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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
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May 2021 - click here
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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.

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.

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

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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.

Read more. click here and click here

Wish #3: Individual youth serving organizations will find help to put more information on their websites, showing their program design, history, strategies and challenges they face.

The Tutor/Mentor Connection started aggregating links to Chicago programs in 1993 so that every program could see what others were doing and borrow ideas that would help their own programs get better. That only works if more programs are sharing a broader range of information on their websites.

View this article and Shopping Guide.

Build a year-round calendar of events that draw support to youth tutor/mentor programs and the challenges of high poverty.

This graphic shows the calendar of events created by the Tutor/Mentor Connection from 1994-1996 and supported each year since. Wish #4 is that new leaders and new energy will make year-round campaigns like this happen in every city.

Do you have a year-round communications strategy? Share it on your social media pages.

Learn more. click here

Technology volunteers needed.

My first website was built in 1997 by the brother of a tutoring program volunteer. A newer version replaced that in 1998, built by another volunteer and his company.

The Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC website was built by a volunteer in 1999. Interns from IIT and Northern Illinois University provided tech support to T/MC mapping efforts and built the tutor/mentor program locator in 2004 and interactive map portal in 2008. The web library is hosted on a site built by volunteers at IUPUI in 2006.

I have not had that type of help since 2011 so Wish #5 on my New Year's dream is that a team of technology volunteers step forward to give new life to those projects.

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

Recent Tutor/Mentor Blog articles:

What you don't see when you visit a non-school, tutor and/or mentor program - click here

Building long-term mentoring support - click here

Creating service and learning organizations - click here

2007 Grant from Oprah Angel Network. Imagine if it had repeated each year - click here

Helping kids through school. How can we do this better? - click here

Benchmarking. Comparing your youth program to others. click here

Using Wakalet to share stories - 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

* Digital Divide resources - click here

* Blogs I follow using Inoreader - click here

* Chicago Youth Serving Organizations in Intermediary Roles - click here

Resources & Announcements

* 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

One more wish for 2021.

Help me continue to provide this information through this newsletter, my websites, blogs and social media.

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 birthday gift at this link.

Or make a FundT/MI gift at this link

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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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.

Make a 2022 FundT/MI 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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Thank you for reading and sharing the ideas in this newsletter.

Good luck to you in 2022. Stay safe!

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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.

Dec 2022 - click here
Nov 2022 - click here
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Sept 2022 - click here
Aug 2022 - click here
July 2022 - click here
May-June 2022 - click here
April 2022 - click here
March 2022 - click here
Feb 2022 - click here
Jan 2022 - click here

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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