Intro to Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC Version 2

This presentation is a product of Tutor/Mentor Connection (1993-present), Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC (2011-present).
Web site: www.tutormentorexchange.net Email: tutormentor2@earthlink.net
TUTOR/MENTOR CONNECTION
A CAPACITY-BUILDING NETWORK
Our Goal: Enabling youth/adult connections to take
place in every neighborhood with high poverty.
Supported by Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC, A Social Benefit Enterprise

Meet Daniel F. Bassill, D.H.L.
Tutor/Mentor Connection, Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC
• Illinois Wesleyan 1964-68, History
Major
• Army Intelligence, 1968-71
17 year advertising career (1973-
1990)
• 4 yrs Loaned Exec United
Way/Crusade of Mercy, Chi
• 36 years leading tutor/mentor
program (1975-2011)
• President, Founder of Cabrini
Connections in 1992-2011;
• Founder, Leader, Tutor/Mentor
Connection, 1993 – present
• Founder Tutor/Mentor Institute,
LLC, July 2011
The ideas shared in this presentation and on many web sites and blogs were generated over
40 years of work to help inner-city kids have adult support that helps them move through
school and into adult roles free of poverty.
Dan & Leo
Circa 1974
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Leo Today
Tutor/Mentor Connection (1993-present); Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC (2011-present) www.tutormentorexchange.net

Every youth living
in high poverty
needs extra help to
move successfully
through school and
into 21st
century
jobs and careers.
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If more leaders adopt this strategy, more kids will move through school to jobs.
This is one of many concept maps created by T/MI to show ideas.
See this at https://tutormentorexchange.net/conceptmaps
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In 1992 there was no
leadership working to help
programs like Cabrini
Connections get the
resources needed to grow
in every poverty
neighborhood of the city
and suburbs of Chicago.
I created the Tutor/Mentor
Connection (T/MC) in 1993
to fill this void.
Chicago
While I led a single tutor/mentor program in one zip code from 1975-2011...
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Cabrini
Connections
Serves teens in
the Cabrini-
Green area of
Chicago
I was founder
and leader from
1993-2011.
Tutor/Mentor
Connection
has innovated
uses of maps to
support non
profit program
growth in all
poverty areas of
a city like
Chicago.
In 2011 the Tutor/Mentor
Institute, LLC was created to
support the growth and
operation of T/MC type
intermediaries in Chicago and
other major cities of the US and
the world.

This alumni is a college
grad and a member of
the alumni board for
Tutoring Chicago
(formerly Montgomery
Ward Tutoring Program
This alumni is a
college grad.
Meet other
alumni on Dan
Bassill's
Facebook page.
These alumni
both have
Master’s degrees
Tramaine Montel
Ford (middle) is an
actor in New York
and graduate of
Syracuse. He got his
acting start at
Cabrini Connections
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Starting in Jan 1993 with 5 volunteers and 7 teens, Cabrini Connections grew to
include 80 pairs of 7th
-12th
grade teens and volunteers each year by 1998
More than 700 teens and 800 volunteers were engaged. Many for 3 to 7 years.
Some are now college graduates and still connected via the Internet.

Many great tutoring, mentoring and learning programs are needed.
Our goal is to help leaders adopt strategies that achieve this goal.
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A Tutor/Mentor Connection supports the growth of long-term,
mentor-rich, youth programs in all high poverty areas of big cities
like Chicago. Find visuals like this throughout our website and
blog articles. Create your own version, focused on our city.
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All programs have same needs:
If leaders help programs in
different areas get these
resources every day, they
help kids move through
school toward careers:
* volunteers
* public visibility
* operating dollars
* technology
* training/learning
* leadership
Chicago
area
The shaded
areas of this
map of
Chicago are
the areas of
most
concentrated
poverty.
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This strategy can be used by leaders and intermediaries in any city in the world!
The Tutor/Mentor Institute,
LLC focuses on four on-
going strategies
Research
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Public
Awareness
Resource
Generation
Collaboration,
shared learning
This is the home page of the main T/MI web site.
http://www.tutormentorexchange.net
Learn more about this at
http://tinyurl.com/TMI-4-part-strategy
Browse each section quickly to
know what’s on the site.

Think of Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC as a resource supporting many leaders.
Think of the T/MI as someone in the “back room” helping form strategies.
Think of the T/MI a resource to support your efforts.
Consider the T/MC as a 'think tank” and “incubator” of new ideas and solutions.
Visit http://www.tutormentorexchange.net to browse the on-line library.
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Click one box
in each
category, and
choose zip
code then
click “FIND A
PROGRAM”
By maintaining a
master database of
tutor/mentor
programs we can
lead efforts that
support the growth
of every program in
a city.
This search page was launched in 2004. It now is only available as an archive.
See at https://tinyurl.com/ProgramLocatorSearch
RESEARCH
Maintaining data-
base of providers.

A search on the
Program Locator
enables volunteers,
donors, leaders, parents
can to find programs in
specific areas.
The programs in this
search show up on a
Google map. Contact
info for each program is
shown, based on what
T/MC has received from
each organization.
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This search page was launched in 2004.
It now is only available as an archive.
See at https://tinyurl.com/ProgramLocatorSearch

Interactive Map Based Directory shows where programs
are needed in a region, and where programs already exist.
This reverses the
traditional search logic
of Google or Map
Quest. It shows all of
the places in a
geographic region
where tutor/mentor
programs are needed.
Intended as a
planning tool used
by leaders to help fill
all zip codes with
needed programs.
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The Map Based Program Locator was launched in 2008. It has been an archive since 2018.
View at https://tinyurl.com/ProgramLocatorMap-archive
Zoom into smaller parts of the
city and create custom views.

In addition to Program Locator, a web library with more than 2000 links
Links in library
point to web sites
that host their own
information, and
additional links
related to same
topic.
Tutor/Mentor Connection (1993-present); Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC (2011-present) www.tutormentorexchange.net Page 15
"When nonprofit and community leaders share ideas, insights and information in ways that
promote social impact...knowledge-sharing can improve organizational effectiveness. When we
share what works and what doesn't... it results in accelerated learning, less reinventing the wheel,
better service, and measurable results."
2003 quote by Mr. Tim Wilmot. Chief Knowledge and Evaluation Officer, Charles and Helen Schwab Foundation
RESEARCH
Maintaining data-
base of providers.

35 years of experience and ideas have
been shared in PDF essays posted on
TMI web sites. More than 38,000
views have been recorded on Scribd
since Oct. 2011 when first articles
were posted.
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Find these at
http://www.scribd.com/my_document_collections/3299390
And at http://www.slideshare.net/tutormentor/
Library of ideas available to help leaders in any part of world.

12-months
from now
9-months
from now
6-months
from now
3-months
from now
Immediate
Impact
Growth of
volunteers & $$
and corporate
leaders involved
$$
These events can be duplicated in many cities, and supported by many leaders. As
this happens we gain attention of corporate, celebrity and philanthropic leaders more
than would be possible if only operating in a single city. We build greater attention
and a greater flow of resources.
YEAR ROUND CALENDAR OF EVENTS HAS BEEN DEVELOPED
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PUBLIC
AWARENESS
Increasing use.

0
20000
40000
60000
80000
100000
120000
140000
160000
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Series1
Search “Google” for the ‘tutor mentor’ and see T/MC sites on first page.
’01 ’02 ’03 ’04 ’05 ’06 ’07 ’08 ’09
First web site was established in 1998 by volunteers. Since then several additional web sites
have been created to meet specific goals. See list at http://www.tutormentorexchange.net
“Hits” or
individual
page
views
were more
than 1.3
million
each year
from 2009
through
2012
Annual count of visitors to CC, T/MC web sites
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RESULTS
This system did not
exist in 1993.
It still does not
exist in most
cities.

0
50
100
150
200
250
300
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
Series1
Actions taken to help tutor/mentor programs grow in Chicago
’00 ’01 ’02 ’03 ’04 ’05 ’06 ’07 ’08 ’09
To help have a
citywide strategy to
help tutor/mentor
programs grow
requires
a) Knowledge of existing
programs
a) Advertising
a) Training of non profit &
for-profit leaders
a) Continuous flow of
dollars, volunteers, etc.
OHATS was launched in 2000 to document actions taken by
T/MC and other leaders to help tutor/mentor programs grow
in Chicago area. The site is now an archive. Learn about it at
http://tutormentorinstitute.wikidot.com/project:ohats-t-mc
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Read about Collective Impact and role of “backbone” organizations on Stanford Social
Innovation Review: http://www.ssireview.org/articles/entry/collective_impact
“Collective impact requires
that funders support a long-
term process of social
change without identifying
any particular solution in
advance.”
A backbone organization with
a modest annual budget can
support a collective impact
initiative of several hundred
organizations, magnifying the
impact of millions or even
billions of dollars in existing
funding. Strive, for example,
has a $1.5 million annual
budget but is coordinating
the efforts and increasing the
effectiveness of
organizations with combined
budgets of $7 billion.”
A Tutor/Mentor Connection is a “backbone” organization
and is needed in every city in the world. T/MI seeks to
help a T/MC grow in Chicago and other cities.
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Revenue by Mentor Program (FY2008)
- 1,000 2,000 3,000 4,000 5,000 6,000 7,000 8,000
Tutor/Mentor Connection
Oregon Mentors
The Mentoring Partnership of
Southwestern Pennsylvania
VA Mentoring Partnerships
Maryland Mentoring Partnership
Mentoring Partnership of
Minnesota
Washington State Mentors
Connecticut Mentoring
Partnership
Massachusetts Mentoring
Partnership
Indiana Youth Institute (Indiana
Mentoring Partnership)
Thousands
How much funding is needed? More than what we’ve
had. Not as much as what others are spending.
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T/MC Expense less rent
0
50000
100000
150000
200000
250000
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Series1
Less than $200,000 per year to support
activities in 3rd
largest city in USA
View report at https://tutormentorexchange.net/images/PDF/tmccomparison2010.pdf

Can Tutor/Mentor
Connection strategies
be applied in Asia,
South America, Africa,
or Europe?
What might it cost?
How might we work
together to develop
tools, process,
leadership, and
resources that can be
applied in Chicago,
other US cities and in
India?
DISCUSSION:
Connect on Twitter,
Facebook, LinkedIn, etc.
Share your ideas.
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My slides show maps of
Chicago. Create your own
version, with maps of your city
or country.

The information in this presentation is part of a 4-part strategy.
http://tinyurl.com/TMI-4-Pt-Strategy
T/MI seeks many leaders who will adopt this strategy.
T/MI seeks a few who will help T/MI continue to develop it.
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●
http://www.tutormentorexchange.net
• http://tutormentor.blogspot.com
• http://debategraph.org/mentoring_kids_to_careers
http://mapingforjustice.blogspot.com
Email: tutormentor2@earthlink.net
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TutorMentorInstitute
Social Media Links: https://tutormentorexchange.net/social-media
Learn more about how you and your
company can be leaders in mentoring
inner city youth to careers and/or
supporters of the Tutor/Mentor Institute,
LLC. Visit these web sites:
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Tutor/Mentor Connection (1993-present); Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC (2011-present)
www.tutormentorexchange.net

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