Collective Effort

What might we accomplish working toward

shared goals of helping kids in high poverty
areas that we cannot do when working alone?

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 What Information do We Have about Tutor/Mentor Programs
in this part of the Chicago region or Northern Indiana?

X is the
location of the
May 2011
Tutor/Mentor
Conference

*
Green stars are
locations of
organizations
offering various
forms of
x tutoring/mentoring.

Daniel F. Bassill created the Tutor/Mentor Connection (T/MC) in Chicago in 1993 after
leading a single volunteer-based tutor/mentor program from 1975 to 1992. His goal was
to help all youth serving programs in the region attract resources needed to innovate and
constantly improve, including a new program for teens that he and six other volunteers
launched at the same time as they created the T/MC. Bassill still leads this strategy in
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To help programs grow, cities first need to know what programs
exist, who they serve, and what type of services they provide.

How many existing

tutor/mentor programs
focus efforts on
helping youth move
through school and
into 21st century jobs
and careers?

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 Every city in America with areas of concentrated poverty needs a strategy
supporting youth programs the way the Tutor/Mentor Connection has piloted in
Chicago. Don't “reinvent the wheel”. Use our history as a template.

See this map in article at

https://mappingforjustice.blogspot.com/2022/09/neighborhoods-of-concentrated-poverty.html

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Think of Collective Effort as building resources that help all programs.

Teams of volunteer and professional leaders are needed to support individual programs,
neighborhoods full of great programs, and cities with great programs reaching K-12 youth
in every high poverty area.

We can increase resources for all of us, and lower the costs of getting these resources, if
multiple programs build this collaboration strategy into their own actions.
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 The T/MC started collecting information about Chicago volunteer-
based tutor/mentor programs in 1993. That list is now at
https://tutormentorexchange.net/chicago-area-program-links

Each program needs these

Chicago resources every day, in
area every 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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Leaders from business, faith groups, sports, entertainment, universities,
hospitals, etc. need to each make a long-term commitment.

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Many Leaders Need to Help T/M Programs get Needed Resources

Is
This
YOU?

What advertising and public relations strategies are in place?

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Create quarterly events that draw people together, build visibility, and draw resources
to programs. Repeat annually. Use event calendar piloted by T/MC in Chicago as a
guide. https://tutormentorexchange.net/planning-strategies/52-calendar-of-activities

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While T/MC connects Tutor/Mentor Programs…
Every time one
BBBS Midtown
T/M program
Polished talks about their
Pebbles
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

Big Brothers YMCA, Boys Chicago

Big Sisters & Girls Lights
Clubs Tutoring
Chicago

These are just a few of the youth programs in Chicago. See list at
Https://tutormentorexchange.net/chicago-area=program-links
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Leaders from business, faith groups, sports, entertainment, universities,
hospitals, etc. need to each make a long-term commitment.

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Build maps into your stories. Draw resources to all programs, in every zip code.

Green icons are

tutor/mentor
programs in one
neighborhood of
Chicago.

Using various data platforms leaders can create maps showing where existing programs are
located and where more are needed. See example in article at
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Learn what's available to you in Tutor/Mentor library. This section focuses on
collaboration, knowledge management, innovation, etc.
http://tinyurl.com/TMILibrary-Innovation-etc

At bottom of each node on this

concept map are links to the
library, with lists like this.
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 Use web library to learn more
The Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC* web site
has links to collective effort, collaboration,
and capacity building. Use these to support
your own efforts.

http://www.tutormentorexchange.net
http://tutormentor.blogspot.com
“Have you had http://mappingforjustice.blogspot.com
ENOUGH?” http://tutormentorexchange.net/social-media
My archives, and
presentations like this, See more visual essays in library at
are available to leaders https://tutormentorexchange.net/library
across the world so they
will be used to build and Email tutormentor2@earthlink.net or
sustain strategies that connect on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram,
mentor more kids from Mastodon, or LinkedIn to discuss ideas for
poverty to jobs and adult collaboration and capacity building among
lives free of poverty. programs, or between cities.
*Since July 2011 Tutor/Mentor Connection has been operated as a part of Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC.
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