I Wrote this in 2005. Still Applies.

I often look at articles I wrote in past years and find that what I wrote still applies today.  So I share some of my posts on Twitter, then point to them in this blog.  I hope that encourages people to visit these older posts and apply the ideas to new actions.

Take a look. I started with this post.

I started my blog in 2005 and posted this in December of that year. https://t.co/wjxwx7fMgT

Getting volunteers involved in long-term #tutor #mentor programs is a form of #ServiceLearning pic.twitter.com/UEB4xme5Kj

— Daniel Bassill (@tutormentorteam) August 11, 2023

 Then I added this. 

This is from a 2005 #Tutor #Mentor blog article with the title "What Can You Do to End Poverty?" https://t.co/6YePlgj6Pg

I've been sharing the same message on this blog for 18 years. Too few have ever seen it. pic.twitter.com/hGVXwvZlg8

— Daniel Bassill (@tutormentorteam) August 11, 2023

Then I added this.

In 2005 I posted this on the #Tutor #Mentor blog, talking of how difficult it is for small #NPOs to raise consistent operating dollars, & how that led to creation of Tutor/Mentor Connection in 1993. https://t.co/E2pMLKnjMc pic.twitter.com/vrOjepCjAO

— Daniel Bassill (@tutormentorteam) August 11, 2023

Then I added this.

In this 2005 #Tutor #Mentor blog article I shared my invitation to universities anywhere in the world. https://t.co/r6e9UiFHE8

I'm still looking for someone to take this role, but with much greater urgency, since I'm now 76. pic.twitter.com/0FvY2U5KvG

— Daniel Bassill (@tutormentorteam) August 11, 2023

Then I added this. 

In August 2005 I wrote this article about creating a "new operating system" to support volunteer-based charities. https://t.co/AZeXFUEOGR

It's still needed. pic.twitter.com/IsosUrYIRf

— Daniel Bassill (@tutormentorteam) August 11, 2023

Then I added this post

New System Includes...

a) development of key staff who treat their work as an avocation, not a job,
b) more consistent public awareness (advertising)
c) flexible funding
d) talent volunteers
e) elearning/collaboration mentality
f) spatial thinkinghttps://t.co/AZeXFUEOGR

— Daniel Bassill (@tutormentorteam) August 11, 2023

Then I pointed to this 2006 article. 

While I'd been visualizing ideas via print newsletters & PPT essays since late 1990s this 2006 graphic is the first time I included a #conceptmap in a #tutor #mentor blog article. https://t.co/7SErciP7KE pic.twitter.com/Man6c1DwEF

— Daniel Bassill (@tutormentorteam) August 11, 2023

I followed that with this post 

My 2006 #Tutor #Mentor blog article included this paragraph about #philanthropy not achieving results we want. https://t.co/7SErciP7KE pic.twitter.com/LGopBauytB

— Daniel Bassill (@tutormentorteam) August 11, 2023

In 2005 and 2006 blogging was a new thing and if you look at my posts you'll see much more engagement on my articles then in the comment section than I have now. Yet the ideas are the same, and the problems I'm focused on are the same.

What's changed is that people's attention span is much more fragmented and my ability to purchase advertising and professional marketing support does not exist. Thus, unless readers share my Tweets or blog articles with their networks, the ideas just sit in a dark corner, waiting to be discovered.

At the left is a photo taken in 1993 or 1994 showing me surrounded by kids and volunteers from the new tutor/mentor program we had launched in late 1992, at the same time as we are launching the Tutor/Mentor Connection in Chicago.

My life has been shaped by such interactions, extending back to 1973 when I first became a volunteer tutor/mentor. 

My goal is that thousands of other people make the same life-long journey and that this leads to quantum changes in how we help kids in high poverty areas move through school and into adult lives and jobs that enable them to raise their own kids free of poverty.

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