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Engage Youth, Volunteers, Staff,
Board, Donors and Community.
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February
2015 - Issue #139
Sharing ideas, connecting adults and youth,
since 1993 |
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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.
Information Categories in
Library
Research
(education, drop out, social capital,
health disparities, etc.)
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.
Helping youth on Journey from Birth to Work
requires new thinking.
Read more
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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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What is a Tutor/Mentor
Program? Where are they Most
Needed? What can Volunteers &
Donors do to Help Programs
Grow?
For 20 years I've
collected and shared
information that is
intended to support the
growth of
volunteer-based
tutor/mentor programs
that reach inner city
youth during non-school
hours.
I know of more than 200
youth serving
organizations in Chicago
( see
this list) who do
some sort of
tutoring/mentoring. In
looking at program web
sites some do a great
job of showing why they
are needed. Others don't
do as well.
What might a
donor or volunteer want
to see on a
program's web site? View
this
Shoppers Guide PDF.
All programs need to
be finding ways to
engage all of their
stakeholders in an
on-going process of
learning what it
takes to connect a
youth and volunteer,
and have a
transformative
impact on the lives
of both. All
programs need to
find ways to engage
donors and volunteer
talent.
Are you
doing this as well
as you need to be
doing it?
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Use this Learning Path to Guide
Yourself, and Your Team through
the Tutor/Mentor Institute web
library.
The Tutor/Mentor Institute,
LLC web site is like a
"university" with
information that students
learn over a period of
years. I've created concept
maps,
like the one at the
left, to guide users through
this map. This
new presentation showing
T/MC Learning Path, was done
by a 2015 intern from IIT
using Prezi. One version
was done in Korean!
 Click
here to see a video,
done by a different intern,
showing the planning process
every organization and
network should be following
to constantly improve the
programs they offer to young
people.
Youth in your community
could be working with
volunteers to create similar
guides through the
information available on web
sites like the Tutor/Mentor
Institute, LLC. They would
be building new skills,
meeting new mentors, and
providing a vital role of
engaging more people in the
work of building the
programs that they benefit
from.
Are you already
doing this? Share
your site with me and others
on Twitter. I'm at
tutormentorteam
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Tutor/Mentor Leadership
and Networking Conference In
Chicago - May 8, 2015
If you're in the Chicago region,
use the
Tutor/Mentor Leadership and
Networking Conference to
expand your own network of
people and ideas, and to engage
your own community. Workshops
focus on the expertise programs
need to sustain long-term
mentoring efforts, while
networking shares ideas that
programs can borrow from each
other.
See Nov. 2014 conference
photo
album
See
articles written by
2014 conference participants.
View
Conference Maps.
These show that we're not
attracting participation from
business, media, philanthropy,
government and others who need
to be engaged directly with
program staff and leaders so
they know what they need to do
to help programs grow. If you
can host a workshop or panel
discussion that attracts these
groups, please submit a workshop
proposal.
Present a Workshop.
The next conference will be May
8, 2015 conference, at the
Metcalfe Federal Building in
Chicago. If you'd like to
organize a workshop,
visit this page to find
details and submit a workshop
proposal.
Be a Sponsor. Your
contributions of $80 to $1000
help make these conferences
possible. Please help.
Read more.
Questions? Please
contact Dan Bassill at
tutormentor2@earthlink.net
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Help Volunteer-Based
Tutor/Mentor Programs thrive in
all parts of Chicago Region
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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Resources for your Learning
Community:
National Equity Atlas.
Explore the Atlas to get data on
changing demographics, racial
inclusion, and the economic
benefits of equity -n 150 metro
areas and every US state.
visit site.
Poor By Comparison
- Report on Illinois Poverty.
New from Social Impact Research
Center at the Heartland
Alliance.
Visit site.
National Neighborhood
Indicators Partnership.
Visit site.
Black Male Achievers
Network Map. See how
maps can show who is working
together to support a common
purpose. Add yourself to the BMA
network.
read more
In
this section of the
Tutor/Mentor Connection web
library I host links to
sites advocating for general
operations funds, and sites
showing challenges facing non
profits. In
this blog article I point so
some examples of "crowdfunding"
which I feel offers potential
for small organizations to work
together to attract donor
support.
Share this information
with your community and
encourage members to read these
articles, then use their
understanding to innovate ways
to support your organization, or
to support youth serving
organizations in your
community. Browse the complete
web library at
http://tinyurl.com/TMC-Library
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Does your program serve
children of military parents?
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(this info forward from
Mentoring ListServ hosted by Dr.
David DuBois)
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If you know of a friend who runs a
program that serves children of
military parents, either through a
formal mentoring program, mentoring
as part of a larger set of services
offered, or just a unique program in
schools serving this population,
please forward this survey to them
and ask if they will help out. To
complete the survey, please go to http://tinyurl.com/MSMscan
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President's Message.
Influence What Resource Providers
do, not just what program leaders
do.
This graphic illustrates the
goal of the Tutor/Mentor
Institute, LLC. The information
shared on my web sites is
intended to influence
what resource providers do
to provide talent, ideas,
technology and operating dollars
to support volunteer-based
tutor/mentor programs in every
high poverty neighborhood of
Chicago and other cities.
The information is also intended
to influence what
programs do to use a
better flow of resources to
constantly improve the way they
connect youth, volunteers and
extra learning experiences, in
multiple year experiences that
expand the network of people
supporting young people living
in high poverty areas as they
move from school and into work
and careers.
Click
here to see an explanation
of the graphic shown above. At
this link you'll see a
video created by an
intern, to communicate
this idea.
Most of my blog articles include
maps and visualizations that
focus attention on strategies that
make comprehensive programs
available in more places. Do a
Google search for "tutor mentor"
then look at the images. You'll see
a wide range of graphics included in
articles written since 2005.
Click on web sites of other
organizations in the
tutoring/mentoring field. Do they
use maps and graphics to communicate
similar ideas? I think they should.
It will take many voices to attract
the consistent attention of resource
providers and policy makers, and
keep them focused on tutor/mentor
programs for a decade or longer.
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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. The graphic
above illustrates my goal of
collecting and sharing information
that can be used to support programs
working with youth in Chicago and
other cities.
If you can provide financial
support to help me continue this
effort, please
visit this page.
Sincerely,
Daniel Bassill
Tutor/Mentor Connection
Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC
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