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Feb 2021 T/M eNews

February 2021 - Issue 197
Tutor Mentor Institute LLC newsletter heading with blue background
Maps. Social Capital. Birth-to-Work
 
In this month's newsletter I focus on maps, birth-to-work program design, social capital theory and relationships as desired outcomes.

I've provided links to pages and articles where I hope you'll explore these ideas more deeply and engage others in conversation about where and how the ideas might be applied.

If you are writing about these strategies on blogs or in program websites, please share the link with me on one of the social media platforms I point to.
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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Birth to Work - 12 years and longer

While many focus on the actions of a mentor or of a tutor I focus on how these actions need to repeat for many years to help a youth living in a high poverty area move safely through school and into adult lives, with a job/career that enables her to raise her own kids free of poverty.

This Tutor/Mentor Pinterest page shows many of my #birthtowork graphics and pages where I've used them in articles.
Maps - point to ALL places where help needed

I've been using maps since 1993 to focus attention and resources to all of the high poverty areas of the Chicago region, which is where thousands of youth need expanded networks and support to help them through school and into adult lives.

By identifying existing programs in these areas we can point resource providers to them. By showing areas without programs we can help mobilize resources to fill the voids.

View map stories here, here and here.
Total Quality Mentoring chart from 1990s is a hub and spokes design
Social Capital - Who you know. Relationships Matter.

I was able to participate in the January National Mentoring Summit and found many of the workshops and panels to be useful. I pointed to some in this blog article.

Two workshops focused on social capital and relationships as necessary goals and outcomes for youth tutor/mentor programs. The graphic at the right visualizes the goal of connecting youth to adults from many backgrounds who can model opportunities, open doors, and provide aid and coaching as youth make this journey.

Read more, here, here and here.
Dig into tutor/mentor web library

* Mentoring networks - click here
* Programs beyond Illinois - click here
* Black History studies - click here
* Homework & learning help - click here
* Poverty, racism, inequality - click here
* Digital divide research & articles - click here


Use this concept map to enter the four sections of the Tutor/Mentor web library. 

a) find a program; b) process improvement; c) research; d) resources to build & sustain a program.
Below are resources to use to help youth in your community.
 
Resources from Tutor/Mentor:

* List of Chicago area youth Tutor and/or Mentor programs, plus other resources for finding youth programs - click here

* Facebook pages of Chicago area youth programs - click here

* Instagram pages of Chicago area youth programs - click here

* Strategy PDFs by Tutor/Mentor - click here

* Concept Map library - click here

* Mapping for Justice blog - click here

* Tutor/Mentor Library - This blog article shows short links to each section in Tutor/Mentor library and to concept maps and PDF strategy presentations - click here

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

* Blogs I follow using Inoreader- click here
* Covid-19 in Illinois - Impact on Nonprofits in 2020. Forefront report. - click here

* National Mentoring Resource Center - Covid-19 resources - click here

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

* Strengthening Chicago Youth web site, click here; blog - click here

* Chicago Mentoring Collaborative - click here

* To & Through Project web site - click here

* Chicago Learning Exchange - 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.
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.

Since 2011 I've supported Tutor/Mentor Connection via the Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC, which is not a 501-c-3. It's also not broadly funded. I've covered expenses through my own savings and the help of a few who make annual donations to me via my on-going "Fund T/MI" campaign. Thank you to all who contributed in 2020.

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This Link takes you to a Tutor/Mentor Institute portal hosted in the UK. It's a place where people from the US, Europe and other places are encouraged to join with people from Chicago. The discussion is designed to create a blueprint that can be used in any city. It's a blueprint showing many actions needed in building an operating system and infrastructure that reaches youth in all high poverty neighborhoods and stays connected with age-appropriate supports for many years.

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Let's create a world where all kids have greater hope and opportunity. Help more kids in high poverty areas connect in organized volunteer-based tutor/mentor programs. I started this work 25 years ago. Please contribute to help me continue.

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We want these opportunities for our own kids and grandchildren. We all want same long-term result of kids moving safely through school and into adult lives and jobs. Read this article to see how the Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC and T/MC support this goal with an extensive knowledge base.

This video shows my commitment to helping tutor/mentor programs grow in all high poverty areas.

 
Rather than trying to be the single leader in a huge city, the T/MC and now T/MI, have sought to provide an information platform that all leaders can use to LEARN, EDUCATE, and innovate ways to support tutor/mentor program growth in more places and to solve other complex social, political and environmental problems facing cities.
 
Resources supported by your contributions, sponsorship and/or partnership
 
Tutor/Mentor Blog and Mapping for Justice Blog
Featured Blogs from past years - click here
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View videos on Tutor/Mentor Institute Theater
 
Please help me continue to do this work.
If someone you know has become ill and needs money to pay bills, they set up a "Go Fund Me" page and ask for contributions. They are not 501-c-3 non profits. They are people needing help.
 
The Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC is not operating as a non profit either. However, it's also not a profit-making business. So, this is my "fund me" page. I (Daniel Bassill) have been self-funding this work since 2011, supported by a small group of continuing donors. Please add your support to help me continue in 2020 and beyond.

Please send a contribution of $25, $100, $500 or more.
 
Become a volunteer, advocate and/or partner and help me find sponsors, investors and partners to build this platform for future use. Read more .
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TMI Video Library

The videos on this page were created between 2005 and 2018 to help people understand the strategies and resources shared by the Tutor/Mentor Connection (1993-present) and Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC (2011-present), which is led by Daniel F. Bassill.

Click here for more T/MC and T/MI videos. Click here to view videos created by interns.  View these videos on this YouTube video list. Find more on this list, and this one. 

Note. Most of these videos were created prior to 2018 and still show a PO Box mailing address.  Use the contact us page to find current information. 

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Mentoring Kids to Careers - Strategies and Leadership Commitment needed -  click here

 

Read more in this blog article.

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4-Part Strategy to Help Kids Through School and Into Careers - piloted since 1993 -  click here

 Read more in this blog article.

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Growth of volunteers in a long-term tutor/mentor program. Showing work by interns from the University of Michigan and Northwestern - click here

View this "volunteer growth" blog article - click here.

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Volunteer involvement in on-going tutor/mentor  program is a form of service-learning.  This video shows work of interns from South Korea and Northwestern University - click here

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Understanding "push-pull" as part of a tutor/mentor program strategy for helping youth through school -    click here
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Collective actions to support urban youth via organized, volunteer-based tutor, mentor and learning programs -  click here
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Visualize how resource providers and policy-makers might be more proactive in supporting on-going tutor/mentor programs.  Role of Influence -   click here

Read the blog article - click here

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"Enough is Enough" If we want to reduce urban violence on-going investments must be made - click here

 

Read this article on the Tutor/Mentor Institute,LLC blog - click here

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"Here to There". Visualize steps needed for building and sustaining programs that help youth through school and into careers.   click here
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Homework help resources for students, parents, volunteers, educators, library on this website.   click here

This video was created in 2018 when the TutorMentorConnection website was hosting the library. Now the links in the concept map shown in the video point to this website.  View the concept map - click here

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This video shows universities throughout Chicago where Tutor/Mentor Leadership and Networking Conferences were hosted - click here

Thank you to Terry Elliott, an educator from Western Kentucky, for creating this video.

This was part of a strategy aimed at recruiting universities as long-term partners. This blog article shows a 30 year history of reaching out to universities. Click here

 

View this video to see how Terry Elliott shared my review of 2018 actions. 

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Helping tutor/mentor programs grow - see  how interns have helped and how this is shared in the Tutor/Mentor blog - click here

View the blog article - click here

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Take a tour of this "It takes a village" video. What's it mean for youth in high poverty areas of cities like Chicago? - click here

This video shows work done in late 2000s by graduate students from the University of Michigan.

View the graphic in this blog article - click here

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Tour of Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC website (www.tutormentorexchange.net) created by Wona Chang, a 2015 intern from South Korea.  click here

 

2025 note.  The website platform has been updated, resulting in a new look for the site. However, the basic navigation remains the same as is shown in this video.  

View more videos created by interns - visit this page

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Introduction to T/MC OHATS (Organizational history and tracking system). Active on this site from 2002 to 2014 - click here

 

Visit this page and learn more about the T/MC OHATS.  While this is now only available as an archive it remains a model of how groups working toward a common goal might document actions to better understand accomplishments and who is contributing.

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The Tutor/Mentor Connection was created in 1993 by volunteers who had crated the site-based Cabrini Connections tutor/mentor program in late 1992.
It was the "local" Cabrini-Green focused part of a "local-global" strategy that continued until 2011. 

View videos showing activities at Cabrini  Connections. click here

 

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Helping volunteer-based tutor/mentor programs grow in  high poverty areas of Chicago - Dan Bassill, 2012 panel discussion - click here

 

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Mentor role in a larger strategy of community and youth development - click here

Read more in this blog article - click here

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What is poverty?  Dan Bassill in 2009 panel discussion - click here

 

The work done by interns that is shown on this and other pages demonstrates a role that students at any college or high school could take.  Imagine going to your school's website and find a collection of visualizations similar to what I show on these pages. 

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Thank you to Terry Elliott and others who read my blog articles, view my videos, and then create and share your own interpretation and understanding through your on media.
click here

 

Browse this set of articles on the Tutor/Mentor blog to see how Dan Bassill has networked and shared ideas with a network of Connected Learning (CLMOOC) educators since 2013.  

Dan has ofter showed the CLMOOC interactions as a model for how people in the youth development ecosystem should be interacting. 

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Helping nonprofit organizations grow to be good, then great, over many years. View this 2017 reflection - click here

 

Visit this blog to read more about helping youth tutor, mentor organizations grow to be good, then great, and stay great, over many years. 

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The challenges facing leaders of nonprofit organization. Executive Director panel from 2011 Tutor/Mentor Leadership and Networking Conference.
click here for part 1. 

View part 2 - click here.  View part 3 - click here

TMI Video - sharing ideas

The videos on this page feature history of the Tutor/Mentor Connection (1993-present) and Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC (2011-present) along with interviews of founder Daniel F. Bassill. They also include videos from  past Tutor/Mentor Leadership and Networking Conferences that we hosted from 1994 to 2015.

Click here for more T/MC and T/MI videos. Click here to view videos created by interns. See videos created by Interns on this page.   View these videos on this YouTube video list. Find more on this list, and this one. 

Note. Most of these videos were created prior to 2018 and still show a PO Box mailing address.  Use the contact us page to find current information. 

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Introduction of Tutor/Mentor Connection at 1997 Presidents' Summit for America's Future -  click here
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Learn about the Tutor/Mentor Connection's  year-round program support strategy, piloted since 1993.  click here

 

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Value of Tutor/Mentor Program - Alumni Update - click here
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A Knowledge Network - created in 1993
click here

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Mentoring Interview with Anthony Brogdon, Detroit, MI. 3-2022   click here
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Interview with Valerie Leonard of NonProfit Utopia, re T/MI use of visualizations.  click here

Read the blog article - click here

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An Interview with Tutor/Mentor Institute's Daniel Bassill, 2014 by Terry Elliott. click here

Read the blog article - click here

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Sharing Tutor/Mentor strategies with Aliyu B. Solomon, from Nigeria. 4-2022 - click here
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How to Build a Culture of Empathy - 2012 talk with Edwin Rutsch  click here

View second 2012 discussion about empathy and mentoring, including Edwin Rutsch and Bert-Ola Bergstrand, from Sweden. click here

Read the blog article - click here

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If volunteer-based tutoring/mentoring is of value, how do we reach more  youth in areas of persistent poverty?
click here
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This videos describes Dan Bassill's history of involvement in volunteer-based tutor/mentor programs - click here
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Animation showing role athletes & celebrities can take to support youth-serving programs throughout the cities where they perform - click here

  

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Tutor/Mentor Leadership and Networking Conference: What People Say.  2007 - click here
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Tutor/Mentor Leadership and Networking Conference Video - 2010
click here

 

More videos!  Visit this page, showing work of interns. This page focuses on videos from the Cabrini Connections tutor/mentor program that was formed in late 1992 and launched the Tutor/Mentor Connection in 1993.  More conference videos and panel discussions with Dan Bassill are shown on this page. 

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