Drawing Attention & Resources to Chicago Tutor, Mentor and Learning Programs

 In 1993 when we did the planning that launched the Tutor/Mentor Connection in Chicago in January 1994, one goal was to "increase frequency of stories about tutoring/mentoring programs in order to build awareness for the tutor/mentor movement, individual organizations, and the need for such programs".

We launched a survey in January 1994 and published our list of programs in a printed Directory in May 1994.  

We put the list of programs on the Internet in the late 1990s and since then I've done all I could do to help each one get the attention, dollars, volunteers and ideas they need to operate and constantly improve.

Yesterday I posted an article encouraging programs to use social media to gather ideas and to share their own stories.  Today I'm going to share some images that I gathered over the past few weeks, which were posted by various tutor/mentor programs.

Polished Pebbles - view website.  Read article posted by Kelly Fair, founder of Polished Pebbles. 

Lawyers Lend-A-Hand to Youth - view website

Chicago Lights - view website

Youth Opportunity United - view website

Chicago Youth Programs - view website 

Midtown-Metro Achievement Centers - view website 

Chicago Scholars - view website 

Diamond in the Rough Youth Development Program, Inc. - view website 

Highsight Chicago - view website 

College Bound Opportunities - view website 

Tutoring Chicago - view website 

Daniel Murphy Scholarship Foundation - view website 

Project OneTen - view website

I'm sure there are a few others who have been posting regularly on social media, such as Big Brothers Big Sisters Chicago and Learning Edge Tutoring. 

I pointed to some of these in this article, from last September.  And, in this article, from October 2020.  And, in this article from 2019.

I point to my lists of programs, and to other sites with directories and lists of Chicago youth-serving organizations, in this article.

On the home page of www.tutormentorexchange.net you can find lists of Chicago programs posting on Facebook, Twitter (X), and Instagram. 

Do you see a pattern here?

If I can write articles that share images and website addresses for youth programs in Chicago, so can anyone else.  If you're in another city, write articles about programs in your own city.  

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