Who keeps

memories alive after

media stop telling
the story?
The map stories on the following
pages were created between 1993
and 2000 to focus attention and
resources on places in Chicago
where bad news has happened and
to draw volunteers and donors to
volunteer based tutor/mentor
programs in those areas. Visit our
web sites, blogs and social media
pages to see maps made since
2008.

Tutor/Mentor Connection (1993-present) Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC (2011-present), www.tutormentorexchange.net

Since 1993 the Tutor/Mentor Connection
(T/MC) has been using maps to show where
volunteer based tutor/mentor programs are
located in Chicago, with additional
information showing where these programs
are most needed.

Map stories were created as part

of a strategy to build greater
public interest and involvement in
Programs located throughout the
Chicago region.

Tutor/Mentor Connection (1993-present) Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC (2011-present), www.tutormentorexchange.net Page 2

Poverty in Chicago is not a new problem.
This story is from 1994!

While media
stories
occasionally use
maps, these are
not intended as
advertising, to
draw volunteers,
donors and
leaders to
support needed
youth
development,
mentoring and
jobs programs in
neighborhoods
of high poverty

These maps and more are hosted at

https://tutormentorexchange.net/mapping-the-programs
Tutor/Mentor Connection (1993-present) Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC (2011-present), www.tutormentorexchange.net Page 3
The strategy launched by the T/MC in 1994
aims to follow negative news with map
stories that tell “The Rest of the Story”.
These aim to draw operating resources and
volunteers to youth tutor/mentor programs
growing in these areas.

These maps were created

in 1996, demonstrating a
long term commitment to
using maps to mobilize
resources for high poverty
areas of Chicago.
Tutor/Mentor Connection (1993-present) Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC (2011-present), www.tutormentorexchange.net Page 4
 On the following pages are map stories
created since 1994.

You can print these and share them in

your own network, or use them as
teaching examples, that show the types
of stories you and volunteers in your
neighborhood can use to draw attention
and resources to needed social
purpose organizations operating in your
neighborhood, or your entire city.

Visit the http://www.tutormentorexchange.net site and browse our

blogs to see more examples of how maps can be used to mobilize
resources needed in different neighborhoods of cities like Chicago.
As you create your own map library, share your link with
@tutormentorteam on Twitter. If you would like help from the
Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC we’d like to hear from you.

Tutor/Mentor Connection (1993-present) Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC (2011-present), www.tutormentorexchange.net Page 5

Tutor/Mentor Connection (1993-present) Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC (2011-present), www.tutormentorexchange.net Page 6
 Map stories can follow celebrities featured in news or events that draw media .
Tutor/Mentor Connection (1993-present) Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC (2011-present), www.tutormentorexchange.net Page 7
 This map analysis was created to help a church on Chicago’s West Side.
Tutor/Mentor Connection (1993-present) Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC (2011-present), www.tutormentorexchange.net Page 8
Tutor/Mentor Connection (1993-present) Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC (2011-present), www.tutormentorexchange.net Page 9
 This map was created to help a community form a strategy to support
growth of tutor/mentor programs in a changing neighborhood.

Tutor/Mentor Connection (1993-present) Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC (2011-present), www.tutormentorexchange.net Page 10

Tutor/Mentor Connection (1993-present) Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC (2011-present), www.tutormentorexchange.net Page 11
Tutor/Mentor Connection (1993-present) Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC (2011-present), www.tutormentorexchange.net Page 12
Tutor/Mentor Connection (1993-present) Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC (2011-present), www.tutormentorexchange.net Page 13
 Each section of a city has a different map story to be told.

Tutor/Mentor Connection (1993-present) Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC (2011-present), www.tutormentorexchange.net Page 14

Tutor/Mentor Connection (1993-present) Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC (2011-present), www.tutormentorexchange.net Page 15
Maps can zoom into a small part of the city or show the entire Chicago region. These from 1990s.

Tutor/Mentor Connection (1993-present) Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC (2011-present), www.tutormentorexchange.net Page 16

 Place Matters: Read research in web library showing how where
you live influences your opportunities in life.
https://tinyurl.com/TMILibrary-poverty-inequality

Tutor/Mentor Connection (1993-present) Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC (2011-present), www.tutormentorexchange.net Page 17

Tutor/Mentor Connection (1993-present) Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC (2011-present), www.tutormentorexchange.net Page 18
Tutor/Mentor Connection (1993-present) Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC (2011-present), www.tutormentorexchange.net Page 19
Tutor/Mentor Connection (1993-present) Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC (2011-present), www.tutormentorexchange.net Page 20
Mapping Englewood

These maps were created to show

what tutor/mentor programs operate in
the Englewood area of Chicago, and to
show potential assets who could help
mobilize volunteers, donors, leadership
support, etc.

Tutor/Mentor Connection (1993-present) Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC (2011-present), www.tutormentorexchange.net Page 21

Tutor/Mentor Connection (1993-present) Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC (2011-present), www.tutormentorexchange.net Page 22
Tutor/Mentor Connection (1993-present) Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC (2011-present), www.tutormentorexchange.net Page 23
Example of Map Analysis to Determine Distribution of Corporate Philanthropy

After the ad ran in 1998 T/MC mapped locations of

agencies listed in the ad showing most located in
central part of Chicago. This was sent to CEO saying
“If I lived in a different area than where you fund
programs, I might want to choose another airline.”
Companies can use maps to align community
involvement with where they do business.

Tutor/Mentor Connection (1993-present) Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC (2011-present), www.tutormentorexchange.net Page 24

Volunteers, partners, investors needed to create and share new maps so we can teach more people to use
maps to draw attention and needed resources to all parts of the Chicago region where help is needed.
Page 25
See maps created since 2008: http://mappingforjustice.blogspot.com

Tutor/Mentor Connection (1993-present) Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC (2011-present), www.tutormentorexchange.net Page 26

 Find dozens of additional map stories on these blogs, written since 2006

http://mappingforjustice.blogspot.com

http://tutormentor.blogspot.com

Tutor/Mentor Connection (1993-present) Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC (2011-present), www.tutormentorexchange.net Page 27

 These stories
keep
repeating
If adults cannot keep our
attention focused on this
problem, there will never be
enough well-organized
programs operating in
neighborhoods where these
stories happen too
frequently.

Youth could learn to create

stories like this as part of
their own service and
learning. Try it.

Tutor/Mentor Connection (1993-present) Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC (2011-present), www.tutormentorexchange.net Page 28

Dan Bassill, founder of Tutor/Mentor Connection, has been using maps since 1993.

Tutor/Mentor Connection (1993-present) Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC (2011-present), www.tutormentorexchange.net Page 29

 A printed directory was distributed each year from 1994 to 2003.

I've been using maps since 1993, but I've never

been the “map maker”. I had help from
volunteers and professionals from 1994 to 2011
and donated software from ESRI. The Program
Locator shown at lower right was built by a team
from India in 2008.

Unfortunately, after 2011 I have not been able

to find the money, or the volunteers, to keep
these resources updated, so the Program
Locator is only available as an archive. It's still
a template anyone can use to support efforts to
make mentor-rich youth programs available in
all high poverty areas of big cities like Chicago. View archive at https://tinyurl.com/ProgramLocatorMap-archive

Tutor/Mentor Connection (1993-present) Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC (2011-present), www.tutormentorexchange.net Page 30

 Every city in America with high concentrations of poverty could use a
strategy modeled after the Tutor/Mentor Connection piloted in Chicago

View this map at

https://mappingforjustice.blogspot.com/2022/09/neighborhoods-of-concentrated-poverty.html

Since mid 2011 articles showing uses of maps have been published at
http://mappingforjustice.blogspot.com and on the Tutor/Mentor blog at
https://tutormentor.blogspot.com/search/label/maps

Tutor/Mentor Connection (1993-present) Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC (2011-present), www.tutormentorexchange.net Page 31

 Build your own Program Locator. Enlist a university partner to help. Use
the Chicago example as your starting point.

This PDF shows how people could use the

Chicago program locator to make their own maps
https://tinyurl.com/Using-TMI-program-locator

“Haven't you had ENOUGH” Visit these links to learn find more
Without using maps millions of strategies from the Tutor/Mentor
dollars can be spent on education Connection and Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC
and violent prevention and most http://www.tutormentorexchange.net
places still not receive the on-going http://tutormentor.blogspot.com
help they need. http://mappingforjustice.blogspot.com

Tutor/Mentor Connection (1993-present) Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC (2011-present), www.tutormentorexchange.net