In the book titled The Spider and the Starfish, I read about how millions of people worked together to create a Wikipedia.  In the Tutor/Mentor Institute, I've been posting my ideas of what I feel a better operating system of support for tutor/mentor program might look like, and I've been inviting people to help me flesh out these ideas.

I've now created a http://tutormentorconnection.wikispaces.com/ that anyone can contribute ideas to and share in the work of creating a training manual and curriculum that could be used to teach leaders to work in ways that lead to more and better volunteer-based tutor/mentor programs being available in more high poverty neighborhoods.

I hope you'll contribute to the growth of this in the coming months.

Dan Bassill
Tutor/Mentor Connection

I have created a new Wiki page at http://www.aboutus.org/User:Tutormentor

This is an interesting networking site, which has 2,000 to 3,000 people on-line at any time of the day. Thus, if you're trying to find others who are interested in what you're doing, and who might be volunteers, donors, leaders, etc., this is a good way to get noticed.

I put a link to the Tutor/Mentor Institute Wiki there, so if anyone wants to take a researcher/writer role to help us flesh out some of our ideas, you're invited to get involved.

The Pew Foundation for Civic Change has created a wiki and I've been invited to share information on mentoring. I've posted some information at http://www.learningtofinish.org/doku.php?id=mentorshipprogram

I've linked this to the Tutor/Mentor Connection wiki, so that the main source of wik information is being created at one site. 

If you're working on a PhD project related to workforce development, poverty reduction, community service, etc. and would be interested in being a contributor to the T/MC project, please join us. 

Our hope is that one or more writers will begin to turn this information into books and curriculum.