T/MC Intro

Tutor/Mentor

Connection

What is T/MC?

Tutor/Mentor Connection was founded in 1993 to help low-income youths who live in Chicago area.

We try to help those youths can finish education for their dream.

"Pipeline to careers" is not working well enough. We need to provide a wide range of mentoring and learning supports that would result in a larger number finishing high school and post high school education and entering careers .

Details

of Stretagy

What is our idea?

1. Collect and share information related to this issue, drawing from thought

leaders around the world.

2. Create portals that host map/databases of network of organizations needed

to help youths to careers, like Tutor/Mentor Program Locator at

http://www.tutormentorprogramlocator.net

3. Innovate new ways to draw attention to this information every day, the way

the Super Bowl and TV shows draw viewers to their shows.

4. Create learning circles in thousands of places where people who are familiar

with the information help other people learn to use it, so they can then teach

others who are unfamiliar with it.

5. Create events at key times each year that motivate volunteers, donors, to

“shop and buy”, choosing from all of the programs in a city, and supporting

programs in zip codes throughout a city.

6. Create tools that map the growth of networks, showing how the number of

people and organizations involved grows from year to year.

7. Create maps and visualization tools that help show the increased year-to-year

growth and distribution of needed programs in all poverty areas.

8. Use documentation portals to collect information that shows what people are

doing to achieve these goals, and to give recognition to those who do this

work well.

T/MC 4 part strategy

http://tinyurl.com/TMC-4-Part-Strategy

Meet on these sites to discuss

Those images show how one person’s idea can grow into a movement of many thousands of people.

http://tutormentorconnection.ning.com

http://www.facebook.com/#!/TutorMentorInstitute

http://www.twitter.com/tutormentorteam

http://tutormentorinstitute.wikidot.com/background-and-invitation-to-participate

Details of 4 Strategies

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

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

2. Increasing public awareness (2nd Strategy):

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

3. Increasing facilitation and helping others understand

(3rd Strategy):

http://prezi.com/vzfrfvhdvvnb/3rd/

4. Motivating actions that support programs (4th Strategy):

http://prezi.com/lrfhrmqdpdaa/4th/

This idea will only reach more people when a few others adopt it as their own.

1

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Collect and share information

Constant learning

and process

improvement

2

9

Create

map/databases

Track long-term

connections of

youth,volunteers,

and programs

3

draw attention

to this

information

8

Strategy

Document what

people are doing

to achieve

these goals

4

Create

learning circles

7

Our Goals

Program Locator

Map

annual growth

and distribution

of programs

• Fill all high poverty zip codes, and non-school

hours, with mentor-rich, K-12 programs.

• Help each program have resources to constantly

improve ways they keep youth and adults involved.

• Enlist leadership and financial involvement from

every business, professional, faith, university.

• Define strategy as workforce development and

business benefit, not as philanthropy.

• Duplicate in every city in the US and the world.

• Increase the network size from year to year.

• Sustain the effort for decades.

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(cc) photo by Franco Folini on Flickr

Motivate

volunteers,donors

to

“Shop and Buy"

Map

the growth

of networks

http://www.tutormentorprogramlocator.net

Photos

Help Us!

We have not had the funding to build an organizational structure to do this work.

We need to do that now so that it is able to continue in future years, even if I’m no longer able to be involved. Please help us with your time, talent, dollars and prayers. Until further notice I can be reached attutormentor2@ earthlink.net and on Skype at “dbassill”.

Thank you.

Thank You!

Do you want to know about T/MC more?

Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC sites:

http://www.tutormentorconnection.org

http://www.tutormentorexchange.net

http://www.tutormentorprogramlocator.net

http://www.tutormentorconference.org

http://tutormentorconnection.ning.com

http://tutormentor.blogspot.com

http://mappingforjustice.blogspot.com

http://www.scribd.com/daniel-f-bassill-7291