Edition:
December 2013
Issue No. 126
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Issues of the month
* Celebrate Mentoring - January National Mentoring Month
* Help provide HOPE for the holidays to area tutor/mentor programs.
* Collaboration Goals for 2014
* Idea Library - support for leaders and volunteers
* President's Message - With So Many Causes, Finding Circle of Support
issue 01
January 13, 2014: MENTOR Releases National Mentoring Report
January 9, 2014: "I Am a Mentor Day"
Visit
http://www.nationalmentoringmonth.org/ for additional information.
* MENTOR resources
and referral service -
http://www.mentoring.org/program_resources
In
the Chicago region, use the Map-Based Tutor/Mentor Program Locator and
Links library to help locate programs in specific zip codes. Our aim
is to help programs grow and thrive in all parts of the region where
they are needed.
* Chicago Program Links -
http://tinyurl.com/ChiTM-Program-Links issue 02
If a city has a directory listing most of the
non-school, volunteer based tutor/mentor programs, as we do for Chicago,
anyone can organize events at key times in the year which build
visibility and draw volunteers and donors to the web sites of every
organization.
Shoppers Guide - what should be shown on your web
site -
http://tinyurl.com/TMI-ShoppersGuide
Strategy visualizations done by interns. Youth in
many programs and schools could do these.
http://www.tutormentorconference.org/InternsVideos2013.htm
issue 03
The Tutor/Mentor Connection has created an
extensive web library over the past 15 years. In this
Village Concept Map, each node has a few links to sections of the
web site that can be a starting point for building understanding and
involvement from people in each community.
Think of volunteer involvement as
a service-learning loop. As volunteers connect with kids, they learn
why they are needed, and ways to help tutor/mentor programs offer
their services. As you provide information to
your volunteers and supporters, here are on-line resources that you
can use: * Research on education, drop out crisis, social capital - http://tinyurl.com/TMI-ResearchLinks
by
Daniel F. Bassill
See more visualizations
Image
created by
Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC
Every day media stories remind us of
tremendous suffering and environmental risks that exists in our world.
Better yet, if I don't let people know that
I exist and what I'm trying to do, how can others who also focus on the
same goals, find me?
If you
can provide dollars, talent, or both, to support the Tutor/Mentor
Institute, LLC please
visit
this page to learn more.
May all of you enjoy a Happy and
Healthy Holiday. Good
luck to everyone as they launch a new year of tutoring and
mentoring.
Read the blogs at :
Connect in these locations:
Read past newsletters
National Mentoring Month Activities - Engage
Your Youth and Volunteers
Image
created by Tutor/Mentor Connection
While these events focus specifically on volunteer-based mentoring, every
organization who engages youth in volunteer based TUTORING and mentoring can
engage their youth and volunteers in similar activities on the same dates.
Help Make Tutor/Mentor Programs Available in your city
I've put this graphic on my blogs and web sites, with a link to the list
of Chicago area tutoring and/or mentoring programs that I host on the
site. I encourage others to create a similar graphic, or use
this one, to encourage people you know to seek out one or more programs
that you can support with a holiday donation. See story at
http://tutormentor.blogspot.com/2013/11/anyone-can-take-this-role-can-you.html
Image
created by Tutor/Mentor Connection
Below are some on-line portals where volunteers are encouraged to
seek out volunteer opportunities. We'd like to motivate donors to use
these places, too. Do you have your organization listed in all
of these sites?
*
ServeIllinois - http://www.serve.illinois.gov/
* Volunteer Match -
http://www.volunteermatch.org
* Additional on-line volunteer search web sites
http://tinyurl.com/TMI-Volunteer-Recruitment
* Chicago Map-Based Tutor/Mentor Program Locator -
http://www.tutormentorprogramlocator.net
Collaboration Goals for 2014 - Shared
Efforts to Build Capacity
Image created by
Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC
The graphic above illustrates that if high profile leaders talk about
the benefits of tutoring/mentoring at key times every year, they can
help mobilize the volunteers and donors needed at every program in a
city. Below are some web sites to visit that might stimulate your
thinking about this.
Collaboration Goals -
http://tinyurl.com/TMC-Collaboration-Scribd-com
Year-Round Strategy -
http://tinyurl.com/TMI-Year-round
Role talent volunteers can take in helping
mentor-rich programs reach youth in more places -
http://tinyurl.com/TMI-VirtualCorpOffice
The next Chicago Tutor/Mentor Leadership and
Networking Conference will be held on May 19, 2014. Visit the web
site to read about past conferences and find a way to be involved in
2014. Http://www.tutormentorconference.org
If It Takes A Village to Raise Kids, Where
do Leaders get Ideas?
Image created by
Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC
This graphic is one I created to illustrate that volunteers, donors and
leaders from many parts of a community need to be strategically involved
in helping non-school learning programs be available to youth in every
neighborhood where they are needed. Furthermore, they need to provide
on-going resources so each program stays connected to youth for multiple
years and is constantly improving their impact by learning from their
own work, and learning from others.
Image
created by Tutor/Mentor Connection
This graphic is an
animation created by an intern working with Tutor/Mentor Connection
in Chicago. It illustrates the growth of a volunteer as they
participate in a tutor/mentor program.www.tutormentorexchange.net/images/flash/rebuild_real.swf
. Youth in many programs could be creating presentations like
this, as part of their own learning and as part of leadership
efforts. If you're doing work like this consider sharing it in one
of the Chicago tutor/mentor conferences, or in an on-line forum.
* Fund Raising - Understanding Challenges - http://tinyurl.com/TMI-Library-FundingIssues
* Blogs on learning, MOOCs, Fund Raising - http://tinyurl.com/TMI-Library-Blog-list
* Collaboration, innovation, visualization, mapping - http://tinyurl.com/TMI-ProcessImp-Collaboration
* Mentoring, tutoring beyond Chicago - http://tinyurl.com/TMI-Library-Mentoring
* Training resources for tutors, mentors - http://tinyurl.com/TMI-MentorTraining
* Process improvement, innovation, creativity articles -
http://tinyurl.com/TMI-ProcessImp-Collaboration 
president's
message
Has anyone figured out a way to make this
work? And how to pay for it?
like this at
www.pinterest.com/tutormentor/
While I focus every day on what it takes to make constantly improving
non-school tutoring, mentoring programs available in high poverty
neighborhoods, I'm realistic in understanding that most people in the
Chicago region and the world are focused on other issues that are
equally important to them. Sometimes when I think about how
difficult it is to raise awareness, and recruit volunteers and donors
for a single tutor/mentor program, let alone for more than 200 different
programs in a huge metropolitan region like Chicago, I just want to give
up. This is too big a challenge, an impossible task.
Yet if I don't try, who else will take this role?
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Thank you! You read to the
bottom of the page. If you do this every month you are truly
dedicated. I'd like to hear from you. Email me at
tutormentor2@earthlink.net or join one of the forums I've
pointed to.
Daniel F. Bassill, D.H.L
President
Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC
and
Tutor/Mentor Connection
http://tutormentor.blogspot.com
http://mappingforjustice.blogspot.com
* on Twitter
-
http://twitter.com/tutormentorteam
* Linked in group on volunteering -
http://tinyurl.com/TMC-LinkedIn-Volunteering
*
Tutor/Mentor Institute on Facebook -
http://www.facebook.com/TutorMentorInstitute
* Tutor/Mentor Connection forum at
http://tutormentorconnection.ning.com
* On Slide Share -
http://www.slideshare.net/tutormentor
* On Scribd.com -
http://www.scribd.com/daniel-f-bassill-7291
* On Pinterest -
http://pinterest.com/tutormentor/
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