Africa Tutor Mentor Connection

In the mid 2000s the Dan Bassill, founder of the Tutor/Mentor Connection in Chicago, was contacted by a man from Africa, who said he wanted to duplicate the Tutor/Mentor Connection in Chicago.

Dan invited him to this forum and he set up this Africa group. Since then others have joined and I've tried to help them connect and learn from each other.

Ultimately, I feel they could create a structure that duplicates what I've been trying to do in Chicago since forming the T/MC in 1993.

There is still a need for such a group so if you're interested, please join the conversation.

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Daniel Bassill December 6, 2025 at 4:54am

I encourage members of this group to review the LinkedIn post showing a "Child Care Systems" map created using Kumu. Something similar could be created to show youth serving programs. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/kumu_systemsthinking-kumunity-powere...

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/kumu_systemsthinking-kumunity-poweredbykumu-activity-740280247052081…

Project of the Week: Childcare Systems Map This week we'd like to highlight an incredibly well done systems map and presentation! Developed by Earl…
- Daniel Bassill > Daniel Bassill December 6, 2025 at 4:57am
  
  Open the KUMU presentation at: https://buff.ly/IgtGNkR
Daniel Bassill April 24, 2025 at 6:12am

Are any of you familiar with an organization called "Afrobarometer" which is at https://www.afrobarometer.org/ It's a pan-African research network. Looks like a valuable resource.

Afrobarometer

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Daniel Bassill July 16, 2024 at 9:19am

Here's a really valuable concept map, created using Kumu.io software, showing challenges facing youth and families in Botswana. See it in this Tweet.https://x.com/kumupowered/status/1813243819573305491

The #SADC Summit will be in Aug 2024.
- Daniel Bassill > Daniel Bassill July 17, 2024 at 3:51am
  
  Here's the actual presentation - https://piercegordon1.kumu.io/system-thinking-youth-unemployment-in...
  
  System Thinking + Youth Unemployment in Botswana
  
  A presentation for the Meeting of Think Tanks in the SADC Region: Sustainable Development and Transformation.
- Solomon B. Aliyu > Daniel Bassill July 17, 2024 at 4:02am
  
  Thank you Dan
- Daniel Bassill > Solomon B. Aliyu July 17, 2024 at 4:17am
  
  I encourage you and others in this group to connect with Pierce Gordon on LinkedIn. It looks like he's trying to teach others to create similar maps. https://www.linkedin.com/in/otlhogilegordon/
  
  An easy start up project might be to create a map showing participants in this group.
- Solomon B. Aliyu > Daniel Bassill July 16, 2024 at 9:48am
  
  Awesome presentation. Kumu is a great tool to utilize in building youth engagement project.
- Daniel Bassill > Solomon B. Aliyu July 16, 2024 at 9:53am
  
  This is a KUMU blog that shows an archive they have created, showing many projects created using KUMU. https://blog.kumu.io/introducing-projects-in-the-wild-5528050de844
  
  Members of this group could spend time learning to use Kumu, then could create maps showing who is in the group and who they are connected with in Africa, Europe, the US, etc. who are not in the group. It would be a valuable resource.
  
  Introducing “Projects in the Wild”
  
  Hey, Kumunity! Have you ever read the Kumu manifesto? If not, we highly recommend you take a moment to go through it. Written by Kumu founders Ryan a…
Solomon B. Aliyu June 11, 2024 at 10:20am

Let's get to work my fellow Africans. Tutor Mentor Connection is a wealth of unlimited resource for transforming the entire world... Let's begin with Africa!

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Education means Hope

Education Means Hope is the title of one of three essays shared on the Peter Drucker Challenge website. Since the author focuses on Africa I thought I'd share it here. Here's the link. A second essay is written by a college graduate from Tanzania. Open here

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The Philanthropy of African Billionaires

This 2019 Forbes article is titled "the Philanthropy of African Billionaires" and identifies some of the richest people in Africa, and their philanthropic giving histories. I share this with the goal that the people from Africa who have shown an interest in duplicating the Tutor/Mentor Connection that I created in Chicago in 1993, work as a group to attract the attention and support from one, or more, of these leaders. If you've not been reading the http://tutormentor.blogspot.com to stay…

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Africa-Based organizations - introduce yourselves

We have had a number of people from Africa join this community. Why not introduce yourself, and add the web site of the group you work with. Through this you can learn from each other, and work together to try to attract volunteers and donors to read this list, and choose who to help, based on where you are, and what you do.

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Making this site a hub that attracts attention of potential volunteers and donors

Ning offers lots of flexibility for how you use the space. I have two suggestions. a) create a list on the page of blogs for each organization who is a member. You can see an example at http://firesidelearning.ning.com b) go to http://www.tutormentorconnection.org/ and add yourself and your organization to the Guest Map on my main web site. This will help you and others see where you are located in relation to each other. c) create individual profiles, and add pictures, RSS feeds and other…

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