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
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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Building attention for
tutor/mentor programs ... role
of leaders
If your organization has
thousands of dollars for
advertising you
probably don't need any
help to attract
volunteers and donors.
However, if you're like
most smaller nonprofit
youth serving
organizations, building
attention and attracting
volunteers and donors is
a huge challenge.
That's why I highlight
the efforts of leaders
like Dan Cotter, who is
the 2014-15 President of
the Chicago Bar
Association, and has
been raising money for
tutor/mentor programs in
Chicago for more than 10
years. I wrote about
Dan's efforts, and
showed how he is using
social media, in
this article.
If people who are
volunteers, Directors,
donors and involved in
other roles duplicate
Dan's efforts thousands
of messages every week
might be encouraging
volunteers and donors to
support tutor/mentor
programs in Chicago and
other cities.
When you
encourage people to
volunteer or donate,
point to
this page
showing opportunities
throughout Chicago, in
addition to pointing to
programs you may be
directly involved with.
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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.
 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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Use Map in Planning to
Assure that Volunteer-Based
Tutoring and/or Mentoring
Programs Are in all places where
such programs are needed.
This article from
1994 highlights areas of
Chicago where kids
live at risk. Browse
articles on
this site and see that
in 2014 kids are still at
risk in these areas.
Visit the
this section of the
Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC
site to see how maps can be
used to help build
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.
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Notices:
Illinois Conference on
Volunteer Administration,
August 14, 2014 at Metcalfe
Federal Building in Chicago. 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.
Have event
announcements?
Share with me on
Twitter.
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President's Message.
What I'm Reading...
Writers in Chicago media
have begun to use the names of
high profile killings
from the past to remind readers
that the poverty at the root
cause of the violence in Chicago
is not new, but is complex and
requires long term involvement
from many people in the region,
especially those who don't live
in high poverty neighborhoods.
I included this graphic, which I
created following a shooting in
t he early 1990s, in
this blog article. If
you'd like to see a collection
of map stories from the 1990s,
you can purchase
this archive for a small
fee.
Thus,
at this link, you'll see the
graphic at the right.
Most of my blog articles include
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
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.
Here are a few articles that
I encourage you to review:
Mapping Ideas, Networks,
Relationships.
See article.
Problem Solving, Systems Thinking,
Hacking: Violence, Education, Jobs.
See article.
Follow up to May 12, 2014 On the
Table event organized by Chicago
Community Trust. See
article.
White House Calls for Mentors. My
Brothers Keeper.
Read more
Strengthening the Field of Black
Male Achievement.
Read more.
Stanford Social Innovation
Review- strategic philanthropy.
Read more
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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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