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
here.
Archive of Past
Newsletters
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Network, Learn from
Peers in Chicago Area. Work
together to build pool of
Resources.
Plan to attend the November 7,
2014
Tutor/Mentor Leadership and
Networking Conference
to learn from peers in other
programs.
The conference will be
held at the Metcalfe Federal
Building in Chicago, 77 W.
Jackson, on Friday, November 7,
2014. The roster of
workshop presenters includes a
wide range of experiences and
topics. See
the speaker list here. See
Agenda.
In
this blog article, Valarie
Leonard, describes her
workshop, which she titles "If I
build it, will they come" and
encourages others to attend the
conference.
In
this article E. Wilson
describes her own workshop,
which she titles: My workshop, "
Creating a Mobile and Social
Media Strategy for Fundraising "
If you're a speaker, or have
attended past conferences, I
encourage you to write your own
article and help build
participation in the conference,
and visibility for all
tutor/mentor programs in the
Chicago region. I'll be
building a list of these
articles on
this blog post.
See photo album from past
conferences
here.
Visit
this page to read about
goals for the Tutor/Mentor
Conferences, which have been
held in Chicago since May
1994.
Visit the Tutor/Mentor Institute
Video Channel to see more
ways to support the growth of
youth tutoring,mentoring
programs..
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Innovate new ways to
help all youth tutoring,
mentoring, learning programs
attract needed resources.
The Tutor/Mentor
Conferences are intended
to inspire people in
public, private and
non-profit sectors to
borrow ideas from
existing programs and
solutions to innovate
new ways to support
constantly improving
tutoring, mentoring and
learning programs and
help make them available
to k-16 youth in all
areas with high
concentrations of
poverty and other
indicators showing need
for extra adult and
learning supports.
This newsletter
and weekly blog articles
have the same goal.
Since we're headed into
the year end
philanthropy and gift
giving period, below are
some ideas I hope you'll
discuss in open forums,
even if you can't attend
the November 7th
conference in Chicago.
Crowd Funding.
This graphic is from a
page enabling any of the
organizations who are
part of the HIVE
network of
digital learning
programs to raise funds,
and compete for extra
dollars. I wrote about
this in
this article
This is graphic shows pages
from the Boston
Indicators Project
and Boston Common
web sites. In
this article I provide
links to these sides and
show how data collected to
show where help is needed in
the Boston area is supported
by another platform that is
helping raise money for
organization operating in
each category.
Are you signed up
for
#ILGiveBig, which is
being organized by the
Donors Forum of Chicago with
a goal of raising $12
million raised by Illinois
nonprofits from 100,000
individual donors -- in one
day..
These are all steps
in the right direction,
aimed at helping a wide
range of organizations find
the operating dollars they
need. If a larger number of
youth tutoring, mentoring
and learning programs are
represented, our next
challenge will be a)
increase the number of
donors; and b) increase the
ability of each organization
to use the funds in constant
program improvement.
This leads to
learning from others.
This graphic illustrates
that non-school programs can
offer many different forms
of learning and mentoring.
It's part of a PDF
essay showing how teams
from the business community
can support the growth of
mentor rich organizations.
On
Pinterest I show many
graphics that have
been used in Tutor/Mentor
articles. Many were created
by interns, which
illustrates another form of
learning that volunteers
could support in many
different programs. In
future conferences youth
could be leading workshops
using their own graphics to
organize and communicate
ideas.
I include maps in most of my
articles to emphasize the
need for solutions that
reach youth in all high
poverty areas of a region,
not just in a few high
profile areas, or high
profile organizations.
If you're already part of
groups looking at these
ideas, or have created
innovative solutions that
help programs throughout
Chicago or other cities, use
Twitter or
Facebook to share your
links with me and others.
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What I'm reading:
"Passion at Work:
Cultivating Worker Passion as a
Cornerstone for Talent
Development "
This Deloitte University Press
report describes passionate
workers as people who "are
committed to continually
achieving higher levels of
performance."
Read more.
Richest People in
the US. The Forbes 400.
See what I wrote about
"Billionaires adopting
Neighborhoods of Chicago.
Click here
The
Chicago Health Atlas
, one of the projects of
the
Smart Chicago Collaborative
.
Read more
.
Strategic
Philanthropy for a Complex
World, from the SSIR web
site.
Click here
November 4, 2014
Election Toolkit, from
Voices for Illinois
Children.
Click here
Browse the
Tutor/Mentor Connection
Web Library for
articles to support your
on-going learning and
efforts to build and sustain
organizations that help
improve the quality of life
for everyone living in urban
areas such as Chicago If
you find interesting article
in the library, share with
your friends and volunteers
on
Twitter.
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President's Message.
Did you take part in Chicago
Ideas Week?
Were you one of the
hundreds, or thousands, of
people who participated in
the many workshops offered
in Chicago last week under
the
Chicago Ideas Week
umbrella?
I was not able to attend any of
the sessions because I was
attending sessions focused on
data visualization which is
important to the work I've been
doing for the past 20 years. I
also attended a
Hive Chicago networking
meeting and continued to follow
up on contacts made earlier in
the month at events hosted by
the Smart Chicago
School of Data Collaborative
and the
UIC Urban Forum.
At the same time I was
organizing workshops for the
November 7 Tutor/Mentor
Conference and networking with
people from Chicago and
throughout the country who I've
connected with over the past 20
years.
There's not enough time to go to
everything. Furthermore, in
most events with more than 20
people in the room, there's not
much interaction and in-depth
learning. You really need to go
to the web site and spend time
reading and thinking about what
was presented. You need to find
ways to engage in one-on-one,
on-going dialogue.
And that's difficult.
I began building the
Tutor/Mentor Connection
library in the 1970s as part
of an effort to support
volunteers in the tutor/mentor
program I was leading in
Chicago. I was a volunteer with
a full time advertising career.
Our program had more than 200
volunteers by 1980. As I
collected information for peers
in other programs and from
events I attended I shared this
with my volunteers, including
others who were in leader roles.
Then I created opportunities for
volunteers to interact with
myself and each other, so we
could support volunteers as they
had questions, while encouraging
them to draw from this web lib
rary.
That library continued to
grow through the early 1990s
and in 1998 it was moved to
the internet, where it still
continues to grow. Along the
left side of this newsletter
are links to different
sections of the library.
The goal is the same
as when I led a single
program. Now the
information is available to
every program in Chicago, as
well as donors and program
leaders. It's available to
people throughout the world!
When people visit my
web sites they say
"Wow. There's a lot of
information here." What they
really mean, is "There's too
much information." Or, "I
don't have time to read all
of this."
Yet, as I pointed out in
this article, or if you
read Malcolm Gladwell's
writing, it takes 10,000
hours of practice to really
be an expert at something.
This graphic was created by
an intern.
It communicates an idea
first launched in a
blog article in 2007
I've repeated over and over
since 1993.
If we're going to become good at
solving the complex problems
facing this world, some of us
our going to need to spend
thousands of hours reading the
information shared by others.
In
this concept map I show
dozens of organizations who
serve as intermediaries, and
collect others to
information and ideas. Hive
Chicago, Chicago Ideas Week,
the Smart Chicago
Collaboration and my own
Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC
are hubs. No matter how big
your network is, we need to
find ways to stimulate
deeper learning and
engagement that crosses from
one group to another.
I find ideas in the
different groups I connect
with, like the
HIVE Challenge, which I
hope can be applied to
efforts that draw needed
dollars, talent and
technology to youth
tutoring/mentoring programs
in Chicago and other
cities.
I hope others spend
time in my sites and find
ideas they can use to
support their own efforts.
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The Tutor/Mentor Conference
in Chicago will be Friday,
Nov. 7, 2014. This is part
of an on-going process and I
hope you will attend.
However, if you cannot
attend I hope we can connect
on-line or in some other
ways.
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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