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NETWORK BUILDER:
Tutor/Mentor Connection/Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC
Those
Those
Who Need
Who Can
Help
Help
Cabrini
Chicago Connections We created the Tutor/Mentor
serves teens in the
Cabrini-Green area
of Chicago. This
Connection (T/MC) in 1993 to
program was where
T/MC idea
help programs like Cabrini
originated in 1993.
Connections grow in every
poverty neighborhood of the
Tutor/Mentor city and suburbs of Chicago.
Connection
helps programs
like Cabrini Using the Internet, the T/MC is now
Connections connected to organizations throughout the
grow in every
poverty area of world, and is helping tutor/mentor
the city and programs, and citywide networks grow in
suburbs Chicago and other cities.
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The Tutor/Mentor Connection focuses
daily on one big questions:
Since 2011 the T/MC has been part of Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC. Same goals. Different tax structure.
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We know others are asking the same question….
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We use maps and charts to create visual understanding
• The light pink shaded areas
have poverty rates of 20% and
above.
• Poverty rates in the dark red
areas are 40% and above.
We call this a
Tutor/Mentor Learning Network (TMLN). We host the
information we share in a Tutor/Mentor Institute,
LLC library.
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Step 1: Build and Maintain knowledge base
Information Collection
Prior to 1993, no organization
was attempting to maintain a
comprehensive database of non-
school tutor/mentor programs.
Http://tinyurl.com/TMI-Library
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Understand T/MC Logic
What types of organizations are in the library?
Who needs to be involved?
Pre Elementary Middle High College or
School School School School Vocational
Mentors Career
and Tutors
Church Travel,
Internet
After Arts,
School Sports,
Programs Recreation
For most children, their Birth to Age 25 support system looks like this. Neighbors, family,
and a variety of community supports model education as a path to careers, while opening
doors and providing learning experiences as youth grow up.
Church Travel,
Internet
After Arts,
School Sports,
Programs Recreation
While the church is a factor, many church groups do not have a diversity of
workplace volunteers, and many who do have diverse congregations, do not
have strategies to mentor neighborhood children to careers.
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More Negative Role Models
Ill legal jobs
Ex Offenders Travel,
Internet
Arts,
Church After Sports,
School Recreation
Programs
Along with fewer positive influences, there are far more negative influences in communities
with high concentrations of people in poverty, living on welfare, and working in illegal jobs.
For many kids the most common role model is a man with a fancy car, flashy jewelry, new
clothes, a wad of money, and many girl friends. All of this was earned through illegal work,
such as selling drugs. For many other kids the role model is an ex-offender.
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As a Result, Schools Struggle. The Prison system grows.
Prison, Juvenile Homes
Pre Elementary Middle High College or
School School School School Vocational
Ex Offenders Travel,
Internet
After Arts,
School Sports,
Church
Programs Recreation
As a result youth go to school unprepared to learn and with too few adult models showing the
value of education for jobs and careers. Schools struggle. High School drop out rates exceed
35%. Many careers are learned while in prison or in the juvenile justice system. Few youth go
to college and too few of these graduate.
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Each of these boxes represent HUBS of
knowledge in the TMLN
No Child Left Behind; Federal Juvenile Justice, Workforce Training Programs, etc..
Crime
National Service prevention
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School-Time Programs
High Career
Pre-K K - 5th 5th - 6th 6th - 8th
School Track
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SHARING RESPONSIBILITY
To finish school and
Programs serving youth in one age level, enter a career…
…youth who participate in
or one time frame, can do better work if great K-8 programs still need
the child comes to them better prepared. support to finish high school,
college and to enter careers.
School-Time Programs
High Career
Pre-K K - 5th 5th - 6th 6th - 8th
School Track
EXAMPLE
These are feeder programs. If A program serving 5th and 6th grade
kids is able to do more if programs
kids have access to good K-5 serving the SAME kids in K-5 have laid
programs they will perform better a reading/math learning/motivation
in 5th and 6th grade and high foundation.
school programs.
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THE GOAL IS NOT TO FINISH 6TH GRADE. IT’S TO REACH A CAREER.
School-Time Programs
High Career
Pre-K K - 5th 5th - 6th 6th - 8th
School Track
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Networking Strategy
As a small non profit, T/MC* has never had the advertising budgets
of large corporations. Thus, it relies on an on-going networking
strategy to draw people together, and to build awareness of
tutoring/mentoring.
* The Tutor/Mentor Institute LLC was created in 2011 in an effort to expand the ways
money and partnerships are formed to support this strategy.
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CAN YOU TAKE THIS ROLE?
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Year-end
Fund Raising
Since 2015 these events have not been hosted by T/MC in Chicago, but the
strategies continue to be supported on social media.
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The T/MC has been committed to using the
Internet to network and learn since 1998
• Blogs – like http://tutormentor.blogspot.com
• Forums – http://tutormentorconnection.ning.com
• Conferences– 1994-2015
http://www.tutormentorconference.org
• Online collaboration spaces like
http://debategraph.org/mentoring_kids_to_careers
• Social media such as LinkedIn, Twitter and
http://www.facebook.com/TutorMentorInstitute
• At http://www.tutormentorexchange.net we’re hosting
a links library, with links to organizations that we want
to connect with
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At T/MC web sites we link to organizations that
represent specific areas of expertise. These are
“hubs”, or, sources of information.
Fund Raising
Volunteer
Recruitment
Tutoring
info
Hub
Hub
Many of the
websites we point
to from the
Hub Tutor/Mentor
library are also
hubs of
information.
Law
Business
orgs
Birth America’s
Youth
Career
Higher
Gov’t
Ed.
Health
Social Care
Philanthropy
Service Community
& Volunteers
orgs
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Connecting HUBS: A Blueprint
AND each group
needs to be
family Faith
schools groups
connected to each
other, in an on-going
learning process.
Law
Business
orgs & Media
Birth America’s
Youth
Career
Higher
Gov’t
Ed.
Health
Entertainment Care
Community Philanthropy
& Sports orgs; social & Volunteers
service
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This can lead to shared efforts to increase visibility
and draw more volunteers and donors to every
tutor/mentor program in the Chicago area as school
starts every year in Aug/Sept.
* volunteers
* public visibility
* operating dollars
* technology
* training/learning
* evaluation tools/staff
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THE GOAL IS NOT ONE GOOD PROGRAM IN A FEW PLACES,
REACHING A SMALL NUMBER OF YOUTH, BUT GOOD PROGRAMS
IN ALL HIGH POVERTY AREAS OF EVERY CITY AND STATE
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THE GOAL IS NOT ONE GOOD PROGRAM IN A FEW PLACES,
REACHING A SMALL NUMBER OF YOUTH, BUT GOOD PROGRAMS
IN ALL HIGH POVERTY AREAS OF EVERY CITY AND STATE
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Does your city have
a map-based
directory with these
features?
Retail,
Communications Wholesale
Manufacturing
Science,
Engineering
Finance,Insurance
Arts, Higher
Health Care Religion, Education
Ethics Culture Law, Justice
We also lower the costs for each organization to acquire these resources, and
help organizations keep leaders and key staff longer.
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Step 6: The result of Steps 1 to 5
Better programs in more
places for more age groups
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Step 7: The Result
If Step 1 to 5 are happening in every
More youth stay in school, are poverty neighborhood, youth and families
safe in non-school hours,
will have access to more of the help they
graduate, and move to careers
need, better programs, and more consistent,
Better programs in more longer-term services.
places for more age groups
This will begin to achieve the changes in
Actions that increase the school performance and career preparation
flow of resources to each
program that we all want:
Building Better
Understanding of Needs,
Opportunities • better attendance in school
Building a network of • lower drop out rates
tutor/mentor leaders
• less youth violence
Volunteer Mobilization • better academic performance
Database
• business reports better prepared
workers
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Volunteer Mobilization
Find more strategy essays at
https://tutormentorexchange.net/library
Database
If you host a similar forum, add your
LINK to the T/MC web library.
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Tutor/Mentor Connection: A
Theory of Change proposed by
the Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC
“If this (initiative) is accepted and acted upon in any city, including
Chicago, it can change the way philanthropy and charities work
together in America and throughout the world. It can change the
future for millions of kids born into poverty each year.”
--Daniel F. Bassill, President of Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC and the Tutor/Mentor Connection