non-school tutor,
mentor and learning
programs"
Every month
I send out
this
newsletter,
and I always
include one
section
showing maps
and
visualizations
I've created
since 1994
to show
where
existing
non-school
tutoring/mentoring
programs are
located in
Chicago and
where more
are
needed...and
to show
roles
leaders can
take to draw
attention
and needed
support to
programs in
every high
poverty
neighborhood.
Visit
this
page
to see
my most
updated
list of
Chicago
area
programs.
This
graphic
shows
the
number
of
programs
in my
list for
different
sections
of the
city and
suburbs
( view
article
with map).
For this
information
to
remain
useful,
I need
help
from
people
in
different
areas
who will
help
update
my
information,
tell me
about
new
programs,
or
programs
I don't
know
about,
and tell
me when
programs
are no
longer
operating.
Recommended
Reading:
* World needs
knowledge
catalysts -
read
* Mentoring
Month Ending -
Work of Building
Strong Programs
Continues -
read
These ideas can
be used in
Chicago or any
other place
where youth and
families
struggle with
concentrated
poverty. Anyone
can begin
reading and
sharing this
information.
Invite people in
your network to
subscribe and
join in the
learning.
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Resources for
Tutors, Mentors,
Parents,
Students,
Leaders -
Including Black
History Month
Links
The second
half of the
school year has
started and
there are four
more months of
weekly tutoring,
mentoring and
learning.
Everyone will be
looking for
"what do I do?"
ideas.
This concept map
shows "homework help
and learning
resources" in the
Tutor/Mentor web
library. It can be
seen in
this article.
Another way to know
what's in the
library is to
visit this article,
where I have a list
of links that I
point to often in my
articles. This
points you to each
sub section of the
web library, my
visual PDF
presentations and my
concept maps.
Are you a
Learning
Organization?
Do you have a
strategy similar to
that which is
visualized in
this cMap?
There is so much
that students,
volunteers, staff,
board members,
donors, etc. need to
know. No training
programs, except
perhaps a PhD track
at a university,
can deliver even a
fraction of this
information to
everyone who needs
it.
I learned this more
than 30 years ago as
I led a
volunteer-based
tutor/mentor program
in Chicago that
averaged 200-300
volunteers and youth
each week between
1980 and 1990. I had
a full-time
advertising job. My
role leading the
program was as a
volunteer.
Thus, I began to
build a library of
information and used
my weekly
newsletters to
encourage everyone
to spend time on
their own reading
and learning. Since
1998 this library
has been on the
internet, and my
efforts have focused
on building habits
among all involved,
to visit my web
sites and search out
information you
wanted. At the same
time, I was pointing
you to information
that would stretch
your own ideas for
why tutor/mentor
programs were
needed, where they
were most needed,
and ways people
could help them
grow.
Do you have a
strategy like this
in your own
organization?
Here are some
resources you'll find in
the library (repeated
from last month) .
Understanding Black
History, Race and Class
in America. Three
sections of the web
library contain articles
related to this topic.
* Equal Justice, Poverty
Law & Juvenile Justice -
click here
Here' are some
other links of interest
that are recent
additions to the web
library:
* From Poverty to
Power blog. After
100 years, why are women
still marching?
read
* Ways to Engage
Volunteers and help your
NPO -
read
* Trickle Down Norms,
by Richard Reeves -
read
* History of Race
and Racism in America -
NY Times -
read
* Education Can't Solve
Poverty. So Why Do We
Keep Insisting That It
Can -
click here
* 21st Century
Skills Every Student
Needs -
read
* Engage students in
local-global problem
solving -
click here
* Constellation Model of
Collaboration (was put
in T/MC library in
2000s).
read
Other links
of interest:
* ILGiveBig Spring
Giving Day - May 3,
2018.
Details
* 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
* Indiana
Afterschool Network
Out-of-School-Time
Conference, April 9,
2018 - details
* Chicago
Organizations in
Intermediary Roles - click
here
* See what's being
discussed on Twitter
- use Tutor/Mentor
#hashtag map
* View past
Tutor/Mentor
Newsletters - use
for on-going
learning - 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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