Mastodawn

@tutormentor1

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I lead the Tutor/Mentor Connection (1993-present) and Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC (2011-present) which are the same org and mission but with different financial structure.

Since 1993 I have been collecting & sharing ideas others can use to fight poverty & inequality & help volunteer-based tutor/mentor orgs in Chicago area grow in more places (including the single tutor/mentor program I led from 1993 to 2011).

Blog	http://tutormentor.blogspot.com
Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC	http://www.tutormentorexchange.net
Mapping blog	http://mappingforjustice.blogspot.com
FundTMI	https://tutormentorexchange.net/help-fund-t-mi

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tutormentor1 1d ago

I included this visualization in an article I posted about #philanthropy, #fundraising & #collaboration among youth-serving organizations. See it at https://tutormentor.blogspot.com/2026/03/25-years-later-funding-still-major.html

Small purple buds sleep
the sleep of winter, dreaming -
and sunshine, scheming

#SmallPoems #SundayHaiku response

tutormentor1 3d ago

Sarah Honeychurch 3d ago

Happy #caturday #cat #cats #catstodon #CatsOfMastodon from Lacey and her dusty face

No Kings

I do get juiced
To see each boost
And another Puzzler
Comes home to roost!

Thanks to all you kind Fedifolk!

tutormentor1 Mar 23

This graphic shows that a Chicago youth-serving org called B.U.I.L.D attended 12 conferences between 1994 and 2015. See a Network Mapping tool created by IVMOOC students at Indiana University. https://tutormentorexchange.net/mapping-participation

I hope this inspires others to track participation and help attendees connect in between conferences.

tutormentor1 Mar 23

My goal since forming the Tutor/Mentor Connection in 1993 and the Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC in 2011 has been to "enlarge the youth program slice of the giving pie" so each program benefits from greater support. I wrote this article in 2009 to describe this goal. https://tutormentor.blogspot.com/2009/08/literacy-roundtable-in-chicago-shows.html

Sadly, too many youth programs are so caught up in their own struggle to find and keep donors that they don't make time to work together to increase the slice of the funding pie available to each of them.