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July 2019 - Issue 180

Ideas and Resources for Youth Serving

Organizations and their Supporters

The ideas shared in this monthly newsletter can be used by youth organization leaders, resource providers, political leaders, universities, volunteers and youth to help mentor-rich programs thrive in all of the neighborhoods where they are most needed.
Volunteer Recruitment for Fall 2019
Many youth programs are already deeply involved in recruiting volunteers for the coming school year. Are you prepared? Do you need more ideas. Visit this page on the Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC web site and use the tips for recruiting volunteers.

Are your volunteers doing all they canto help kids in y our program move through school and into jobs and careers? Read about expanded role volunteers can take.click here
The Fund Raising Challenge
It takes 12 years for a youth to move from first grade to high school graduation and many more years beyond that before he/she is securely in a job and able to raise a family. Not all youth programs are designed to provide continued support for this many years. Not many donors provide flexible on-going funding to support such programs. Where are you talking about this?

Read articles about philanthropy on Tutor/Mentor Blog - click here.
How Are Youth Programs Telling Their Story?
Are you using Twitter? A Blog?
I created this graphic to draw attention to some of the Chicago youth tutor and/or mentor programs who were posting information on Twitter. Then I put it in a blog article to encourage others to do the same. See it in this article.click here

Scroll through many similar articles -click here

What if hundreds of people were doing what I am doing? Would that help draw volunteers and donors directly to more programs?
Resources and Events
Browse Resources on Tutor/Mentor Connection.org web site
This graphic shows home page of T/MC web site. Use the top menu to access the links library and my list of Chicago Tutor and Mentor programs.

You can search for a topic, or sort the list of links by most recent, oldest, title, etc. Learn to use it and you have an extensive resource. I show a few recent additions below.
* Resources to find Chicago Tutor and/or Mentor Programs -click here

* Homework help & learning resources in Tutor/Mentor Library -click here

* Resources for fund raising -click here

* Chicago Organizations in Intermediary Roles-click here

* Civil Liberties - resource map (recommend other links). -click here

* Hashtags I follow on Twitter. Use to expand your own network -click here

There's a lot in each monthly newsletter. Bookmark it, or use this ARCHIVE page to find this and previous issues.
* Illinois Conference on Volunteer Administration, Aug 9, in Chicago.details

* Strengthening Chicago Youth web site,click here;blog -click here

* MENTOR Illinois, New Ex Director. Annual Breakfast moved to November. -click here

* To & Through Project web site -click here

* Incarceration Reform Digital Resource Center -click here

* City of Chicago, CPS, links -click here


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Recent articles on Tutor/Mentor blog:

Tipping Point: Growing and Supporting Future Leaders -click here

Make long-term, mentor-rich programs available in more places -click here

I host an in-depth web library. See how I shared sections using Twitter -click here

Look deeper to understand complex problems -click here

Recent additions to Tutor/Mentor Library

"Four Pathways to Greater Giving" - Bridgespan report - annotated -click here

"You Cant Be What You Can't See", by Milbrey W. McLaughlin. Story of CYCLE, a Chicago program -click here

Chicago Public Schools Data - Annual Regional Analysis Reports - click here
I've not written this newsletter since April due to my being laid up with an injury. I'm almost fully recovered and thank you for those who offered well-wishes.

While I try to send this only once a month, I write blog articles weekly. In each newsletter I post links to a few of the articles published in the past month or earlier.I encourage you to spend a little time each week reading these articles and following the links. Use the ideas and presentations in group discussions with other people who are concerned about the same issues.

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