No General would go to war

without a map.

However, in America’s war on poverty, poorly performing

schools, crime and violence, too few of our leaders are
using maps to connect resources with youth and families
in the neighborhoods that have the greatest need.

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 Generals use Maps to Win Wars
Do you remember how
Generals used maps in
TV news to show
troop movements
during the first and
second Gulf Wars?

Image from article at http://www.lorraineash.com/general.htm

CEOs use Maps to Win Market Share

The map at the right shows CVS stores in Chicago
region (in 2009). Businesses use maps to determine
where to place stores and build business.

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In order to defeat an enemy we need to fight wherever the enemy is entrenched.

Feed & Equip Analysis

Our army better Of enemy
than enemy Strength &
weaknesses

We need to feed, cloth, arm Understand needs &

and re-supply our troops plan resource
and logistics providers for allocation, e.g. strategic
Public as long as war is in planning
Commitment progress.
To sustain effort and
recruit troops Recruit Organize Forces
& Retain & Train Direct
How do we educate and US forces engagement Enemy
US forces
inform public so we can sites
maintain support for
revenue needed to How to replace forces that What resources do we
support war effort? are lost with new solders need to implement the
trained and ready to pick plan? How to prepare
up from where previous them?
left off

Do any Revenue Logistics

leaders use To support
these efforts
To get forces in
place
maps in war
on poverty? How do we raise money
needed to pay for this
How do we distribute
needed resources and Forces Poverty
entire effort? troops to multiple
locations where they are Include tutors in city is
needed? & mentors
enemy

How do we create infrastructure to support this force?

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This presentation shows a few examples
of how a Geographic Information System
(GIS) maps can be used to help draw
resources to organizations serving the
same cause throughout a geographic
region.

Visit the Tutor/Mentor Institute at

http:www.tutormentorexchange.net to
review this and other PDF essays.

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 OUR MISSION
Collect and share information that helps
mentor-rich programs be available to more
youth living in high poverty neighborhoods.

We focus on youth living in poverty

because these children face greater
barriers to succeeding in school and
finding jobs and careers.

Throughout this presentation the names Tutor/Mentor

Connection (T/MC) will be used along with Tutor/Mentor
Institute, LLC. From 1993-2011 we operated as the
Tutor/Mentor Connection, part of the non profit Cabrini
Connections youth program in Chicago. In 2011 the
Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC was created to continue the
T/MC into the next decade, seeking new forms of
investment and revenue to support strategies such as this
use of GIS mapping.

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 To SUCCEED
Goal: We must recruit business
leaders who will use their
Help inner-city youth resources in PULLING
Youth to Careers
reach Jobs/Careers.

School-Time Programs
High Career
Pre-K K - 5th 5th - 6th 6th - 8th
School Track

3-5 PM Non-School Programs After 5 PM and Weekend Programs

Charts like this help

To SUCCEED illustrate our vision of
We must help tutor/mentor
program leaders, volunteers, programs that help
schools and parents be more
effective in PUSHING youth reach careers.
Youth to Careers

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 Between 1994 and 2011 the
Tutor/Mentor Connection piloted
uses of a GIS database to create
maps that visually show where
tutor/mentor programs are
located and where more are
needed.

Since 2011 we've shared data

platforms hosted by others and
encouraged people to use them.

Flags on map are poorly performing schools.

Shaded areas are high poverty regions.

While the media write about poor schools, they seldom produce maps that show the relationship
between poverty and poor schools. This is one of many maps created between June 2008 and April
2011 thanks to an anonymous donation of $50,000. See more at
http://www.tutormentorprogramlocator.net/mapgallery.html

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 All tutor/mentor programs in Chicago region
programs have same needs:

We need these resources

Chicago every day, in every
area neighborhood:

* volunteers
* public visibility
* operating dollars
The * technology
Tutor/Mentor
Connection
was formed in
* training/learning
1993 to help
every program * leadership
get these
resources.

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 3-months 6-months 9-months 12-months
from now from now from now from now

Immediate
Impact

Growth of
$$
volunteers & $$
and corporate
leaders involved

We piloted quarterly events such as May and November conferences

intended to draw volunteers and dollars directly to all tutoring and/or
mentoring programs in the Chicago region. As these repeat from year-to-
year and are supported by more leaders and organizations, the impact was
intended to grow.
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Maps can help any organization or
group of people do better planning.
A map focuses a group on the needs
of every poverty area, not just high
profile areas.

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 Maps can show
where poorly
performing
schools are
located.

These are areas

where
tutor/mentor
programs are
most needed in
Chicago.

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 Using advanced GIS
computer technologies,
T/MC produce maps that
showed locations of
tutor/mentor programs in
different areas of the city.

This map shows tutor/mentor

program locations near a
Catholic Church on Chicago's
West side. It was used to help a
suburban church create a
volunteer recruitment strategy.

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 This map shows Catholic
Church sites in Chicago.
It is not enough to have a
few good programs at a few
churches. The city needs a
city/suburban faith
partnership that leads to
quality tutor/mentor
programs in every poverty
neighborhood.
The T/MC encourages churches to use
maps in planning and create maps with
flags that visually show which churches
are active in helping tutor/mentor
programs grow.

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 Maps can help
programs in their
planning and fund
raising.
This map shows tutor/mentor
programs, business, churches,
hospitals, etc. in the same
neighborhood of Chicago's West
side. An organization called
“New Concepts” used this in
developing a neighborhood
partnership and a grant
proposal to fund that
partnership.

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 This map shows
hospitals in Chicago
The T/MC goal is that
hospitals develop strategies
that distribute prevention
programs and health care
mentors at tutor/mentor
locations near each
hospital.

A hospital can also inspire

the involvement of
business, faith and
university groups in its
service area.

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There are many mapping platforms that can be used to show where people need help.
View this at http://tinyurl.com/TMI-MappingData

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 This map
shows
hospitals near
the Lawndale
area of
Chicago

Since they serve the same area, these hospitals could form a
‘youth mentoring partnership’ that would provide
leadership to tutor/mentor program growth in this area.

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T/MC uses maps to generate public awareness

The T/MC used its maps as part

of a public awareness
campaign, not just as a planning
tool.

Its goal was to focus attention

on where programs are needed,
and to help existing programs
connect with each other.

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 Maps can lead potential
volunteers and donors
to programs in areas of
high youth violence
This map shows the location of a
shooting in Chicago. The Chicago
SunTimes did a front page story and
used the photo of a celebrity to get
reader attention. The T/MC created this
map and put it on the web site to show
these readers where they could get
involved to prevent future tragedy like
this.

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 Maps
following
media stories
tell “The Rest
of the Story.”

This map shows the location of a another shooting in Chicago. If

readers learn to go to T/MC sites following media coverage of a
negative news story, we can turn bad news into positive actions.
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 Maps following
media stories tell
“The Rest of the
Story.”

This map shows the location of a another 2008 shooting in

Chicago. View this and more maps in the Map Gallery at
http://www.tutormentorprogramlocator.net/mapgallery.html

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 The T/MC seeks to build its GIS map
capacity and use it to help
This is another example of a

following atutor/mentor programs grow. Visit

map analysis created
news story about

T/MC web sites to learn more

gangs.

www.tutormentorconnection.org

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 Maps can be
used by
leaders to
show where
they have
helped
tutor/mentor
programs.

This map shows the location poverty, poorly performing schools and tutor/mentor programs
in Congressman Danny Davis’ district. The T/MC would like all business and political
leaders to put maps on their web sites showing where they deliver resources to help
tutor/mentor programs. View PDF presentation featuring this map:
https://www.scribd.com/document/209978033/
Using-Maps-to-Fill-Political-Districts-with-Needed-Youth-Programs

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 Visitors can now view the
Program Locator Database
archive at
https://tinyurl.com/
ProgramLocatorSearch

This was designed to enable

users to find information,
based on searches of
a) type of program;
b) age group served;
c) time of day;
d) zip code

If you'd like to help re-build this and share with other cities, contact Dan Bassill @tutormentorteam

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This helps volunteers, parents and
donors find contact information for
specific programs.

It helps donors, business leaders,

media and policy makers
understand
a) where programs are needed;
b) level of service in any area;
c) voids in service availability

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Find current map and list of Chicago area tutor, mentor programs
using cMap at http://tinyurl.com/TMI-Volunteer-Opportunities

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 The
Program
Locator was
created
between
2004 and
2008.

This site is now an archive. Visit

https://tinyurl.com/ProgramLocatorMap-archive If you'd like to help rebuild
it contact Dan Bassill of Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC
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Skim through articles on Tutor/Mentor blog to see examples of maps used in stories.
Create and share your own. http://tutormentor.blogspot.com/search/label/maps

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Visit T/MC web sites to see uses of maps
in advocacy and collaboration.
www.tutormentorexchange.net

www.tutormentorconnection.org

http://mappingforjustice.blogspot.com

http://tutormentor.blogspot.com
Be a General! Create your own maps and use them to mobilize resources for youth
and families in high poverty neighborhoods. Connect with Dan Bassill on Twitter
@tutormentorteam

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Merchandise Mart PO Box 3303, Chicago, Il 60654

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 Tutor/Mentor Connection
Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC

Merchandise Mart PO Box 3303, Chicago, Il. 60654

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