Planning Steps to Fight War on Poverty (and help youth tutor/mentor programs grow in high poverty areas)

America’s “War on Poverty”
How does the work of connecting a youth living in a huig
poverty area with a volunteer tutor/mentor relate to landing
combat troops on an enemy beach during a traditional war?
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Tutor/Mentor Connection (1993-present), Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC (2011-present) http://www.tutormentorexchange.net . Contact tutormentor2@earthlink.net

Enemy
Location
Forces
Direct
engagement
Terms of “warfare” are used in many forms of leadership and advocacy
such as “war on poverty”, “war on drugs”, “war on crime”.
How many leaders actually have a “battle plan” to
fight their wars in all the places where poverty,
drugs, crime, drop out rates, are an issue?
Maps are a tool military planners use to distribute
soldiers and supplies to meet the enemy in many places.
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Tutor/Mentor Connection (1993-present), Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC (2011-present) http://www.tutormentorexchange.net .

Poverty in
City &
suburbs
is enemy
Forces
Include
tutors,
mentors
Darker colors indicate
higher poverty levels.
The Tutor/Mentor Connection began using maps in 1993, to show
where volunteer-based tutor/mentor programs are needed, based on
where poverty and poorly performing schools are concentrated.
Beginning in 1994 the T/MC began to build a Directory of non-school tutor/mentor programs, using maps
to show where the programs were located in different parts of the city. Layers of information showed
different types of tutoring and/or mentoring, as well as age groups served. This was intended to be a tool
leaders would use to support existing programs while building new programs where none existed.
Tutor/Mentor Connection (1993-present), Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC (2011-present) http://www.tutormentorexchange.net . Page 3
View maps at https://tutormentorexchange.net/mapping-the-programs

This Directory was intended for use by leaders. In order to have tutor/mentor
programs in more parts of the city, a logistics and resource development plan
needs to be developed, including elements shown below.
Enemy
sites
Forces
Direct
engagement
Analysis
Of enemy
Strength &
weaknesses
Organize
& Train
US forces
Logistics
To get forces
in place
Understand needs &
plan resource
allocation, e.g.
strategic planning
What resources do
we need to
implement the plan?
How to prepare
them?
How do we distribute
needed resources
and troops to multiple
locations where they
are needed?
Feed &
Equip
Our army better
than enemy
Recruit
& Retain
US forces
Revenue
To support
these efforts
We need to feed, cloth,
arm and re-supply our
troops and logistics
providers for as long as
war is in progress.
How to replace forces
that are lost with new
solders trained and
ready to pick up from
where previous left off
How do we raise
money needed to pay
for this entire effort?
Public
Commitment
To sustain effort and
recruit troops
How do we educate
and inform public so
we can maintain
support for revenue
needed to support
war effort?
Poverty
in city
is
enemy
Forces
Include
tutors &
mentors
How do we create infrastructure to support this force?
This is
a supply
chain issue.
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Tutor/Mentor Connection (1993-present), Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC (2011-present) http://www.tutormentorexchange.net .

In the following pages each step on this chart is reviewed. Skipping
any step in the plan, results in less overall success in the war.

Analysis
Of enemy
strength and
weaknesses
Understand needs
& plan resource
allocation, e.g.
strategic planning
1
Planning teams need to use all available
information to better understand the problem,
and to learn how others are already trying to
solve it. From this information teams can
innovate their own strategies.
Read this article on Action Research. Teams focused on this problem
can be in many organizations.
http://tutormentor.blogspot.com/2012/05/mentoring-workforce-development-ceo.html
Get to know resources in Tutor/Mentor Library
http://tutormentor.blogspot.com/2017/08/get-to-know-resources-in-tutormentor.html
Planning teams can be
in business, schools,
foundations, faith
groups, etc.
Read articles about Planning and Leadership at http://tutormentor.blogspot.com

Borrow ideas from other youth serving programs. Look for ways volunteers
from different industries can help programs grow in many places.
Read https://tutormentor.blogspot.com/2022/12/build-virtual-corporate-office-to.html

Big cities, with high concentrations of poverty, need long-term, mentor-
rich, non-school programs in every high poverty area.
Read https://tutormentor.blogspot.com/2020/12/building-and-sustaining-youth-support.html

Organize &
Train
Combat troops
(tutors, mentors)
What resources do
we need to implement
the plan? How to
prepare them?
2
Create on-going strategies that mobilize
resources needed by every tutor/mentor
program and distribute those consistently
to every part of the city. Teach donors to
use program websites to make giving
decisions.
With more than 200,000 K-12
youth in living in Chicago
poverty neighborhoods,
several hundred tutor/mentor
programs are needed. Each
needs a paid and volunteer
staff.
See maps like this at
https://tutormentorexchange.net/mapping-the-programs

Logistics
To get troops &
supplies in places
where needed.
How do we distribute
needed resources
and troops to multiple
locations where they
are needed?
3
Transit routes show paths volunteers and donors
take as they pass by poverty neighborhoods
every day. Planners need to organize distribution
hubs in the LOOP and each suburb.
Using these types of visual
aids strategies can develop
that bring volunteers, dollars,
technology, ideas, etc. to
youth programs in every
poverty neighborhood of the
city and suburbs.

Current map showing
Chicago
Volunteer-based,
tutor, mentor &
learning programs.
Find this map and lists of Chicago youth
programs at
http://tinyurl.com/TMI-Volunteer-
Opportunities

Feed & Equip
..our army better
than there army.
We need to feed,
cloth, arm and re-
supply our troops and
logistics providers for
as long as war is in
progress.
4
Big companies have corporate office teams
that make sure every branch store has the
personnel, equipment, training, products
and services needed to support customers.
If planners identify common
needs, innovators and
entrepreneurs can help
make sure every program
is well supported.

Many leaders need to make the commitment shown in this concept map.
View at http://tinyurl.com/tmc-strategy-map
Create a version of this with your name/logo in the blue box. Share on your website,
blog, newsletter, etc to show your commitment and enlist other leaders.

Recruit &
Retain
How to replace forces
that are lost with new
solders trained and
ready to pick up from
where previous left off
5
It takes 12 years for a first grader to finish
high school. Strategies need to constantly
recruit new volunteers and donors to replace
those who drop out over the many decades
this strategy needs to be sustained.
Every calendar year should have events that mobilize attention
and resources for tutor/mentor programs in all parts of the city.
Long-term commitments, leadership and funding are needed.

No Army can fight effectively and no building is
constructed unless the troops and workers are
paid and unless they have a blueprint, maps
and the right supplies and tools to do the job.
Revenue to
Support
Effort
How do we raise
money needed to pay
for this entire effort?
6
Advertising, PR, social
media and other forms of
communications must be
developed to create an
sustain the public will
needed to fund this effort.
Think of how business uses advertising to draw customers to stores; apply the same thinking to draw
volunteers and donors to youth programs.

Public
Commitment
How do we educate
and inform public so
we can maintain
support for revenue
needed to support
war-on-poverty effort?
7
Leaders are needed from every sector
of business, religion, education, civic,
sports, entertainment, media, politics,
etc. to support this collective effort.
Strategies in each volunteer-based
program should aim to transform
volunteers and youth into future leaders
who help sustain and expand this effort.
See ideas for leadership involvement
http://www.tutormentorexchange.net/leadership-strategies

Students, volunteers, writers, designers, movie-makers, etc. are invited to
help us collect, organize and communicate these ideas.
View 4-Part Strategy Concept Map at http://tinyurl.com/TMI-4-Pt-Strategy
We all want more young people
to be safe, finish high school and
college, and be prepared for 21st
century jobs and careers.
The Tutor/Mentor Connection has developed a 4-Part Strategy over the past 1993-
2011 years to support this planning process. Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC now seeks
to continue this in Chicago and other cities.
Ask how you can duplicate
this in your city.

Youth in your community can communicate these ideas. The video
shown below was created by and intern from South Korea to share ideas
from an article on the Tutor/Mentor blog. Interns working with us in Chicago
between 2004 and 2015 did many projects like this. See more like this at:
http://www.tutormentorexchange.net/definition-of-issues/ideasanimation
Visit the planning forum at
http://tutormentorconnection.ning.com and see
how interns were coached to do this work. You
can take part in this project, using your own
talent to communicate these ideas and to
support the growth of youth support systems in
more places where kids need extra help.
Talent Needed: This map shows range of talents
needed by T/MC and other intermediaries to
support this strategy. Use as a guide in building
your own team -
http://tinyurl.com/TMC-Talent-needed
View at video https://youtu.be/JLH87y1BPco?
si=nphEqVPYCpopZop9

Help generate a flow of operating and innovation dollars to tutor/mentor
programs and to intermediary organizations serving Chicago and other
places with high concentrations of poverty.
The Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC
was formed in July 2011 to
continue the work of the
Tutor/Mentor Connection.
Companies, individuals, and/or
philanthropist can help us develop
the concepts and technologies
shown in this presentation and on
our web sites.
Take the YOU role in this graphic.
Read philanthropy articles on
http://tutormentor.blogspot.com
Many ways to give and get involved.
Http://www.tutormentorexchange.net/helptmi

Set up a Learning Community or Research &
Development team in your business or organization.
Begin to share this information in formal and informal settings. Browse the web
sites below and use the information available from each web site.
1
2
3
4
http://www.tutormentorexchange.net
http://tutormentor.blogspot.com
http://tutormentorconnection.ning.com
http://mappingforjustice.blogspot.com
http://tutormentorexchange.net/conceptmaps
http://michaelcnt.blogspot.com/
Connect with Dan Bassill on
https://tutormentorexchange.net/social-media
Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC, Tutor/Mentor Connection
Email tutormentor2@earthlink.net
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@tutormentorteam

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