Congratulations to Women's World Cup Soccer Champions

I joined with millions of others today in offering congratulations to the Women's World Cup Soccer Champions. I did so with the post shown below.

Congrats to US Women's Soccer team for winning #WorldCup. As you think of what makes great teams apply this thinking to what it takes to build great youth development teams in more places. https://t.co/Flur98YGob pic.twitter.com/6vKqrSiess

— Daniel Bassill (@tutormentorteam) July 7, 2019

It takes the dedication and hard work of many people to put a winning team on the field. I've written many articles over the past 14 years comparing this effort to what needs to be done to build and sustain world-class tutor, mentor and learning programs for k-12 kids in high poverty areas of the US.

I followed my first Tweet with a second showing an article I'd written in 2014 following another World Cup event.

I wrote this #WorldCup article in 2014. Don't think many fans have read or responded to it. Let's try again. Read and share. https://t.co/kbdmQ1NqNn pic.twitter.com/HGFSmwrf9A

— Daniel Bassill (@tutormentorteam) July 7, 2019

This is a photo of me from the 1990s, using a map of Chicago to show where poverty is concentrated, and where high quality, long-term tutor/mentor youth development programs are most needed.

My goal is writing this blog and Tweeting those posts is to enlist athletes and leaders from every sport to take my place, becoming the leaders who share these ideas and mobilize others to do the work needed to build great youth programs in more places.

Your visibility, talent and influence can do more to make such programs available than anything I've been able to do over the past 25 years. 

I'll help you as long as I'm able to.