Chicago Community Areas - Youth in Poverty Analysis

Understanding Need
for Non-School,
Volunteer-Based
Tutoring and/or
Mentoring Programs
based on Number of
High Poverty Youth
between age 6 and
age 17 living in each
Chicago Community
Area.
Data provided by Social IMPACT
Research Center at Heartland
Alliance
33 W. Grand Avenue, Suite 500,
2018 UPDATE! Chicago, IL 60654
Maps and analysis by

Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC
www.tutormentorexchange.net
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Maps showing
1 different sections of
13 4
the city are on the
2 following pages.
3
5 Each map is
numbered so you can
7 6
determine what
8
section of the city
11 each map points to.
Data courtesy of Social IMPACT
9 Research Center at Heartland Alliance
12 10 33 W. Grand Avenue, Suite 500, Chicago,
This presentation IL 60654
first created in 2011.
Maps in this presentation were created
Updated 3/21/2018 using the Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC's
Chicago Program Locator. As of 2021 that
site is available only as an archive.
https://tinyurl.com/ProgramLocatorMap-
archive
Pg. 2
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How Many Youth in Poverty?
2011 data reported in yellow
On each map, the top number is
the number of youth between age
1245 6 and 17 living below the poverty

level.
49%
The second number is the
percent of total youth in that age
group who live below the poverty
level.
2018 data reported
in blue
Note the changes between 2011
1255 and 2018.
48%
Pg. 3
Data used to show number and percent of youth in poverty was provided in
2011 and 2018 by Social IMPACT Research Center at Heartland Alliance. Visit
http://www.heartlandalliance.org/research/annual-poverty-report/
This shows Excel spread sheet from 2011. A similar set of data were provided for 2018 update.
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Learn to use maps, like the one at
https://tinyurl.com/TMI-ChicagoProgramsMap
Until 2010 the Tutor/Mentor

Connection hosted a GIS
mapping capacity and
interactive Program Locator
map, to create maps showing
existing tutor/mentor
programs in each community
area, based on age group
served and type of program.
Green stars on this map are
existing programs.
Note: As of 2021 the Program Locator is now an archive. View at

https://tinyurl.com/ProgramLocatorMap-archive
Pg. 5
1 Youth 6-17 below poverty level – Chicago Far North Community Areas
2142 2106
3,191 33.9% 36%
26.4%
4,284
36%
955 1070
28% 29%
263 271
9.3% 11%
Use interactive map

to build your own 1,350 1,352
neighborhood 708 39.3% 35%
686
analysis. 22.3%
20%
Pg. 6
2 Youth 6-17 below poverty level – Chicago North Lakefront Community Areas
1218 726 137 125

17.2% 11%
5.4% 3%
495 222
11.2% 4%
1340 1485
24.4% 31%
3563 2360 476

38.3% 28% 9.6%
Use interactive map
374 to build your own
7%
neighborhood
analysis.
Pg. 7
3 Youth 6-17 below poverty level – Chicago Near LOOP North Community Areas
2540 2171
34.2% 31%
1593 495
46.9% 18%
These are headquarter

Locations in LOOP
Use interactive map

1781 1734
to build your own 38.6% 35%
neighborhood
analysis.
Pg. 8
4 Youth 6-17 below poverty level – Chicago Mid NW Community Areas
2368 2344
28.9% 32%
2717 1700
25.9% 19%
1340 1485
24.4% 31%
Use interactive map
4542 4206 to build your own
29.1% 30% neighborhood
1280 analysis.
27.5%
1294 3563 2360

38.3% 28%
32%
Pg. 9
5 Youth 6-17 below poverty level – Chicago West Side Community Areas
6356 7127 5023

34.6% 42%
47.8%
4509 2540 2171
40% 34.2% 31%
2115 2448
48.2% 48.4%
2046
55%
2050
59%
Use interactive map

4717
to build your own 55%
neighborhood
4178
analysis. 61%
Pg. 10
6 Youth 6-17 below poverty level – Chicago Near South Community Areas
2202 296 302

35.8%
28.2% 17%
1978
36%
1136 762 1143

23.4% 495 40.9% 54%
25%
553 1126
20.2% 30% 798
41%
1098
40%
2076 411 350
49.3% 36.6% 26%
3874
Use interactive map 42.8% 1008 341
1364 44.3% 17%
to build your own 302 38%
neighborhood 3753 54.4%
analysis. 47%
163
59%
Pg. 11
7 Youth 6-17 below poverty level – Chicago South Central Community Areas
2202 1978
35.8% 36%
5321
42%
1136
7144 23.4%
51%
1098 1126
553 30%
20.2% 40%
401 793
16.9% 31% 3874
2622 3285 42.8%
27% 35%
3753 Use interactive map
47% to build your own
neighborhood
analysis.
Pg. 12
8 Youth 6-17 below poverty level – Chicago Hyde Park Community Areas
1245 415 294

49.8% 17.8% 14%
3656
62.1% 1410
52%
2549 1920 2236
54%
43.5% 51%
4205 2531
54% 49%
3277 2981
49.5% 40.1%
2585 3310
50% 46%
4400 2765
41.6% 39% Use interactive map
to build your own
neighborhood
analysis.
Pg. 13
9 Youth 6-17 below poverty level – Chicago Far SE Community Areas
Use interactive map
to build your own
neighborhood
analysis.
1644 1766 2548
29.8% 39%
39.3%
574 192
33.6% 17% 2107
45%
370
53.1%
358 419
247 16.4% 26%
55%
631 288
50.2% 34%
3176 3272 1488 1304

42.2% 44%
37% 44% 1932 1619
32.6% 33%
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10 Youth 6-17 below poverty level – Chicago Far South Community Areas
131 69
3.3% 2%
3176
37%
501 3272
44%
13%
1239
30%
2555 2319
35.8% 49%
1336
64.5%
1411
Use interactive map 72%
to build your own
neighborhood
analysis.
Pg. 15
11 Youth 6-17 below poverty level – Chicago Far SW Community Areas
2690 2628
32.2% 29%
873 553
16.3% 10% 661 734
20.1% 17%
231 861 4746 4386

6.4% 21% 39% 42%
1498
20.7%
1802
24%
Use interactive map
to build your own 1670 1655
neighborhood 19.8% 20%
analysis.
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12 Youth 6-17 below poverty level – Chicago Mt. Greenwood Area
131 69
49 83 3.3% 2%
1.6% 3%
Use interactive map 501

to build your own 13%
neighborhood 1239
analysis. 30%
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13 Youth 6-17 below poverty level – Far NW side of Chicago
43
2,4%
285 66
0 9% 2%
0%
263
266 9.3%
5.5%
271
229 11%
5% 254 307
7.6% 9%
532 694 2717 1700

25.9% 19%
10.1% 12%
376 Use interactive map

17.4% 4542 4206 to build your own
414 29.1% 30%
neighborhood
25%
analysis.
Pg. 18
Use these Maps to understand where tutor/mentor
programs are most needed throughout city.
This will help improve

distribution of K-12,
volunteer-based, non-school,
Tutor/Mentor Programs in
high poverty areas.
Educate donors, volunteers

and leaders so they are
actively looking for ways to
distribute needed resources
into the neighborhoods
where the numbers show
these programs are most
needed.
Also use maps to Improve flow of needed operating resources to tutor/mentor programs.
Read more. See the ideas shared at http://tutormentor.blogspot.com
Pg. 19
Create your own map
This is map of the Austin
neighborhood on West
side of Chicago showing
an increase in high
poverty youth since 2011.
6356 It is also showing access

34.6%
routes, like Grand
7127 Avenue, North Avenue,
42%
and the Eisenhower
Expressway, that bring
potential volunteers and
donors through the
neighborhood every day.
While the Tutor/Mentor Program Locator, built between 2004 and 2008 is no longer available, you can
still create map stories, using the current Chicago programs map at
https://tinyurl.com/TMI-ChicagoProgramsMap

Use multiple platforms to create your maps.
You can use platforms like
Google maps to learn about
businesses, faith groups,
colleges, and universities in
the Austin area. These are
potential supporters of
tutor/mentor programs in the
area.
6356
34.6% Combining information from
7127 various data platforms is a
42% way to create map stories
that focus attention on
specific neighborhoods.
The Tutor/Mentor Program Locator, built between 2004 and 2008, offered the ability to create maps
with layers of information showing programs, demographics, assets and political leaders. View this
PDF to see ways that maps could be created using the Program Locator.
http://tinyurl.com/TMILocator-how-to
We've kept it available as an archive so new partners from any city might step forward to rebuild it.
Contact Dan Bassill @tutormentorteam if you're interested in doing that.

An organized, volunteer-based tutor
and/or mentor program is a place in a
neighborhood where kids and volunteers
from various backgrounds and work
experience meet on a regular basis. In
some programs youth and volunteers
stay involved for many years.
This map shows locations of non-school

youth serving organizations in the
Chicago region who include volunteer
based tutoring and/or mentoring in some
way in their program design. They are all
different, so you need to view web sites
to shop and compare.
There are not enough programs to serve

the 200,000+ youth living in high poverty
areas of the Chicago region..
Find map at https://tinyurl.com/TMI-ChicagoProgramsMap
Pg. 22
Groups need to be working in every high poverty community area to identify existing
programs, help new programs grow where more are needed, and provide on-going
resources to help each program become the best it can be.
Pg. 23
Form a study group in your business,
faith group, college, high school and/or
alumni group.
Use this information and other

resources on the Tutor/Mentor Institute,
LLC web sites to help you support the
growth of existing programs and form
new ones where more are needed.
Hold conversations
in face-to-face
settings and in on-
line spaces, such as
Twitter chats.
Invite Dan Bassill, to

participate and help you
understand these ideas.
Educate Donors, Leaders
Maps and other data can show where non-school tutor/mentor programs are
most needed and where existing programs operate. Maps can also show what
companies have business locations in different community areas and what
philanthropic organizations provide funds to organizations focused on youth
well-being. The can also show anchor institutions like hospitals, colleges, faith
groups. And they can show political districts.
The maps on the previous pages were created using the Chicago Tutor/Mentor
Program Locator Interactive map, which is now available only as an archive
at https://tinyurl.com/ProgramLocatorMap-archive
These maps show the number of youth age 6 to 17 in each community area of
Chicago who are below the poverty level. Thus, if there are 2,000 youth living
below poverty, that means there would need to be 40 youth
tutoring/mentoring programs each enrolling 50 youth to reach 100% of
that number.
The Tutor/Mentor Connection (Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC) has been collecting

information showing non-school tutor/mentor programs in Chicago since 1993,
breaking this down by age group served and type of program. The green stars
on the following maps show locations of existing site based programs. Groups
with community based mentoring could map addresses of clients to generate a
similar analysis. (go to next page)
Pg.25
Educating Donors, Leaders, pg. 2
Use your web site as your grant proposal. If each organization offering
tutoring/mentoring will show on its web site how many youth and volunteers are
on its active roster, and what type of tutor/mentor service they offer, as well as
what age group they serve, this information can be aggregated to show how
many youth in a community area are being served.
Thus, if you look at the map showing West Ridge, on the far North side of
Chicago, you’d find only one tutor/mentor organization, yet in 2011 there were
3,191 youth between the age of 6 and 17 living below poverty level. That
number has increased to 4,218 in 2018!.
Using the interactive tutor/mentor program locator* you can add layers, showing
poorly performing schools, and you can refine the list of programs to show
specific age groups.
This information shows a clear need for non-school youth supports,

including volunteer-based tutor/mentor programs in the area, based on
poverty levels. Donors should be willing to support the existing organizations
and provide funds to help them constantly learn from others and improve what
they do so each might be considered “best” in what it does to help youth and
volunteers connect and stay connected.
*Note: Since 2013 the Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC has not had the resources to update
the Program Locator. It's now (2021) only available as an archive.
Pg. 26
Educating Donors, Leaders, pg 3
Leaders, volunteers, youth and parents in the neighborhood can use this
information and quarterly events, such as those offered between 1994 and 2015, by the
Tutor/Mentor Connection, to reach out to potential resource providers and leaders who
have facilities in the community area to educate them a) why tutor/mentor programs are
needed and, b) ways they can be consistently engaged in supporting the growth of
mentor-rich programs in each community area.
Connect city-wide and nation-wide. While such groups can meet at the neighborhood
level this only engages a few people. Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC advocates for planning
groups, program leaders and volunteers connect with each other in on-line spaces, such
as social media. In doing so, they can also connect with other stakeholders from different
parts of the Chicago region, and with others from other cities throughout the country,
creating a greater level of idea-sharing and program support along with a greater public
awareness that supports the on-going effort of each program in every high poverty
neighborhood.
Pg. 27
Through this process we educate leaders who use their visibility
to help increase the flow and distribution of resources needed for
ALL tutor/mentor programs in a region to operate.
If leaders are seeking tutor/mentor programs based on where they are needed,
based on number of youth living in poverty, the choices of who they support are
limited by who operates a program serving youth in that neighborhood.
Can we educate more donors to look at your web site, see where you are,
who you serve, and what you do, then decide how much and in what ways they
want to help you?
Pg. 28
Let’s find ways to connect and talk about this.
At the following Tutor/Mentor Institute and Tutor/Mentor Connection web sites you
can see how we put these ideas to practice every day in our effort to support the
growth of well-organized, on-going, volunteer-based tutor, mentor and learning
programs in high poverty areas of Chicago and other cities. Browse through these
sites and you'll find the graphics from this presentation and many more..
Http://www.tutormentorexchange.net
http://www.tutormentorconnection.org
http://tutormentor.blogspot.com
Http://mappingforjustice.blogspot.com
http://www.twitter.com/tutormentorteam
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/TutorMentorInstitute
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Understanding Need

Maps and analysis by

1245 6 and 17 living below the poverty

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Until 2010 the Tutor/Mentor

Note: As of 2021 the Program Locator is now an archive. View at

Use interactive map

1218 726 137 125

3563 2360 476

These are headquarter

Use interactive map

1294 3563 2360

6356 7127 5023

Use interactive map

2202 296 302

1136 762 1143

1245 415 294

3176 3272 1488 1304

231 861 4746 4386

Use interactive map 501

532 694 2717 1700

376 Use interactive map

This will help improve

Educate donors, volunteers

6356 It is also showing access

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This map shows locations of non-school

There are not enough programs to serve

Use this information and other

Invite Dan Bassill, to

The Tutor/Mentor Connection (Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC) has been collecting

This information shows a clear need for non-school youth supports,

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