Dec 2024 TM eNews

December 2024 - Issue 237

Support youth serving organizations with year-end and on-going contributions!

During the Holiday Season youth serving organizations are reaching out for financial support. Please use my lists to find and choose programs to aid with your contributions.

I wish you all a safe, healthy, happy and HOPE-filled holiday season.

The ideas and resources shared in this monthly newsletter are intended to help you build and sustain mentor-rich, school and non-school, tutor, mentor and learning programs that reach K-12 youth in all areas of persistent poverty. Use these in Chicago, or anywhere in the world.

While I spend most of my time every year trying to help hundreds of youth tutor, mentor and learning programs, I ask you to help me with a contribution in December.

Since 2011 I've created a fund-raising page to enable people to support my work by making a gift to support my birthday, which is on December 19th.

This year I'll be 78 and your help is needed more than ever for me to keep doing this work. Visit this page to make a birthday gift.

Since forming the Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC in 2011 I've depended on a small group of donors to make contributions throughout the year and in December to support my efforts. Please add your support, or repeat it if you've given in the past. Visit this page.

Thank you for your help.

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Ten additions to the Tutor/Mentor Library in 2024

I started putting the Tutor/Mentor library on the Internet in 1998 and have added new links each year. In 2024 I added 98 new links, which you can see on this page. Below are some of those.

1-2-2024 - Seek - Sense - Share - Personal Knowledge Mastery Process - https://jarche.com/pkm - I've followed Harold Jarche since 1990s and his ideas about learning motivate much of my own thinking.

1-17-2024 - Mapping Police Violence in America - https://mappingpoliceviolence.org

2-13-2024 - Art Makers Club - creative activities. shared in articles like this by Sherri Edwards of the CLMOOC group that I've followed since 2013 - https://sheri42.net/2024/02/12/fun-with-photo-doodles - Volunteers in tutor/mentor programs should look at Sheri's blog for ideas about creative work they can do with students

4-2-2024 - Daily STEM Learning Activities - weekly newsletter - https://dailystem.com/news

5-10-2024 - American Inequality Data Portal - https://www.americaninequality.io/maps

6-25-2024 - The Color of Wealth - Chicago - http://colorofwealth.org

7-10-2024 - Beyond the School Building: Examining the Association Between Out-of-School Factors and Multidimensional School Grades - https://epaa.asu.edu/index.php/epaa/article/view/8497

7-16-2024 - My Chi My Future - community collaboration pages - https://explore.mychimyfuture.org

8-18-2024 - Why Philanthropy Needs to Invest in Social Capital - https://www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/2024/7/16/should-we-pay-for-relationships-why-philanthropy-needs-to-invest-in-social-capital

12-5-2024 - The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How our Government Segregated America - https://www.epi.org/publication/the-color-of-law-a-forgotten-history-of-how-our-government-segregated-america

Twelve Tutor/Mentor blog articles from 2024

1-22-2024 - 30 years later. New Year. Same Goals - https://tutormentor.blogspot.com/2024/01/30-years-later-new-year-same-goals.html

1-4-2024 - National Mentoring Month - Infrastructure focus - https://tutormentor.blogspot.com/2024/01/national-mentoring-month.html

2-28-2024 - Opportunity for All? Involvement of More. See maps - https://tutormentor.blogspot.com/2024/02/opportunity-for-all-involvement-of-more.html

2-12-2024 - Multiplying Good - Map the Sports Network - https://tutormentor.blogspot.com/2024/02/multiplying-good-map-network.html

3-28-2024 - What Motivates Me - See yearbooks from past - https://tutormentor.blogspot.com/2024/03/what-motivates-me.html

4-11-2024 - 30 year history of reaching out to universities - https://tutormentor.blogspot.com/2024/04/30-year-history-of-reaching-out-to.html

5-28-2024 - Repeat After Me! Try it! - https://tutormentor.blogspot.com/2024/05/repeat-after-me-try-it.html

5-14-2024 - Drawing Resources to Chicago Tutor, Mentor and Learning Programs - https://tutormentor.blogspot.com/2024/05/drawing-attention-resources-to-chicago.html

7-18-2024 - Understanding complex problems using concept maps - https://tutormentor.blogspot.com/2024/07/understanding-complex-problems-using.html

7-13-2024 - Build information base to support anti violence efforts - https://tutormentor.blogspot.com/2024/07/build-information-base-to-support-anti.html

8-5-2024 - Adopt this 4-part strategy to help kids in your community - https://tutormentor.blogspot.com/2024/08/adopt-this-4-part-strategy-to-help-kids.ht ml

11-25-2024 - What comes after the election? https://tutormentor.blogspot.com/2024/11/what-comes-after-election.html

Below are resources that I point to each month.

* What's next for the nonprofit sector - Dec. 2024 article in The NonProfit Times - click here

* Community Commons resource center - click here

* Registration now open for 2025 National Mentoring Summit, Jan 19-31, 2025 - click here

* National Mentoring Resource Center - click here

* Trust Talks - podcast by The Chicago Community Trust highlights the Trust's strategic priority to close Chicago region's racial and ethnic wealth gap - click here

* Addressing Wealth Inequality in America - click here

* Forefront -Illinois' statewide association of nonprofits, foundations and advisors. click here

* CANDID - demographic data for NPOs and funders - click here

* AfterSchool Alliance resources - click here

* Chicago Mentoring Collaborative - click here

* South Side STEM Asset maps - read about using maps - click here

* Incarceration Reform Resource Center - click here

* Prison Policy Initiative - 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

* Intermediary organizations serving youth in Chicago area - click here

* Maps and Map-Stories from past 30 years - click here

* Political Action resources - click here

* Featured collections on Wakelet - click here

* Tutor/Mentor Institute Videos - click here

* About T/MI articles on blog - click here

* History of T/MC - T/MI articles - click here

* Create a New Tutor/Mentor Connection - click here

Thank you for reading.

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