Creating visual essays since 1990s

This is one of the PDF essays that I've created since 1990s to visually describe the work being attempted by the Tutor/Mentor Connection, formed in 1993 and Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC, formed in 2011. Click here to open.

I started creating these in the 1990s when I realized that people were getting confused when I tried to explain the 4-part strategy developed in 1993 to  help volunteer-based tutor/mentor programs reach more k-12 kids in high poverty areas of Chicago, with constantly improving programs.

I've created more than 60 of these and started putting them on this page in the late 1990s.  Last week I shared a few Tweets, shown below, pointing to the different PDFs that are now in my web library.

Since the late 1990s I've been creating visual essays to share ideas for helping kids in high poverty areas get extra adult support to move from #birthtowork. I share these on this page. Here's one section. https://t.co/2jQkhXajLF pic.twitter.com/voRmU2yc2l

— Daniel Bassill (@tutormentorteam) July 8, 2022

Here's the second Tweet

1- Here's the second section of visual essays on my library page. https://t.co/2jQkhXajLF pic.twitter.com/us01wEpu87

— Daniel Bassill (@tutormentorteam) July 8, 2022

Here's the third

2- This is third section of visual essays on my #Tutor #Mentor library page. It focuses on strategic, long-term investment by business. https://t.co/2jQkhXajLF pic.twitter.com/0jFgTejVYz

— Daniel Bassill (@tutormentorteam) July 8, 2022

Here's the fourth

3- The next set of visual essays in my #tutor #mentor library focus on leadership strategies. Not what NPOs do, but what resource providers do to help great programs reach k-12 youth in more places. https://t.co/2jQkhXajLF pic.twitter.com/wEiQgf0PLU

— Daniel Bassill (@tutormentorteam) July 8, 2022

Here's the fifth

4- No single program can do all that's needed to influence what business, policy-makers and donors do to help great #birthtowork programs be in more high-poverty areas. These essays focus on collaboration. https://t.co/2jQkhXajLF pic.twitter.com/Z2VoV3lPMs

— Daniel Bassill (@tutormentorteam) July 8, 2022

Here's the 6th

5 - The next two sets of visual essays on the #Tutor #Mentor library page focus on volunteer-recruitment and steps to start and sustain programs. https://t.co/2jQkhXajLF pic.twitter.com/6ajedvxy1L

— Daniel Bassill (@tutormentorteam) July 8, 2022

And the next

6 - Since 2011 I've put most of these visual essays on Scribd and Slideshare. You can find introductions to Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC in these essays, too. https://t.co/chrXwH4H9F pic.twitter.com/C9OoWH4RvD

— Daniel Bassill (@tutormentorteam) July 8, 2022

And the final

7 - Between 2004 and 2015 interns from various universities in the US and Asia spent time looking at my visual essays & websites, then created their own interpretations, which you see here. https://t.co/WGTjUTqlzY

Youth from many places could be doing the same. pic.twitter.com/Dl6pCXk5vt

— Daniel Bassill (@tutormentorteam) July 8, 2022

The last shows how interns from various colleges spent time looking at my blog articles and these PDF essays, then created their own versions, building new sills as they did so and adding new creativity to how the ideas were being communicated.

All of these are getting old, so I'd love to have students from Chicago go through them all and update them.  Furthermore, my goal/vision is that students in cities across the USA and the world would do the same, linking the presentations to maps of their own city's demographics and research showing the needs of youth and families where they live.

On this page I outlined a youth visualization competition, which would provide incentives for young people and adults to take on this work and would create an archive of work done, so others could learn from past work and make improvements, rather than always start from the beginning.

All it takes is one sponsor and one leader to make this idea a reality.

Can that be you? 

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