While many non-school tutor, mentor and learning programs operate throughout the country, there are few examples of volunteer teams from business, faith groups, colleges, professional groups, etc., who are working to support ALL of the existing youth programs in a city or defined geographic area. This presentation show role such teams might take, based on work the Tutor/Mentor Connection (1993-present) and Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC (2011-present) have piloted in Chicago. This is part of a collection of visual essays created since the 1990s by Daniel F. Bassill, Founder and CEO. If you're already doing the type of work described, connect with Dan on social media and share your website so he can add it to the Tutor/Mentor Library and share it with others.

1. Reaching youth in all high poverty areas of a city.
This presentation describes a strategy
that groups of people from the same
company, industry, faith group and/or
from national organizations like Teach
For America, can adopt, as part of
their OWN commitment to help kids in
poverty areas move successfully
through school into adult lives, jobs
and responsibilities.
*Since 2011 Tutor/Mentor Connection has been operated as part of Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC
See ideas and mission at http://www.tutormentorexchange.net
Tutor/Mentor Connection (1993-present), Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC (2011-present)
This is a Tutor/Mentor Connection* strategy presentation:

2. Since 1993 Tutor/Mentor Connection has shared idea that youth in high
poverty areas need an expanded network of support that can be provided
by volunteers from many industries, who connect with youth in
organized, on-going, volunteer based tutoring and mentoring programs.
Tutor/Mentor Connection (1993-present); Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC (2011-present) – http://www.tutormentorexchange.net
The arrows connecting each spoke to the hub point in
both directions. This means that volunteers learn from
their involvement while sharing their own experiences
and talent with youth and tutor/mentor programs.
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3. Well-organized programs are needed in every high-poverty neighborhood, supported by
talent from many sectors. Volunteers from a single industry could be part of every team.
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4. What tutor and/or mentor programs already exist in a geographic region?
This map shows locations, and number, of tutor and mentor programs in different parts of the
Chicago area. The Tutor/Mentor Connection has been maintaining this list since 1993, and
sharing it in efforts to draw needed resources to every program, so each can constantly learn
and improve.
See map and list of programs in article at
https://tutormentor.blogspot.com/2020/02/help-youth-tutor-mentor-learning.html
How do we
enlist teams
from different
industries,
faith groups,
etc. to support
ALL of the
programs in
the region, or
in parts of the
region?
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5. Think about the infrastructure needed at every youth serving organization
shown on T/MC maps. View this video at https://youtu.be/2uKxWK2q3RY
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6. Each of these boxes represent INDUSTRIES
who need to be involved in this strategy.
Birth
Career
Family Support Youth Development
Religion,
Ethics
Arts,
Culture
A child
living in
poverty
Higher
Education
Law, Justice
Students join a
Tutor/Mentor
Program between 1st
and 12th
grade.
Technology
Finance, Insurance
Until we put names of individuals or organizations in each box, we won’t have the
leadership needed to mobilize volunteers and donors who go from an industry out to
all tutor/mentor programs in a big city like Chicago.
Science,
Engineering
Retail,
Wholesale
Health,
Wellness
Hospitality,
Entertainment
Manufacturing
Communications
With the help of volunteers
and structured programs,
they finish high school
With the help of
mentors, they start
jobs and careers.
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7. This map shows Rotary Club Locations in Chicago Region:
http://rotarydistrict6450.clubexpress.com/content.aspx?page_id=225&club_id=931079
If a company, faith
group, alumni or
professional
association has
members
throughout city,
those members
could be part of
tutor/mentor
programs in many
different locations.
Think spatially. View maps: https://tutormentorexchange.net/mapping-the-programs
I've put circles around locations where non-school tutor/mentor programs are located, or where
more are needed. This analysis is part of a planning process groups need to go through, to try
to engage members at a broad range of tutor/mentor programs in the city and suburbs.
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8. North Chicago
Elgin
Naperville
Olympia
Fields
A team of
volunteers could
be doing analysis
to show where its
members are
involved, and to
promote further
involvement in
under-served
areas.
Maps could be created to show where members of a group are involved
as volunteers and/or board members of different Tutor/Mentor Programs.
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Read articles showing uses of maps https://tutormentor.blogspot.com/search/label/maps-a

9. In areas where your members are involved, you can lead efforts to
engage other community assets..
At each place where
your members are
involved you can
share ideas and do
work that draws
other resources to
your program, or to
other programs in
your part of the city.
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The Chicago T/MC Program Locator was built in 2008 and active until 2018. Now is
is only available as an archive, and template, that others in Chicago or other cities
could use to build a new platform to serve the same goals. View archive at
https://tinyurl.com/ProgramLocatorMap-archive
Tutor/Mentor Connection (1993-present); Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC (2011-present) – http://www.tutormentorexchange.net

10. Create learning circles where members who are engaged with
different youth organizations share their stories, such as what they
did, what happened, what works, what does not work.
This on-going
experience
sharing
results in
ideas from
one place
being shared
at other
places.....
...and can lead to strategies that improve quality and flow of resources
to programs in all parts of the city.
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11. Leaders from different
sectors could borrow ideas
from groups like Connected
Learning MOOC, for ways
to connect members
involved in different
tutor/mentor programs with
each other, as a constant
form of learning, sharing
and program improvement.
What works? What could
work better? How can our
company, faith group,
network, help every
program get resources,
ideas, dollars, etc. needed
to constantly improve?
Https://clmooc.com
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12. Teams from multiple cities can be connecting and sharing ideas with each other!
See ideas for collaboration at https://tinyurl.com/TMIL-collaboration-links
See this map in Brookings.edu story about big city poverty.
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/the-avenue/2015/05/11/
good-fortune-dire-poverty-and-inequality-in-baltimore-an-american-story/
Tell your story.
Show how
members of your
business, church,
professional group,
etc. support
programs in
multiple locations.
Send it to us and
we'll add it to
collaboration links
in T/MC library.
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13. In 10 to 15 years your organization could claim responsibility for this result.
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14. Who is already doing this type of planning? Who Is doing it well?
This cMap shows data indicators/mapping sites. A similar map needs
to point to sites showing planning processes that do work described
in this presentation. Share links w @tutormentorteam on Twitter.
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Find this at http://tinyurl.com/TMI-MappingData
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15. Every city with areas of concentrated poverty could use a map-based
strategy like was piloted in Chicago. Use our history in your planning.
This concept map shows layers of information you need. See it in article at
https://mappingforjustice.blogspot.com/2020/06/using-maps-to-support-growth-of-youth.html
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16. Interested? Invite Dan Bassill to meet with you, or your team to help you
learn more about resources available through Tutor/Mentor Connection*
web library at http://www.tutormentorexchange.net
*Since 2011 Tutor/Mentor Connection has been operated as part of Tutor/Mentor Institute, LL
Connect with Dan Bassill, founder, CEO, on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram and Mastodon. See
Links to these platforms at https://tutormentorexchange.net/social-media
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