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
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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 library
you can find links to nearly 200
youth serving organizations in
the Chicago Region. In
this section you can find
links to tutor/mentor
organizations around the
country.
All who work on a school
year calendar have been
recruiting, training, screening
and providing orientations to
new and returning volunteers
over the past two weeks, with a
goal of having youth and
volunteers matched and meeting
together by the first week of
October. Some like
Tutoring Chicago and
Chicago Lights have more
than 400 volunteers. Others work
with just a few volunteers.
As the graphic above
suggests, recruiting a volunteer
is just the beginning.
Supporting that volunteer and
helping him/her build a strong
and growing relationship takes
constant support. 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.
Network, Learn from
Peers in Chicago Area
Plan to attend the November 7,
2014
Tutor/Mentor Leadership and
Networking Conference
to learn from peers in other
programs.
The next conference will
be held at the Metcalfe Federal
Building in Chicago on Friday,
November 7, 2014. The
roster of workshop presenters is
almost full. See
the list here.
In
this blog, JP Paulus of Do-Gooder
Consulting describes
his workshop and encourages
others to attend the
conference. 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.
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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Volunteers can help high
quality tutor/mentor programs
grow in many places.
This graphic
illustrates the role
volunteers who are
active in tutor/mentor
programs, as well as others,
can take to help mentor-rich
programs grow in more places
where they are needed.
This
article, titled "Virtual
Corporate Office", is one
of many in the Tutor/Mentor
Institute, LLC library.
It shows how teams
of volunteers from different
companies can help programs
grow in many places and
support students and
volunteers in many programs.
This
article, titled
"Community Information
Collection,
illustrates the role
volunteers can take in
building a library of
information, and learning
more about the different
tutor/mentor programs in
Chicago and other cities.
These articles can
be used by any organization
to to expand the way
volunteers help a program
grow. They can also be used
by business, universities
and faith groups, to expand
the range of ideas for how
they help needed social
benefit organizations, like
tutor/mentor programs, grow
in more of the places where
they are needed.
 This
graphic illustrates that
non-school programs can
offer many different forms
of learning and mentoring.
The Tutor/Mentor Conferences
and on-line meeting places
are intended to share ideas
that can be adopted in many
places, while recruiting
talent and operating dollars
needed to help programs
implement new ideas or keep
improving old ideas.
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.
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What I'm reading:
Boston Innovation Hub/Giving
Common - combining data and
mobilizing resources -
read more
People's Climate March &
Mobilization, Sept. 21 in
NYC Learn
more See Climate Change
Video.
College Graduation
Rate info. See rates for
your state.
Learn more at
this link
America's Public
Schools Remain Highly
Segregated. Read
article
Lights on
Afterschool, October 23,
2014. Do you have an event
planned?
Learn more.
November 4, 2014
Election Toolkit, from
Voices for Illinois
Children.
Click here
These links can all
be found in the Tutor/Mentor
Connection
Web Library.
If you find interesting
article in the library,
share with your friends and
volunteers on
Twitter.
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President's Message.
Is your tutor/mentor program a
"learning" organization?...
Once you have more than 25
to 50 people in your
organization it becomes very
difficult to provide
individual training to each
person, especially if you
have a small staff, as is
the case with many
tutor/mentor programs.
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.
I
created this graphic to
illustrate the need to
mobilize volunteers from
many sectors to create a
"
village
" of support for kids in
different neighborhoods.
Larger programs may have
this mix of volunteers, but
smaller programs usually
don't. Thus, volunteers from
multiple programs might band
together to support each
other and to bring new
ideas, and resources into
every program.
This won't happen unless
leaders of big and small
programs are encouraging
their volunteers to look for
Internet based resources and
meeting places where they
can share what they do, and
learn from others. Here's
an
article by Mark Carter,
a volunteer in Chicago, that
illustrates this process of
learning.nk of ways you
could help sports teams
reach youth in all high
poverty areas of Chicago and
other cities.
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.
Anyone can take this role.
Volunteers in tutor/mentor
programs can provide
learning and leadership
opportunities for the youth
they work with, if they
teach youth to create
similar visualizations and
blog articles.
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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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