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part of your vision for helping reduce the drop out rate?
Alumni, staff and volunteers of Cabrini Connections, 2001 year end dinner
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Great tutor/mentor program need to be in every high-poverty neighborhood...
Mentoring is a process. It can take years for the process to influence the
choices a youth makes. If the program does not also focus on choices a
volunteer makes, it will never expand the resources needed as youth grow
older, and as youth look for help to enter jobs and careers.
At http://www.tutormentorexchange.net/images/PDF/successsteps.pdf we
describe the process that a career-focused tutor/mentor program needs to
repeat each year to attract youth and volunteers, and to keep them engaged.
This type of program expands “who you know” for kids living in high-poverty,
segregated areas, with too few people modeling jobs and opening doors to
careers and opportunities. Read about mentoring as a form of social capital.
https://tutormentor.blogspot.com/2022/04/maps-time-social-capital.html
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If you agree that a single tutor/mentor program serving
a small groups of youth in one neighborhood of a big
city can make a difference in the lives of those young
people, then, the next step is to innovate ways to make
well organized tutor/mentor programs available in every
neighborhood where they are needed.
The role the Tutor/Mentor Connection has taken is to create a constantly expanding
information base that anyone can draw from, and to innovate ways to create daily
invitations for people from throughout Chicago, and the rest of the world to look at that
information, and do something that leads to more and better programs.
A few people respond immediately, but as in any advertising strategy, it takes many
invitations, over many months, or years, to get the attention of potential customers,
and to draw them into your space, or your web site. By repeating the invitation over
and over, we have begun to draw people together, and make a larger impact on
volunteer-based tutoring/mentoring in the Chicago region. Through the Internet, we
share with the world and seek partners in many places beyond Chicago.
Invite your friends, co-workers, and family to read this with you.
This description of TOC was included in the Summer 2005 issue of The Evaluation Exchange, distributed by the Harvard
Family Research Project of the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
If you have your own Theory of Change, and it’s on a web site, please forward the web address to tutormentor2@earthlink.net
so we can learn from you.
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Maps show High poverty areas.
The shaded areas show
concentrations of poverty in
the Chicago region
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Second step: Advertising, Public Awareness
The T/MC leads an advertising/communications-type campaign, using the
Internet, and innovative partnership strategies. Its goal is to expand the
number of times each day someone in Chicago (and America) is
encouraged to look at T/MC information, and learn ways to become involved
as a volunteer, leader, donor. This strategy is no different than faith-based
strategies that encourage people to read and reflect on passages of
scripture every day, or corporate advertising that intends to draw customers
to a company’s products and services.
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Leaders: People who have followers.
Collecting information is one challenge. Getting thousands of people
to look at this information every day is a larger challenge. Leaders can be
any person or organization that encourages others to look at this
information, reflect on it, then act in some way and some location to help
kids succeed in school and move to jobs and careers.
The Tutor/Mentor Connection (T/MC) has put this presentation, and it’s
database of Chicago tutor/mentor programs on the Internet. If you search
www.Google.comfor the words “tutor mentor” our web sites come up
in the top five.
Thus, our goal is to encourage leaders in all parts of the country, to use
their visibility, their speaking opportunities, and their advertising,
editorials, blogs, etc., to encourage more people to research “tutor
mentor programs” on the Internet. Such leadership will increase the
number of people who find the T/MC web sites and use the information
we host to guide their own actions in helping kids move from poverty to
jobs and careers.
If you already take this role, can you point your followers to this
information?
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Step 1: Build and Maintain knowledge base
Information Collection
Prior to 1993, no organization was
attempting to maintain a
comprehensive database of non-school
tutor/mentor programs.
Read more about these events – duplicate this calendar in your own community
https://tutormentorexchange.net/planning-strategies/52-calendar-of-activities
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Step 4: Information sharing
Read about the role of backbone Building Better Understanding
organizations in supporting
collective efforts. of Needs, Opportunities
https://ssir.org/articles/entry/
understanding_the_value_of_ By bringing programs together on a regular
backbone_organizations_in_ basis, and by supporting this process with
collective_impact_1
surveys and an Internet library of
tutor/mentor information, T/MC seeks to
create a better understanding of what works,
who/how many are being served, where
Building Better programs are needed, and what it takes to
Understanding of Needs, help good programs be in every place where
Opportunities they are needed.
Building a network of
tutor/mentor leaders See internet library and other resources at
Volunteer Mobilization
www.tutormentorexchange.net
http://tutormentor.blogspot.com
Database
Http://mappingforjustice.blogspot.com
http://tutormentorconnection.ning.com
School-Time Programs
High Career
Pre-K K - 5th 5th - 6th 6th - 8th
School Track
To SUCCEED
We must help tutor/mentor
program leaders, volunteers,
schools and parents be more
effective in PUSHING
Youth to Careers
School-Time Programs
High Career
Pre-K K - 5th 5th - 6th 6th - 8th
School Track
EXAMPLE
These are feeder programs. If A program serving 5th and 6th grade
kids is able to do more if programs
kids have access to good K-5 serving the SAME kids in K-5 have laid
programs they will perform better a reading/math learning/motivation
in 5th and 6th grade and high foundation.
school programs.
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THE GOAL IS NOT TO FINISH 6TH GRADE, OR EVEN FINISH HIGH
SCHOOL. IT’S TO HELP YOUTH REACH A JOB AND CAREER.
School-Time Programs
High Career
Pre-K K - 5th 5th - 6th 6th - 8th
School Track
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Thousands of networks
Does your web site connect your visitors to and leaders and donors
other networks focusing on same goals? are already working
toward the same goals as
T/MC.
family Faith
schools groups T/MC seeks to connect
them to each other, and to
its own ideas, via on-line
portals, and Chicago
based networking events.
Law
Business
orgs & Media
Birth America’s
Youth
Career
Higher
Gov’t
Ed.
Health
Care
Philanthropy
& Volunteers
Entertainment
Community
& Sports orgs; social
service
Learn about MOOCs
MOOCs are new ways of connecting and learning in on-line
communities. http://tinyurl.com/TMI-MOOCs-eLearning
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Step 5: Actions that increase flow of resources
Using the map, and the database,
leaders can stimulate a flow of
resources to all programs, in all
neighborhoods.
Volunteer Mobilization
Without a steady flow of these resources no
Database program can succeed.
Those Tutor/Mentor
Those
Who can Institute, LLC
Who Need
T/MC help
help
We do not seek to be a bureaucracy that decides
who connects with who. Our aim is to create web-
based services, training and networking programs, and a
wide range of information that anyone can use to
innovate better strategies to help constantly improving
tutor/mentor programs operate in high poverty
neighborhoods and reach more k-12 youth..
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VOLUNTEERS
YOUTH
STAFF
TALENT
IDEAS
$$$
TUTORS,
MENTORS DONORS
TECH.
CUSTOMERS
CAN WE INFLUENCE FLOW
POLICY
OF DOLLARS, TALENT AND MAKERS
MEDIA
YOUTH
RESOURCES TO ALL
PROGRAMS IN CHICAGO?
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View more illustrated essays like this. Share with co-workers, social network. Apply the ideas in
your own actions.
http://www.scribd.com/collections/3299390/Tutor-Mentor-Institute-LLC-and-Tutor-Mentor-Connection-articles
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View strategy presentations done by interns. Involve youth in your own school.
Volunteer Mobilization
Database
Building a network of
tutor/mentor leaders
Volunteer Mobilization
Database
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TUTOR/MENTOR CONNECTION: A Theory of
Change proposed by the Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC