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The Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLCIf you agree with the logic, become a partner or sponsor or,adopt these ideas into your own leadership and actions.
TIPPING POINTS
What are some of the actionsthat could dramaticallychange the availability and
impact of programs helpingyouth born in an inner-cityneighborhood be in a job andstarting a career by age 25?
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About the Author: Daniel F. BassillTutor/Mentor Institute, LLC, Tutor/Mentor Connection Illinois Wesleyan 1964-68, History Major
Army Intelligence, 1968-71
Joined Montgomery Ward as advertisingwriter in 1973. 17 year advertising career(1973-1990)
Became a tutor same year, matched to a 4th
grade boy named Leo
I became leader of the tutoring program in1975. By 1990 we had 300 pairs of kids andvolunteers meeting weekly at the Wards HQin Chicago.
Left company in 1990; converted original
program to non profit, Cabrini GreenTutoring Program, Inc.)
President, Founder of Cabrini Connectionsin 1992; Tutor/Mentor Connection, in 1993
Created Tutor/Mentor Institute, July 2011
Dan & Leo
Circa 1974
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Leo Today
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Best precaution: Just don'tforget.If the story of the murder of 7-year
old Dantrell Davis......soundedvaguely familiar, it might have beenbecause it had strong parallels to
the story .....of the murder of 9-yearold Laketa Crosby in 1985.
Chicago Tribune, Tuesday,October 20, 1992
Column written by Eric Zorn
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"The children are so needing ofattention. They are emotionallydeprived. Anytime you can givethem quality one-on-one time is
really fortunate."
Quote from Janis Todd, Principal ofByrd Community Academy, located
in Cabrini-GreenChicago Tribune, Thursday,
October 8, 1992
Why Do we Do What we Do? These headlines are from 1992.
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"With help, kids in America'swar zones can thrive"
"The cost of failure is a newgeneration of children, too manyof whom will fail in school, joingangs, deal drugs, .....and start
still another generation ofchildren in urban war zones."
Chicago Tribune, Monday,May 18, 1992
Editorial written by Joan Beck
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"L.A. Riots' Wake-up Call FellMostly on Deaf Ears."
"We are not very good as acountry in dealing with long-termproblems, except when they
present themselves as a crisis."
-Stuart Eizenstat, domesticpolicy adviser to President
Jimmy Carter
Why Do we Do What we Do? Headline from 1994 Chicago Tribune
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In 2011 young people in Chicago
still dont have the supportsystem they ALL need to thrive inadult roles and responsibilities.
Why should business care
enough to invest corporatenon-philanthropy resources?
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This is a cost to business
However there are other reasons tobe strategically involved:
1) Skill and network building of current
employees2) Development of future employees
to fill predicted shortages3) Access to current and future
customers
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The problems of the 1970s, 1990s and 2015 are the same. There is no MasterPlan and no consistent, long-term, leadership.
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Tutor/Mentor Programs are places youth can
get help from non-family adults
In a structured program a youth can
connect with volunteers, learningopportunities, technology, intern
opportunities, friends and more.
Without a place to connect with volunteers,these connections seldom take place.
Youth Programs Volunteers
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Tutor/Mentor Programs are a Collective EffortInvolving Many People over Many Years
What might we accomplish working toward sharedgoals that we cannot do when working alone?
Cabrini Connections 1993-2011
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What can volunteersdo to help youththrough school and
into jobs?
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Not just tutoring, mentoring,
arts or technology, but adultshelping kids get more of thesupport they need to grow up.
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To SUCCEED
We must recruit businessleaders who will use their
resources in PULLING
Youth to Careers
To SUCCEED
We must help tutor/mentorprogram leaders, volunteers,schools and parents be more
effective in PUSHING
Youth to Careers
School-Time Programs
3-5 PM Non-School Programs
Pre-K K - 5th 5th - 6th 6th - 8thHigh
SchoolCareerTrack
After 5 PM and Weekend Programs
T/MC Goal:Help inner-city youthreach Careers.
Each industry has reason toinvest in this strategy:
For instance, the HealthCareindustry faces severe shortages ofhealthcare professionals and a highcost of emergency room services ininner-city neighborhoods
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Great programs needed in
Every High Poverty neighborhood!
All programs need same
resource every day!
* volunteers
* public visibility
* operating dollars
* technology
* training/learning
* leadership
Chicagoarea
The shadedareas of this
map ofChicago arethe areas ofmostconcentratedpoverty.
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INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDED: A mentoring-to-career strategy of the Tutor/Mentor Connection
Without infrastructure and support for mentors and mentoringprograms, the mentoring movement will never reach its potential. Waysmentoring falls short of its potential:
- missing infrastructure- missing knowledge regarding effective
practices
- missing follow-up
- emphasis on marketing and recruitment instead
of program support- poor or no coordination
- matches made and then abandoned by program
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- conducted in isolation
- few programs with resources to serve mentorsas well as mentees
- missing operational expenses
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Not every program is equality good at
getting needed resources.
While all tutor/mentor programs needvolunteers, dollars, etc., not every program is
equally effective at getting these resources ona regular basis.
Yet, if the youth served by a program are to
succeed, a tutor/mentor program must be
able to grow and survive.
Program Resource
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Understand the Role of aTutor/Mentor Connection (T/MC)
The T/MC was formed in 1993 to help volunteer-based tutor/mentor programsGrow in high poverty areas of Chicago. Since 2011 T/MC has been operated
As part of the Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC. This is an Intermediary role, providing
Resources that leaders in business, government, philanthropy and other sectorsCan use to help high quality programs be located where more are needed.
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This is a webpage created in2004 to helppeople findtutor/mentor
programs indifferent zipcodes of theChicago region.
Click one box ineach category,and choose zipcode then clickFIND APROGRAM
With master directory we can help volunteers, parents AND donors findcontact information and web sites for programs throughout the region.
http://www.tutormentorprogramlocator.net/Prgloc.aspx
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When a search isconducted, anyprograms in this
search show up ona Google map.
Info for eachprogram is shownbelow the map,
based on whatT/MC has receivedfrom eachorganization.
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Use the find nearbyfeature to locatedother resources in
map area.
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Interactive Tutor/Mentor Program Zip Code Search Mapenables users to see program availability in entire region.
In 2008 this map-locator was
created.
Instead of using thechart to search forprograms, you canuse the Zip CodeMap. If you click onthe map for any zipcode, it will takeyou to the sameGoogle map and
list of programs.
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Flash Intro to Program Locator: http://www.tutormentorprogramlocator.net/Intro.aspx
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Green stars onmap are locations
of youthorganizations.
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There are not enough of these programs in Chicago particularly in
neighborhoods with high levels of poverty. Until communities begin to use GISand visual information tools, they will never develop strategies that distributegood programs to all of the places where they are needed.
There is no consistent funding stream available to support the multi-year operations of constantly improving tutor/mentor programs.
Without continuous, flexible operating dollars, programs cannot attract andretain key staff, which is the most important part of a long-term tutor/mentorprograms success
No common vision focusing on long-term birth-to-work supportsystem. The nation spends billions on education, youth development, violence
prevention, workforce development, etc., but most of the money fundsprograms with short term goals, not process aimed at leading a youth to a
job/career. Until every stakeholder defines his/her work in context of what itdoes to help a youth move to a job/career, well have many soldiers, but theywill not all be fighting the same war
What does it take to fill a city with great tutor,mentor and learning programs?
These are challenges. If we find solutions, these aretipping points.
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No source of leadership development. While the Tutor/Mentor Institute
provides a mentoring-to-career vision, and hosts more than a thousand weblinks that anyone can use to learn more ways to help a youth connect with avolunteer, or a learning experience, or a job, there is no university teachingpeople to learn from this information on a consistent basis. Thus, we can hiregood people to lead our programs, but they dont have a built-in map thatguides them in what they do.
Lack of leadership/advertising. Faith communities have spent more than2000 years encouraging members to read scripture, reflect on it in groups,then put it to work in their lives. Advertisers spend millions to draw customersto their stores. Until there are leaders in business, politics, media, religion,who advocate for mentoring to career strategies every day, well never haveenough people looking at the information we offer, or growing in their ownleadership roles.
Collaboration and eLearning Portals need to support vision of leaders.Some people are beginning to use the Internet to draw millions of people tospecific locations. Some of these locations are trying to covert these visitorsinto armies of on-going support for specific causes. Until such portals areavailable to the Tutor/Mentor Movement, well be unable to reach the tippingpoints that could change the impact of all tutor/mentor programs in the world.
Leaders needed in non profits, business,colleges, politics, media and faith groups
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FOUR-PART STRATEGY: A mentoring-to-career strategy of the Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC
Problem-Solving Strategy- four on-going strategies
Research
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Public
Awareness
ResourceGeneration
Collaboration,
shared learning
http://www.tutormentorconnection.org
This is the home page of the main T/MC web site.
Browse each section quickly to
know whats on the site.
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$$$
TALENT
IDEAS
TECH.
CUSTOMERS
STAFF
VOLUNTEERS
YOUTH
DONORS
YOUTH
MEDIA
POLICYMAKERS
TUTORS,MENTORS
IF WE INFLUENCE FLOW OFDOLLARS, TALENT ANDRESOURCES WE CAN IMPROVEDISTRIBUTION AND QUALITY OFALL PROGRAMS.
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Build Learning, R&D, Teams inEVERY industry, faith group,college, high school. Connectthem to each other via Internetcollaboration portals.
Groups can meet in places likehttp://tutormentorconnection.ning.com
WHAT CAN YOU DO?
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Connect with othersTeams from different companies
in one city can connect and
share ideas with teams in othercities, and with teams fromdifferent companies and interestgroups.
Use the business tools ofcollaboration to solve social
problems and business people
will learn to use these tools toinnovate new solutions to
business problems.
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Use advertising and public relations strategies to draw
resources to tutor/mentor programs in every zip code.
This can
beYOU
Network Building- Increasing Involvement of More People
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12-months
from now
9-months
from now
6-monthsfrom now
3-months
from now
ImmediateImpact
Growth ofvolunteers & $$
and corporateleaders involved
A collective effort might result in more leaders in the Chicagoregion taking roles that raise the level of volunteers, operatingdollars and other needed resources for all tutor/mentor programs.
Quarterly Event Strategies that repeat each year build greater flow ofresources to programs. And greater visibility for leaders of this strategy!
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Discussion How can your organization take a role in
this effort? What places on the Internet can you, your
employees, or your members connect withTutor/Mentor Institute, LLC andTutor/Mentor Connection?
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T/MI Added Value TIME SavingsBy collecting, sorting, sharing information related anyone canuse to build strategies and support actions that help kids from
poor neighborhoods expand their network of adult support andlearning opportunities, we offer a TIME SAVINGS to millionsof potential users who would have to spend a considerableamount of their own time searching for this information, or,understanding how to apply it.
In this article time is a commodity that has value.Corporations that influence how people use their time willreap 21st century profits.
"A Brief History of the Corporation."http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2011/06/08/a-brief-history-of-the-corporation-1600-to-2100/
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T/MI Added Value
Lower costs of acquiring dollars
By maintaining a map-directory containing morethan 175 tutor/mentor programs in Chicago andcreating events and advertising that draws donors
and volunteers to tutor/mentor programs included inthe Directory, we lower the costs of acquiringneeded resources for each organization offeringtutoring/mentoring in the region.
See http://www.tutormentorprogramlocator.net
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T/MIC Added Value
Increase talent retentionand human capital in NPO sector.
By helping programs attract volunteers and donorsat lower costs, we improve the consistency offunding, lower the emotional stress of fund-raising,
and encourage more people to stay in jobslonger..thus increasing the level of knowledge andexperience within each organization and across theentire sector
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Value to Business
Increase opportunities for employees toexpand skills and build informal
networks
By helping companies from many sectors developemployee engagement strategies within tutor/mentorprograms we provide informal learning opportunitiesfor volunteers who take on leadership and projectmanagement roles in NPOs.
By encouraging volunteers from multiple sectors toparticipate in individual programs, we expand theinformal network for every volunteer involved.aswell as for every youth involved.
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Value to Business
Access to customers and futureemployees in a single city
By helping companies connect withtutor/mentor programs throughout a city likeChicago we help companies share their
values, products and services and workopportunities with thousands of people whoare potential customers and futureemployees.
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Value to Business
Access to customers and futureemployees in multiple cities
By building a platform that is used in many cities, weconnect volunteers and youth from multipleprograms in a single city with multiple programs,learning and networking opportunities across theworld.
We expand the range of ideas that volunteers, youthand supporters can bring to individual tutor/mentorprograms, and that they can bring to their ownwork/life experiences.
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Social Return on Investment
As a result of the work we do
more youth in high povertyareas will be able to participatein mentor-rich non-schoolprograms.
Investors will enjoy the rewardsof seeing their money do good;
while also earning a reasonablerate of return from theirinvestment.
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THIS IS A PROCESS A i f h T /M C i
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THIS IS A PROCESS: A mentoring-to-career strategy of the Tutor/Mentor Connection
This type of organization is not
achieved in one or two years.
It will never be achieved without the
work done at the base of this
pyramid each year.
Research
Building a Team
Define Mission
Find host/sponsor
Determine Recruitment
strategies
Set Schedule and action plan
More youth stay in school,are safe in non-school hours,
graduate, and move to
careers
Recruit & Train, Begin
operations
Continuous Process
Improvement
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According to Mark Cohen, a professor at Vanderbilt
Universitys Owen Graduate School of Management,High risk youths who are kept out of trouble throughintervention programs could save society as much as $2
million a youth per lifetime.
THE RESULT
If it i t b it i t d A t i t t t f th T t /M t C ti
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If it is to be, it is up to you and me: A mentoring-to-career strategy of the Tutor/Mentor Connection
Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC
Tutor/Mentor ConnectionMerchandise Mart PO Box 3303, Chicago, Il. 60654
www.tutormentorexchange.net
www.tutormentorconnection.orgWhile our purpose is focused on social good and all income is uses to
support our programs our tax structure is not a 501-c-3 non profit.
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