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I collect & share ideas others can use to fight poverty & inequality & help volunteer-based tutor/mentor orgs grow in more places. Piloted since 1993 in Chicago. I have posted on social media since mid 2000s. Testing this platform now
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I shared two pages from my 1999 Tutor/Mentor Connection newsletter in blog article at tutormentor.blogspot.com/2024/04/buil...#SocialCapital#maps.

This is page 2 of a 1999 newsletter of the Tutor/Mentor Connection, which was started in Chicago in late 1992 as part of a new direct service youth program called Cabrini Connections. In this page is a subhead that reads "Building 'social capital' for America's future." in this I wrote about hearing Dr. Robert D. Putnam speak in December 1998 at a UIC Great Cities annual Winter Forum. I wrote that "Dr. Putnam's research shows that "Americans have dramatically deserted the voting booth, the family dining table, the church pew, the union hall, the PTA, and even the bowling league and coffee klatch" over the past 25 years. He suggested that new forms of social interaction must be generated in the coming years. I countered that "while most forms of social capital have declined, the number of students and volunteers participating in the 5pm-7pm tutor/mentor program sessions held at the Montgomery Ward headquarters in Chicago has increased.
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I collect & share ideas others can use to fight poverty & inequality & help volunteer-based tutor/mentor orgs grow in more places. Piloted since 1993 in Chicago. I have posted on social media since mid 2000s. Testing this platform now
60 followers212 following246 posts
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