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Concept Map Library - pg 2

All of the concept maps shown below can be found on page 1, of the concept map collection, as listings under some of the featured maps. I've created this page to draw attention to these, since many people probably won't open the links. Click on the links below each concept map to view the actual map. Click on nodes at the bottom of each component to dig deeper into the library of ideas that are shared on these maps.

Visual Essays - pg 5

Since the 1970s Dan Bassill, founder of the Tutor/Mentor Connection (led by Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC since 2011) has used visualizations to share strategies and resources. The visual essays on this page share some of the background and history from when we were created in 1993 by volunteers who were also starting a new program to serve teens in the Cabrini-Green area of Chicago.

The original collection of PDFs are listed on this page.

Create your own versions and focus the strategies on your own city. Show your support with a contribution. click here

Why did one, new, small Chicago tutor/mentor program create the Tutor/Mentor Connection in 1993? - click here

Case Statement of Tutor/Mentor Connection, from 1990s - click here

Four part strategy of Tutor/Mentor Connection, launched 1993. This is from 1990s report. - click here

2010 University of Chicago Net Impact comparison of the Tutor/Mentor Connection in Chicago to similar intermediaries in other cities - click here

Review of 2000-2010 Tutor/Mentor Connection and Cabrini Connections tutor/mentor program - click here

2010 was the final full year that the Tutor/Mentor Connection and Cabrini Connections were a combined non-profit. In mid 2011 Dan Bassill created the Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC to keep the T/MC alive in Chicago.

This visual essay was created in 2012 to show the value the Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC offered to Chicago and other cities - click here

View growth of Tutor/MentorConnection network on Ning between 2007 and 2012. Work done by Chul Wan Park, and intern from South Korea - click here

Read this blog article to read about this network analysis work by Chul Wan Park and Mina Song.

View growth of Tutor/MentorConnection network on Ning between 2007 and 2012. Report created by Mina Song, and intern from South Korea - click here

Understanding the growth of a metwork from a people to thousands of people over a period of years - click here

This visual essay was created in 2012, showing Dan Bassill's networks on Facebook and LinkedIn, using Social Network Analysis tools.

Introduction to Tutor/Mentor Connection (1993-present) and Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC (2011-present) - click here

Master Plan for Saving Kids. 1998 review of Tutor/Mentor Connection - click here

Using HS drop-out data to create a strategy that makes mentor-rich programs available to more youth - click here

What are the primary most critical resources needed in a program? Survey results from early 2000s conferences - click here

Invitation to researchers and universities. Adopt the Tutor/Mentor Connection. Do this type of research to build an understanding of all youth-serving programs in your community, who they serve, what challenges they face, where more are needed. Teach other students marketing and public awareness skills that they can use to draw users to the information you collect, and to the programs operating in your community.

Thank you care from 1989-90 students and volunteers of the tutor/mentor program I led since 1975 - click here

View more of our visual essays: Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4

Visual Essays - pg 4

Since the 1970s Dan Bassill, founder of the Tutor/Mentor Connection (led by Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC since 2011) has used visualizations to share strategies and resources. The visual essays on this page focus on starting and operating a volunteer-based tutor/mentor program.

The original collection of PDFs are listed on this page.

Create your own versions and focus the strategies on your own city. Show your support with a contribution. click here

Steps to start a volunteer-based tutor/mentor program (and keep it going) - click here

Mentoring youth through school into careers: Success Steps - click here

I led a volunteer-based tutor/mentor program for 35 years. What were my operating principles? - click here

Planning year-to-year growth of a volunteer-based tutor/mentor program - click here

Strategies for recruiting volunteers for a tutor/mentor program - click here

Building a Team. Recruiting Talent. Strategies to use - click here

Ideas for volunteering and service. Created by intern in 2011 - click here

Resources on this website to help people build on-going programs - click here

Learn about the resources available on this website. This shows site prior to 2025 upgrade. Content is same. Look is slighly different - click here

Role athletes, celebrities, CEOs, etc. can take to mobilize volunteers and donors - click here

View some of the visualizations used in Tutor/Mentor essays and blog articles - click here

Build your own map-based directory of youth serving programs. Follow media with map stories - click here

After negative news stories who keeps attention focused on area where the news happened? See use of maps - click here

View more of the maps created between 1994 and 2015 on this Ning.com site.

Tutor/Mentor Connection used this survey from 1994 to 2010 to learn about Chicago tutor, mentor programs - click here

View more of our visual essays: Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 5

2 columns blog

Article Title One

This is the introductory text for the first article. It provides a brief overview of the content, designed to capture the reader's attention. The layout is responsive, ensuring a good experience across all devices.

Article Title Two

Here is the summary for the second article. Each article block is self-contained, allowing for easy management and display within the two-column structure. Images are set to be responsive using Bootstrap's `card-img-top`.

Article Title Three

This section delves into more details about the third topic. The use of Bootstrap's card component helps maintain a clean and consistent appearance for each article entry.

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Content for the fourth article, demonstrating how text flows underneath the image. The `h-100` class on the card ensures that cards in the same row have equal height, even if content length varies.

Article Title Five

This is the fifth article's summary. The responsive nature means these columns will stack on smaller screens, making it mobile-friendly.

Article Title Six

Details for the sixth article. You can easily replace the placeholder images (`placehold.co`) with your actual article images.

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This article covers the seventh topic. Remember to adjust the `href` attributes for the "Read More" buttons to link to your actual full articles.

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Summary 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.

Article Title Nine

The ninth article's content. This structure is flexible and can be easily extended or modified to fit more articles or different layouts.

Article Title Ten

Finally, the tenth article. This comprehensive example provides a robust foundation for displaying multiple articles in a responsive two-column grid.

Article Title eleven

This section delves into more details about the third topic. The use of Bootstrap's card component helps maintain a clean and consistent appearance for each article entry.

Article Title 12

Content for the fourth article, demonstrating how text flows underneath the image. The `h-100` class on the card ensures that cards in the same row have equal height, even if content length varies.

Article Title 13

This is the fifth article's summary. The responsive nature means these columns will stack on smaller screens, making it mobile-friendly.

Article Title 14

Details for the sixth article. You can easily replace the placeholder images (`placehold.co`) with your actual article images.

Article Title 15

This article covers the seventh topic. Remember to adjust the `href` attributes for the "Read More" buttons to link to your actual full articles.

Article Title 16

Summary 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.

Article Title 17

The ninth article's content. This structure is flexible and can be easily extended or modified to fit more articles or different layouts.

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Finally, the tenth article. This comprehensive example provides a robust foundation for displaying multiple articles in a responsive two-column grid.

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.

Concept Map Library - pg 2

Birth to Work Challenges Facing Youth & Families

Complex Problems - Leaders Needed

"It Takes A Village" - Leaders needed from every sector

T/MC and T/MI Goal - Increase Funding Stream

What We Need to Think About

Influencing Change - Make a Difference

Volunteer Opportunities - Use this map to find tutor/mentor programs

Social Justice, poverty, inequality resources

Research articles in the library

Resources for starting and building a volunteer-based tutor/mentor program

Innovation, collaboration, mapping, knowledge management links

Websites that map poverty, demographics, school issues, etc

Volunteer Growth strategy

History of T/MC and T/MI use of maps since 1993

Visual Essays - pg 5

Why did one, new, small Chicago tutor/mentor program create the Tutor/Mentor Connection in 1993? - click here

Case Statement of Tutor/Mentor Connection, from 1990s - click here

Four part strategy of Tutor/Mentor Connection, launched 1993. This is from 1990s report. - click here

2010 University of Chicago Net Impact comparison of the Tutor/Mentor Connection in Chicago to similar intermediaries in other cities - click here

Review of 2000-2010 Tutor/Mentor Connection and Cabrini Connections tutor/mentor program - click here

This visual essay was created in 2012 to show the value the Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC offered to Chicago and other cities - click here

View growth of Tutor/MentorConnection network on Ning between 2007 and 2012. Work done by Chul Wan Park, and intern from South Korea - click here

View growth of Tutor/MentorConnection network on Ning between 2007 and 2012. Report created by Mina Song, and intern from South Korea - click here

Understanding the growth of a metwork from a people to thousands of people over a period of years - click here

Introduction to Tutor/Mentor Connection (1993-present) and Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC (2011-present) - click here

Master Plan for Saving Kids. 1998 review of Tutor/Mentor Connection - click here

Using HS drop-out data to create a strategy that makes mentor-rich programs available to more youth - click here

What are the primary most critical resources needed in a program? Survey results from early 2000s conferences - click here

Thank you care from 1989-90 students and volunteers of the tutor/mentor program I led since 1975 - click here

Visual Essays - pg 4

Steps to start a volunteer-based tutor/mentor program (and keep it going) - click here

Mentoring youth through school into careers: Success Steps - click here

I led a volunteer-based tutor/mentor program for 35 years. What were my operating principles? - click here

Planning year-to-year growth of a volunteer-based tutor/mentor program - click here

Strategies for recruiting volunteers for a tutor/mentor program - click here

Building a Team. Recruiting Talent. Strategies to use - click here

Ideas for volunteering and service. Created by intern in 2011 - click here

Resources on this website to help people build on-going programs - click here

Learn about the resources available on this website. This shows site prior to 2025 upgrade. Content is same. Look is slighly different - click here

Role athletes, celebrities, CEOs, etc. can take to mobilize volunteers and donors - click here

View some of the visualizations used in Tutor/Mentor essays and blog articles - click here

Build your own map-based directory of youth serving programs. Follow media with map stories - click here

After negative news stories who keeps attention focused on area where the news happened? See use of maps - click here

Tutor/Mentor Connection used this survey from 1994 to 2010 to learn about Chicago tutor, mentor programs - click here

2 columns blog

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Article Title Two

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Article Title Five

Article Title Six

Article Title Seven

Article Title Eight

Article Title Nine

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Help Fund the Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC - 2025