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Planning Cycle - War on Poverty
This PDF outlines steps teams in business, religion, schools, civic and social organizations can take to mobilize resources and distribute them to more of the places where poverty is the root-cause of many social and economic problems.
Category:How-To Guides/ManualsReads:112Uploaded:05 / 11 / 2012ShareAdd to collectionNetwork Building – Like Herding Dinosaurs
This article shares ideas for connecting networks of many organizations in an urban area or geographic region who focus on a common purpose such as reducing high school drop out rates or improving graduation rates and preparation for jobs and careers.
Category:Op-EdReads:240Uploaded:04 / 28 / 2012ShareAdd to collectionTips for Athletes Using Visibility to Support Youth Mentoring
This article encourages athletes to connect their fans to youth tutoring/mentoring programs in cities where they work and were they were raised.
Category:(not categorized)Reads:98Uploaded:04 / 02 / 2012ShareAdd to collectionCitywide Youth Supports Infrastructure - a Jobs Creation Strategy?
In a big city like Chicago more than 400,000 youth are in the public school system. What type of network of programs would need to be in place to reach 25% of these youth with innovative tutoring, mentoring and learning programs? Are leaders in your city thinking of this?
Category:(not categorized)Reads:114Uploaded:03 / 28 / 2012ShareAdd to collectionProblem-Solving Stratey-Explanation and Overview
Before any social or business problem can be solved information must be aggregated to build a better understanding of the problem and of potential solutions. That's just the first of four steps described in this Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC essay.
Category:(not categorized)Reads:385Uploaded:03 / 27 / 2012ShareAdd to collectionStrategies for recruiting volunteers for tutor/mentor programs
The ideas in this presentation were used over past 35 years to build to of the most respected tutor/mentor programs in Chicago. These can be used by programs looking for volunteers as well as by businesses looking for ways to engage employees.
Category:(not categorized)Reads:174Uploaded:03 / 22 / 2012ShareAdd to collectionNetwork Building - Building the Village Needed to Help Kids to Careers
This essay outlines the network-building strategies of Dan Bassill and Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC which have been developing since 1975 as a result of Bassill's leadership of a volunteer-based tutor/mentor program in Chicago. Bassill seeks a writer and publisher to help develop this into a full set of books and guides.
Category:BiographyReads:188Uploaded:03 / 17 / 2012ShareAdd to collectionTutorMentorBusiness6_97
This 1997 article shows the growth of a single volunteer-based tutor/mentor program in Chicago from 1973-1996 and how that led to the development of a strategy intended to help such program become available to youth in all high poverty neighborhoods of the city and suburbs.
Category:EssaysReads:97Uploaded:03 / 17 / 2012ShareAdd to collectionExpanding Network Of Adults Involved in Helping Inner City Youth - Logic Model
Volunteer involvement in tutor/mentor programs can be a strategy to expand the number of adults working to help youth overcome challenges of inner city poverty. This essay shows this thinking.
Category:(not categorized)Reads:290Uploaded:02 / 26 / 2012ShareAdd to collectionRest of the Story - Leveraging Traditional Media to Increase Attention for Social Issues
This essay illustrates how interns and volunteers can help build communications strategies that leverage negative media and turn these stories into advertising that draws volunteers and donors to tutor/mentor programs in neighborhoods where bad news is happening.
Category:How-To Guides/ManualsReads:772Uploaded:02 / 23 / 2012ShareAdd to collection
