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Using Maps and Visualizations to Communicate Ideas - click here	Year-Round Strategy for Building Attention for Youth Serving Programs - click here	30-year history of reaching out to universities. A long read. Take your time. - click here
Total Quality Mentoring (TQM): What is it? - click here	Tutor/Mentor Learning Network (TMLN). Strategy launched in 2000. click here	Tipping Points - Actions that would make a dramatic difference. - click here
Making mentor-rich programs available in more places - Theory of Change - click here	T/MC Use of Maps -No General would go to war without a map. click here	Tutor/Mentor Connection Logic Model: If You Agree, Join Us. click here
Mentoring youth to careers: A Success Steps Strategy. click here	Steps to Start a Tutor/Mentor Program (and keep it going). click here	Shopping Guide. What do volunteers, parents, donors look for on your website? click here
Tutor/Mentor Program as a form of Service Learning - click here	Role of Leaders - What business, universities, politicians, etc. can do - click here	A 'Rest of the Story' media strategy to draw attention to high needs areas - click here
Rest of the Story Example - N. Lawndale Follow up media with map stories - click here	Forming a Tutor/Mentor Connection on a college campus - click here	Leaders need to make commitment shown in this strategy map - click here
Tour Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC website - click here	Use of information to find solutions - - click here	Mentor Role in Larger Strategy of Helping youth in high poverty areas -click here
How to Influence Resource Providers and NPO leaders - click here	The Big Question - What Will it Take to Assure That all Youth Born, or Living, in High Poverty areas are Entering Careers by age 25? - click here	Defining Terms - Match type of Tutor/Mentor Service with Needs of Specific Youth - click here
Encourage youth to view these essays and create their own interpretations. View work done by past interns - click here	View a comprehensive list of visual essays created since the 1990s on this page.	Create and share your own versions of these Visual essays.

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Tour the Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC website (as of 12/2023) - click here	Actions needed to help kids in high poverty areas move from birth to work - click here	Planning to fight wars involves same steps as building tutor/mentor programs where needed. View steps. - click here
Building planning teams in companies, colleges, institutions, to support growth of mentor-rich youth programs - click here	Intermediary and consulting role. Help mentor-rich programs grow in more places. click here	Building Attention for a Cause - You want to help tutor/mentor programs grow. What do you do? - click here
Building Information Hubs that support civic engagement. - click here	Creating a Network of Purpose to Help Youth Move from Birth to Work - click here	Growing Network - Making Ideas a Reality. How One Person Can Make a Difference. click here
Building a University-Based Tutor/Mentor Connection - A Vision. Use for Planning. click here	Imagine the Tutor/Mentor Connection as a Jobs Creation Strategy. click here	How Faith Communities can Help Tutor/Mentor Programs Grow in More Places. click here
We all want same outcomes for youth. How can we get there? - click here	Strategies for Recruiting Volunteers for Tutor/Mentor Programs - click here	Building a Team. Recruiting Talent. Strategies to use. - click here
Build Your own Map-Directory. Learn from T/MC Experience. Follow up media with map stories - click here	Make the Connection. Role for athletes, celebrities, CEOs in Supporting NPO organizations. - click here	Introduction to Tutor/Mentor Connection and Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC - Version 2 - click here
Imagine Big City Hospitals Adopting Tutor/Mentor Connection Strategy. Use this for planning. - click here	Why did one, new, small Chicago youth program create Tutor/Mentor Connection in 1993? - click here	Strategy for Elected Leaders, using one Congressional District as an Example. - click here
Collaboration Goals. What If More of Us Worked Toward Same Goals? - click here	Building Learning Circles so More People are Working to Help Youth in Poverty Areas Move from Birth-to-Work. - click here	Build a Tutor/Mentor Connection-type strategy in your community. What's involved? - click here
Creating a Virtual Corporate Office to support tutor/mentor programs - click here	View a comprehensive list of visual essays created since the 1990s on this page.	Review of 2000-2010 Tutor/Mentor Connection and Cabrini Connections - click here

January 2021 Tutor/Mentor eNews

January 2021 - Issue 196

January is National Mentoring Month

This year's National Mentoring Month will be much lonelier for many due to Covid19. But for many there will be ZOOM gatherings with volunteer tutors and mentors and new ways to connect and learn. As we start a new year, youth and families living in high poverty areas will still struggle more than others due to low access to digital tools and services.

Maybe during this Mentoring Month you can spend a little time learning about digital access and remote learning issues, then spend time in 2021 helping to close these gaps.

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, and to help understand and respond to these over-riding challenges.

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A Day that Will Live in Infamy .... January 6. 2021

Like most of you I was horrified watching the attack on the US Capital on January 6 and I fear what will happen to our democracy in coming months and years. I'm hopeful that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris and a Democratic controlled Congress will bring healing to every zip code in America, with new laws, new policy, and a flow of needed resources. That remains to be seen.

Amidst all of this we are celebrating Mentoring this month. While there's much to distract us I feel we need to continue to focus daily on ways we can build and sustain mentor-rich support systems that create HOPE and OPPORTUNITY for those who need extra help. In many ways this is a strategy to reduce the appeal to the right wing idealism that leads to hatred, division and destruction.

Good luck to all of you as you travel this difficult journey.

What is the State of Mentoring in your city?

In December MENTOR New York shared its Report on the State of NY Mentoring which you can read at this link. The site also shares Covid19 resources.

I suspect other cities and states might report similar findings but I've not seen this type of report yet from Illinois or from others.

From January 27 to 29 MENTOR will host it's annual conference, in an all-virtual format this year. I've already registered and hope that others will do the same. Use this link.

Dig into tutor/mentor web library

* Mentoring networks - click here

* Tutor/Mentor Programs beyond Illinois - click here

* Black History studies - click here

* Homework & learning help - click here

* Poverty, racism, inequality - click here

* Impact of Covid19; What's next? - click here

* Digital divide research & articles - click here

* Resources from Afterschool Alliance - click her

* Recommended Learning Resources on YouTube - click here

Purpose of Tutor/Mentor Library

I've been building a web library since 1993 with a goal that people would use this information to innovate better ways to support k-12 youth in well-organized, and well-funded, volunteer based tutor, mentor and learning organizations.

View this PDF to see how ideas from one place can inspire work done in many other places. Few of the youth tutor/mentor programs I look at share their strategies, program design, lessons learned, etc. consistently on websites and blogs, but if more did this they would be helping others learn from them, so more kids would receive better support.

What does your planning cycle look like?

It's January and National Mentoring Month draws attention to mentoring programs throughout the country. If you're on a school-based calendar, your year starts in August as you recruit youth and volunteers. That means in January you should be starting a process of evaluating your own fall start-up activities with a goal of doing even better next fall. As you move through the spring, you should be inviting your volunteers, youth, parents and donors into your brainstorming and planning process. By June you should have a plan of operations for the coming year.
View this PDF to learn more of this process.

Understand challenges facing youth, and new President of USA

This concept map is one of many that I've created over the past 15 years to visualize some of the things we need to be thinking about in our efforts to help kids in poverty areas move through school and into adult lives.

I created another that shows many of the issues facing America and the world as Joe Biden takes over as our 46h President. View it here.

Drawing people together to read, think, discuss then form action strategies is one of the biggest challenges we face. Here's one of many articles I've focused on building a learning organization.

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

* Strategy PDFs by Tutor/Mentor - click here

* Concept Map library - click here

* Mapping for Justice blog - click here

* Blog article showing short links to resources hosted in Tutor/Mentor library and websites - click here

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

* Blogs I follow using Inoreader- 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.

* Covid-19 in Illinois - Impact on Nonprofits in 2020. Forefront report. - 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

* To & Through Project web site - click here

* Incarceration Reform Digital Resource Center - click here

* Chicago Learning Exchange - click here

* ChiHackNight - remote civic technology meet-up; every Tuesday in Chicago - see weekly agenda

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 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. Thank you to all who contributed in 2020.

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Feb 2021 T/M eNews

February 2021 - Issue 197

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.

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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.

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.

Jan 2020 Tutor/Mentor eNews

January 2020 - Issue 186

January is National Mentoring Month.

Youth Support is 12-Month Effort.

The ideas shared in this monthly newsletter can be used by youth organization leaders, resource providers, political leaders, universities, volunteers and youth to help mentor-rich programs thrive in all of the neighborhoods where they are most needed.

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Mentor Role in Larger Youth Development and Poverty Reduction

January is National Mentoring Month and there will be many ways to recognize volunteers and learn ways to support youth mentoring programs. Click here to learn more about Mentoring Month activities.

During this month encourage your volunteers to dig into web libraries such as hosted by Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC to learn more about where and why youth tutor/mentor programs are needed and ways they can help programs grow.

View this Mentoring Month article on Tutor/Mentor blog and think of ways volunteers can take larger roles in youth development strategies.

Where are Tutor/Mentor Programs Located in Chicago?

Since 1993 the Tutor/Mentor Connection (now Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC) has collected information about non-school tutor and/or mentor programs and attempted to plot this data on maps of the Chicago region, with a focus on site based programs where youth can connect regularly with a primary mentor, extra learning and a network of adults. See the T/MC map at this link.

Here's one article showing the intended use of maps.This page shows more ways maps can be used.

In addition, the Mapping for Justice blog shows many more ways maps can be used.

Where are you Connecting with Others?

While face-to-face mentoring and tutoring is the most common form of contact between youth and volunteers, many on-line mentoring and tutoring programs have been growing for the past two decades.

I point to some of the on-line mentoring programs in this section of the Tutor/Mentor library.

I've used email, blogs and web sites to share ideas with others for many years. I also use Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter and Pinterest, and to a small degree, Instagram.

Here's a "Join me on Twitter" article that I hope you'll read. I feel it's the best of the different social media platforms that I use.

In the sections below are links that I point to often, and that I've added recently.

* Web resources to help you find Chicago Tutor and/or Mentor Programs; use to find programs in other places, too. - click here

* Black History Month resources - click here

* Resources for fund raising - click here

* Philanthropy articles on Tutor/Mentor blog - click here

* Social Justice, Poverty, Inequality, Housing resource links - click here

* Blog article showing links to sections of Tutor/Mentor web library - click here

* 2020 Presidential Campaign - research issues and candidates -click here

* Civic Engagement - resource map (recommend other links). - click here

* Strategy PDFs by Tutor/Mentor - click here

* Concept Map library - click here

* Mapping for Justice blog - click here

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

* National Mentoring Month events - click here

* Chicago Mentoring Collaboration - training event, Jan. 24, 2020 - click here

* Youth Mentoring Research Symposium, Jan. 29, 2020, Washington DC (at annual Mentoring Summit).- It's FREE, but registration required; seating limited.

* Chicago Volunteer Expo - Feb. 23 -learn more

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

* MENTOR Illinois. - click here

* To & Through Project web site -click here

* Incarceration Reform Digital Resource Center - click here

* City of Chicago, CPS, links - click here

* Chicago Public School Locator - click here

* ChiHackNight - civic technology meet-up; every Tuesday in Chicago - see agenda

*Chicago Youth Serving Organizations in Intermediary Roles- click here

(Please help update this cmap.)

Recent Tutor/Mentor blog articles:

* What I Wish for Christmas (see graphic above) - click here

* Looking Back. Looking forward - click here

* Enough is Enough - do the planning; build the network -click here

* Can You Help Tutor/Mentor Programs Grow? - click here

* Annotate with me - Miles Morales: Spider-Man and What will EdReform 2.0 Bring? - click here

* What Am I Sharing on Twitter? click here

* Do I look like Woodie Flowers? Do you know who he is? click here

* Were you part of the Volunteer Recruitment Campaigns in early 2000s? View email archives. - click here

* Tutor/Mentor articles on Tumblr - this is a collection of key concepts - click here

* Tutor/Mentor Exchange on Wordpress - click here

The Resource Links library has been updated! During the past year, every link (more than 2000) was opened to make sure it works, or updated if needed. New links are added weekly.

View video that shows how to find recent links added to web library.

Sample Articles in Tutor/Mentor Library

* Miles Morales: Spider-Man and Re imagining the Canon for Racial Justice - annotated article - click here

* Wrench in the Gears: A Skeptical Parent's Thoughts on Digital Curriculum - click here

* LittleSis - Free database of "who knows who" at the heights of business and government - click here

* Ideas for Project Based Learning - click here

* What are the factors that affect learning at your school? - click here

* What Does Youth Civic Engagement Have to do With Inequality? article

*An analysis of achievement gaps in every school in America shows that poverty is the biggest hurdle. - click here

* Logic Models and Theory of Change models for youth mentoring programs - click here

About this newsletter.

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In the sections below are links that I point to often, and that I've added recently.

About this newsletter.

The PDFs on this page have been created since the 1990s, and updated often, to help
people understand Tutor/Mentor Connection
and Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC strategies and available resources.

Thus, the PDFs are now shared on this page from a Google drive file. See more
on this page 2, and this page 3.

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The PDFs on this page have been created since the 1990s, and updated often, to help
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