collaboration goals. helping volunteer-based tutor/mentor programs grow

8/3/2019 Collaboration Goals. Helping Volunteer-Based Tutor/Mentor Programs Grow.

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Collaboration Goals

We can increase resources for all of us, and lowerthe costs of getting these resources, if multipleprograms build this collaboration strategy into theirown actions.

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Think of Collaboration and Capacity building as a journey toward a goal.


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How do you recruit volunteers and youth to join a program?

How do you keep them participating throughout a school year?

How do you keep them coming back from year to year?

A Tutor/Mentor Program is a Collective Effort where many peoplework to help young people grow up and lead lives out of poverty.

IVE BEEN WORKING WITH THESE QUESTIONS EVERY DAY FOR 37 YEARS

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How to help everyinner city youthmove throughschool and into 21st

century jobs andcareers.

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Tangela joined CC in 1993,after being part of theMW/Cabrini Green TutoringProgram when in elementaryschool.

School-Time Programs

3-5 PM Non-School Programs

Pre-K K - 5th 5th - 6th 6th - 8thHigh

SchoolCareerTrack

After 5 PM and Weekend Programs

If the goal is to help kids living in highpoverty neighborhoods be startingjobs/careers by their mid-twenties.

How do we help tutor/mentor programs connectwith youth when they are young, and stayconnected to those kids from when we first meetthem, to when they need our help as adults?.

We are stillconnected, via theInternet, 16 yearslater.

--- 16 years later.



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We created the Tutor/MentorConnection (T/MC) in 1993 tohelp programs like Cabrini

Connections* grow in everypoverty neighborhood of thecity and suburbs of Chicago.

Chicago

The library of information and network of peersthat were used to help a single tutor/mentor

program grow from 1965 through 2011, havebeen shared via the Tutor/Mentor Connectionsince 1993, to help non-school tutor/mentor

programs grow in every high povertyneighborhood.

We seek to be part of the think tanks,brainstorming and innovation of business, non

profit, philanthropy, policy-makers andeducators.anyone who wants to helpeconomically disadvantaged youth have bettersupport helping them through school and intocareers.

This strategy was launched in 1993 by a single tutor/mentor program

operating in one neighborhood of Chicago...

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CabriniConnections*serves teens inthe Cabrini-Greenarea of Chicago

Tutor/MentorConnectionhelps volunteer-based

tutor/mentorprograms growin every povertyarea of the cityand suburbs

Light red areas have

poverty concentrations of20% or higher. Dark redareas have poverty levelsof 40% and above.Icons on map areorganizations that offervarious forms ofvolunteer-based tutoringor mentoring.


* Since July 2011 Tutor/Mentor Connection and CabriniConnections have operated as separate organizations.


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The Tutor/Mentor Connection focusesdaily on one big questions:

What will it take to

assure thatall youth born in

poverty are entering

careers by age 25?

What does it take to makevolunteer-based non-school

tutoring and/or mentoringprograms available to moreyouth, in more places?



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We know others are asking the same question.

The T/MC seeks to connect people and groups who are

already spending many hours doing research and

innovating ways to help kids to careers, into one on-going tutor/mentor learning network.

In such a network people and organizations can share

ideas, learn from others, create collaborations, and can

apply new ideas and resources at any time to their own

efforts to help kids in their own community.

My participation in on-line forums is part of the T/MC

network-building strategy.

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NETWORK BUILDER:Tutor/Mentor Connection

T/MCTutor/Mentor

Institute, LLC

CONNECTING

Those

Who can

help

Those

Who Need

help

T/MC aim is to collect information and organize actionsthat enable many leaders to take ownership of this vision.

YOU



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Using Tutor/Mentor Program locator we can create maps showing areas where tutor/mentorprograms are needed, existing programs, and community assets, such as business or faithgroups, who might help provide space, volunteers, dollars, etc. Visit

http://www.tutormentorprogramlocator.net to use this service. Pg 9

Green stars are

tutor/mentorprograms. Bluecircles are Chasebank locations, whichare just one of the

many banks that canbe plotted on thismap.



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All programs have same needs:

We need these resources

every day, in everyneighborhood:

* volunteers

* public visibility* operating dollars

* technology

* training/learning* leadership

Chicagoarea

The shadedareas of this

map ofChicago arethe areas ofmostconcentratedpoverty.



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Using our GIS mapping

system* we can create mapsthat focus on specific politicaldistricts.

These can be used tomobilize support for

tutor/mentor programs fromthe businesses, colleges,faith groups and citizens inthe district.

Anyone, even students in 5th

grade, can use these mapsto invite people to supporttutor/mentor programs in thedistrict.

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Maps can be used by any leader to focus attentionon and district.


* Maps shown were created between 2008 and 2011. Program Locator is a demonstration pilot. Since 2011 funds havenot been available to create new maps or update the Program Locator.


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THINK ADVERTISING!

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REACH: more people hearyour message

FREQUENCY: yourmessage is repeated oftenevery day.

Without big budgets foradvertising, you need toenlist your network.

Put your company logo here.Put this add in the local paper,

or a trade magazine.

IDEA: get companiesto carry yourmessage with theirown advertising.

Example at right

shows how this isdone.


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The Worlds LargestPing Pong ball table.

Every intentionalaction of a leader,volunteer or network-builder causes a chainreaction that moves

every other ball.

What you say canreach people around

the world.

WE NEED MORELEADERS TAKINGTHIS ROLE

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12-monthsfrom now

9-monthsfrom now

6-monthsfrom now

3-months

from now

ImmediateImpact

Growth ofvolunteers & $$and corporateleaders involved

$$

If athletes, media, political leaders, CEOs, clergy, youth and volunteers talkabout the value of tutoring, mentoring every week, and at key times eachyear, their collective voices can increase the year-to-year flow of volunteers

and dollars to every program in the city.

YOU NEED A STRATEGY THAT REACHES A LONG TERM GOAL

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Leaders Can Connect Their Networks to T/M Programs

Is thisYOU?

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Imagine you, or your company or avolunteer in this role

Every time a tutor/mentor leader,Lawyer, faith leader and/or volunteertalks about tutoring/mentoring (vianews, a blog, a web site, aconference, or social event), he isbuilding visibility for one or moreprograms that offer tutoring/

mentoring.

If leaders also point to theTutor/Mentor Program Locator athttp://www.tutormentorprogramlocat

or.net they also draw attention,volunteers and dollars to all othertutor/mentor programs in theChicago region.

Electedleader

college

This isYOU!

donor business media


This is the most important idea wepropose. Anyone can connect the

people they know with multiplenonprofits doing similar work.


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Insurance

Healthcare

Arts, Culture.

ReligionGovernment

Education

Science,

Math

Engineering

Manufacturing

Transportation

Retailing

Wholesaling

Built environment

Engineering

Natural Resources

Agriculture

Finance, Personal &

Business Services

Hospitality

Recreation

Technology

Communications

Our strategy is to enlist volunteers and leaders from

every industry to mentor kids to careers.

We seek businesspartners to help inPULLING youth Tocareers, using their ownresources, ads, etc.

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YOURLOGO

SponsorT/MC and thismappingproject


Using the Tutor/Mentor Program Locator* we can zoom into specific parts of the

city, and build overlays showing where tutor/mentor programs are most needed,based on poverty, or poorly performing schools. If there are non-schooltutor/mentor programs operating in these areas, we dont have them in ourdatabase.

* Maps shown were created between 2008 and 2011. Program Locator is a demonstration pilot. Since 2011 funds havenot been available to create new maps or update the Program Locator.


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While T/MC connects visitors to its web site to

every other Tutor/Mentor Program in Chicago

EYVPBBBS Midtown

FamilyMatters

ChicagoPublicSchools

Partners inEducation

YMCA,Boys & GirlsClubs

Highsight

HorizonsforYouth

CabriniConnections

CGTP

Every time oneT/M program

talks about theirown work, they

can also bepointing to the

map of Chicagoand saying, look

for other

programs, too

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Using on-line forums, wikis and collaboration tools manycan work together to build a better operating system

ReligionLAW FINANCE

Engineers,Architect

Hospitals;HealthCare

Universities& Publishing

Technology,Science

Politics

Hospitality &Entertainment

Tutor/MentorConnection

Communications, Arts,Media

Many groups can belearning from shared

information, andleading actions that

support youth and

youth programs inone or many

neighborhoods. Weneed good programs in

every poverty area

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Read about MOOCs and connected learning. Seehttp://tutormentor.blogspot.com/search/label/MOOC


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This is a role any leader can take.The best outcome from this typeof collaboration will be the growth

of tutor/mentor support teams inmany faith groups, accounting,and health care, and in multipleindustries, alumni, civic and socialgroups.

Resulting in a more consistentflow of resources to alltutor/mentor programs inChicago, and in other cities wherethis strategy is adopted.

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Collaboration Goals

We can increase resources for all of us, andlower the costs of getting these resources, ifmultiple programs build this collaborationstrategy into their own actions.

Think of Collaboration and Capacity building as a journey toward a goal.



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Help build This Capacity

If you have ideas to share, these are web sites where you

can learn more and get connected:

http://www.tutormentorexchange.nethttp://www.tutormentorconnection.orghttp://www.tutormentorprogramlocator.nethttp://tutormentor.blogspot.comhttp://debategraph.org/mentoring_kids_to_careers

Email [email protected] to discuss ideas for collaboration and capacity building among

programs, or between cities. Connect on Twitter @tutormentorteam

Connect on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/TutorMentorInstitute


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