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If we do step 1 to 3 at greater scale

we can increase resources for

Tutor/Mentor Programs

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4 strategies

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1. Introduction to T/MC:

http://prezi.com/lt6msdiwtxf-/tmc-intro/

2. Collecting & sharing knowledge(1st Strategy):

http://prezi.com/lxqtellgyhpd/1st-/

3. Increasing public awareness (2nd Strategy):

http://prezi.com/rm5plphjyds5/2nd/

4. Increasing facilitation and helping others understand

(3rd Strategy): http://prezi.com/vzfrfvhdvvnb/3rd/

It only takes a few people

to change the world!

Do you want to be one of those people who help change the tutor/mentor world?

Imagine you, or your company

or a volunteer in this role

Email to

attutormentor2@earthlink.net, Skype at "dbassill"

or join in http://tutormentorconnection.ning.com

Every time a tutor/mentor leader, Lawyer, faith leader and/or volunteer 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/mentoring.

If leaders also point to the Tutor/Mentor Program Locator at http://www.tutormentorprogramlocator.net they also draw attention, volunteers and dollars to all other tutor/mentor programs in the Chicago region.

Recruitment

Volunteers Can Use Talent and Time to Help Inner-City Youth.

Can you help?

The Tutor/Mentor Institute is looking for volunteers to help collect and maintain the information in the Program Locator Directory of Chicago tutoring/mentoring programs, and to help build and maintain web platforms that others can use to find different places throughout the Chicago region where they can help. Help is also needed to organize the November and May Tutor/Mentor Leadership and Networking Conferences. Visit the Groups section of the Tutor/Mentor Forum and join a group that interests you.

Goals of Recruitment Campaign

Leaders

More attention. More volunteers! More donors!

Draw volunteers into all parts of Chicago

Tutor/Mentor Connection maps, such as those in the Map Gallery and the Chicago Tutor/Mentor Program Locator, show where poverty and poorly performing schools are located in the Chicago area and where existing tutor/mentor programs operate. The volunteer recruitment

campaign aims to draw volunteers to tutor/mentor programs

operating in these parts of the city.

Leaders are not born. They are developed.

To be a leader you have to care about something.

No source of leadership development.

While the Tutor/Mentor Connection provides a mentoring-to-career vision, and hosts more than a thousand web links that anyone can use to learn more ways to help a youth connect with a volunteer, or a learning experience, or a job, there is no university teaching people to learn from this information on a consistent basis. Thus, we can hire good people to lead our programs, but they don’t have a built-in map that guides them in what they do.

tipping point

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 customers to their stores. Until there are leaders in business, politics, media, religion,who advocate for mentoring to career strategies every day, we’ll never have enough people looking at the information we offer, or growing in their own leadership roles.

A Tipping Point can be an action that lowers the costs of operation for hundreds of programs

Collaboration and eLearning Portals need to support vision of leaders.

Some people are beginning to use the Internet to draw millions of people to specific locations. Some of these locations are trying to covert these visitors

In the for profit sector mergers of businesses are done to

achieve economies of scale or to create a larger portfolio of products

or services. Many non profits have merged to provide similar

cost savings in administrative, marketing and training functions.

into armies of on-going support for specific causes. Until such portals are available to the Tutor/Mentor Movement, we’ll be unable to reach the tipping points that could change the impact of all tutor/mentor programs in the world.

Challenges

The Tutor/Mentor Connection does not propose the merger of programs because we believe it is the passion and commitment of the local program leader that keeps a youth or volunteer connected for multiple years.However, we do believe that small groups could innovate product sand services and make them available to large numbers of programs at low or no cost.

These are challenges.

If we find solutions, these are tipping points.

• There are not enough of these programs in Chicago

particularly in neighborhoods with high levels of poverty. Until communities begin to use GIS and visual information tools, they will never develop strategies that distribute good programs to all of the places where they are needed

Using Maps To Build Capacity

Rather than providing a one-size fits all set or services, we propose creating a menu of services that individual programs can choose from when services that support the growth of hundreds of tutor/mentor program locations around the world.

• 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 and retain key staff, which is the most important part of a long-term tutor/mentor program’s success

• No common vision.

The nation spends billions on education, youth development, violence prevention, workforce development, etc., but most of the money funds programs with short term goals, not process aimed at leading a youth to a job/career. Until every stakeholder defines his/her work in

On this graphic we show a cycle of needed actions. Some we're already doing, but with low intensity due to limited resources. Some features we do not yet have are

context of what it does to help a youth move to a job/career, we’ll have many soldiers, but they will not all be fighting the same war.

a) A link to a donation feature where people can raise money for one or many of the programs shown on the map. Our goal is to increase the flow of volunteers and donors, with people using the map to choose where to give heir support.

All programs have same needs

b) A data-capture feature so we can use the map to show where dollars and volunteers are landing.

We need these resourcesevery day, in everyneighborhood:

* volunteers

* public visibility

* operating dollars

* technology

* training/learning

* leadership

c) Information tables feature - if we can create pop-up tables that show youth population in a zip code or community area along with

number of youth in existing tutor/mentor programs, this could

be used by donors and program grant writers to make a

consistent case for where programs are needed.

What we need to build?

• Generate resources from multiple funding streams
• Interactive Map-Based Program Locator already exists
• Volunteers/Friends/Students can raise money for individual programs
• Quarterly competitions can be created
• We can map where money is going