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At 12:10pm on June 1, 2009, Cathy Puett Miller said…: Dave, I love to know that there are people working hard to promote the arts. In too many schools, it's falling by the wayside. I have just completed an eBook that you might find helpful. It's called Powerful Picture Books: 180 Ideas for Promoting Content Learning and it has a LOT of art connections. Check it out (and order today) at http://inspiringteachers.com/catalog/ebooks/powerful_picture_books.html

At 9:31am on May 17, 2009, Daniel Bassill said…: Hi Dave. Thanks for joining. Can you edit your web address. You have a comma where there should be a dot so the link does not work.

I encourage you to look at the maps at http://mappingforjustice.blogspot.com and imagine how groups like yours might work to create a distribution of places where arts volunteers and activities connect with youth throughout your region.

Existing youth serving organizations could be places where such volunteers connect with youth. In our own Cabrini Connections program in Chicago you can see how this is happening.

In our case, we had to reach out to invite arts volunteers to participate, and we have total responsibility for finding the funding to pay for the space, recruit the kids, etc.

My goal is that this responsibility be shared by businesses, hospitals, arts groups, etc. who would like to see their ideas reach kids we and similar programs serve.

As you follow the discussions here an on our blogs you'll see that we focus consistently on this idea as a way to make more, and better, youth mentoring and tutoring and learning programs be available to youth living in high poverty areas.