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Schools Starts
Soon. Help Volunteer
Based Tutor/Mentor
Programs
In all Parts of Chicago
and other Cities
Mobilize Volunteers.
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Help
Tutor/Mentor
Programs
Launch
New
School
Year.
Support
Programs
In All
Parts of
Urban
Area.
The ideas
shared in
this monthly
newsletter
can be used
by resource
providers,
political
leaders, non
profit
leaders,
volunteers
and youth to
help
mentor-rich
programs
thrive in
all of the
neighborhoods
where they
are most
needed.
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Volunteer
Recruitment
for 2015-16
School Year
Mobilize talent
and dollars
needed to build
strong
tutor/mentor
organizations.
Every year at
this time youth
serving
organizations
throughout
Chicago and
other cities are
setting up
communications
efforts to
mobilize
volunteers for
the new school
year. This
graphic from a
Tutor/Mentor
Institute, LLC
essay titled,
Virtual
Corporate Office,
emphasizes that
every program
requires a wide
range of talent
and resources to
recruit and
retain youth and
volunteers.
While some
programs will do
this better than
others, great
programs are
needed in every
high poverty
neighborhood.
Read articles in
this section
of Tutor/Mentor
Institute, LLC
site showing how
leaders in
business,
religion,
colleges and
hospitals can
help programs
grow in
different parts
of the city.
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Engage in
Systems
Thinking
Involve youth,
volunteers,
staff, board and
funders in
defining goals
and strategy
If you follow
the many
articles I've
shared via this
newsletter and
my blog, you
know I point to
work being done
by others that I
hope will be
duplicated by
organizations
and leaders in
Chicago. This
month I've been
part of a
Making Learning
Connected
MOOC,
where educators
from around the
country have
been sharing
ideas about
systems
thinking. Read
this article,
and
this article,
to see how I've
been interacting
with educators
from throughout
the country.
Visit the #CLMOOC
G+page
and see how you
can also get
involved.
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Learn to use
Data from
on-line
sources to
make case
Visit
Tutor/Mentor
Institute, LLC
web library
I'm seeing a
growing number
of organizations
providing
data-maps that
show
philanthropy,
inequality,
poverty and
other indicators
that emphasize
where
well-organized
volunteer based
tutoring,
mentoring and
learning
programs are
most needed.
Open
this link
to see the
concept map
shown above.
Follow the links
in each node to
see some of the
data-maps I
point to.
Browse articles
on
this blog,
to see some of
these resources.
The next
innovation I
hope to see will
be a growing
number of youth
serving
organizations
teaching young
people and
volunteers to
pull information
from these data
resources that
they use to
understand
community
problems and to
create content
that invites
others to become
involved in
solving urgent
problems.
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Use Blogs to
Tell Your
Story
Few youth
serving
organizations in
Chicago do this
effectively
In
this section
of Tutor/Mentor
library I point
to nearly 200
blogs. Some
focus on
philanthropy,
with many fund
raising and
marketing ideas.
Some focus on
learning, with
ideas that can
inspire mentors,
program leaders
and donors. Some
point to blogs
by different
tutor/mentor
programs.
I point to
nearly 200
Chicago
organizations
that offer
various forms of
tutoring and/or
mentoring in
this section
of the
Tutor/Mentor web
library.
Unfortunately, I
don't see blogs
on most of these
web sites. In
addition, many
blogs that do
exist are just
bulletin boards.
They don't show
what happens in
their programs,
or why their
programs are
needed in the
neighborhoods
where they are
located. Few
include students
and volunteers
as writers.
I feel every
program should
host a blog, so
when volunteers,
donors and media
visit your web
sites, more will
find reasons to
support you.
However, I also
understand how
difficult is to
keep a blog
current. This is
a role that
volunteers from
business,
universities and
even area high
schools, might
take to help
tutor/mentor
programs be more
effective.
If you have a
blog, send the
link to me and
I'll add it to
my library.
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Is there a
hashtag that
you'd use to
help attract
attention for
tutor/mentor
orgs in Chicago
Twitter and
Facebook have
great potential
for building
attention and
mobilizing
resources for
youth tutor,
mentor and
learning orgs.
However, unless
we agree on a
common hashtag,
that can be used
at key times
each year, we'll
not generate the
visibility and
public attention
our sector
needs.
During the next
two weeks, I
encourage you to
Tweet ideas to
me
@tutormentorteam
to suggest
hashtags that
you would be
willing to use
over and over in
August to
motivate
volunteers and
donors to search
out tutor/mentor
programs to
support in
September and
beyond. You can
also email your
suggestions, or
offer them on
Facebook.
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Leaders
From Every
Sector Need
to Lead
Don't support
just one
organization.
Help draw
resources to ALL
programs.
Many companies,
celebrities and
foundations
provide
fantastic
support to one
or two of the
different
tutor/mentor
programs in
Chicago.
However, few
adopt business
practices of
putting stores
in all locations
where they find
customers, and
support all of
these so each
can be great in
attracting and
serving those
customers.
Since
organizations
like
Tutor/Mentor
Institute host
databases and
web platforms
showing up to
200 youth
serving
organizations in
Chicago, any
leader can use
his visibility,
his
communications
tools and his
personality to
mobilize
volunteers AND
donors to
support programs
in different
neighborhoods.
Let's recognize
those who do
this well.
Read:
Role of Leaders
....:
Collaboration
Goals ....
Recruiting
Talent
Volunteers
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