Is Your Elected Representative Using Maps?

Use Maps as part of Strategy to Fill High Poverty
Areas with Needed Youth & Family Services
2015 story
1996 story
Violence in Chicago:
Where Will We Be in 10 Years?
Chicago Map
Tutor/Mentor Connection (1993-present), Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC (2011-present) http://www.tutormentorexchange.net tutormentor2@earthlink.net

T/MC
Cabrini
Connections
1992-2011
In 1993 we began creating maps to draw
resources to programs operating in high poverty
areas. This is one of many maps you can find on
our web sites and blogs. These were created using
donated ESRI software between 1994 and 2011.
In 2008 we created an interactive program
locator. This is example of map story created
using this platform, which you can find at
https://tinyurl.com/ProgramLocatorMap-archive
*Since 2011 the T/MC has been part of
Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC, which was created
by Dan Bassill, to continue this strategy in
Chicago and share it with other cities.
About Us: Tutor/Mentor
Connection (T/MC)*
Local/Global mission – The Tutor/Mentor Connection (T/MC)
was created in late 1992 by Daniel F. Bassill and six other
volunteers, who were starting a new Cabrini Connections
tutor/mentor program in Chicago, as a commitment to help teens
living in the Cabrini-Green area connect with adult volunteers
who would help these teens move through school and into jobs
and careers.
While launching this tutor/mentor program, the organizers
also created the Tutor/Mentor Connection (T/MC), to provide
leadership to efforts that would help programs like Cabrini
Connections get the resources they need to thrive in every
poverty neighborhood of a big city like Chicago. Through the
Internet, the T/MC is now connecting with mentoring and career
development program organizers throughout the world. In 2011
the T/MC became part of Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC, which is
creating products, services and events to support T/MC type
organizations in Chicago and other cities.
The interactive mapping platform and GIS mapping strategy have not been
funded since 2011. The platforms are now archives, serving as a model that
new leaders in Chicago and other cities can duplicate.
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This map was created using the Interactive map section of the Tutor/Mentor Program Locator, showing
locations of shootings that took place in Chicago on November 2 & 3, 2015, which were featured in front
page Chicago Tribune stories. This platform is now only available as an archive.
X – 8000 block of South Damen Avenue; XX 7300 block of South May Street
The following pages illustrate one way these maps can be used
by political, business, community and other leaders:
36th
Dist.
31st Dist.
This map shows
Illinois Legislative
Districts as well as
poverty levels in
this area (based on
2000 census).
Users can create maps by
adding layers of information.
Each tab represents one layer.
Users can also zoom into
different areas, such as zip
codes, community areas, political
districts.
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This is a different map view, also created using the Tutor/Mentor Program Locator.
View archive of Chicago Tutor/Mentor Program Locator
https://tinyurl.com/ProgramLocatorMap-archive
This map shows banks and some
faith groups in the area where the
shootings took place.
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Use data platforms to create map stories showing where tutor/mentor programs are
located and where more are needed.
See maps in stories at https://tutormentor.blogspot.com/search/label/maps
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XX 11/3/15 Aspiring Model Shot
7300 block of South May Street
X – 9-Year Old Boy Shot
8000 block of South Damen Avenue
The two Chicago shootings of 11/2 and 11/3/2015
took place in the 31st
and 36th
Illinois State House
Districts and the 16th
and 18th
State Senate Districts
These maps were created using a different GIS mapping tool than the Program Locator. Users should be
able to easily create maps of political districts, zip codes or community areas, with overlays similar to
those shown on the map of the 14th
Senate District. Finding web sites with interactive maps showing all
Illinois State and House districts has been difficult. Finding maps with demographic overlays has been
even more difficult.
Above is map of the 14th
State Senate district w/overlays showing
poverty, poor schools, tutor/mentor orgs, and assets. Created by
Tutor/Mentor Connection in 2009. Shootings of 11/2 and 11/3
took place just North of this district.
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The two shootings of 11/2 &
11/3/2015 took place at the
edges of the 17th
Ward.
Aldermen of the 18th
and 6th
Wards should also be
accountable.
These maps show Chicago Wards. To show Ward numbers, I
copied the WBEZ map to Power Point, then added Ward
numbers. I save this as a JPG so I could include it in map-
stories. I then created an inset (below) showing the Wards
where the shootings took place.
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11/3/2015 took place in the
2nd
and 3rd Districts of the
Cook Country Board.
This map is a PDF found at
https://datacatalog.cookcoun
tyil.gov/GIS-Maps/ccgismap-
Cook-Commissioner-
Districts/ehgp-m9tw
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The shooting of 9-yr-old boy on 11/2/2015 took
place in the 3rd District of the Cook County Board of
Commissioners. Elected officials should be
accountable.
The shootings on 11/3/2015 took place in the
2nd
District of the Cook County Board of
Commissioners. Elected officials should be
accountable.
These two county board districts
are next to each other with parts of
the 17th
ward in each district.
These maps show the two Cook County Board Districts where
these shootings occurred. I copied the District maps from the
Cook County web site, then added Ward numbers in larger type,
so they could be seen in map stories like this. I saved the maps
as JPGs to use as needed.
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x
xx
11/3/2015 took place in the
1st
US Congressional
District. Elected officials
should be accountable.
To use maps of US Congressional Districts in this analysis, I first
needed to copy maps from the web site below, and save them as
JPGs. I then pulled them into Power Point, to add info showing
where the shootings occurred.
http://www.cookcountyclerk.com/aboutus/map_room/Pages/
CongressionalDistrictMaps.aspx
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There are numerous data platforms that you can use to create map stories. And there are a few
intermediaries collecting and mapping information about youth serving programs. Use these to create
your own map stories, or as models for building your own platform.
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View this concept map at http://tinyurl.com/TMI-MappingData

When bad things happen, and are given major attention in local media, leaders need to know how to
create map stories, that tell “the rest of the story” and draw people together to fill neighborhoods with
programs and services that begin to reduce the reasons “bad things” are happening. Making map-
stories needs to be easy, so they can be created, and put into blog articles, like those at
http://tutormentor.blogspot.com, while the media still focus on this story.
Unless leaders change how they
lead, and mobilize others, and draw
needed resources into all places
where help is needed, violence,
poverty and poor schools will be the
same story in 10, 20 or 30 years
from now.
Making maps is just part of what leaders
need to know. Create a learning team and
use articles at
www.tutormentorexchange.net to get to
know this strategy and ways to use maps.
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1997 story

Publish map stories weekly to draw people from your network to information that shows where and
why volunteer-based tutor, mentor and learning programs are needed and ways people can help
them with contributions of time, talent, dollars and public will.
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Vote for political leaders who publish map stories regularly like those at
https://tutormentor.blogspot.com/search/label/maps and who implement policies that draw
consistent funding to support youth programs in every high poverty area of their city and state.

Maps can help identify everyone in a map-area (city or neighborhood) who
should be involved in helping youth move successfully through school and into
adult lives…free of poverty, violence and inequality of opportunity.
Leaders need to learn to lead this strategy. Youth can take this role,
starting as early as middle school. Elected leaders should be held
accountable for what they do to fill neighborhoods with needed services..
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Web sites of leaders
need to include
maps, showing a
commitment to this
strategy.

The Tutor/Mentor Connection* is an intermediary, and
information aggregator. Someone needs to take this
role for your community.
Until thousands of people focus on this
information every day, like students focus on
math and science and history in school
classrooms,
we will still have social and economic gaps in
America and many people under-achieving
their potential.
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* Since 2011 the Tutor/Mentor Connection has been a program of Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC

Tutor/Mentor Connection has been piloting a map strategy since 1993, with
the help of volunteers and an inconsistent flow of philanthropic support.
View media stories:
http://www.tutormentorexchange.net/news-pr
Learn more about how T/MC vision for using maps.
http://tutormentorinstitute.wikidot.com/project:
geographic-information-systems-interface-with-data
2015 Chicago Tribune
1996 Map Story
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Connect with Dan
Bassill on social
media

Chicago SunTimes - 4-26-2022
This PDF was first published in 2015. Eight years have passed.
Nothing has changed. Except there is a new Mayor. Again.
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• Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/groups/TutorMentorInstitute/
• Twitter @tutormentorteam
• LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/tutormentor
• Ning – http://tutormentorconnection.ning.com
• Blog – http://tutormentor.blogspot.com
• Email – tutormentor2@earthlink.net
• Find this presentation and similar strategy ideas in the library at
http://www.tutormentorexchange.net/library
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Connect with Dan Bassill on
Social Media
https://tutormentorexchange.net/social-media
Learn about Dan's leadership of tutor/mentor programs in Chicago Read articles like
https://tutormentor.blogspot.com/2023/08/what-am-i-doing-why-do-i-keep-trying.html

It just takes two or three
people to launch a
Tutor/Mentor Connection
strategy in a neighborhood,
a city, or in an organization.
“If this (initiative) is accepted and acted
upon, it can change the way philanthropy
and charities work together in America
and throughout the world. It can change
the future for millions of kids born into
poverty each year.”
Visit http://tutormentorconnection.ning.com
and http://tutormentorexchange.net to learn more.
Email tutormentor2@earthlink.net to discuss.
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