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Chicago Area Volunteer-Based Tutor and/or Mentor Programs

Since 1993 Tutor/Mentor Connection has collected and shared information about Chicago area, volunteer-based tutor and/or mentor programs that operate in the non-school hours.

The list was published in a printed directory from 1994 to 2003 then in an on-line directory since then.  We've attempted to show what area each program serves, using maps and using list segmentation.

Click the links below to find programs in different sections of Chicago and its suburbs.  See the map showing locations of these organization.

Chicago North

Chicago Central

Chicago South Central

Chicago South

College Access Tutor/Mentor Programs

Multiple Site & Community Based Tutor and/or Mentor Programs

School-Based Tutor and/or Mentor Programs

Chicago Suburbs (North, West, South) Includes Rest of Illinois, NW Indiana

Find links to additional youth serving organizations that focus on Arts, Music and/or STEM,
or that operate beyond the Chicago area. click here

If you find broken links or if you know of programs that should be added please contact Daniel Bassill of Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC

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No General would go to war without a map. Strategies leaders can use.

The Tutor/Mentor Connection (T/MC) (1993-present) and Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC (2011-present) have created a variety of short PDF essays to illustrate how maps can be used by leaders to mobilize and distribute volunteers, dollars, technology and other resources to fight America’s war on poverty, poorly performing schools, crime and violence.

Read this this article showing our 30 years of using maps.

See column in 10-21-2015 Chicago Tribune about using maps in violence prevention strategy. Using maps this way has been a vision of Dan Bassill's since 1993. See article from 1994 ChicagoSunTimes and read blog articles that show uses of maps (see links below).

These are pdf essays that illustrate use of maps:

Read blog articles showing uses of maps.
See more maps on Mapping for Justice blog.

See map stories created in the 1990s and 2000s. click here

The Chicago Tutor/Mentor Program Locator was created in 2004 to help leaders, volunteers, donors, parents and social workers find places in different zip codes that offer volunteer-based tutoring and/or mentoring in the non-school hours.  THIS IS NOW (2021) ONLY AVAILABLE AS AN ARCHIVE. Read more about mapping strategies in this wiki page.

Our Mission: The mission of the Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC (T/MI) is to gather and organize all that is known about successful volunteer-based, non-school tutoring/mentoring programs and apply that knowledge to expand the availability and enhance the effectiveness of these services to children throughout the Chicago region.

Read Dan Bassill's 30-Year History of Reaching out to Universities.   click here