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Concept Maps - 2025

Since 2005 the Tutor/Mentor Connection (led by Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC since 2011) has used concept maps to share strategies and resources. Click on the links below each concept map to view the actual map. Clock on nodes at the bottom of each component to dig deeper into the library of ideas that are shared on these maps.

Leadership Commitment - strategy map

http://tinyurl.com/tmc-strategy-map

Any leader can adopt this strategy and show their commitment by creating their own version of this map, with their picture or company logo in the blue box at the top. See it in this article.

Also view:
- Complex Problems -Leaders Needed - https://tinyurl.com/TMI-complex-problems

- TMI Goal -Increase Funding Stream - http://tinyurl.com/TMIGoal-FundingStream

This 4-part strategy to achieve goals; launched in 1993

http://tinyurl.com/tmc-strategy-map

Below the blue box on the Strategy Map is a link to this 4-part strategy map. Read about it in this blog article.

Also view:
- History of using maps. 1993 to present - https://tinyurl.com/TMC-Maps-History
- "It Takes aVillage" Cmap http://tinyurl.com/TMC-VillageCMap-1

Mentoring Kids to Careers blueprint

http://tinyurl.com/TMI-K-CareerMentoring

This concept map visualizes the different supports all kids need to help them move from birth to work. It emphasizes the role volunteers in tutor/mentor programs can take to help these resources be available in high poverty areas. See it in this article.

Get to know the Tutor/Mentor Connection and Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC. Follow the Learning Path in this concept map.

Also view:
- Mentoring-to-Career/Elementary School - http://tinyurl.com/TMI-ElementarySchool
- Birth to work challenges - https://tinyurl.com/ChallengesFacingYouth-TMI

Talent needed to achieve goals

http://tinyurl.com/TMI-TalentNeeded

Use this concept map as a tool when building a team to accomplish a goal. Do you have people filling each of these nodes?

View this map, showing organizations that need to be part of your planning ecosystem. http://tinyurl.com/TMI-NetworkMap

Also view:
- Volunteer Growth Cycle - http://tinyurl.com/TMI-Vol-Growth-Cycle
- Volunteer growth strategy - http://tinyurl.com/TMI-volunteer-growth

Why should business invest in tutor/mentor programs?

http://tinyurl.com/TMI-WhyShouldBusinessInvest.

This and the other concept maps shown below offer reasons for business and professional groups to invest strategically and long-term in volunteer-based tutor, mentor and learning programs. Read more in this article.

Look at these maps, too.
- Workforce development strategy – http://tinyurl.com/TMI-WorkforceDevelopment
- R&D for Business:Why be strategically involved? http://tinyurl.com/TMI-BusinessMotivation
- Career Pipeline map - http://tinyurl.com/TMI-Career-Pipeline

Planning process

http://tinyurl.com/TMI-Planning

This and the concept maps shown below visualize the planning needed to mobilize community support for long-term solutions. See it in this article.

Also view
- Planning Cycle: http://tinyurl.com/TMI-PlanningCycle-cmap
- Influencing Change via on-line communities - http://tinyurl.com/TMI-InfluencingChange
- Complex Problems -Leaders Needed - https://tinyurl.com/TMI-complex-problems
- Building Teams who collaborate on goals - http://tinyurl.com/TMI-BuildingTeams

This map shows all sections of the Tutor/Mentor Library

http://tinyurl.com/TMI-libraryFull

This library was started in 1973 as Dan Bassill looked for ideas that he could use in his tutoring sessions, then grew as he led a single program from 1975 to 2011, and tried to help other programs throughout Chicago, starting in 1993.

Also view:
- Guide to Links Library - http://tinyurl.com/TMI-GuidetoLibrary
- Info we collect and share - http://tinyurl.com/InfoWeCollect-Share
- Interns can share this information – http://tinyurl.com/TMC-NUintern
- Make learning what's on this web site a game - http://tinyurl.com/TMI-Game
- What We Need to Think About-cMap - http://tinyurl.com/TMI-Logic-CMap
- Reasons to engage - https://tinyurl.com/TMI-ReasonsTo-Engage

This map features the four sections of the library

http://tinyurl.com/TMI-librarySummary for the eighth article. The `mb-4` class adds spacing between rows, while `mb-md-0` removes it for the right column on medium screens and up.

Also view:

- Research articles - http://tinyurl.com/TMI-Library-Research
- Resource Links - http://tinyurl.com/TMILibrary-ResourceLinks
- Innovation, collaboration, visualization, etc. http://tinyurl.com/TMILibrary-Innovation-etc
- Social Justice, poverty, inequality - links - https://tinyurl.com/Law-Justice-Poverty-Links
- Interns communicating T/MC and T/MI strategies- https://tinyurl.com/TMC-interns
- Homework Help Map - http://tinyurl.com/TMC-HomeworkHelp-map
- Blog articles with links to other stories https://tinyurl.com/TMI-blog-as-library

Increasing attention & resources - public awareness

http://tinyurl.com/TMI-AwarnessPlan

Step 2 and Step 4 of the strategy developed in 1994 used retail advertising ideas to build more consistent attention and a better flow of operating resources to EVERY tutor/mentor program in Chicago. That strategy is visualized in this concept map. Read more.

Additional maps:
- TMI Goal -Increase Funding Stream - http://tinyurl.com/TMIGoal-FundingStream
- Volunteer Opportunities platforms: Use these sites to find places to volunteer or donate. - http://tinyurl.com/TMI-Volunteer-Opportunities
- Engaging Public Health Sector – https://tinyurl.com/TMI-PublicHealth-Hope

Using data to support outcomes

http://tinyurl.com/TMC-Info-flow

This map visualizes how information in this library, and efforts to increase public awareness, lead to more mentor-rich programs helping kids in high poverty areas move from birth-to-work. Read this article.

Additional maps:

- Map of data indicators - http://tinyurl.com/TMI-MappingData
- Race-Poverty Cmap - http://tinyurl.com/TMI-Race-Poverty-Map
- Discussion of Robert Putham's "OUR KIDS" book Our Kids: The American Dream In Crisis - click here
- Digital Divide in US-2017 http://tinyurl.com/TMI-DigitalDivide-Issues
- Making non profits more effective - map of "Uncharitable", by Dan Pallotta - http://tinyurl.com/Discuss-TMI-Uncharitable

Connecting with others; spreading the message

http://tinyurl.com/TM-BlogNet-Map

These maps show how I've connected with a wide network, includihng educators I met in 2013 via a Connected Learning (CLMOOC) event, and how they have shared my message via their own media.

Additional maps:
- Twitter Chats/Hashtag - http://tinyurl.com/TMI-TwitterConnections
- Amplifying Stories - CLMOOC 2015 - https://tinyurl.com/TMI-AmplifyingStories
- Learning Path 10-10-16 – tinyurl.com/TMI-learning-10-10-16
- Learning Path 7-14-17- http://tinyurl.com/TMI-Learning-7-14-17
- Collaboration Mapping - tinyurl.com/TM-CollaborationMapping
- Network Building Map - tinyurl.com/TMI-NetworkBuildingMaps
- Connecting Networks Map - tinyurl.com/TM-ConnectingNetworksMap
- Many to 1 map - shows goal: http://tinyurl.com/TMI-Many-to-1
- Local Global Learning via Twitter - https://tinyurl.com/TM-Global-Learning
- Digging through digital archives w #clmooc - https://tinyurl.com/TMI-modgiwri

Learn more about Tutor/Mentor Connection (1993-present) & Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC (2011-present)

This map, and those listed below, are intended to help you understand the work Dan Bassill has done since forming the Tutor/Mentor Connection in Chicago in 1993. http://tinyurl.com/TM-InstitueCMAP

Read more:
- Tutor/Mentor Institute Learning Guide- http://tinyurl.com/TMI-learning-path
- Tutor/Mentor Connection/Institute - 1990 - present - click here
- Help needed to support 4-part strategy - http://tinyurl.com/TMC-4-part-strategy-planning
- Tutor/Mentor Institute Talent needed -http://tinyurl.com/TMCSupportNet
- Places to connect with Dan Bassill – http://tinyurl.com/TMC-DanNetwork -

Concept Map Library

Leadership Commitment - strategy map

Also view:
- Complex Problems -Leaders Needed - https://tinyurl.com/TMI-complex-problems

- TMI Goal -Increase Funding Stream - http://tinyurl.com/TMIGoal-FundingStream

This 4-part strategy to achieve goals; launched in 1993

Mentoring Kids to Careers blueprint

Talent needed to achieve goals

Why should business invest in tutor/mentor programs?

http://tinyurl.com/TMI-WhyShouldBusinessInvest.

Planning process

http://tinyurl.com/TMI-Planning

This and the concept maps shown below visualize the planning needed to mobilize community support for long-term solutions. See it in this article.

Also view
- Planning Cycle: http://tinyurl.com/TMI-PlanningCycle-cmap
- Program Locator cMap - http://tinyurl.com/TMI-ProgramLocator
- Influencing Change via on-line communities - http://tinyurl.com/TMI-InfluencingChange
- Complex Problems -Leaders Needed - https://tinyurl.com/TMI-complex-problems
- Building Teams who collaborate on goals - http://tinyurl.com/TMI-BuildingTeams

This map shows all sections of the Tutor/Mentor Library

This map features the four sections of the library

http://tinyurl.com/TMI-librarySummary for the eighth article. The `mb-4` class adds spacing between rows, while `mb-md-0` removes it for the right column on medium screens and up.

Also view:

- Research articles - http://tinyurl.com/TMI-Library-Research
- Resource Links - http://tinyurl.com/TMILibrary-ResourceLinks
- Innovation, collaboration, visualization, etc. http://tinyurl.com/TMILibrary-Innovation-etc
- Social Justice, poverty, inequality - links - https://tinyurl.com/Law-Justice-Poverty-Links
- Interns communicating T/MC and T/MI strategies- https://tinyurl.com/TMC-interns
- Blog articles with links to other stories https://tinyurl.com/TMI-blog-as-library
- Learning resources - http://TMI-Training-Conferences-etc

Increasing attention & resources - public awareness

http://tinyurl.com/TMI-AwarnessPlan

Using data to support outcomes

- Map of data indicators - http://tinyurl.com/TMI-MappingData
- Race-Poverty Cmap - http://tinyurl.com/TMI-Race-Poverty-Map
- Discussion of Robert Putham's "OUR KIDS" book Our Kids: The American Dream In Crisis - click here
- Digital Divide in US-2017 - http://tinyurl.com/TMI-DigitalDivide-Issues
- Making non profits more effective - map of "Uncharitable", by Dan Pallotta - http://tinyurl.com/Discuss-TMI-Uncharitable

Connecting with others; spreading the message

http://tinyurl.com/TM-BlogNet-Map

Learn more about Tutor/Mentor Connection (1993-present) & Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC (2011-present)

Help Fund the Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC - 2025

Tutor/Mentor Connection (1993-present), Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC (2011-present)

I started the Tutor/Mentor Connection in 1993 and the Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC in 2011. Please contribute to help me continue.

(scroll down to bottom of this page to find PayPal button and/or mailing address)

This entire website is full of reasons for helping me help volunteer-based tutor, mentor and learning programs grow in every area of persistent poverty. It's also a resource for any type of problem-solving!

The image shown above is from a visual essay titled "Tipping Points".
It visualizes the strategies that I'm sharing and that I ask you to support with your contributions and by sharing my posts.

Rather than trying to be a single leader in a huge city, the T/MC, and now T/MI, have sought to provide an information platform that all leaders can use to LEARN, EDUCATE, and INNOVATE ways to support long-term, mentor rich, volunteer-based tutor, mentor and learning program growth in more places and to solve other complex social, political and environmental problems facing this country and the world.

With your help, I can continue.

If someone you know has become ill and needs money to pay bills, they set up a "Go Fund Me" page and ask for contributions. So, this is my "fund me" page. I (Daniel Bassill) have been self-funding most of this work since 2011, supported by a small group of continuing donors.

Please send a contribution of $25, $50, $100, $250, $500 or more to help me continue in 2025 and beyond.

Mail contributions to:

Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC
c/o Daniel Bassill
932 N. Salem Avenue
Arlington Heights, IL 60005

Thank you for helping me help others.
Note. The Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC is not a 501-c-3 non profit, so your contributions are not tax deductible. They will be used to support social benefit and the lives of thousands of young people born and living in high poverty areas of Chicago and other places.

June-July 2025 T/MI News

June-July 2025 - Issue 242

Seek out youth programs in your areas. Give them your support!

There are terrible things happening across the United States and around the world. My daily media is filled with these stories. To me, this drowns out needed calls for support for youth-serving programs in Chicago and other places.

As we head through summer toward the new school year, use the resources in my newsletter and website to find and support organized, on-going, volunteer-based tutor, mentor and learning programs. They all need your help.

At the same time, use other resources that I share to find ways to support people in your community who need help and to close the gaps that are dividing us from each other.

These resources can be used by anyone, in Chicago, or around the world.

Please share this so others in your city can find and use these resources!

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These are social media posts from Chicago youth serving programs

This was posted on LinkedIn by Chicago Scholars, celebrating alumni who have been part of their program. It is one of many posts I see on my feed every day from Chicago area youth-serving programs.

Use this list to find many other Chicago area youth-serving programs who have accounts on LinkedIn.

This was posted on Facebook by Diamond in the Rough Youth Development Program, Inc.

Use this list to find other Chicago area youth-serving programs who have accounts on Facebook.

Find lists of Chicago area programs using Twitter and Instagram, plus my list of tutor/mentor program websites at www.tutormentorexchange.net

One thing anyone can do to help kids living in high poverty areas is get to know existing youth serving programs and help them attract attention from media, donors, volunteers, parents and students. You can do it by sharing links to their websites or by liking and boosting their posts on social media. If you're able, you can even volunteer and/or donate.

Scroll through this set of Tutor/Mentor blog articles to see how I've highlighted work of other Chicago area volunteer-based tutor, mentor and learning programs. Do you have someone in your community hosting a website and encouraging others to draw users to it the way I do?

Independent Sector's annual report on the "value of volunteer time"

The Independent Sector is one of the leading resources in the philanthropic sector. One of its annual reports provides an estimated national value of each volunteer hour. Read the report at this link.

Visit the blog article section on the Independent Sector website and find leadership articles that focus on the disruption and chaos caused by actions of the current administration. click here

Are you aware of the City of Chicago's violence reduction dashboard, created by the University of Chicago's Urban Crime Lab? The graphic below shows one page from the website.

A few weeks ago I watched an introduction to this dashboard and its many interactive features. It's a publicly available tool launched to support efforts to reduce gun violence through transparent, real-time data. This link points to the Urban Crime Lab page that includes a video of the webinar and many other resources. View the dashboard at this link.

I wrote about the webinar and shared other screenshots on this Mapping for Justice blog article. Use your own blog to share resources like this.

Reimagining leadership in the Nonprofit Sector

I saw this message on BlueSky recently: "Nonprofits are being called on to do more with less in an impossible environment. With deepening polarization, an affordability crisis, and labour force shortages, it's time to reimagine leadership in our sector". It points to a PDF at this link.

In the mid 2000s I added another report form the Ontario nonprofit network, titled: The Constellation Model of Collaborative Social Change. view it here

These are two of many resources that can be found in the collaboration and community building sections of the Tutor/Mentor Library. Make sure your staff and volunteers are making time to learn from these.

Most of the information shared in this newsletter and on the Tutor/Mentor Connection/Institute, LLC website and blogs is focused on sharing information across networks that can be used to solve complex problems. This article, from The Weaving Lab, was found on LinkedIn. It describes the network building process, its challenges and its opportunities.

If you read the post on LinkedIn you'll see a comment that I added, sharing the 4-part strategy concept map, which you can see at this link. Once I've finished upgrading the www.tutormentorexchange.net website I will add a link to this article in a sub-section focused on innovation and knowledge management. It already has many articles that I've collected over the past 20+ years.

Below are resources to use.
View latest links added to tutor/mentor library, click here

Resources & Announcements
(New additions are at top of this list)

* Knowledge Alliance - research and evidence to support education policy - click here

* TutorCruncher - resources for tutoring companies - click here

* UCLA Center resources - Guide to Learning Supports pdf - click here; and, here

* Every Hour Counts - network of intermediaries building after school systems - click here

* MyChiMyFuture - Chicago youth programs map and directory. click here; visit the website - click here

* Chicago Mentoring Collaborative - click here

* Chicago Learning Exchange supports Out-of-School-Time community in Chicago - click here

* ACT Now - Championing Quality Afterschool Programs in Illinois - click here

* Trust Talks - podcast by The Chicago Community Trust highlights the Trust's strategic priority to close Chicago region's racial and ethnic wealth gap - click here

* Chicago Community Area Hardship Index (2019-2023) - click here

* To & Through Project website - click here

* Center for Effective Philanthropy - click here

* Forefront -Illinois' statewide association of nonprofits, foundations and advisors. click here

* AfterSchool Alliance resources - click here; New report - click here

* Chicago Public Schools locator map - click here

* National Mentoring Resource Center - click here

* Proven Tutoring clearinghouse - click here

* Chicago STEM Pathways Cooperative - click here

* South Side STEM Asset maps - read about using maps - click here

* Incarceration Reform Resource Center - click here

* Prison Policy Initiative - click here

Recent Tutor/Mentor Blog articles that point to Tutor/Mentor Connection archived files:

(Do you have a blog? Share it on social media)

Changes to this website - click here

Still judged by the color of their skin - click here

It takes a village - click here

Mapping Strategy, Ideas and libraries - click here

Poverty and racism in America - understand the issues - click here

What are your volunteers learning? - click here

Reaching youth in high poverty areas - click here

Bookmark these Tutor/Mentor Resources

* Lists of Chicago area, volunteer-based tutor, mentor programs - click here

* Homework help and volunteer training resources - click here

* Resource Library - click here

* Strategy essays by Tutor/Mentor - click here

* Work done by interns in past - click here

* Maps and Map-Stories from past 30 years - click here

* Political Action resources - click here

* Featured collections on Wakelet - click here

* Tutor/Mentor Institute Videos - click here

* About T/MI articles on blog - click here

* History of T/MC - T/MI articles - click here

* Create a New Tutor/Mentor Connection - click here

* Reaching out to Universities to adopt the Tutor/Mentor Connection strategy - click here

* Chicago Youth Serving Organizations in Intermediary Roles - click here to view a concept map showing many organizations working to help improve the lives of Chicago area youth. Follow the links.

Thank you for reading.

Please share this newsletter with people you know who work in non-school youth serving programs, or in sectors that should be strategically supporting such programs, such as business, philanthropy, education and public policy. If they are not receiving these newsletters then we have no way of engaging them. Also encourage friends, family, co-workers to sign up to receive this newsletter.

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