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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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June - July 2018
- Issue 171
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Expand Your PLN This
Summer! What's a PLN?
A Personal Learning
Network.
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.
If you
don't
save
this
email,
you can
always
visit
the
eNews
archive
and read
current
and past
newsletters.
Encourage
friends,
family,
co-workers
to sign
up to
receive
this
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here.
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subscribe,
don't
forget
to
respond
to the
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email)
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Get to Know Youth
Tutor, Mentor and
Learning Programs in
Your Community. Help
Others Find Them
Use the
summer months to
visit web sites
of youth
programs. Get to
know them. Find
ways to help
them.
I've often used this
graphic to visualize the
on-going, year-round
efforts, needed to build
and sustain youth
serving organizations
that
a) connect youth and
volunteers;
b) maintain connections
for multiple years; and
c) seek to expand
network of adults
helping youth through
school and into adult
lives
While most tutor, mentor
and learning programs
that work on a school
year calendar are now
celebrating the past
year with dinners,
parties and graduations,
leaders in these
programs should already
be planning for the
start of the next school
year. I'm already
seeing student and
volunteer recruitment
messages from some
programs, such as
Tutoring Chicago.
In preparation
for August/September
2018 volunteer and youth
recruitment I
ask your help in
updating my list of
non-school tutor and/or
mentor programs so it
can be used by parents,
volunteers, donors, etc
this fall.
Read more.
I created the graphic at
the right to visualize
the constant innovation
that is needed to help
sustain the efforts of
volunteer based
organizations and keep
youth and volunteers
involved.
In this month's
newsletter the following
sections will focus on
personal learning, by
students, volunteers,
staff, donors and
others, that can support
this journey.
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.
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Summer
Learning
Activities
WRITE
OUT:
Place-Based
Making
with
Writing
Project
Sites
and the
National
Park
Service
is open
to all.
Learn about Write
Out
here.
The "write out"
graphic crossed my
Twitter feed
recently. It was
posted by Kevin
Hodgson, a middle
school teacher from
Western
Massachusetts, who
I've come to know
over the past few
years. I follow
Kevin and many
others on Twitter
and find the ideas
they share valuable.
That's why I share
them here and in
articles on the
Tutor/Mentor blog.
Here's a
concept map with
links to groups like
#clmooc on Twitter.
I visit it regularly
to do systematic
reviews of what's
been posted. Because
I share this
on-line, you can use
it too. As you find
sites you like, you
and your students
might create and
share your own map.
Using information
like the links I
share everyone can
build their own PLN
(Personal Learning
Network). Here's
an article that
you might read to
understand this
concept better.
The concept map that
I show below is
part of a
collection of cMaps
that I've created
since 2005. While
many focus on
education as the
reason for youth
tutor/mentor
programs, I point to
many other reasons
why well-organized,
non-school tutor,
mentor and learning
programs are needed
in high poverty
areas. If you spend
time opening the
links on this map
and reading the
articles you'll find
many reasons to
become involved in
helping youth tutor,
mentor and learning
programs grow in
every high poverty
area of your
community.
Here's
some other
articles that
you might
include in your
summer learning:
* Using maps for
understanding and
serving areas of
need -
click here
* Workforce
Development.
Violence Prevention.
Role of Business. -
click here
* Helping
Tutor/Mentor
Programs Grow -
Ideas to Share -
click here
* Networked
Creativity Focused
on Local - Global
Issues -
click here
These are just a few
of several hundred
links that I point
to from each section
of the cMap shown
above. Take time to
click through and
see what's
available.
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Scarcity of
Resources Challenges
Most Youth Tutor,
Mentor and Learning
Organizations.
I repeat this
message often.
Raising kids
takes 20 or more
years. We need
to find more
creative ways to
build and
sustain funding
for long-term
organizations in
more places.
As
non-profit
leaders
struggle
to find
resources
they
find
little
time, or
motivation,
to work
with
others
to
expand
the size
of the
resource
pie.
That's
what
this
graphic
emphasizes.
See it
in a
long
article
about
building
philanthropic
support.
This is
one of
many
articles
that
I've
written
on this
topic
since
2006.
Bookmark
this
link and
read
just one
article
a month.
Use
these to
stimulate
thinking
about
how non
profits
are
supported
in your
family,
business
and
civic
networks.
One
section
of the
Tutor/Mentor
web
library
focuses
on Fund
Raising
and
Philanthropy.
Within
that are
sub
categories
with
articles
showing
challenges
facing
non
profits.
Here are
a few
articles
you'll
find.
*
Nonprofit
Finance
Fund
2018
survey
of
challenges
facing
NPOs -
click
here
* "The
State of
the
Not-for-Profit
Sector-
2018
report -
click
here
Like what
you are reading?
Share with others.
This is a FREE
newsletter. However,
contributions are
needed to help me
continue to make
this available.
click here
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Use the
resources
shared in
this
newsletter
to connect
and learn
with others
in Chicago
and beyond.
* Our Equitable
Future: A Roadmap
for the Chicago
Region -
click here
* Healthy Chicago
2.0 and Chicago
Health Atlas -
click here
* Homework Help
Resources in
Tutor/Mentor Library
-
click here
* Training &
Learning Resources
for Volunteer Tutors
and Mentors -
click here
* Law, Justice,
Race, Poverty,
Inequality links -
Tutor/Mentor Library
-
click here
* Political
Organizing -
Resource Links in
Tutor/Mentor Library
-
click here
Upcoming
Events and Other
Resources
* 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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Connection,
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Institute, LLC
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3303, Chicago, Il 60654
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Day blog post -
click here
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to help? -
click here
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