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30 year reflection

I created this Ning forum in 2007 to support the growth of intermediaries who would help volunteer-based youth tutor/mentor programs reach more kids in high poverty areas of Chicago and other places with long-term support that helped those kids through school and into adult lives.The site shares a strategy that I started in 1993, and named, Tutor/Mentor Connection (T/MC).   In 2011 I created the Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC to continue the T/MC in Chicago and help it grow in other places.Ning…See More
Jan 23
Daniel Bassill commented on Daniel Bassill's group Action Research and Learning (OHATS) - archive
"The OHATS that was created in 2007 by volunteers from India has not been available since 2019. Archived versions are available, but do not provide enough information.Thus, I was pleased to find a 2001 archive this week that describes what OHATS…"
Sep 13, 2023
Obeten Mbang posted a status
"Happy to finally be approved here. My name is Obeten Mbang from Nigeria."
Apr 24, 2023
Obeten Mbang is now a member of Tutor/Mentor Connection
Apr 24, 2023
Daniel Bassill posted a status
"View the August 2022 Tutor/Mentor eNews at https://tutormentorexchange.net/2022-enews/august-2022-enews."
Aug 17, 2022
Daniel Bassill posted a status
"Ning wants me to migrate to Ning 3.0. If I do it costs me more and the albums feature does not work. I don't like the choices."
Aug 17, 2022
Daniel Bassill commented on Song Mi Lee's blog post What I've been Doing for T/MC and What I've Learned from T/MC
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Jun 7, 2022
Daniel Bassill commented on ProjectEDUCATE's group Africa Tutor Mentor Connection
"Yesterday I was honored to speak about mentoring, mentoring programs and the Tutor/Mentor Connection with Aliyu B Solomon, who I first met in this Ning group in the late 2000s.  We've stayed connected since 2013, mostly on Twitter.  I…"
Apr 13, 2022

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30 year reflection

I created this Ning forum in 2007 to support the growth of intermediaries who would help volunteer-based youth tutor/mentor programs reach more kids in high poverty areas of Chicago and other places with long-term support that helped those kids through school and into adult lives.



The site shares a strategy that I started in 1993, and named, Tutor/Mentor Connection (T/MC).   In 2011 I created the Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC to continue the T/MC in Chicago and help it grow in other…

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Posted by Daniel Bassill on January 23, 2024 at 1:14pm

VOLUNTEERISM AND CITIZENSHIP IN BRAZIL AND THE WORLD

When, in 2018, then presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro (PSL) said, in the second round of elections, that he would “put an end to all activism in Brazil”, civil society organizations and social movements collectively signed a declaration of repudiation which cited a study carried out by IPEA (Instituto de Pesquisas Econômicas), in 2017, reporting the existence of 820,000 NGOs. Also according to the signatory organizations, it was a volunteer network at around millions of…

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Posted by Daniel Galvão Rosa Delmanto on January 25, 2022 at 10:30am — 1 Comment

Some considerations on social services reform based on the vision of the Chapin Hall Center for Children at the University of Chicago

In 1991, four researchers from the Chapin Hall Center for Children at the University of Chicago presented to the city, faced with rising poverty and violence, particularly among young people, an alternative vision of reforming the social services system, with a focus on social services to support youth and families. With funding from an intermediary, the Chicago Community Trust, worth $30 million - $65 million in current values - this proposal was initially tested in 7 low-income…

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Posted by Daniel Galvão Rosa Delmanto on October 4, 2021 at 10:00am — 2 Comments

Algumas considerações sobre reformas dos serviços sociais com base na visão do Centro para Crianças da Universidade de Chicago.

Em 1991, quatro pesquisadores de um centro para crianças chamado Chapin Hall Center for Children, na Universidade de Chicago, apresentaram à cidade confrontada pelo aumento da pobreza e da violência, principalmente entre jovens, uma visão alternativa de reforma do sistema de serviços sociais, tendo como foco os serviços sociais de apoio às juventudes e às famílias. Com o financiamento de uma intermediária, a Chicago Community Trust, no valor de $ 30 milhões – $ 65 milhões em valores atuais…

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Posted by Daniel Galvão Rosa Delmanto on October 4, 2021 at 9:00am — 1 Comment

Facilitated meetings - much changed since 1990s

 In the early 1990s I became aware of something called Group Systems, which was a meeting facilitation aid, where everyone used computers to brainstorm ideas, then to organize and vote on them.  In this Feb 2020 blog article I include a quote from a 2000 article about group systems. 

Much has changed since the 1990s. Today I participated in a webinar…

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Posted by Daniel Bassill on July 8, 2021 at 2:45pm

 
 
 

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