Tutor Mentor Institute, LLC

I've been sharing pages from printed newsletters that I created in the 1990s in the past few blog articles, along with portions of e-Mail newsletters sent from 2000 to 2010.  These show a consis...

http://tutormentor.blogspot.com/2024/04/building-social-capital.html

In last Tuesday's post , I showed a President's Message from a 2004 Cabrini Connections-Tutor/Mentor Connection newsletter. Below is my President's Message from my winter 1996 newsletter, written...

http://tutormentor.blogspot.com/2024/04/commitment-needed-from-top-100-ceos.html

I've been sharing archives from the work I've done since 1993 to help volunteer-based tutor, mentor and learning programs grow in high poverty areas. Today I'm going to point to email newsletters...

http://tutormentor.blogspot.com/2024/04/what-if-political-campaigns-raised.html

Last December I posted this article asking "What if students in every city did this?"  Youth in every part of the world could be writing articles similar to what I've written on this blog si...

http://tutormentor.blogspot.com/2024/04/30-year-history-of-reaching-out-to.html

I confess. I did not go out and watch today's Eclipse.  I did follow it on social media and in news reports. I wonder how many people drew inspiration and renewed hope for our planet and its liv...

http://tutormentor.blogspot.com/2024/04/hope-for-future.html

A couple of weeks ago I posted this article, showing map stories the Tutor/Mentor Connection created since 1994 to draw volunteers and donors to youth programs in high poverty areas of Chicago....

http://tutormentor.blogspot.com/2024/04/more-maps-now-in-my-archive.html

I've been digitizing more of my archives for the past few months, and again today. I've been sharing some files, like these yearbooks , on social media. The result was 67,200 views of this blog ...

http://tutormentor.blogspot.com/2024/04/what-you-can-do-to-end-poverty-2006.html

If you've read any of the articles posted on this blog since 2005 you'll see that I'm constantly advocating for the growth of comprehensive, long-term, volunteer-based tutor, mentor and learning ...

http://tutormentor.blogspot.com/2024/03/what-motivates-me.html

Last May I posted an article with the headline, "Poverty in America. Why so Much?"   I pointed to a presentation by Matt Desmond, and encouraged readers to watch it. Today on Twitter (X) Mat...

http://tutormentor.blogspot.com/2024/03/learn-more-about-poverty-in-america.html

This week I watched two panel discussions hosted by Friends of the Children - Chicago .  One is shown below. You can find the second at this link .      Friends of the Children has a long-t...

http://tutormentor.blogspot.com/2024/03/using-maps-to-draw-attention-and.html

 I've been digitizing my files so they will be available to more people, even after I end my time on this earth.  Last week I posted this article and pointed to an archive with letters and ema...

http://tutormentor.blogspot.com/2024/03/helping-tutormentor-programs-grow-for.html

I've been digitizing my files to further downsize and preserve my history. Hopefully someone(s) in the future will use these to teach new leaders to build information-based problem-solving interm...

http://tutormentor.blogspot.com/2024/03/tutormentor-connection-needed-in-many.html

Below is a concept map that I created several years ago to show planning that needs to be happening in Chicago and other places with high concentrations of persistent poverty. Open the map ...

http://tutormentor.blogspot.com/2024/03/so-many-years-so-few-changes.html

I started participating in cMOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) around 2011 and connected with a group of educations in a #CLMOOC event in early 2013.  I've built relationships with several peop...

http://tutormentor.blogspot.com/2024/03/be-like-terry-share-my-resources.html

Last week I posted some maps created from an interactive dashboard built by the Economic Innovation Group (EIG) that enable you to zoom into different places in America to see, at the census tra...

http://tutormentor.blogspot.com/2024/02/opportunity-for-all-involvement-of-more.html

I've been digitizing my files over the past couple of years and the big questions are "Who will look at these?" and "Who will take ownership, preserve, share and teach from these after I die?" �...

http://tutormentor.blogspot.com/2024/02/athletes-adopt-neighborhood-vision.html

My Twitter feed brought a new report to my attention this week. It's titled "Persistently poor, left-behind and chronically disconnected" and was written by Kenan Fikri who I've been following f...

http://tutormentor.blogspot.com/2024/02/locating-places-with-persistent-poverty.html

Over the past few months and years I've seen many posts on social media, showing a professional athlete's support for mentoring. > Had a great day on Radio Row!! Bonus was I got to�...

http://tutormentor.blogspot.com/2024/02/multiplying-good-map-network.html

Have you ever submitted a letter to a local or national print media outlet and had it published?  When we formed the Tutor/Mentor Connection (T/MC) in 1993 one of our main goals was to increase ...

http://tutormentor.blogspot.com/2024/02/letters-to-editor-was-anyone-listening.html

Last Sunday I posted an article showing a new page on the Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC website, where I'm hosting visual essays that I've created since the late 1990s and updated often since then...

http://tutormentor.blogspot.com/2024/02/understanding-issues.html

In 1990s I started using desktop publishing to create visual essays showing the strategies of the tutor/mentor program I was leading and of the Tutor/Mentor Connection. I began putting these on...

http://tutormentor.blogspot.com/2024/01/visual-essays-created-since-1990s.html

On the lower left side of this blog you can see a list of years that I've written this blog, starting in 2005. This shows articles written each month, of each year. Thus, you could look at Janua...

http://tutormentor.blogspot.com/2024/01/30-years-later-new-year-same-goals.html

Today our social media posts will be filled with quotes from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and many will call for actions that make his dreams a reality.  I've posted many article that focus on th...

http://tutormentor.blogspot.com/2024/01/what-if-dr-king-jr-followers-had.html

I started building a list of Chicago tutor/mentor programs in the mid 1970s as I was looking for ideas to help me lead my own program.  When I formed the Tutor/Mentor Connection in 1993 I formal...

http://tutormentor.blogspot.com/2024/01/copy-this-idea-support-tutormentor.html

Below is a photo from 2001 when the US Post Office issued a mentoring stamp to help celebrate and draw attention to mentoring in America.  My organization (Tutor/Mentor Connection, 1993-present)...

http://tutormentor.blogspot.com/2024/01/national-mentoring-month.html