Conference maps

Maps from Past Conferences

Conference Maps:
43 tutor/Mentor Leadership and Networking Conferences were held in Chicago
between May 1994 and May 2015.
What Other Organization in Chicago has brought so many people together,
for so many years? Limited resources have kept conference participation
under 80 from 2013 to 2015. Yet as many as 350 have attended these conferences
in past years.

View this analysis of conference participation, done by students participating in
Indiana University visualization MOOC.

From 1994 to May 2011 these were organized by the Tutor/Mentor Connection (T/MC), part of a two-part non-profit
established in 1993. From November 2011 through 2015 the conferences were organized by the Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC
which was established in 2011 after the original organization ceased its support of the T/MC strategy.

T/MI seeks research students who will continue this analysis. Our goal is to influence how others map participation
in their own conferences and events, while also seeking partners, or sponsors, to re-build this effort and continue the
conferences for another 20 years?

Look at maps showing participation in past Tutor/Mentor Leadership and networking conferences.
Map of June 2013 Tutor/Mentor Conference - Click here Map of November 2013 Conference - click here Map showing participation in November 2008 Tutor/Mentor Leadership & Networking Conference: Click here to open map. Zoom in to see organizations in Chicago. Zoom out to see out of state participants.

November 1998 Tutor/Mentor Leadership and Networking Conference Participation Map Click here to open map. Zoom in to see organizations in Chicago. Zoom out to see out of state participants. Here is a list of other maps that are available November 2012-13 Participant Map (add your own name, show your Facebook Page and web site.) November 2009 Conference Map May 2005 Conference Map May 2004 Conference November 1997 Conference See also, Social Network Analysis Maps of 2008 and 2009 conferences.
	Learn More about Tutor/Mentor Connection Uses of maps This map is one of many created since 1994. Visit http://www.tutormentorexchange.net/mapping-the-programs and learn more how maps can be used to illustrate the areas of high poverty and poorly performing schools in Chicago where volunteer based tutoring and/or mentoring programs are needed. Use the interactive map on the Tutor/Mentor Program Locator to view this information. By comparing this map to the conference participation map we can see that we're getting regular participation from programs in different parts of the city, and that the lack of participation from the South part of the city is partially due to the lack of tutor/mentor programs (that we know of) in this area. In future conferences we hope to draw people from business, hospitals, churches and universities who will help existing programs grow, and help new programs form where more are needed. View more maps at http://mappingforjustice.blogspot.com

Immigration, deportation information and resources

Find a list of political action resources on this page.

ALLIANCE FOR EDUCATIONAL JUSTICE CAMPAIGN FOR POLICE FREE SCHOOLS
https://policefreeschools.org/about/
From the website: "The National Campaign for police Free Schools is a formation of youth-led grassroots organizations fighting to end the criminalization of youth in the classroom, create liberatory educational spaces, and implement an affirmative vision of safety and transformative justice."

ILLINOIS COALITION FOR IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE RIGHTS
https://www.icirr.org/about
From the web site: "ICIRR is dedicated to promoting the rights of immigrants and refugees to full and equal participation in the civic, cultural, social, and political life of our diverse society. In partnership with our member organizations, the Coalition educates and organizes immigrant and refugee communities to assert their rights; promotes citizenship and civic participation; monitors, analyzes, and advocates on immigrant-related issues; and, informs the general public about the contributions of immigrants and refugees."

IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT AND KNOW YOUR RIGHTS RESOURCES - 2025
https://cccsny.org/2025-immigration-enforcement-and-know-your-rights-resources
This Catholic Charities resource aims to support immigrant communities with the information and resources they need to navigate complex challenges. The site has a list of resources, programs, and actionable steps to help safeguard your rights and access support.

NEW AMERICAN ECONOMY - IMMIGRATION REFORM RESOURCE
https://www.newamericaneconomy.org/
From the website: "New American Economy is a bipartisan research and advocacy organization fighting for smart federal, state, and local immigration policies that help grow our economy and create jobs for all Americans." This is a robust information base; Browse the Map the Impact section to find data for each state and metro area.

April-May 2025 T/M News

April - May 2025 - Issue 241

Support your volunteers so they can help bring HOPE to those you serve.

Last month my headline talked about finding alternative sources of information if websites shut down. Wow. I did not realize my main website would be not working since early April. If you tried to visit, it's now working again.

The site still needs to be upgrades, so may be closed to you at some point in coming weeks. If that happens, please read the blogs and look at other websites that I point to.

Use the ideas and resources I share to help you build and sustain mentor-rich, school and non-school, tutor, mentor and learning programs that reach K-12 youth in all areas of persistent poverty. 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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The world lost a true leader with the passing of His Holiness Pope Francis on April 20, 2025.

In 2017 I posted a video of a Pope Francis TED talk on the Tutor/Mentor blog. At one point in the video he talks about the responsibility for each of us to take on the role of the Good Samaritan, to help others who are in need. At another he talks about HOPE, as "a humble, hidden seed of life that within time will develop into a large tree."

And he said, "A single individual is enough for HOPE to exist, and that individual can be YOU."

I support volunteer-based tutor/mentor programs because a single volunteer can bring so much HOPE into the life of a youth. An organized, long-term program, can bring HOPE to dozens of kids.

You can find the video at this link.

Challenges to our sector. Invitation to philanthropy.

The Tutor/Mentor Connection was created in 1993 to help draw volunteers, ideas and operating dollars to every youth serving tutor, mentor and learning program in the Chicago region. With government threats for funding of nonprofits Vu Le wrote an article titled "Funders, here's the blueprint for saving democracy."

I wrote about it in this article. Follow the links. Share the message.

Part of the Tutor/Mentor Connection strategy has been to aggregate research showing where tutor/mentor programs were most needed and why. In April the "State of Chicago Youth 2025" report was released.

View this Tutor/Mentor blog article and see how I shared the link to the "State of Chicago Youth" report and pointed to other research that I've been aggregating. Use the information in your own articles, videos, newsletters and events to educate volunteers, donors and business partners to be more proactive in providing the long-term funding needed by tutor, mentor and learning programs in many places.

Resources to help organizations find funding.

Having led a volunteer-based tutor/mentor program as a non-profit, from 1990 to 2011, I'm very aware of the constant challenge smaller organizations have of finding 100% of the operating dollars they need to build and sustain constantly improving programs. That's one reason I created the Tutor/Mentor Connection in 1993.

In April 2025 I watched a webinar hosted by the Children's Funding Project, which I was unaware of until then. Above is one of the slides from the presentation. It shows their role of helping organizations "fill the gap between current funding and the true cost of reaching their goals". You can view the video at this link. View the slides on this page.

Read this article on the Wallace Foundation website, describing the Children's Funding Project. The title is "Investing in Youth From "Cradle to Career".

Here's another important resource. The Independent Sector has created a page titled "Tracking the Policy Landscape for the Charitable Sector" to respond to Federal actions that are causing fear and chaos in the social sector, and elsewhere. Three sets of information are being tracked: 1) Tax and Federal Legislation; 2) Litigation; 3) Executive Actions. Click here

This is one of many resources that can be found in the Philanthropy Links section of the Tutor/Mentor Library. Make sure your staff and volunteers are making time to learn from these.

Follow up to 1997 President's Summit for America's Future

I was there.

It's been almost 30 years since leaders from fifty cities, businesses, philanthropy, media and the non-profit youth development sector gathered in Philadelphia, with five living Presidents to talk about creating a brighter future for the 13+ million children living in poverty in America.

I was one of ten people representing Chicago and the Tutor/Mentor Connection was one of 50 Teaching Examples invited to host a display booth at the Summit.

We created a video in 1997 to share the strategies of the Tutor/Mentor Connection, with the goal that they would be adopted by other cities. Sadly, we had very little money for distribution and too few ever saw it. I included the video and links to past articles, in this Tutor/Mentor blog article. click here.

View my archive of news stories leading up to the April 1997 Summit, the actual Summit, and following. Click here

How are you celebrating the end of this school year?

I led two different volunteer-based tutor/mentor programs between 1975 and 2011.

The first was called the Montgomery Ward/Cabrini-Green Tutoring Program when I joined it in 1973 as a volunteer and became its leader in 1975. It served second to 6th grade students and while volunteers originally were mostly from the Montgomery Ward corporate headquarters in Chicago, by 1992 only 10% of the 550 volunteers were Ward employees.

The second, called Cabrini Connections, served 7th to 12th grade kids, most of whom had started with the "little kid" program, then came to us after 6th grade. The photo above shows 6th grade graduates of the first program in 1990. Many came to the second program. I'm still connected to many of them on Facebook, watching them raise their own kids and share their own joys and sorrows.

We celebrated the end of every year with a year-end graduation celebration for the kids and their parents and volunteers. From 1975 to 1990 we also were hosted by Montgomery Ward corporate officers at a volunteer recognition dinner.

Read this article to see some of the yearbooks and annual reports from these programs.

Over the next few week's I'll see posts from programs I follow on social media, showing their year end celebrations. You can follow the same programs I follow by looking up programs that I host on lists on the left side of the http://www.tutormentorexchange.net website.

How will you celebrate? Post your year-end celebrations on social media. If you see posts by other youth serving organizations, give them a boost. Together we can raise the visibility for each of us.

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)

* 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 OST 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

* Why Philanthropy Needs to Invest in Social Capital - 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

* Science of Social Capital - Community Commons website - click here

* Chicago Public Schools locator map - click here

* National Mentoring Resource Center - click here

* Digital Divide resources - 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)

Innovating New Funding Solutions - click here

A Way Forward for Philanthropy - click here

Using Research in Planning, Problem Solving - click here

State of Chicago Youth - 2025. Poverty Persists - click here

How to Use the Tutor/Mentor blog - click here

April 1st - No Joke This Year - click here

Blogging4Life - Why I blog - 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.

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Video Library - Interns

Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC Videos

The videos on this page were created by interns and volunteers
between 2006 and 2015 to help people understand Tutor/Mentor Connection
and Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC strategies and available resources.

View these videos on YouTube video list. More on this YouTube channel.

Backspace to return to Video Theater main page or to Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC site.
Enough is Enough - animation by Intern from South Korea - click here	How to Set Up a Tutor/Mentor Program, by Sam Lee. View in this video. click here	"We Will Be Hope" - animation by intern from South Korea - click here
How You Can Make a Difference, 2013 video by Kyungryul Kim. click here	Video shows work of past interns. By Kyungryul Kim. click here	"War on Poverty" video by Kyungryul Kim, Intern from South Korea - click here
Prezi introduces work by past interns. Created by Byeonghui Kim - click here	"Network of Purpose" Prezi presentation. By Byeonghui Kim. click here	"Problem Solving Strategy" created by Byeonghui Kim, intern from S. Korea click here
Tutor/Mentor Connection intro, by Mina Song, 2012 click here	4-Part T/MC Strategy, Step 1, by Mina Song click here	4-Part Tutor/Mentor Connection Strategy, Step 2, by Mina Song. click here
4-Part Tutor/Mentor Connection Strategy, Step 3, by Mina Song. click here	4-Part T/MC Strategy, Step 4. Animation by Mina Song - click here	"How Athletes Can Take the Lead" animation by Minsub Lee, Intern from South Korea. click here
Volunteer Recruitment animation - 2011 Intern Project - click here	Learning Path - created in 2015 by Wona Chang, as guide to "get to know" T/MI goals - click here	Get to Know Tutor/Mentor Connection, 2012 animation by Song Me Lee - View video - click here
Introduction video by Kyungryul Kim, 2013 intern from South Korea - click here	Introduction to T/MC - in Korean. By Minsang Lee, 2010 - click here	June 2010 T/MC conference - video by Minsang Lee -click here
Video Library (2008-2015) on Tutor/Mentor Connection Ning forum - click here	Shoppers Guide PSA by Sun Joong Yoo, Feb. 2014 - click here See also, Problem Solving PSA - click here	Planning Strategies - PSA, by Sun Joong Yoo, Feb 2014 click here See also, Virtual Corp Office PSA - click here
The video library on the Ning.com site (above) includes many Cabrini Connections videos as well as T/MC videos. Thank you to everyone who used their time and talent to create these videos.	Students and volunteers from around the world are encouraged to create their own videos and animations to guild people through the ideas and resources shared on this website and on T/MC blogs and social media.	If you'd like to make a contribution to help keep this information available on-line, visit this page.

Misc Links - International

DISCRIMINATION AGAINST ROMA MINORITY IN EUROPE
https://ec.europa.eu/futurium/en/urban-poverty/eurocities-report-maps-situation-roma-cities-europe.html
This link points to the European Commission web site, and a sub section focused on urban poverty and the ROMA ethnic group.

INDIA DEVELOPMENT COALITION OF AMERICA
https://www.idc-america.org/
From the web site; "IDCA inspires and promotes Social Entrepreneurship to Alleviate Poverty and Mitigate/Adapt Climate Change in India. Through our various meetings in the US and India we promote networking, collaboration, learning, giving, and volunteering for poverty eradication and climate change Mitigation/Adaption in India."

INEQUALITY IN SOUTH AFRICA, SEEN FROM THE AIR
https://unequalscenes.com/
The host of this web site has used drones to photograph different places of South Africa, illustrating the stark differences between places of wealth and places of poverty. On the web site he writes, "Looking straight down from a height of several hundred meters, incredible scenes of inequality emerge. Some communities have been expressly designed with separation in mind, and some have grown more or less organically."

INSTITUTE OF LEADERSHIP AND INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT (ILID). INDIA - PROJECT PUPIL
https://ilid.org/
From the web site: "ILID is a not for profit consulting firm catering to the leadership and institutional development needs of organizations serving the poor in the Indian Society. ILID is dedicated to applying leading-edge management strategies, tools and talent to help other nonprofits and foundations achieve greater social impact. ILID helps non-profits to scale up and sustain their operations on a long term basis by using the various best practices, tools and frameworks used in the corporate sector. ILID develops and delivers customized and distinctive strategies to produce the desired results for its clients." ILID Inc. registered as 501(c)(3) organization in USA is dedicated to help uplift the poor children living in America and India. Based out of New Jersey, the organization was launched in 2013 with the primary goal of helping the inner city schools and their students all over America by providing free supplementary education. Project PUPIL was thus launched in 2013 with the help of Bill and Melinda Gates and Infosys Foundation. PUPIL in 2 years served about 1500 under served children from 17 states across America.

INTERESTING CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY VIDEO LIBRARY - THE B1M
https://www.theb1m.com/all-content
From the website: "We inspire a better industry by sharing knowledge and expertise with a mass audience. We attract the best talent by showing construction at its best to millions." Just browse through the collection of videos shown on the site and you're sure to find a few that interest you.

PYXERA GLOBAL - FOCUSES ON WORLD ISSUES
https://www.pyxeraglobal.org/
From the web site: "PYXERA Global envisions a world in which individuals, organizations, and institutions from different points on the globe converge to address complex challenges through sustainable and mutually beneficial efforts. For close to a quarter century, PYXERA Global has been working to improve lives and build capacity of individuals and institutions around the world. Today, our work is guided by our commitment to design and implement solutions that achieve real-world goals through approaches that inspire, enrich, and endure." Browse the site and view the graphics and articles.

THE LIFE CYCLES OF EMPIRES - LESSONS FOR AMERICA TODAY?
https://www.ucg.org/the-good-news/the-life-cycles-of-empires-lessons-for-america-today
From the website: "Sir John Bagot Glubb (1897-1987), a highly honored British general and historian better known as Glubb Pasha, wrote about the collapsed empires of the past. In his 1978 book The Fate of Empires and the Search for Survival, he described a common pattern fitting the history of some fallen empires. They went through a cycle of stages as they started, expanded, matured, declined and collapsed."

Read the article and ask if there are parallels to the life cycle of America.

TOP PRIORITIES FOR AFRICA IN 2017 - BROOKINGS.EDU REPORT
https://www.brookings.edu/multi-chapter-report/foresight-africa/
While Tutor/Mentor Connection focuses on poverty in Chicago and other US cities, what happens in other parts of the world affects what happens in the US.

TRUE SIZE OF DIFFERENT CONTINENTS - HINT AFRICA IS HUGE
https://www.wired.com/2016/06/handy-applet-will-remind-distorted-maps/
This article should be used in history and geography classes so students get a true picture of the relative size of different continents.

ZENPUNDIT - A BLOG FOCUSED ON HISTORY, STRATEGY, MILITARY THEORY, MORE
http://zenpundit.com/
From the web site: "Zenpundit is a blog dedicated to exploring the intersections of foreign and defense policies, history, military theory, national security, strategic thinking, futurism, cognition, forensic theology, cultural intelligence and a number of other esoteric pursuits." One of the writers is Charles Cameron who the Tutor/Mentor Connection has built a relationship with through sharing ideas on the Social Edge web site since 2005. Charles passed away n 2020.