The next three weeks will be a stress-filled period as we determine who will be our next President of the United States, and our representatives in Congress and state and local governments.

As volunteers and students are starting a new school year, this question has huge ramifications.

I posted a blog article on October 14, showing some issues that need to be addressed, and some thoughts on how we connect with each other to find solutions to challenges we, and our students, are facing.

I'm sharing some parts of that article in this newsletter.

Use the ideas and resources shared in this monthly newsletter 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!

I featured this concept map and that question again in today's article, which you can read at this link.

My article includes a link to the official Kamala Harris for President website issues page, which is at https://kamalaharris.com/issues/

A project that youth and volunteers in school and non-school programs might engage in would be to compare the issues on my map, with the issues on the Harris website. Then, create your own map, showing issues that are important to you, your students and your community.

I use cMapTools to create my concept maps, but there are other visualization tools you can use. Another activity students and volunteers might do is to go through the links in this page of my library, to learn more about visualization tools they might use for a project like this.

Finally, share your maps via blogs, videos, social media, etc. You can influence what local and national leaders focus on over the next decade.

New Resource: Today I learned of a "Stop Project 2025 Comic Book Project" site, created by comic book writers and artists who are furious about the Heritage Foundations' plan to consolidate power under authoritarian rule. Visit their site and share the comics.

In my blog article I pasted text from previous articles, with links to those pages. I'm repeating that here. I hope you'll take a look at these over the next few weeks and months. Click on the graphic to find links to articles with these quotes.

Thank you for reading.

While I try to send this only once a month, I write blog articles weekly. Throughout the 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.

I encourage others to duplicate what I'm doing. Write a blog and share your own vision, strategy and challenges. Share your link and I'll add it to this list in the Tutor/Mentor library.

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