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Think of Collaboration and Capacity Building as a Journey Toward a Goal.

Collaboration Goals

We can increase resources for all youth serving


organizations, and lower the costs of getting these
resources, if multiple programs build this
collaboration strategy into their own actions.

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A Tutor/Mentor Program is a Collective Effort where many people
work to help young people grow up and lead lives out of poverty.

•How do you recruit volunteers and youth to join a program?

•How do you keep them participating throughout a school year?

•How do you keep them coming back from year to year?


I’VE BEEN ASKING THESE QUESTIONS EVERY DAY FOR 45 YEARS

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How to help every
inner city youth
move through
school and into 21st
century jobs and
careers.

Dan and Leo first


connected via a
Tutor/Mentor program in
1973 when Leo was in
4th grade.

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If the goal is to help kids living in high
poverty neighborhoods be starting
jobs/careers by their mid-twenties….

School-Time Programs
High Career
Pre-K K - 5th 5th - 6th 6th - 8th
School Track

3-5 PM Non-School Programs After 5 PM and Weekend Programs

Tangela joined CC in 1993,


after being part of the
MW/Cabrini Green Tutoring --- 18 years later.
Program when in elementary
school.
We are still
How do we help tutor/mentor programs connect connected, via the
Internet, 25 years
with youth when they are young, and stay later.
connected to those kids from when we first meet
them, to when they need our help as adults?….

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This strategy was launched in 1993 by a single tutor/mentor
program operating in one neighborhood of Chicago...

We created the Tutor/Mentor


Chicago
Cabrini
Connections*
Connection (T/MC) in 1993 to
serves teens in
the Cabrini-Green help programs like Cabrini
area of Chicago
Connections* grow in every
poverty neighborhood of the
Tutor/Mentor
city and suburbs of Chicago.
Connection The library of information and network of
helps volunteer- peers that were used to help a single
based tutor/mentor program grow from 1965
tutor/mentor
programs grow
through 2011, have been shared via the
in every poverty Tutor/Mentor Connection since 1993, to help
area of the city non-school tutor/mentor programs grow in
and suburbs every high poverty neighborhood.

We seek to be part of the think tanks,


Light red areas have brainstorming and innovation of business,
poverty concentrations of
20% or higher. Dark red non profit, philanthropy, policy-makers and
areas have poverty levels educators….anyone who wants to help
of 40% and above. economically disadvantaged youth have
Icons on map are better support helping them through school
organizations that offer and into careers.
various forms of
volunteer-based tutoring * Since July 2011 Tutor/Mentor Connection and Cabrini
Connections have operated as separate organizations, with
or mentoring.
the T/MC operated by Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC.
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The Tutor/Mentor Connection focuses
daily on one big question:
What will it take to
assure that
all youth born in
poverty are entering
careers by age 25?

What does it take to make


volunteer-based non-school
tutoring and/or mentoring
programs available to more
youth, in more places?

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We know others are asking the same question….

The T/MC seeks to connect people and groups who are


already spending many hours doing research and
innovating ways to help kids to careers, into one on-
going tutor/mentor learning network.

In such a network people and organizations can share


ideas, learn from others, create collaborations, and can
apply new ideas and resources at any time to their own
efforts to help kids in their own community.

“My participation in on-line forums is part of this network-


building strategy.” Daniel F. Bassill, Founder, CEO
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NETWORK BUILDER:
Tutor/Mentor Connection

Those YOU Those


Who can Who Need
help help
T/MC
Tutor/Mentor
Institute, LLC

CONNECTING

T/MC aim is to collect information and organize actions


that enable many leaders to take ownership of this vision.
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Green stars are
tutor/mentor
programs. Blue
circles are Chase
bank locations, which
are just one of the
many banks, or other
assets, that can be
plotted on this map.

The Tutor/Mentor Program locator was created in 2008 with interactive maps showing
areas where tutor/mentor programs are needed, existing programs, and community assets,
such as business or faith groups, who might help provide space, volunteers, dollars, etc. See
the archive at https://tinyurl.com/ProgramLocatorMap-archive . Pg 9

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Good programs are needed in EVERY high poverty neighborhood
of Chicago. All youth development, tutor and/or mentor programs
have the same needs. This map could be of “any” city.

We need these resources


Chicago every day, in every
area neighborhood:

* volunteers
* public visibility
* operating dollars
The shaded * technology
areas of this
map of
Chicago are
* training/learning
the areas of
most * leadership
concentrated
poverty.

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Maps can be used by any leader to focus attention
on any political district.

Using a GIS mapping


system* people can create
maps that focus on specific
political districts.

These can be used to


mobilize support for
tutor/mentor programs from
the businesses, colleges,
faith groups and citizens in
the district.

Anyone, even students in 5th


grade, can use these maps
to invite people to support
tutor/mentor programs in the
district.
This could be a map of any political district in the USA.

* Maps shown were created between 2008 and 2011 using donated ESRI GIS software. The Chicago Tutor/Mentor
Program Locator interactive database was created in 2008. Since 2018 it has only been available as a demonstration
project. Learn about it at http://tutormentorinstitute.wikidot.com/project:program-locator-database-and-survey

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THINK ADVERTISING! The Tutor/Mentor
Connection is based on advertising strategies used
in most businesses.
REACH: more people hear your
message

FREQUENCY: your message is


repeated often every day.

Without big budgets for


advertising, you need to enlist
your network.

IDEA: get companies


to carry your
message with their
own advertising.

Example at right
Put your company logo here.
shows how this is
Put this ad in the local paper, done.
or a trade magazine.
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WE NEED MORE LEADERS TAKING THIS ROLE

The World’s Largest


Ping Pong ball table.

Every intentional action


of a leader, volunteer or
network-builder causes a
chain reaction that moves
every other ball.

What you say can reach


people around the world.

Use social media to reach


more people with these
ideas.

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3-months 6-months 9-months 12-months
from now from now from now from now

Immediate
Impact

Growth of
$$
volunteers & $$
and corporate
leaders involved
YOU NEED A STRATEGY THAT REACHES A LONG TERM GOAL
If athletes, media, political leaders, CEOs, clergy, youth and volunteers talk about the
value of tutoring, mentoring every week, and at key times each year, their collective
voices can increase the year-to-year flow of volunteers and dollars to every program
in the city. Pg 14

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Connect YOUR Networks to This Information and to Volunteer-Based
Tutor, Mentor & Learning Programs in YOUR Community.

This
can be
YOU

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Imagine you, or your company or a
volunteer in this role
Every time a tutor/mentor leader,
Lawyer, faith leader and/or volunteer
donor business media talks about tutoring/mentoring (via
news, a blog, a web site, a
conference, or social event), he is
building visibility for one or more
programs that offer tutoring/
Elected mentoring.
college
leader
If leaders also point to the Chicago
This is list of volunteer-based tutor and/or
YOU! mentor programs they also draw
attention, volunteers and dollars to
This is the most important idea we
all other tutor/mentor programs in
propose. Anyone can connect the the Chicago region.
people they know with multiple
nonprofits doing similar work. https://tutormentorexchange.net/chicago-
area-program-links
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Our strategy is to enlist volunteers and leaders from
every industry to mentor kids to careers.

Technology Arts, Culture.


Government
Communications Religion
Education
Insurance
Healthcare

Hospitality We seek business Science,


Math
Recreation partners to help in Engineering
PULLING youth To
careers, using their own
resources, ads, etc.
Natural Resources
Agriculture Manufacturing
Transportation

Finance, Personal & Built environment Retailing


Business Services Engineering Wholesaling
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YOUR
LOGO
Sponsor
T/MC and this
mapping
project

Lists of known youth tutor, mentor and learning programs can be plotted on maps which enable
potential volunteers, donors and students to locate programs in different parts of a city like
Chicago. View this map at
http://tutormentor.blogspot.com/2020/02/help-youth-tutor-mentor-learning.html

Create a similar list and map of youth programs in YOUR city and draw attention and resources
to them with your communications tools. Pg 18

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Learn to use data from various platforms to tell your story

The Tutor/Mentor Connection built a Chicago program locator between 2004 and 2009 to enable
people to create maps with many layers of information. That is now an archive that can be viewed at
https://tinyurl.com/ProgramLocatorMap-archive

The concept map above shows many platforms that can be used to build maps that draw attention to
specific parts of a country. Find it at http://tinyurl.com/TMI-MappingData
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While T/MC connects visitors to its web site to every
other Tutor/Mentor Program in Chicago…
Every time one
BBBS Midtown
T/M program
Chicago talks about their
Youth
Programs own work, they
can also be
pointing to the
Horizons
for Youth Family map of Chicago
Matters and saying, “look
for other
programs, too”

Chicago
Highsight
Public
Schools

There are more


than 150 youth-
Chicago
Lights
serving
Tutoring
YMCA, Boys Polished organizations in
Chicago Chicago who could
& Girls Pebbles
Clubs be doing this.

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Using on-line forums, wikis and collaboration tools many
can work together to build a better operating system …
Many groups can be
learning from shared
LAW FINANCE information, and
Religion
leading actions that
support youth and
youth programs in one
or many
Hospitality & neighborhoods. “We
Engineers,
Entertainment need good programs in
Architect
every poverty area”

Politics
This could Hospitals;
be YOUR city! Health
Care

Universities
& Publishing
Tutor/Mentor Technology, Communicat
Connection Science ions, Arts,
Media

Read about MOOCs and connected learning. See


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This is a role any leader can take.

• The best outcome from this type of collaboration will be the growth of tutor/mentor
support teams in many faith groups, accounting, and health care, and in multiple
industries, alumni, civic and social groups.
• Resulting in a more consistent flow of resources to all tutor/mentor programs in
Chicago, and in other cities where this strategy is adopted.
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Think of Collaboration and Capacity building as a journey toward a goal.

Collaboration Goals

We can increase resources for all youth-serving programs


in Chicago and other places, and lower the costs of getting
these resources, if multiple programs, community leaders,
and resource providers, build this collaboration strategy into
their own actions.

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Help build This Capacity

If you have ideas to share, these are web sites where you
can learn more and get connected:

http://www.tutormentorexchange.net
http://tutormentor.blogspot.com
http://mappingforjustice.blogspot.com
http://tutormentorexchange.net/conceptmaps
Email tutormentor2@earthlink.net to connect with Dan Bassill and discuss Daniel F. Bassill
ideas for collaboration and capacity building among programs, or between Founder, CEO
cities.

Connect on Twitter @tutormentorteam


Connect on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/TutorMentorInstitute
Links to other social media places where you can connect:
https://tutormentorexchange.net/social-media

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