This "tutor/mentor learning network" links the knowledge and experience of people and organizations from around the world.

The Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC was created in 2011 to continue work started in 1993 by the Tutor/Mentor Connection. It's roots extend back further, to 1973, when Dan Bassill began looking for ideas to support his weekly tutor/mentor sessions in Chicago. It grew in 1975 when Dan became the volunteer leader of the program at the Montgomery Ward headquarters in Chicago, and expanded further as the T/MC made a commitment to help other tutor/mentor programs in Chicago get needed resources, not just the one Dan led.  The original tutormentorconnection.org site is now an archive. This site now hosts the library, with more than 2,000 links, pointing to information created by others around the world, and dozens of strategy essays created by Dan.

Our goal is to help you learn to use this information to expand your understanding of where volunteer-based tutor/mentor programs are needed, the differences between different types of programs, and the actions people in business, philanthropy, government and other sectors can do to help world-class tutor/mentor programs operate in every high poverty neighborhood of Chicago or any other metropolitan area in the world. See Learning Network pdf