Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC and Tutor/Mentor Connection articles

While leading a volunteer-based tutor/mentor program in Chicago each year since 1975, Dan Bassill spent many hours thinking "how can we do this better?"; "how can we make these programs available to more kids?", "how can we improve the flow of operating resources?" , "how do we make looking at these ideas as popular as looking at a NFL broadcast each week?" . These essays are ideas that were given birth by this constant search for new and better ways to support organizations trying to help youth in high poverty neighborhoods succeed in school and in life.

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Introduction to Tutor/Mentor Connection, University of Iowa Education Confere...

All over the country groups of people are trying to build strategies that keep more young people in school and help more young people prepare for 21st century jobs and careers. In high p...

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Defining Terms. Tutoring. Mentoring.

Throughout the country people speak of tutoring and mentoring as a strategy to help kids who need extra help. However, these words have different meaning based on who you are and who is b...

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Economic inequality: The real cause of the urban school problem

I follow the news and write commentary that I call "the rest of the story" suggesting what we can do with the information to help change what's happening in inner city neighborhoods.

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  • 10 / 21 / 2011
22 p.

Role of Leaders - How CEOs can help inner city youth from birth to work

While billions of dollars are spent on education and in corporate philanthropy how many companies are strategic in using their resources to help youth from birth to work?

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23 p.

Tutor/Mentor Institute - Learning Network Strategy

This document shows Tutor/Mentor Institute strategy. How aggregated information can be used to focus attention and resources on non-profit tutor/mentor programs operating in an urban area.

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Network Building - Unleash Your Personal Power to Make Good Things Happen

Young people and adults have tremendous personal power to make change happen in the world. This is a presentation I gave to an advertising class at Loyola University Chicago in October 2011

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24 p.

Tipping Points: Actions that might transform lives of inner city kids

What are a few actions that might help mentor-rich programs become available to more kids living in high poverty areas of big cities like Chicago? This is one of many PDF essays shared o...

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  • 10 / 24 / 2011
43 p.

Building Networking Focused on Shared Purpose

This is an essay from the Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC library showing strategy for connecting people, organizations and networks within a city around a shared purpose. Important for helpi...

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  • 10 / 27 / 2011
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ENOUGH IS ENOUGH - Steps to take following news about violence, poor schools

This is a blog article I have referred to often following news stories about violence, poor school, poverty, etc. that occasionally reach the front page of Chicago media.

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28 p.

No General Goes to War Without a Map

This essay shows how maps can be used by leaders to mobilize and point resources to schools and non-school tutor/mentor programs in high poverty areas.

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How to Use Chicago Tutor/Mentor Program Locator to Make Your own Maps

This guide shows how to use the Interactive Tutor/Mentor Program Locator to make maps that draw attention and resources to tutor/mentor programs and needed youth services in high poverty ...

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26 p.

Career Ladder - Helping Inner City Youth Through School to Careers

This is another Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC essay intended to stimulate thinking and promote long-term, mentor-rich strategies that help youth through school and into jobs.

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  • 11 / 09 / 2011
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Role of Intermediaries and Consultants in Building Visibility for Non-Profits

If we're going to draw consistent support to an entire sector of non profits we need to incorporate advertising into our strategies. This article shows how the Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC...

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  • 11 / 13 / 2011
29 p.

The Retail Model of Youth Mentoring - Case for Business Involvement

This essay invites leaders to think of non-school youth programs as retail stores distributing mentoring, learning, opportunity. Such places need to be in thousands of neighborhoods and s...

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Faith Communities Leadership Strategy to support tutor/mentor programs

Ideas that could be used in thousands of faith communities to support growth of mentor-rich youth programs in high poverty neighborhoods.

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