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June-July 2021 eNews

June-July 2021 - Issue 201

Get to Know Chicago Tutor/Mentor Programs

In the May newsletter I shared screen shots from Twitter and Facebook of 12 Chicago area tutor and/or mentor programs. I feature a few more in this issue.

I point to these and other programs as an example of what others can do to help well-organized, volunteer-based youth tutor and/or mentor programs attract attention and resources needed to provide on-going services. I provide links to my lists of programs, so that you can visit their websites, learn what they do, and become a volunteer and/or donor to help them continue in the 2021-22 school year.

Use this newsletter as a study guide.

The ideas and resources shared in this monthly newsletter point to a library of resources that can be used by anyone, in Chicago, or around the world, to help mentor-rich youth programs thrive in all of the neighborhoods where they are most needed.

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Programs Telling Stories of Student Success

Below I show Twitter posts from Chicago Lights, Highsight, PEAKChicago, Cluster Tutoring, HighJumpChicago and College Mentoring Experience.

Use lists of programs hosted by Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC

I maintain three lists to help draw attention to Chicago area programs. The main one is on the Tutor/Mentor Connection website. Click here to view.

I also plot locations of these organizations on a map of Chicago, which you can find at this link.

The image below shows a list of the Facebook pages of most of these organizations - click here

You can also find a list of Instagram pages on the site - click here

Help EACH youth program attract and retain needed talent.

Below are two of many graphics you can find on Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC websites and blogs. These visualize a goal of helping programs attract people with many different skills and talents, representing every business and civic sector, who help build and sustain well-organized, long-term, volunteer-based tutor, mentor and learning programs reaching k-12 youth in high poverty neighborhoods.

Read series of blog article focused on "talent needed". click here

Engage youth and volunteers in understanding
and solving complex problems.

One of the best ways to build a relationship between a youth and an adult is to focus on an issue beyond their immediate life that they can learn about, and perhaps become involved with.

The Tutor/Mentor library has sub sections with links to many research articles, and to websites that are hubs of information for specific issues.

Dig through the T/M library often to find these sites.

One sub-section focuses on race, poverty and inequality. Help volunteers, donors and youth educate themselves, then educate others.

Find links to sections of the library in this article.

Learn Ways to Expand Volunteer Recruitment Success

After a year of remote learning most site-based tutor and/or mentor programs are now ramping up plans for face-to-face sessions starting in the new school year. They are all looking for volunteers!

Now is the time for good planning and for enlisting business, media, faith groups and others to help "spread the word" and point potential volunteers to your websites.

Visit this section of the Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC site for tips on recruiting volunteers.

Learn how other cities might duplicate what Tutor/Mentor Connection/Institute, LLC does in Chicago. click here

Below are resources to use to help youth in your community.

Recent Tutor/Mentor Blog articles:

Expanded Role of Volunteer in Tutor/Mentor Programs - click here

Juneteenth - Year-Round Learning - click here

Climate Crisis: Environmental Racism - click here

"Why not me?" IWU Commencement - click here

Planning Cycle for Youth Tutor and/or Mentor Programs - click here

Digital Divide resources - click here

Thoughts about maps - click here

Other Tutor/Mentor Resources

* Looking for a Chicago youth program? Use the links in this concept map - click here

* Strategy PDFs by Tutor/Mentor - click here

* Concept Map library - click here

* Mapping for Justice blog - click here

* Tutor/Mentor Library - click here

* Work done by interns - click here

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

* Blogs I follow using Inoreader - click here

*Chicago Youth Serving Organizations in Intermediary Roles-click here

Please help update this cMap and the links in the Tutor/Mentor web library. Just email me with additions or changes.

Chicagoland Resources & Announcements

* We Will Chicago - citywide planning initiative - click here

* New Broadband Access map from Biden administration - click here

* MyChiMyFuture - City of Chicago - visit site and find map of activities for youth - click here

* Chicago Public Schools locator map - click here

* Chicago Health Atlas - click here

* Educational Opportunities map - click here

* Mapping Covid Recovery Project - click here

* Strengthening Chicago Youth website, click here; blog -click here

* Chicago Mentoring Collaborative - click here

* To & Through Project website - click here

* Thrive Chicago collaboration - click here

* Chicago Learning Exchange - click here

* Incarceration Reform Resource Center -click here

* National Mentoring Resource Center - click here

* ChiHackNight - remote civic technology meet-up; every Tuesday in Chicago - see weekly agenda

Connect with Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC and each other on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. Find links to my social media pages here.

Mission, History, Strategy and Introduction to founder, Dan Bassill

On the right side of the home page at http://www.tutormentorexchange.net are links to pages that will give you a deeper understanding of the Tutor/Mentor Connection and Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC and its founder, Daniel F. Bassill.

About this newsletter.

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.

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August 2021 T/M eNews

August 2021 - Issue 202

Help Mobilize Volunteers and Donors for Local Tutor and/or Mentor Programs

Every August since 1975 I've launched a volunteer and student recruitment campaign to draw volunteers and youth to tutor/mentor programs I led in Chicago.

In 1993 when I formed the Tutor/Mentor Connection, this outreach expanded to support more than 120 non-school, volunteer-based tutor/mentor programs.

While we published a printed directory from 1994 to 2002 our lists of programs has been available on the Internet since 1998. Anyone can use it to help draw volunteers, youth and donors to youth programs in every part of Chicago or in other cities.

Use this newsletter as a study guide.

If you are a consistent reader, consider a contribution to help fund the Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC

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Programs Telling Stories on Social Media

At the right I show a Twitter list including more than 170 Chicago area youth programs. I host a similar list for programs that use Facebook, and that use Instagram.

In addition, I host a list of Chicago area programs on the Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC website.

Visit the home page of the T/MI website. On the left side, under HOT LINKS, you'll find links to each of these lists.

Go to: www.tutormentorexchange.net

Enlist local businesses, media, faith groups and public leaders as partners to help mobilize volunteers and donors.

Below is a copy of a Volunteer Recruitment ad that appeared in a Chicago newspaper in 2006, pointing to the list of programs hosted by the Tutor/Mentor Connection. If multiple companies, businesses, faith groups, etc. created and published similar ads throughout August, more people would be reached and motivated to search out youth tutor and/or mentor programs to support.

If you're involved in advertising sales for local media, create a template and go to local companies to encourage them to post these ads, with their company logo shown in the middle, such as in this example.

In November a similar ad campaign could be repeated, but this time focused on year-end fund raising.

While individual youth programs could adopt this strategy to draw attention to their own programs, the Tutor/Mentor Connection and Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC seek to support EVERY volunteer-based youth tutor, mentor and learning program within a geographic area such as the Chicago region. Others can duplicate this strategy in cities across the world.

Tune up your website! Make sure visitors find information that motivates them to support you.

How well does your website or blog inform potential volunteers, donors or student participants?

I created this "shoppers guide" to offer suggestions for what you might want to show on your web site. These are also suggestions for information you'd want to connect to evaluate your program and constantly try to improve its impact.

If you're a communications professional, web designer, advertising writer, etc. you might offer your talent to help local programs build and maintain more powerful websites. Many don't have the money to hire people to do this work.

How Many Programs are Needed in Chicago?

In late July the Chicago SunTimes pointed to 15 Chicago community areas as having the highest number of shootings and homicides in 2021, calling them "High Priority" areas.

The Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC created a presentation showing how the SunTimes maps, and the Tutor/Mentor Chicago Programs Map could be used in an analysis intended to build and sustain programs in each of these community areas.

View some of the maps in this article - click here

View each maps in this T/MI pdf - click here

Putting Data to Work for Young People

Every Hour Counts, along with the Wallace Foundation, has released a new framework for measurement and continuous improvement of afterschool systems, programs and support for youth.

It's part of an extensive library on the Wallace Foundation website. View the report - click here

I found this in my @tutormentorteam Twitter feed. It's a continuous source of new resources that can be used to help youth throughout the country.

All Students Deserve Enriching, Authentic Relationships

New article from the Gates Foundation supports mentoring and points to a Christensen Institute playbook on how to build and strengthen students' networks.

Read the article and follow the links. Click here.

Reach out and give support to Chicago youth tutor and/or mentor programs. See how I pointed to a few in this May 2021 eNews.

Below are resources to use to help youth in your community.

Recent Tutor/Mentor Blog articles:

Response to Chicago Violence: Do the Planning - click here

Give Olympic Gold Medals for Ending Poverty - click here

Multi-Site Youth Programs in Chicago - click here

Take a Tour of the Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC website - click here

Racism and the Economy - Get Informed - click here

Network Building: Learning from the Past - click here

A Picture is Worth 1000 Words - click here

Mentoring As a Workforce Development Strategy -c lick here

Other Tutor/Mentor Resources

* Strategy PDFs by Tutor/Mentor - click here

* Concept Map library - click here

* Mapping for Justice blog - click here

* Tutor/Mentor Library - click here

* Work done by interns - click here

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

* Blogs I follow using Inoreader - click here

Chicagoland Resources & Announcements

* We Will Chicago - citywide planning initiative - click here

* New Broadband Access map from Biden administration - click here

* MyChiMyFuture - City of Chicago - visit site and find map of activities for youth - click here

* Chicago Public Schools locator map - click here

* Chicago Health Atlas - click here

* Strengthening Chicago Youth website, click here; blog - click here

* Chicago Mentoring Collaborative - click here

* To & Through Project website - click here

* Thrive Chicago collaboration - click here

* Chicago Learning Exchange - click here

* Incarceration Reform Resource Center - click here

* National Mentoring Resource Center - click here

* ChiHackNight - remote civic technology meet-up; every Tuesday in Chicago - see weekly agenda

*Chicago Youth Serving Organizations in Intermediary Roles-click here

Please help update this cMap and the links in the Tutor/Mentor web library. Just email me with additions or changes

Learn how other cities might duplicate what Tutor/Mentor Connection/Institute, LLC does in Chicago. click here

Mission, History, Strategy and Introduction to founder, Dan Bassill

About this newsletter.

Encourage friends, family, co-workers to sign up to receive this newsletter. Click here.

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Thank you for reading and sharing the ideas in this newsletter.

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Sept 2021 Tutor/Mentor eNews

September 2021 - Issue 203

Back-to-School Learning Resources

As you read this newsletter every volunteer-based youth tutor and/or mentor program is seeking new volunteers and enrolling students. During September there will be training and orientation sessions and, hopefully, by the start of October youth and volunteers will begin weekly sessions that will last through the school year, and beyond.

In this month's newsletter I'm pointing to homework help resources that anyone can use throughout the year, as well as training resources to help volunteers and parents.

Use this newsletter as a study guide.

If you are a consistent reader, consider a contribution to help fund the Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC

Visit Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC Website

Resource to help youth and volunteers find tutor and/or mentor programs.

In addition, I host a list of Chicago area programs on the Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC website.

Visit the home page of www.tutormentorexchange.net and on the left side, under HOT LINKS, you'll find links to each of these lists.

Training resources for volunteers and parents

Visit this section of the Tutor/Mentor library and browse three sub-sections of training resources available for tutor and mentor volunteers, as well as parents.

Homework help, learning resources.

View this concept map to find sections of learning resources in the Tutor/Mentor web library.

Categories include:

math science
written skills
literature and arts
social science
multiple subjects
extra curricular

Point Volunteers to On-going Learning

Volunteers who connect with youth in organized tutor/mentor programs can have a much greater impact beyond the regular time they spend with youth. Point them to libraries with information about poverty, segregation, structural racism, inequality, etc. and encourage them to read and discuss this information. The longer a volunteer stays involved, and the more informed she is, the more that volunteer will do to help the youth and the program.

Service learning loop video - click here

View Law, Justice, Poverty library map.

Tell your story on social media

In the Tutor/Mentor web library I point to more than 2000 websites. As I update the library I look for Twitter accounts, then add them to my own lists so I can constantly follow their work.

Here's a Tweet where I shared the Twitter handles for more than 50 organizations doing some form of service learning, thus giving attention to each one.

My goal is to help build a community of people working to help kids to careers. They need to follow and learn from each other. Others can look at links in the library, or other libraries, and do the same type of network building.

Below are resources to use to help youth in your community.

Recent Tutor/Mentor Blog articles:

Enough Is Enough - Adopt this Strategy - click here

On-Going Cycle of Problem Solving - click here

Learn from 1990s Tutor/Mentor Connection newsletters - click here

Share News of Youth Tutor/Mentor Programs - click here

Take a Tour of the Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC website - click here

A Look at Purpose Driven Boards - click here

Invitation to Universities - click here

How Many Youth Programs are Needed? - click here

Thoughts about maps - click here

Bookmark these Tutor/Mentor Resources

* Strategy PDFs by Tutor/Mentor - click here

* Concept Map library - click here

* Mapping for Justice blog - click here

* Tutor/Mentor Library - click here

* Work done by interns - click here

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

* Blogs I follow using Inoreader - click here

Chicagoland Resources & Announcements

* Austin Coming Together resource newsletter - click here

* Heartland Research and Policy - new county well-being index - click here

* MyChiMyFuture - City of Chicago - visit site and find map of activities for youth - click here

* Chicago Public Schools locator map - click here

* Chicago Health Atlas - click here

* Strengthening Chicago Youth website, click here; blog - click here

* Chicago Mentoring Collaborative - click here

* To & Through Project website - click here

* Thrive Chicago collaboration - click here

* Chicago Learning Exchange - click here

* Incarceration Reform Resource Center - click here

AfterSchool Alliance - resource center - click here

* National Mentoring Resource Center - click here

* ChiHackNight - remote civic technology meet-up; every Tuesday in Chicago - see weekly agenda

* Chicago Youth Serving Organizations in Intermediary Roles - click here

Please help update this cmap and the links in the Tutor/Mentor web library. Just email me with additions or changes

Learn how other cities might duplicate what Tutor/Mentor Connection/Institute, LLC does in Chicago. click here

Mission, History, Strategy and Introduction to founder, Dan Bassill

About this newsletter.

Encourage friends, family, co-workers to sign up to receive this newsletter. Click here.

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October 2021 T/M eNews

October 2021 - Issue 204

Are We Reaching Youth in Every

High Poverty Area?

By now, mid October, volunteer-based tutor and/or mentor programs that work on a school calendar year have finished most of their volunteer and student recruitments, orientations and training and kids and volunteers are meeting weekly.

In this month's newsletter I'm asking how many youth are being reached by these programs and how programs are communicating their strategies.

Take a look. Use this as a conversation-starter in your own community or NPO program.

Use this newsletter as a study guide.

If you are a consistent reader, consider a contribution to help fund the Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC

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New location of Chicago Tutor/Mentor Program List

The website where I've hosted my library is going off line. That means I need to find a new place to host the library....without any funds to do that.

I've already moved my list of 150+ Chicago area programs to a new location. Open this link to see the page shown in the graphic. Save the link for future use.

Map showing Chicago Area Tutor and/or Mentor Programs

I've used maps since 1993 to show where volunteer-based tutor mentor programs are located in the Chicago region. See the current map in this blog article.

Maps can also be used to determine where programs are most needed, based on indicators like community health, poverty levels, school performance, etc. I show a variety of platforms that can be used for such an analysis in this concept map.

Based on the number of youth in a high poverty area, how many non-school programs are needed?

Using data maps and my list of Chicago tutor mentor programs neighborhood planning teams should be doing an analysis to determine if there are enough programs to reach a minimum of 25% of the k-12 youth in the area.

This blog article offers thought starters. Apply these ideas in any city, not just Chicago.

How do tutor and/or mentor programs communicate strategy?

I've used these two graphics since 1990s to communicate the design of an on-going, mentor-rich program and roles volunteers and others can take daily to draw attention and resources directly to youth programs in their city.

Both of these use the "hub and spoke" design. The "hub" represents a youth and the 20-25 years it takes to move from birth-to-work. The spokes represent the range of adults available to model career opportunities and help youth move through school and into jobs.

View these in this set of blog articles.

Fix how programs are funded

In order for long-term tutor/mentor programs to be available in more places the way programs are funded needs to change. Short term competitive grant programs only reach a few kids in a few places for a few years, and with only part of the money needed.

If you've led a non profit you understand this problem. Take a look at this article and begin to think of ways to change this system.

Below are resources to use to help youth in your community.

Recent Tutor/Mentor Blog articles:

Building Segmented Understanding of Youth Serving Programs - click here

Building a Knowledge-Based Ecosystem - click here

Learn from 1990s Tutor/Mentor Connection newsletters - click here

Building the Network - click here

Take a Tour of the Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC website - click here

20 years after 9/11. What have we learned? click here

Bookmark these Tutor/Mentor Resources

* Strategy PDFs by Tutor/Mentor - click here

* Concept Map library - click here

* Mapping for Justice blog - click here

* Work done by interns - click here

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

* Blogs I follow using Inoreader - click here

* Chicago Youth Serving Organizations in Intermediary Roles - click here

Please help update this cmap and the links in the Tutor/Mentor web library. Just email me with additions or changes

Resources & Announcements

* America's Promise 2021 Grad Nation report - click here

* Racism and the Economy: Focus on Wealth Divide. Oct. 20 event hosted by Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis - click here

*Heartland Research and Policy - new county well-being index - click here

* MyChiMyFuture - City of Chicago - visit site and find map of activities for youth - click here

* Chicago Public Schools locator map - click here

* Chicago Health Atlas - click here

* Strengthening Chicago Youth website, click here; blog - click here

* Chicago Mentoring Collaborative - click here

* To & Through Project website - click here

* Thrive Chicago collaboration - click here

* Chicago Learning Exchange - click here

* Incarceration Reform Resource Center - click here

* AfterSchool Alliance - resource center - click here

* National Mentoring Resource Center - click here

* ChiHackNight - remote civic technology meet-up; every Tuesday in Chicago - see weekly agenda

Learn how other cities might duplicate what Tutor/Mentor Connection/Institute, LLC does in Chicago. click here

Mission, History, Strategy and Introduction to founder, Dan Bassill

Each year I invite supporters to help fund the Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC by making a gift in recognition of my December 19th birthday. This year, I'll be 75. Please help, if you can.

Make a gift at this link.

About this newsletter.

Encourage friends, family, co-workers to sign up to receive this newsletter. Click here.

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November 2021 T/M eNews

November 2021 - Issue 205

Happy Thanksgiving. Enjoy your Holidays.

Thanksgiving is less than two weeks away, then the year-end holidays. I wish everyone a full season of health and happiness.

Being in good health, with shelter and ample food, plus caring friends and family is a blessing. However, many don't have as much food and shelter or support as they need. Our planet is stressed in many ways.

In this month's newsletter I'm pointing to lists of youth serving organizations, and events like Giving Tuesday, and encouraging you to offer whatever support you can to those who need extra help.

Use this newsletter as a study guide.

If you are a consistent reader, consider a contribution to help fund the Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC

Visit Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC Website

Use these resources to find Chicago area youth programs.

Visit this page and browse my lists of Chicago area youth tutor and mentor programs.

Visit this page and browse lists of other youth serving programs, in Chicago and in other states.

This map shows non-school tutor and/or mentor programs in the Chicago region. Support programs in different places so that youth in every community area have access to tutor and mentor support.

Help new programs grow where more are needed.

Giving Tuesday is November 30.

Here's the website for GivingTuesday, USA. It includes a map showing many campaigns, but not much for the Chicago area. While Forefront has offered training sessions, I'm not aware of anyone in Chicagoland taking the lead in promoting this event, or hosting a list of participating non-profits. Are you?

Share links on Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram and Facebook to share any campaign info you are aware of.

Are you aware of these data tools? Are you using them?

The image at the left is from a new Chicago Community Data Portal. It's one of three new tools that I've seen this month to help you understand where people need extra help.

These are:

* University of Chicago To&Through - click here

* Chicago Community Data Portal - click here

* Computer Science in Education - click here

I point to these in this blog article and encourage users to create on-going stories using these tools.

Kids need consistent support. So do youth serving organizations.

I've used this graphic many times over the past 12 years to visualize the role each person can take to help mobilize volunteers and donors to support youth tutor, mentor and learning programs in all parts of the Chicago region.

You can point people you know to the lists I share above and encourage them to shop and choose one or more to support this year and in coming years. Here's one example.

Tutoring Chicago seeking more volunteers. What about your program?

I saw this post from Tutoring Chicago on LinkedIn. I saw a similar post from Cluster Tutoring recently on Facebook.

What about your program? Do you still need more volunteers? Where are you posting notices?

I host a list of Chicago area programs on my Twitter feed, so I can see what's being posted each day. Sadly, too few are using Twitter.

Below are resources to use to help youth in your community.

Recent Tutor/Mentor Blog articles:

Strong headwinds swamp efforts to help kids in high poverty areas - click here

Racism and the Economy: Focus on Wealth Divide - click here

My Memories of General Colin Powell - click here

Understanding Participation in Movement Building - click here

Take a Tour of the Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC website - click here

20 years after 9/11. What have we learned? click here

Bookmark these Tutor/Mentor Resources

* Strategy PDFs by Tutor/Mentor - click here

* Concept Map library - click here

* Mapping for Justice blog - click here

* Work done by interns - click here

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

* Blogs I follow using Inoreader - click here

* Chicago Youth Serving Organizations in Intermediary Roles - click here

Please help update this cmap and the links in the Tutor/Mentor web library. Just email me with additions or changes

Resources & Announcements

* Forefront GivingTuesday training resources - click here

* National Mentoring Summit, Jan 26-28, 2022. Registration open. click here

* MyChiMyFuture - City of Chicago - visit site and find map of activities for youth - click here

* Chicago Public Schools locator map - click here

* Chicago Health Atlas - click here

* Strengthening Chicago Youth website, click here; blog - click here

* Chicago Mentoring Collaborative - click here

* To & Through Project website - click here

* Thrive Chicago collaboration - click here

* Chicago Learning Exchange - click here

* Incarceration Reform Resource Center - click here

* AfterSchool Alliance - resource center - click here

* National Mentoring Resource Center - click here

* ChiHackNight - remote civic technology meet-up; every Tuesday in Chicago - see weekly agenda

Learn how other cities might duplicate what Tutor/Mentor Connection/Institute, LLC does in Chicago. click here

Mission, History, Strategy and Introduction to founder, Dan Bassill

Visit http://www.tutormentorexchange.net and view pages that will give you a deeper understanding of the Tutor/Mentor Connection and Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC and its founder, Daniel F. Bassill.

Each year I invite supporters to help fund the Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC by making a gift in recognition of my December 19th birthday. This year, I'll be 75. Please help, if you can.

Make a gift at this link.

About this newsletter.

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2021 T/M newsletters

Below are links to all 2021 Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC newsletters.

You can also view past newsletters by opening the newsletter archive link.

Dec 2021 - click here
Nov 2021 - click here
Oct 2021 - click here
Sept 2021 - click here
Aug 2021 - click here
June-July 2021 - click here
May 2021 - click here
April 2021 - click here
March 2021 - click here
Feb 2021 - click here
Jan 2021 - click here

Dec 2021 Tutor/Mentor eNews

December 2021 - Issue 206

Happy Holidays. Happy New Year.

It's been a difficult year for most people and a tragic year for many. I dream that the Holiday Season brings hope, happiness and good memories and that the new year leads to better things for all.

In this month's newsletter I'm pointing to my lists of Chicago and national youth serving organizations, and encouraging you to offer whatever support you can to help one or more of these programs continue their work in 2022.

I am also pointing to some wishes that I feel would result in more consistent support for youth serving programs. Take a look. Please share with your friends and family.

Use this newsletter as a study guide.

If you are a consistent reader, consider a contribution to help fund the Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC

Visit Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC Website

Use these resources to find Chicago area youth programs.

Help spread the word! Help attract year-end and 2022 donors and volunteers to youth tutor, mentor and learning programs throughout Chicago and in other cities.

The Tutor/Mentor Connection (T/MC) was created in 1993 to help draw greater attention and a more consistent flow of operating resources to EVERY volunteer-based tutor/mentor program in Chicago. Anyone can use this list to learn about programs in Chicago. And, anyone can use this list to learn about youth programs beyond Chicago.

Anyone can create a T/MC type intermediary for other cities by borrowing ideas from the www.tutormentorexchange.net website.

My Holiday and 2022 Wish List

Wish #1: The Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC will be adopted by one or more universities or institutions who will carry forward work started in 1993.

These blog articles show that vision. click here

Wish #2: Leaders at the Federal Reserve Banks and other industries will adopt the commitment shown in this concept map and create a version that they host on their own website.

January 2022 Tutor/Mentor News

January 2022 - Issue 207

Celebrate Mentoring. Support Youth Programs

Happy New Year to all who open and read this monthly newsletter. It's January, so that means National Mentoring Month.

As I do every month, this newsletter focuses on sharing ideas that help build and sustain mentor-rich, volunteer-based youth programs that reach K-12 youth in high poverty neighborhoods.

Take a look. Please share with your friends and family.

Use this newsletter as a study guide.

If you are a consistent reader, consider a contribution to help fund the Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC

Visit Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC Website

Celebrate National Mentoring Month - every Month!

During January there will be weekly activities that focus attention on mentoring and recognize youth and volunteers who are involved. At the end of the month will be the annual Mentoring Summit, which will be held virtually again this year due to Covid19.

Find Mentoring Month activities - click here

Mentor Summit details - click here

Follow #MentoringMonth on Twitter and share your own ideas.

Visit the New Tutor/Mentor Library

Chicago Area Tutor and/or Mentor Programs

You can now find a list of Chicago area programs that include various forms of volunteer-based tutoring and/or mentoring at this link.

These are organizes by the section of the city or suburbs where the organization is located.

These programs are also shown on a map at this link.

If you know of programs that are not listed, or no longer operating, please contact Dan Bassill at tutormentor 2 at earthlink.net.

Additional youth serving programs

In the new version of the library greater emphasis is given to other types of youth serving organizations in Chicago, as well as to tutor/mentor programs and networks throughout the USA and the world.

All represent models that leaders in any city can learn from in efforts to constantly try to make every program world class in how well it serves youth and volunteers.

Find this page at this link.

Resource Library

This is the home page of the Tutor/Mentor Resource Links library. Find the link on the left side of the www.tutormentorexchange.net site, under HOT LINKS.

There are 19 categories ranging from philanthropy, to volunteer recruitment, to technology and community building and collaboration. When you open this page all 19 categories will also appear on the left side under HOT LINKS.

Each category has a link that opens to a page that shows sub categories. See an example below.

Sub Categories of library

This section has links focused on poverty, inequality, social justice, prevention, housing and community development, gangs and more. It has 8 sub categories.

When you open any sub category link you'll find a list of websites, in alphabetical order.

New sites are added regularly so visit often.

Law, Justice Links

This is the list of links under the "law, justice links" category. Scroll through the list to see what's there. Open any link to go to the organization's website.

As I've built the library I've also looked for Twitter accounts and added these to lists on my @tutormentorteam account.

Every category in the library follows this format.

Concept Map Library

Pages in the concept map library will continue to point to sections in the new Tutor/Mentor web library. This is the "research" cMap.

View the entire collection of concept maps at

https://tutormentorexchange.net/conceptmaps

Below are resources to use to help youth in your community.

Recent Tutor/Mentor Blog articles:

Mentoring Month blog articles from past years - click here

Where It All Began: Tutor/Mentor Connection - click here

My Dreams Keep Taking Me Back - click here

Vertical and Horizontal Social Capital - click here

Cabrini-Green: Broken Promises - click here

Strong Headwinds Swamp Efforts to Help Kids in Poverty Areas - click here

Building a Super Bowl of Support for Youth Serving Organizations - click here

Using Wakalet to share stories - click here

Bookmark these Tutor/Mentor Resources

* Resource Library - click here

* Strategy PDFs by Tutor/Mentor - click here

* Concept Map library - click here

* Mapping for Justice blog - click here

* Work done by interns - click here

* Digital Divide resources - click here

* Blogs I follow using Inoreader - click here

Resources & Announcements

* National Mentoring Virtual Summit, Jan 26-28, 2022. Registration open. click here

* Chicago Mentoring Collaborative - click here

* MyChiMyFuture - City of Chicago - visit site and find map of activities for youth - click here

* Chicago Public Schools locator map - click here

* Chicago Health Atlas - click here

* Strengthening Chicago Youth website, click here; blog - click here

* To & Through Project website - click here

* Thrive Chicago collaboration - click here

* Chicago Learning Exchange - click here

* Incarceration Reform Resource Center - click here

* AfterSchool Alliance - resource center - click here

* National Mentoring Resource Center - click here

* ChiHackNight - remote civic technology meet-up; every Tuesday in Chicago - see weekly agenda

* Chicago Youth Serving Organizations in Intermediary Roles - click here

Thank you for reading. Thank you for contributions.

Sharing the information in this newsletter and on the Tutor/Mentor websites is a way anyone can help build and sustain youth tutor/mentor and learning programs

Each year a few readers have sent contributions to help fund the Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC, either by making a gift in recognition of my December 19th birthday or to the FundTMI campaign. Thank you.

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2022 T/MI Newsletters

The monthly Tutor/Mentor e-Newsletters are intended as a study guide, for all who are working to help
youth in high poverty areas move more safely through school and into adult lives, jobs and careers.
They focus on actions needed at specific times each year, and on learning that needs to be on-going.

Below are links to all 2022 Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC newsletters.

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May-June 2022 - click here
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View 2021 Newsletters at this link.

View previous year newsletters at this link.

Feb 2022 eNews

February 2022 - Issue 208

Help K-12 youth in High Poverty Areas

While February is Black History Month, study of race and inequality in the USA should be a year-round effort, focusing on all racial and religious minorities.

As I do every month, this newsletter focuses on sharing resources from a web library that I've built since the mid 1990s. It includes ideas that help build and sustain mentor-rich, volunteer-based youth programs that reach K-12 youth in high poverty neighborhoods. It also includes articles and research about race, poverty and inequality.

Take a look. Please share with your friends and family.

Use this newsletter as a study guide.

If you are a consistent reader, consider a contribution to help fund the Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC

Visit Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC Website

Use Resources from January Mentoring Summit

I participated in this year's virtual Mentoring Summit with about 2000 other people and shared some of what I was learning with Tweets on Twitter and in an article on my blog.

In my blog I highlighted work done in Nebraska to understand the mentoring sector.

I also pointed to a new resource titled "Becoming a Better Mentor" which can be found at this link.

In addition I highlighted eMentoring lessons from ICouldBe.org, Finally, I encouraged other participants to share what they learned via their own blogs and to connect on social media.

Resource Library: Race, Poverty, Inequality

Use year-round

This section of the Tutor/Mentor Library has links focused on poverty, inequality, social justice, prevention, housing and community development, gangs and more. It has 8 sub categories.

When you open any sub category link you'll find a list of websites, in alphabetical order.

These are in list format, so you'll need to scroll through to know what's there. I add new links often.

Chicago Area Tutor and/or Mentor Programs are seeking volunteers

At this time each year tutor/mentor programs are seeking new volunteers to replace those who dropped out over the holidays. Browse the list of Chicago area programs that include various forms of volunteer-based tutoring and/or mentoring at this link.

These are organized by the section of the city or suburbs where the organization is located.

These programs also need dollars and tech support. Look for ways to help them grow.

Building Comprehensive AfterSchool Programs

In this Tweet the Afterschool Alliance shared a graphic that visualizes elements that make a comprehensive afterschool program.

I included it in this blog article, along with a graphic I've used to visualize elements of a comprehensive, on-going, tutor/mentor program.

These resources need to be used by leaders of individual youth programs. However, they also need to be used by policy makers, donors, volunteers, businesses, colleges and others, who need to be proactive in helping high quality, comprehensive youth programs reach k-12 youth in EVERY high poverty neighborhood.

It's not just the responsibility of youth program leaders and educators to help kids to careers.

Take a Tour of the Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC Resource Library

Here are three resources to help you understand what's available on the www.tutormentorexchange.net website and in the resource library that's hosted on the site:

Resource Library - shown on Google Slides - click here

Tour of website - shown on SlideShare - click here

Strategy Map - Commitment needed from many leaders - shown on Google Slides - click here

Create your own version of this strategy map and apply it to your own city or state. Please share it with me if you do.

Community-Building Resources

Helping youth in every high poverty area of Chicago or any other place requires the work of many people, from many sectors. This is "movement building" and requires talented, well funded, persistent leaders.

In this Tweet I point to an article that talks about tools that can be used to measure movement growth and improve it over time. Follow the links and read the articles.

This is one of several hundred resources that can be used to build support for any cause, not just youth development, which you can find in this section of the web library.

Below are resources to use to help youth in your community.

Recent Tutor/Mentor Blog articles:

Mentoring Summit blog article - click here

Wealth Inequality map / Orbit Model of Movement Building - click here

Mentoring Connections over many years - click here

What You Don't See When You Visit a Tutor/Mentor Program - click here

Elements of Effective Afterschool Program - click here

Complex Problems: Helping Kids from Birth to Work - click here

Celebrate Dr. King's vision - adopt this commitment - click here

Building a Super Bowl of Support for Youth Serving Organizations - click here

Sharing vision using Wakelet to share stories - click here

Bookmark these Tutor/Mentor Resources

* Resource Library - click here

* Strategy PDFs by Tutor/Mentor - click here

* Concept Map library - click here

* Mapping for Justice blog - click here

* Work done by interns - click here

* Digital Divide resources - click here

* Blogs I follow using Inoreader - click here

Resources & Announcements

* National Mentoring Partnership, resources - click here

* Brookings Metro - follow on Twitter - click here

* Polished Pebbles - "Closing the HOPE Gap". click here

* The Chicago Community Trust on Twitter - click here

* Chicago Mentoring Collaborative - click here

* MyChiMyFuture - City of Chicago - visit site and find map of activities for youth - click here

* Chicago Public Schools locator map - click here

* Chicago Health Atlas - click here

* Strengthening Chicago Youth website, click here; blog - click here

* To & Through Project website - click here

* Thrive Chicago collaboration - click here

* Chicago Learning Exchange - click here

* Incarceration Reform Resource Center - click here

* AfterSchool Alliance - resource center - click here

* ChiHackNight - remote civic technology meet-up; every Tuesday in Chicago - see weekly agenda

* Chicago Youth Serving Organizations in Intermediary Roles - click here

Thank you for reading. Thank you for contributions.

About this newsletter.

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Thank you for reading and sharing the ideas in this newsletter.

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