Dec 2020 Tutor/Mentor News

Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC - Dec 2020 - Issue 195

Wishing You Hope, Health and Happiness
 
As this year comes to an end we face an uncertain future due to the pandemic, political instability, climate change and a wide range of complex problems.

Our greatest strength is our ability to find solutions and help each other. Best wishes to all as we head into 2021.
Spend time browsing the ideas and resources I'm sharing and use them in 2021 to help youth tutor, mentor and learning programs reach k-12 youth in more places.

If you are a consistent reader please consider a contribution to help fund the Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC
Mobilize your network. Draw support to every youth program in your city.

I've used maps for 27 years to draw attention and resources to every high poverty area of Chicago and to youth tutor/mentor programs in those areas. I encourage others to do the same.

Open this concept map and find links to my library of Chicago tutor and/or mentor programs, along with other libraries that anyone can use to find programs throughout the USA. Visit websites, learn what programs do, and then pick one, or more, to support with year-end and on-going donations.
Dig into tutor/mentor web library

The concept map at the right diagrams one set of links in the Tutor/Mentor library. Throughout the year I encourage you to point your volunteers and donors to this page and encourage them to learn more about where and why youth tutor/mentor programs are most needed, along with other challenges that need to be addressed to help reduce poverty and create greater opportunity for all in America.

Visit this blog article and find links to every section of the Tutor/Mentor library, plus to pdf essays, concept maps and more resources.

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

 
Recent blog articles from Tutor/Mentor:

* Duplicate Tutor/Mentor Connection - click here

* Creating a Service-Learning Organization - click here

* Roadmap for Solving Problems - click here

* Violence in Chicago. The Rest of the Story - click here

Other recommended pages:
* Strategy PDFs by Tutor/Mentor - click here
* Concept Map library - click here
* Mapping for Justice blog - click here
* 2021 National Mentoring Summit will be a remote conference this year. Click here for details.

* 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

*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.
Help me help youth tutor/mentor programs.

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 either via my December 19 birthday campaign, or my year-end fund me campaign. Below are links to each page. Please help if you can.


Dan Bassill's 74th Birthday is December 19- click here and help him celebrate.

Fund Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC - click here and help keep this resource available for another year.

Thank you for reading and sharing the ideas in this newsletter.
 

Discussion of Tutor/Mentor Ideas


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.

Campaign for Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC

 

Support Tutor/Mentor Connection - Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC
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.

(scroll down to bottom of page to find PayPal button)
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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
Tutor/Mentor Chicago Youth Program
Links library
Tutor/Mentor Institute strategy library
Tutor/Mentor Institute Concept Map Library
Tutor/Mentor Connection web Library
Monthly eMail Newsletter
Tutor/Mentor Connection Forum and Social Media Network
 
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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Dan Bassill and his work.  Thank you for your help!

 

 

 
 

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.