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 A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words.
The Tutor/Mentor Connection incorporates various forms of visualization to illustrate its ideas and to support the involvement of others in helping tutor/mentor programs grow in many locations. Our maps are created using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology, while our visualizations are created using a variety of applications. This STRATEGY MAP animated presentation is an example. In the Links library of the T/MC site are a variety of articles illustrating uses of maps and visualizations. In the Chicago Tutor/Mentor Program Locator we support the involvement of volunteers, parents, youth and donors in tutor/mentor programs serving every high poverty area of Chicago.
This Wiki page outlines our GIS Mapping Strategy.
This Ning page shows how interns are working with us to create some of these presentations. We seek volunteers, interns and DONORS, who would work with T/MC to visualize the concepts that we are showing on this site. |
 No General would go to war without a map. Strategies leaders can use.
The Tutor/Mentor Connection (T/MC) has created a variety of short PDF essays to illustrate how maps can be used by leaders to mobilize and distribute volunteers, dollars, technology and other resources to fight America’s war on poverty, poorly performing schools, crime and violence. These are pdf essays that illustrate use of maps:
No General would go to a war without a map - Understanding T/MC use of maps; flash version.Neighborhood Analysis – prepared by the Turor/Mentor Connection Use of maps. 7th Congressional District Use of maps, Il 14th Senate Dist.
Use the Chicago Tutor/Mentor Program Locator to find a place that offers volunteer-based tutoring and/or mentoring. Enlist your company, faith group, university and/or hospital as leaders to support the growth of tutor/mentor programs in areas where they are needed.
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 Using Maps to tell "The Rest of the Story"
A key part of the Tutor/Mentor Connection (T/MC) strategy is to "increase the frequency of media stories and advertising that draw attention to tutoring/mentoring and draw volunteers and donations to tutor/mentor programs in different parts of the Chicago region. Visit the Chicago Tutor/Mentor Program Locator and Map Gallery to see this strategy in action. Since the T/MC is a small, grass-roots non profit, with few advertising or public awareness dollars, it has developed a strategy that leverages the negative news of daily papers and broacasts media, with map stories that show where and why the bad news happened, and point to tutor/mentor programs in the area (if any exist) as places working to try to reverse these negatives. |
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 Tutor/Mentor Connection maintains a database of more than 200 locations where various forms of volunteer-based tutoring and/or mentoring are offered during non-school hours. TMC creates Poverty Maps to show where tutor/mentor programs are needed and Asset Maps, to show locations of businesses, churches, hospitals, etc. in the same part of the city, who could be mobilizing volunteers and providing ideas, technology, dollars, and even jobs, to help kids succeed in school and move to careers.
Visit the Program Locator and Chicago Programs Links to learn about different tutoring and/or mentoring programs in separate zip codes of the Chicago region. View maps in the Mapping for Justice blog, the Tutor/Mentor blog and in the Tutor/Mentor Map Gallery.
Use this How-To guide to learn how to use the Program Locator and update information for your Chicago area volunteer-based tutoring and/or mentoring program. |
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Distribution of Tutor/Mentor Programs
