Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Collaboration Goals
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How to help every
inner city youth
move through
school and into 21st
century jobs and
careers.
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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
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This strategy was launched in 1993 by a single tutor/mentor
program operating in one neighborhood of Chicago...
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We know others are asking the same question….
CONNECTING
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.
* 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.
* 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
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
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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.
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
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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
• 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
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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.