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Our Mission: The mission of the Tutor/Mentor Connection (1993-present) and Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC (T/MI) (2011-present) is to gather and organize all that is known about successful volunteer-based, non-school tutoring/mentoring programs and apply that knowledge to expand the availability and enhance the effectiveness of these services to children throughout the Chicago region.

Read Dan Bassill's 30-Year History of Reaching out to Universities.   click here

Help find donors who will move the Tutor/Mentor strategy into one or more universities in Chicago and other cities.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Be a Volunteer. Be a donor!
Use lists shown in the HOT LINKS section on left side of this site to find volunteer-based tutor/mentor and learning programs in the Chicago region and around the country.

 

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Vision: because of the work we do youth living in poverty today will be starting jobs and entering careers out of poverty by age 25

In Chicago, Baltimore and other big cities, media stories constantly remind us of the negative impact of concentrated poverty and inequality. New research is published monthly, showing the impacts of inequality and how where you are born and where you live often determines what your future will be.

Since 1993, the Tutor/Mentor Connection (led by The Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC since 2011) has led a  year-round strategy intended to mobilize attention and involvement of people in all parts of the Chicago region, and to focus it on high poverty areas of inner city neighborhoods, using maps, and list of Chicago area programs, to help volunteers, donors, business, faith groups, parents and students connect with youth serving programs which already operate in different parts of the city and suburbs, or to help build new programs in undeserved areas.

To achieve this goal, many people need to spread this message to people in their network, who become volunteers or donors. And many of these people need to spread the work in their own networks. The end result might be the growth of leaders from every part of "the village" who become champions for tutor/mentor programs and the T/MC strategy . The graphic at the left illustrates the goal.