Issue 255
Be a Match-Maker! Read More.
In this newsletter I'll feature a few of these and will encourage you to go to my lists of Chicago area youth serving programs and learn about more than 160 different organizations who are each seeking volunteers AND donors.
I urge you to do what I'm doing. Profile one or more in your newsletters, or your social media posts. Help them attract needed attention.
Visit https://tutormentorexchange.net/
While a majority of what I share is from my work helping Chicago tutor/mentor programs grow, the resources I collect come from all over the USA and from other countries. The actions I've piloted since 1993 need to be duplicated in every area with concentrations of persistent poverty, where access to opportunity is consistently lower than in other places and where funding is scarce.
Please share this so others in your city can find and use these resources!
Below are just a few Chicago area youth-serving programs.
CHICAGO SCHOLARS
https://chicagoscholars.org
CHICAGO YOUTH PROGRAMS, iNC
https://chicagoyouthprograms.org/
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO
https://bbbschgo.org
LEARNING EDGE TUTORING
https://learningedgetutoring.org
HFS SCHOLARS
PEAK-PARTNERSHIP TO EDUCATE AND ADVANCE KIDS
https://www.peakchicago.org
CHICAGO LIGHTS
HIGHSIGHT
This concept map is a guide that leads you to many more volunteer-based tutor, mentor and learning programs in Chicago and in other places.
Click here to open this concept map. Then open the links under each node and explore all of the youth program websites that I point to. Does someone in your city host a map like this?
Be the YOU in this graphic!
I've shared this often and will keep sharing it until a massive number of people are doing the same. That's the only way we will build enough support to change how youth and families in high poverty areas are supported and to keep those changes in place for decades.
This graphic shows how each person can be pointing their network to information libraries like the Tutor/Mentor Connection (1993-present) and Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC (2011-present) hosts. The map focuses attention on areas within big cities like Chicago where youth need extra help for many years.
What if volunteers, donors, media and policy-makers were actively looking for tutor/mentor programs, while we keep actively trying to find them and motivate them to support us?
Engage your volunteers and alumni in program research, planning and development.
VIEW THE LATEST LINKS ADDED TO THE TUTOR/MENTOR LIBRARY - CLICK HERE
Below are resources to use.
(new additions are at the top)
* Addressing Barriers to Learning - Disregarding Inequities Fuels Victim Blaming - UCLA Center 2026 - click here
* Closing the HOPE Gap - SSIR 2026 - click here
* Guidance and Resources for Intermediaries supporting Out-of-School-Time Programs - click here
* Chicago Education Alliance - click here
* Every Hour Counts - network of intermediaries building after school systems - click here
* MyChiMyFuture - Chicago youth programs map and directory. click here; visit the website - click here
* Chicago Mentoring Collaborative - click here
* Chicago Learning Exchange supports Out-of-School-Time community in Chicago - click here
* Center for Effective Philanthropy - click here
* National Mentoring Resource Center - click here
* National Mentoring Summit will be held on January 28 and 29, 2027 - click here
* MENTOR supports mentoring in the USA and the world - click here
* Incarceration Reform Resource Center - click here
* Prison Policy Initiative - click here
* Chicago Youth Serving Organizations in Intermediary Roles - click here to view a concept map showing many organizations working to help improve the lives of Chicago area youth. Follow the links.
Most Recent Tutor/Mentor blog articles
(Do you have a blog? Share it on social media.)
Follow up to post on LinkedIn about building networks. It's an example of how I work - click here
What's Needed in an on-line Tutor/Mentor Program Locator. - click here
Tutor/Mentor Learning Network. What is it? - click here
Helping Tutor/Mentor Programs Grow - for over 30 years - click here
Changing How Social Benefit Organizations Get Funded - click here
Role for Alumni in tutor/mentor programs - click here
Bookmark these Tutor/Mentor Resources
* Lists of Chicago area, volunteer-based tutor, mentor programs - click here
* Homework help and volunteer training resources - click here
* Resource Library - click here
* Strategy essays by Tutor/Mentor - click here
* Work done by interns in past - click here
* Maps and Map-Stories from past 30 years - click here
* Political Action resources - click here, and click here
* Tutor/Mentor Institute Videos - click here
Thank you for reading.
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