Everyone’s a mapmaker

(including you!)
Build an Interactive Tutor/Mentor Program
Locator then follow steps shown in these
slides to map communities and assets that
could be helping youth throughout your city.
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This presentation was created in 2011 to show how the Chicago Tutor/Mentor
Program Locator, created between 2004 and 2008, could be used.

As of 2021 the Program Locator is only

available as an archive. Use these links
instead of others you may find in this
presentation.

Search - archive page:

https://tinyurl.com/ProgramLocatorSearch

Tutor/Mentor Program Locator

Interactive Map - archive page:
https://tinyurl.com/ProgramLocatorMap-
archive

At the left is a photo of the current map

showing Chicago non-school tutor
and/or mentor programs. Find the map
and links to Chicago programs in this
concept map:
http://tinyurl.com/TMI-Volunteer-
Opportunities
While the Program Locator is now an archive, it still models a map-based platform that can be used to
help youth programs reach k-12 youth in every high poverty neighborhood of Chicago or other cities. If
you'd like to build a new version, with help from Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC, please email Dan Bassill at
tutormentor1@gmail.com
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 Step 1: Go to https://tinyurl.com/archive-ProgramLocatorHome
and select the type of map you want to make
Click Interactive Map to map:
-Tutoring and/or Mentoring
Programs
- Chicago Community
Areas, County and Zip code
Boundaries
- Elementary, Middle and High
Schools
- Poverty information

Click Government Map to map:

-US Congressional Districts
- IL Senate and House
Districts
These pages
are now only Click Asset Map to map
available as an
archive. community institutions such as:
- Banks
- Hospitals
- Universities
- Churches and Synagogues,
- Drug Stores
Pg. 3 - Insurance Companies
Step 2: Select the particular layers you want to include on your map

Let’s say I’m a member of a

Baptist Church thinking about
starting a program in East
Garfield Park. I want to make a
map showing all the Baptist
Churches in East Lawndale
and their relationship to poverty
and pre-existing Tutoring/
Mentoring programs.

To make this map, all I do is

click Asset Map and select
Places of Worship

This concept map shows many data platforms that you

can use to make map stories showing where youth
programs are needed.
http://tinyurl.com/TMI-MappingData

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Step 2 (Continued) Select the layers you want to include on your map
Tutor/Mentor Program Locator Interactive Map - archive page:
https://tinyurl.com/ProgramLocatorMap-archive
Using the tabs on the left side
of the screen, select the layers
that you wish to include on your
map.

In this case I want to select

“Baptist” Churches which are
represented by blue crosses

To show neighborhood, or
other types of boundaries select
the “Boundaries” tab

These slides show

what is possible if your
community has a
Program Locator built
with same features as
we built this in 2008.

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Step 2 (Continued) Select the layers you want to include on your map
Tutor/Mentor Program Locator Interactive Map - archive page:
https://tinyurl.com/ProgramLocatorMap-archive

To show Chicago
Community areas, click
the corresponding Tab.

Now you have a map

showing Baptist Churches
and all of Chicago’s
Community Areas.

If you want to see these

Churches in relation to
poverty Data, select the
Poverty tab.

These slides show

what is possible if
your community has
a Program Locator
built with same
features as we built
this in 2008.

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Step 2 (Continued) Select the layers you want to include on your map

After selecting the poverty tab

you have the option of only
showing particular levels of
poverty, or showing all poverty
data. This map show all data.

Now you have created a map

that shows the relationship
between Baptist Churches and
Poverty in Chicago’s different
Community Areas. But we’re
only interested in East Garfield
Park.

So, using the drag zoom tool,

we can select an area of
interest and view only that area
in high detail. Just click the
magnifying glass and hold
down the left click on your
mouse to create a box around
the area of interest. Let go and
the map will automatically
zoom in! (Don’t worry, you can
still zoom in the old fashioned
way using the + and – as well)

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Step 2 (Continued) Select the layers you want to include on your map

Once you’re done adding

layers, your map is
complete! As you can see,
dragging your mouse cursor
over the different layers
brings up more information
about the different community
assets you’ve selected, in this
case New Greater St. John
Baptist Church.

Do you think their clergy and

congregation know that there
are 3 tutor/mentor programs
within 5 blocks of their
church? Are they working
together to help local youth
stay in school, out of gangs
and on-track to enter
careers?

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 Step 3: Share the map with others
Now that you’ve made your map,
share it with others who will use it
to help make a difference!

Email a link to your custom-made

map by clicking on the Create Url
tab and copying the unique web
Address

Or you can make a JPEG picture

of your map and share it that way

Find out how on the next page!

These slides show

what is possible if
your community has
a Program Locator
built with same
features as we built
this in 2008.

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 How to create a JPEG using
Microsoft Powerpoint
Once you’ve created your map and have it up on
screen, press F11 to fill the screen with your map
and then press Ctrl and PrintScreen
simultaneously
This makes a copy of the entire screen, including your
map. Then you can open Powerpoint and paste
the screenshot onto a slide.

Since Powerpoint treats the screenshot like a picture,

you can edit it by double clicking on the picture
and using the picture toolbar. Once you’ve
cropped your map and made it the size you’re
looking for, go to File, click Save As…and scroll
down the list of file types to

See how maps were embedded in articles

at https://tutormentor.blogspot.com/search/label/violence

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 Other ways to create a JPEG

• If you have Photoshop you can paste

the screenshot into a Photoshop
document and edit it there, saving it
as a JPEG when you are done

• If you don’t have Powerpoint or

Photoshop, you can do the same
thing using Microsoft Paint, which is
included on every Windows computer

See blog stories with maps included:

http://tutormentor.blogspot.com/search/label/maps

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 Why use maps?
• Maps make it easy to conceptualize complex
information such as poverty and geopolitical
boundaries like wards, congressional districts
and neighborhoods
• Maps can streamline capacity-building and
facilitate collaboration between non-profits and
community assets like local businesses
• Maps allow many useful layers of data to be
viewed simultaneously

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 Case Study 1:
Needs Assessment/Strategic Expansion
• Beth runs a multi-site youth tutoring program for elementary school
students on the west side and is looking to expand. She could use
a map showing the location of pre-existing tutoring programs and
failing elementary schools, over poverty data to find underserved
areas where her program could grow.

Despite having 12 failing elementary

schools in this part of the Austin
neighborhood there is only 1 pure
academic tutoring program that serves
elementary age students. Given the
high level of poverty in the neighborhood
there is clearly unmet need in this area
that a new program could serve. She could
use these maps to supplement grant
applications or to convince philanthropists
& community partners to support her efforts

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 Case Study 2: Volunteer Recruitment
• Miguel’s mentoring program in the North side neighborhood of Uptown is suffering
from a lack of mentors. Even though he has posted on VolunteerMatch, Idealist,
Craigslist…etc, he still needs more volunteers to work with the many kids at his
center. Using the interactive tutor/mentor program locator he made a map identifying
some potential sources of volunteers: local universities, area churches, synagogues
and hospitals.

Now Miguel is in a position to reach out to

these institutions informing them of his
volunteer positions and seeing how they might
be able to work together help area kids.

For example he could now:

--See if Truman or St Augustine college have any
students who could receive federal work study to
volunteer or campus service groups

--Meet with members of local churches

to see if they have outreach ministries that could
provide volunteers

--See if he could advertise his volunteer

opportunities in high traffic areas of the local
hospital such as waiting rooms or entrance areas
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 Case Study 3:
Corporate Social Responsibility
George is the Human Resources Manager for Allstate Insurance Company’s
Grand Boulevard branch. Looking to build some positive public relations with the
local community he mapped the neighborhood to find youth tutoring/mentoring
programs where his company can get involved.

By making strategic investments in

local programs committed to
mentoring youth to careers, George
can ensure that a competent local
workforce will be able to sustain his
business well into the future.

Additionally, he can help ensure low

turnover of his current employees by
offering incentives to volunteer their
time and talents at local youth
programs.

Now that’s real corporate social

responsibility!
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 See Map Gallery and Stories

Visit this site and see

how maps created by
Tutor/Mentor Connection
were incorporated into
blog articles.

Using a platform like the

Program Locator you can
create similar maps to
illustrate your call for
resources and the need
for more tutoring and
mentoring programs in
your zip code.

2004-08 gallery: http://www.horizonmapping.net/projects/tmc/tmc_gallery/Tutor_Mentor_map_gallery.html

2009-16 Tutor/Mentor Map Gallery - archive page: https://tinyurl.com/archive-TM-map-gallery
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A Program Locator can help intermediaries draw help directly to every poverty
neighborhood in a city. Use the T/MC history to re-build a new Program Locator

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Create your own Program Locator. This concept map shows layers of information
that you should include. http://tinyurl.com/TMI-Platform

The slides on the previous pages show features that you could include in your own program locator.

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 Help Create New Version of Chicago Program Locator
The Tutor/Mentor Connection (T/MC) was launched in 1993 and depended on volunteers
and occasional donors to build its map capacity and its other services. A $50k donation in
late 2007 enabled T/MC to rebuild its in-house mapping, and the Interactive Tutor/Mentor
Program Locator. However, the recession starting in 2008 drastically cut funding and in
2011 the T/MC strategy was discontinued in the non-profit where it originated. In July
2011 Dan Bassill created the Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC to support the continued
operations of the T/MC in Chicago and to help similar intermediary organizations grow in
other cities.

Due to lack of funding and volunteer support since 2011 the Program Locator became
outdated, and in 2021 went off-line. Archived version of the site are now being used to
show the site, with the goal that new talent will step forward to rebuild it and make it freely
available as an open source platform to any city.

Learn more of our vision for maps

and visualizations.
https://mappingforjustice.blogspot.com/
2020/06/using-maps-to-support-growth-of-youth.html

http://mappingforjustice.blogspot.com/
2011/06/mapping-actions.html

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 Learn to use Maps.
1994

Learn more. Share these ideas.

Make your own maps. Connect
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http://www.tutormentorexchange.net
http://mappingforjustice.blogspot.com
http://tutormentor.blogspot.com
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Daniel F. Bassill, founder
http://www.facebook.com/TutorMentorInstitute
Tutor/Mentor Connection (1993-present)
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Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC (2011-present)
http://www.tutormentorconference.org
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