America’s “War on Poverty”

How does the work of connecting a youth living in a huig poverty

area with a volunteer tutor/mentor relate to landing combat troops
on an enemy beach during a traditional war?

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Terms of “warfare” are used in many forms of leadership and advocacy
such as “war on poverty”, “war on drugs”, “war on crime”.

How many leaders actually have a “battle plan” to

fight their wars in all the places where poverty,
drugs, crime, drop out rates, are an issue?

Forces
Enemy
Direct
Location
engagement

Maps are a tool military planners use to distribute

soldiers and supplies to meet the enemy in many places.

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The Tutor/Mentor Connection began using maps in 1993, to show
where volunteer-based tutor/mentor programs are needed, based on
where poverty and poorly performing schools are concentrated.

View maps at https://tutormentorexchange.net/mapping-the-programs

Forces Poverty in
Include City &
tutors,
mentors
suburbs
is enemy

Darker colors indicate

higher poverty levels.

Beginning in 1994 the T/MC began to build a Directory of non-school tutor/mentor programs, using maps
to show where the programs were located in different parts of the city. Layers of information showed
different types of tutoring and/or mentoring, as well as age groups served. This was intended to be a tool
leaders would use to support existing programs while building new programs where none existed.

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 This Directory was intended for use by leaders. In order to have tutor/mentor
programs in more parts of the city, a logistics and resource development plan
needs to be developed, including elements shown below.
Feed & Analysis
Equip Of enemy
Our army better Strength &
than enemy weaknesses
We need to feed, cloth, Understand needs &
arm and re-supply our plan resource
troops and logistics allocation, e.g.
Public providers for as long as strategic planning
Commitment war is in progress.
To sustain effort and
recruit troops Recruit Organize Forces Enemy
& Retain & Train Direct sites
How do we educate US forces engagement
US forces
and inform public so
we can maintain
support for revenue How to replace forces What resources do
needed to support that are lost with new we need to
war effort? solders trained and implement the plan?
ready to pick up from How to prepare
where previous left off them?

Revenue Logistics
To support To get forces
these efforts in place
This is
a supply How do we raise How do we distribute
money needed to pay needed resources Forces
chain issue. for this entire effort? and troops to multiple
Poverty
locations where they Include in city
are needed? tutors &
mentors is
enemy
How do we create infrastructure to support this force?
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 In the following pages each step on this chart is reviewed. Skipping
any step in the plan, results in less overall success in the war.

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 Planning teams need to use all available
Analysis
1 Of enemy
information to better understand the problem,
and to learn how others are already trying to
strength and solve it. From this information teams can
weaknesses innovate their own strategies.
Understand needs Read this article on Action Research. Teams focused on this problem
& plan resource can be in many organizations.
http://tutormentor.blogspot.com/2012/05/mentoring-workforce-development-ceo.html
allocation, e.g. Get to know resources in Tutor/Mentor Library
strategic planning http://tutormentor.blogspot.com/2017/08/get-to-know-resources-in-tutormentor.html

Planning teams can be

in business, schools,
foundations, faith
groups, etc.

Read articles about Planning and Leadership at http://tutormentor.blogspot.com

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Borrow ideas from other youth serving programs. Look for ways volunteers
from different industries can help programs grow in many places.

Read https://tutormentor.blogspot.com/2022/12/build-virtual-corporate-office-to.html
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Big cities, with high concentrations of poverty, need long-term, mentor-
rich, non-school programs in every high poverty area.

Read https://tutormentor.blogspot.com/2020/12/building-and-sustaining-youth-support.html

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 Create on-going strategies that mobilize
Organize &
2
resources needed by every tutor/mentor
Train program and distribute those consistently
to every part of the city. Teach donors to
Combat troops
(tutors, mentors) use program websites to make giving
decisions.
What resources do
we need to implement
the plan? How to
prepare them?

With more than 200,000 K-12

youth in living in Chicago
poverty neighborhoods,
several hundred tutor/mentor
programs are needed. Each
needs a paid and volunteer
staff.
See maps like this at
https://tutormentorexchange.net/mapping-the-programs

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 Transit routes show paths volunteers and donors
Logistics
3 To get troops &
take as they pass by poverty neighborhoods
every day. Planners need to organize distribution
supplies in places
hubs in the LOOP and each suburb.
where needed.

How do we distribute
needed resources
and troops to multiple
locations where they
are needed?

Using these types of visual

aids strategies can develop
that bring volunteers, dollars,
technology, ideas, etc. to
youth programs in every
poverty neighborhood of the
city and suburbs.

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 Current map showing
Chicago
Volunteer-based,
tutor, mentor &
learning programs.

Find this map and lists of Chicago youth

programs at
http://tinyurl.com/TMI-Volunteer-
Opportunities

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 Big companies have corporate office teams
Feed & Equip
4 ..our army better
that make sure every branch store has the
personnel, equipment, training, products
than there army. and services needed to support customers.

We need to feed,
cloth, arm and re-
supply our troops and
logistics providers for
as long as war is in
progress.

If planners identify common

needs, innovators and
entrepreneurs can help
make sure every program
is well supported.

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Many leaders need to make the commitment shown in this concept map.
View at http://tinyurl.com/tmc-strategy-map

Create a version of this with your name/logo in the blue box. Share on your website,
blog, newsletter, etc to show your commitment and enlist other leaders.

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 Long-term commitments, leadership and funding are needed.

It takes 12 years for a first grader to finish

Recruit &
5 Retain
high school. Strategies need to constantly
recruit new volunteers and donors to replace
those who drop out over the many decades
this strategy needs to be sustained.
How to replace forces
that are lost with new
solders trained and
ready to pick up from
where previous left off

Every calendar year should have events that mobilize attention

and resources for tutor/mentor programs in all parts of the city.

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 No Army can fight effectively and no building is
Revenue to
6 Support
constructed unless the troops and workers are
paid and unless they have a blueprint, maps
and the right supplies and tools to do the job.
Effort

How do we raise
money needed to pay
for this entire effort?

Advertising, PR, social

media and other forms of
communications must be
developed to create an
sustain the public will
needed to fund this effort.
Think of how business uses advertising to draw customers to stores; apply the same thinking to draw
volunteers and donors to youth programs.
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 Leaders are needed from every sector
Public
7 Commitment
of business, religion, education, civic,
sports, entertainment, media, politics,
etc. to support this collective effort.

How do we educate Strategies in each volunteer-based

and inform public so program should aim to transform
we can maintain volunteers and youth into future leaders
support for revenue who help sustain and expand this effort.
needed to support
war-on-poverty effort? See ideas for leadership involvement
http://www.tutormentorexchange.net/leadership-strategies

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The Tutor/Mentor Connection has developed a 4-Part Strategy over the past 1993-
2011 years to support this planning process. Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC now seeks
to continue this in Chicago and other cities.

We all want more young people

to be safe, finish high school and
college, and be prepared for 21st
century jobs and careers.

yo u ca n duplicate
Ask how
city.
this in your
Students, volunteers, writers, designers, movie-makers, etc. are invited to
help us collect, organize and communicate these ideas.
View 4-Part Strategy Concept Map at http://tinyurl.com/TMI-4-Pt-Strategy

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 Youth in your community can communicate these ideas. The video
shown below was created by and intern from South Korea to share ideas
from an article on the Tutor/Mentor blog. Interns working with us in Chicago
between 2004 and 2015 did many projects like this. See more like this at:
http://www.tutormentorexchange.net/definition-of-issues/ideasanimation

Visit the planning forum at

http://tutormentorconnection.ning.com and see
how interns were coached to do this work. You
can take part in this project, using your own
talent to communicate these ideas and to
support the growth of youth support systems in
more places where kids need extra help.
View at video https://youtu.be/JLH87y1BPco?
si=nphEqVPYCpopZop9

Talent Needed: This map shows range of talents

needed by T/MC and other intermediaries to
support this strategy. Use as a guide in building
your own team -
http://tinyurl.com/TMC-Talent-needed

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 Help generate a flow of operating and innovation dollars to tutor/mentor
programs and to intermediary organizations serving Chicago and other
places with high concentrations of poverty.
The Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC
was formed in July 2011 to
continue the work of the
Tutor/Mentor Connection.
Companies, individuals, and/or
philanthropist can help us develop
the concepts and technologies
shown in this presentation and on
our web sites.

Take the YOU role in this graphic.

Read philanthropy articles on

http://tutormentor.blogspot.com

Many ways to give and get involved.

Http://www.tutormentorexchange.net/helptmi

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Set up a Learning Community or Research &
Development team in your business or organization.
Begin to share this information in formal and informal settings. Browse the web
sites below and use the information available from each web site.

http://www.tutormentorexchange.net
1 http://tutormentor.blogspot.com
http://tutormentorconnection.ning.com
2 http://mappingforjustice.blogspot.com
http://tutormentorexchange.net/conceptmaps
3 http://michaelcnt.blogspot.com/
Dan Bassill
@tutormentorteam
4 Connect with Dan Bassill on
https://tutormentorexchange.net/social-media

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