Under the "Educate Yourself" theme I've been building a web library since 1998, including links to blogs that share important information for leaders, volunteers, donors, policy makers, etc.
In early 2017 I was introduced to Inoreader as a tool to use to easily follow these blogs and read new updates daily.
Tutor/Mentor Leadership and Networking Conferences were held in Chicago every six months between May 1994 and May 2015. The goal was to bring people together to network and share ideas, while increasing visibility and the flow of needed operating resources to all of the tutor/mentor programs in Chicago.
While the conferences have not been held since 2015 the Tutor/Mentor Connection/Institute, LLC continues to try to connect stakeholders with each other and with information hosted on this and other web sites. Connect with Dan Bassill, founder of this organization, on social media sites shown on this page.
Read this 2015 IVMOOC report showing analysis of 1994-2014 Tutor/Mentor Conferences.
In 2025 a new team of information visualization students from Indiana University looked at conference data and produced an open source tool that any even organizer could use to map participation. View the report at this link.
I'm looking for researchers and/or consultants who will do follow up on this work and will help others build participation mapping into future conferences. This concept map provides a time line for planning a conference and points to the new resources from the 2025 IVMOOC team. See planning map
Using maps, charts, on-line learning and networking and other forms of face-to-face and web based communications, the T/MC aim is to focus daily attention on issues of poverty and strategies that connect those who can help with those who need help. We hope to educate volunteers and donors to be shoppers, who search the list of Chicago volunteer-based tutor and/or mentor programs to find places where they give time, talent and dollars to help expand the network of support for inner city kids attending poorly performing schools.
By showing what's possible, we hope to move corporations, foundations, media and organizations that already operate youth development, tutoring and/or mentoring programs beyond what they are doing to what they can be doing. In doing this we and others who join us, are applying the ideas of 'Connectivism' in our work.
Under the "Educate Yourself" theme I've been building a web library since 1998, including links to blogs that share important information for leaders, volunteers, donors, policy makers, etc. 
