Themes

Mapping and GIS

Using maps to show where programs were and where they were missing, set against poverty, schools, violence and businesses. Mapping was one of T/MC’s signature tools.

Items are matched by the words they use, so a few may mention the subject only in passing; the most relevant come first.

56 events logged68 documents and decks26 news stories259 library links139 website pages270 planning files
19702026

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Events logged

56

From T/MC’s activity log (OHATS). Select a year to see everything else from that year.

  • 1993-02-06 Dan Bassill met with Nick Rieser of the Metro Chicago Information Center. Reiser confirmed my belief that the T/MC's anticipated use of GIS was not being duplicated elsewhere and that it does have a broad community of support. MCIC agreed to map T/MC data, for a small fee, and to provide a list of people to contact.
  • 2000-09-15 Received email from Luz Rivas <Luz@npo.net>, which is a product of the Information Technology Resource Center in Chicago. She wrote: Thanks for the conference information.I'm interested in the survey findings and I hope to attend the workshop. We would be interested in exhibiting. I'm interested in learning more about your mapping and other services. I mainly work with organizations on database development projects and many times I need to refer clients for those services. Also, our business development director was telling me about some business partners that he is currently talking to. I think your organization can fit into those projects. C) Outcomes could be support of T/MC technology, intro to funders and, over time, a distribution strategy of tech firms/tech support to T/M programs
  • 2000-09-26 Manufacturers Bank has a first draft done on the brochure that we designed for them. This uses a T/MC map to show the area within one mile of each different bank location in Chicago, and provides a list of the Tutor/Mentor Programs in that map area. They will print different versions for five different locations and place these at teller stations as handouts.
  • 2000-10-11 Email conversation started with Craig Anthony Thomas, ExDir of the Kalamazoo Chapter of World Organization of Web Masters. By Friday, his message was:"Please re-send as I will bring up your proposal to two groups here -- the Kalamazoo Area Service-Learning Alliance as well as the Kalamazoo chapter of the World Organization of Webmasters. Both meetings take place Tuesday at 1 p.m. and 6 p.m., respectively. It is my impression from frequent visits to your site that Kalamazoo folks could go piggyback with your efforts in a viable parnership. I'll also check out your upcoming November conference as a in-service training session that our group leaders can attend. The information you share helps me make a compelling case for a partnership.
  • 2000-11-03 Talked with Steven Romalewski of NYPIRG's CMAP project (www.cmap.nypirg.org) an on-line GIS mapping project. Described our goals/needs, possibilities of them serving as partner/project leader on T/MC GIS.
  • 2000-12-15 Received email from Greg Skibinski updating me on work being done in Peoria. He writes, "good things are happening down here in Peoria. I will be the new Co-Chair for Peoria's Promise along with Sue Kingery. My department, Block by Block, will be working together with the United Way to increase our Peoria's Promise effort. We are also applying for two americorp promise fellows to help us with the development of a comprehensive list of providers and services for not only Peoria but our Tri-County Area (Tazewell, Woodford, and Peoria Counties) we will be developing a map for each of these counties as well. Also at this meeting I had a chance to meet our new President of the United Way Michael Stephen and he seemed to be very interested in what Sue and I had to say. We also showed him your CD of your efforts and he was impressed."
  • 2000-12-19 Wendy Francis at URISA reports in an email: "The Chicagoland Chapter of URISA is going to be revitalized soon. That may be a great match for local work. Also, our 2002 annual conference will again take place in Chicago. Another way to showcase your program.
  • 2000-12-21 Contacted via email by Dan Burke, Deputy Director for Education, CNA Corporation, Alexandria, VA. He wrote, "I saw your reply about CTC funding and thought you might be able to give me some advice. After reading what you are doing, it seems to fit very well what I would like to try. What tools (GIS) are you using? Would it take a lot of time and/or money investment for me to use them?"
  • 2001-02-02 I met with John Brothers, Director, Communities & States, for America's Promise. John was give a complete overview of the T/MC strategy, our use of maps, public awareness, the web site, etc. We discussed how T/MC could help with his goal of getting an America's Promise movement going in Chicago and other major cities and how America's Promise could help T/MC. Kenney King of New Concepts did the original contact work last August to connect John and T/MC.
  • 2001-02-21 Kim Fox, who organizes service learning programs for Loyola University, called to schedule meeting.
  • 2001-02-27 Met with Kim Fox, Service Learning Coordinator, Loyola University of Chicago. She's interested in developing slots for interns to work with Cabrini Connections.
  • 2001-03-13 Put close to 13,000 newsletters in mail to people all over the country. These share information, show the T/MC vision, via charts and maps, and provide invitations to visit T/MC web sites as well as those of other tutoring, mentoring and learning resources.
  • 2001-04-04 Sent Tim Herwig at TCF Bank a package of info on the Bank Brochure program (where we map a bank and show tutor/mentor programs within one mile).
  • 2001-04-04 Sent sample of bank brochure program to Michael Dobbie in Seattle, WA. Met him on ABCD list discussion of GIS.
  • 2001-05-01 Somer Baylark, Illinois Department of Human Services, reports that the Futures For Kids - Illinois' Promise web site page is moving forward. Their goal is to have the site in place to help recruiting in fall. This site was proposed by T/MC to Mrs. Ryan's office in the fall of 2000. Somer also reports that she's been encouraged to collaborate with T/MC on statewide mapping. We need to follow up on this.
  • 2001-05-14 Presented Bank Brochure program to Thomas J. Schnell, Sr. VP at GreatBank, N.A. They have three branches in the Chicago area.
  • 2001-05-22 New Concepts Tutor/Mentor Connection, an agency that has formed with much T/MC support, has posted this message on their site: We're working with organizations like the Tutor/Mentor Connection (T/MC) to develop holistic solutions to help youth living in poverty neighborhoods throughout the Chicago region get the adult support they need to move to a career. We've borrowed our name and many of our working concepts from the T/MC, and we encourage other organizations and communities to consider a similar strategy. Visit the www.tutormentorconnection.org site for maps and charts illustrating this vision.
  • 2001-05-30 Jim Cory, IT/GIS Analyst with GeoAnalytics, Inc. of Madison, Wisconsin, posted message to GKD list about GIS. I emailed him and he has offered to help with the T/MC GIS.
  • 2001-06-07 Mark McDaniel and I sat and tried to think of ways a GIS based working/planning tool could be made available in all the ways we've envisioned.
  • 2001-06-12 Craig Thomas emailed from Michigan, "at a meeting of the area's IT Managers Forum, I suggested that we map the region's IT resources. The example I used was the Tutor/Mentor Connection site."
  • 2001-06-13 Met with Jim Cory, GIS analysit from Madison, WI. Shared more info on T/MC overall goals and use of GIS to achieve those goals. Jim has volunteered personal time to help T/MC ramp up GIS capacity.
  • 2001-06-18 Craig Thomas of Kalamazoo, MI, send this email to ThinkDetroit: "Dan Bassill of Chicago's Tutor-Mentor Connection and I have been discussing how to make the mapping technology more accessible to nonprofits in my neck of the woods -- the Kalamazoo area -- and beyond. He told me of your interest and suggested I check out your ThinkDetroit site, which I did. It appears that we are all on the same wavelength.I hope you will permit me to share in on this venture. I'd love to use it for the site we're building here for the IT Managers Forum, an ad hoc group pooling resources to attract New Economy tools and enterprises. Let me know how we can collaborate.
  • 2001-07-27 Jim Cory reports "that Census 2000 data is available now for Illinois" and he has "since downloaded it, but it is in very raw format. This means that it may take a little while to massage it into what we need. At any rate we can go ahead with plans to update the mentor maps with all new data."
  • 2001-07-30 Received this email today: Hello- You are listed as a contact in a GRASP article for Community Youth Mapping. I'm writing you on behalf of Travis County Afterschool Network (TCAN: http://www.tcantx.org/). We are at the inception of mapping project for the Austin area that will map available afterschool programs in the county. As the GIS/Mapping Coordinator, I'd like to first contact successful programs in other parts of the country. My GIS and mapping skills are solid, but I've never had to prepare a mapping study. If you have any outlines or advice for tackling such a plan, we'd really appreciate it. Thanks in advance for you time. Best Regards, Theresa Noyes I sent back an invitation to look at our web sites and consider ways we can support each other.
  • 2001-08-07 I completed my first map of Mentoring programs in the Chicago area and posted it on the Web. The map was very similar to maps that Julie Hamilton has done for Cabrini Connections.
  • 2001-08-08 Jim Cory posted the first GIS map template that he has created at http://members.home.net/jcory17 .
  • 2001-09-20 This is a status report on Internet Groups. We have five active teams working on-line to support various objectives. They are a) Kids' Connection tech team - setting up computers at 800 W. Huron; b) GIS team - getting maps and database on line; c) volunteer recruitment team - planning and coordinating annual and year round volunteer recruitment; d) conference team - planning November and May conference; e) marketing team - building email marketing materials
  • 2001-10-04 Jim Cory has added a new map to the T/MC GIS web site, showing two shootings that took place on Sept. 29th. I emailed the GIS group, and two reporters (Mary Smerch at Tribune and Laura Washington, The Chicago Reporter) with an encouragement to look at the maps and tell others to do the same.
  • 2002-01-06 A set of six maps that show poverty areas in Chicago are now on the GIS web site. These maps show schools on the November State Board of Education warning list, and tutor/mentor programs. We’ve broken the maps down by the time of day the service is available and the age group served. Our maps show many more programs available during the 3-5 time frame when most workplace volunteers are not able to participate in comprehensive tutor/mentor programs. Our maps show fewer programs for high school youth, which is a contributing factor to the high dropout rate of teens. I emailed reporters, columist, editorial people, etc. at the Tribune, SunTimes and WGN Radio to encourage them to use these maps in 2002 stories.
  • 2002-01-09 Judy Markey of WGN Radio called and agreed to put a web link from her Radio site to the Program Links site at the TME. At various times during the year she'll tell listeners that if they want to volunteer they can go to this site to find programs where they can volunteer.
  • 2002-01-17 Margaret Grieco, Visiting Fellow, Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, UK, posted this message to Global Knowledge Development list: The internet can be used to empower those previously by-passed in decision making processes. The poverty mapping of Chicago (T/MC) is an excellent example. Volunteers in disadvantaged communities can map their experience and regularly update and display it and grow conscious of the overall framework which has historically restricted them." This was part of a longer message. I emailed a follow u p intro and offer to work together to develop GIS resourses more groups could use.
  • 2002-03-07 Julie sent T/MC maps showing MBF Bank locations. Karen Perlman, vp of Marketing at the bank sent T/MC their logo. T/MC will create brochure templates that the Bank will print and handout at 31 branch locations.
  • 2002-03-07 A T/MC letter to the editor mailed to www.directionsmag.com, titled Mapping Solutions to Poverty, can be found in the on-line version of this magazine.
  • 2002-03-12 Attended Advisory Council meeting of Junior League of Chicago. Offered input on Strategic Planning, and on future growth of "Next step for Teen Moms" mentoring program, which is a "signature project" for JLC. I'm one of about 20 members of this Advisory Councile. At meeting set stage for meeting of President of JLC and 2-3 other key leaders, to look for ways for JLC to adopt T/MC as partner and strategy intended to help JLC reach its key goals.
  • 2002-03-26 Met with Laura Lough of World Vision to discuss strategies for engaging faith communities in tutor/mentor program development and delivery. I reviewed maps, communications goals, web sites and other actions that her organization can adopt to draw more faith groups into on-going learning that leads to more strategic and long-term involvement of churches and individuals.
  • 2002-03-26 Email mining led to email contact with Chris Winters, who leads on-line GIS mapping at the University of Chicago, Arianna Huffington, who writes a syndicated newspaper column, Anne Roosevelt, Community Affairs Director at Boeing World Headquarters, Speaker Dennis Hastert of the US Congress, and a variety of others.
  • 2002-05-08 Met with Juvinile Justice Inititiative team to brief them on uses of GIS mapping as piloted by the T/MC. This group is looking for ways to better understand service availibility.
  • 2002-07-30 Tyson Lemons, a VISTA volunteer with a microenterprise association in California, called CAMEO, introduced himself. Tyson had subscribed to the GIS Hotmail and I sent emails on 7/28 to names I did not recognize, asking for introductions. Tyson's group is doing work that would be very valuable to T/MC. He also has sponsors that would be valuable partners.
  • 2002-08-01 Met with Catherine Garretson to discuss her role in helping develop a database of tutor/mentor programs located in Northern Indiana. Cathy works at BlueCross BlueShield of Illinois and was in the mentoring group that I spoke to in late June. At that point she volunteered to help the T/MC in this effort.
  • 2002-09-13 Ken Novak updated the Program Locator section data base and added many new features that make this a much more user friendly resource. For instance, it has a search feature that lets users search for programs in Chicago by zip code and programs in the suburbs by city name. It also has a zip code map that helps people look at the city and see what zip codes are near where they live or want to volunteer.
  • 2002-09-16 Spoke with Jon Schmidt, head of Service Learning for CPS. Set meeting for 9/23. I first met Jon in 1993 when he was leader of the Afters School Action Program (ASAP) in Uptown and I was creating the T/MC. ASAP was a key partner with T/MC and the agency continues to take a lead role in supporting tutor/mentor program growth in that part of Chicago. The organization is now the Y outh Net representative in that area. I had lost contact with Jon for about 4 years and we reconnected when he responded to a message I posted on the K-12 Service Learning discussion list.
  • 2003-01-21 Jim Cory repots that he has installed a free site counter service on the map web site. Since the January T/MC email newsletter references this site, the counter will help us know if people are visiting it and using our information.
  • 2003-01-30 I met with a rep from IC Starts to talk about mapping and strategy.
  • 2003-03-06 Erwin Mason, Sr., OCS-Corp, based in Oklahoma, called to talk after reviewing the presentations on the T/MC web site. His email follow up read, "It was a pleasure to talk with you and learn about your innovative projects.I feel that we both could benefit from our collaborative efforts our development and public engagement resources and you creative innovation that every community organization and leader should be using."
  • 2003-05-15 Barry Kibel, Ph.D., Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation http://www.pire.org/resultsmapping will do a workshop at the June 2003 Tutor/Mentor Leadership Conference. His topic is Use of on-line and paper-and-pencil journaling to inform, improve, and evaluate tutor/mentor programs
  • 2003-08-14 Louis Brass wrote an article titled, Literacy: Reaching for life's road map, which appeared in the 8/14/03 issue of the Batavia Sun. The article told of the T/MC's efforts to help a tutor/mentor network form in the West Suburbs and of the 8/14 meeting planned for the Barnes & Noble store in Geneva. Three prospective literacy volunteers and a leader of a literacy program from the West Suburbs attended the meeting, but no tutor/mentor programs.
  • 2003-10-07 Met with reps from Greater Chicago Food Depository
  • 2004-03-10 Dan Bassill of T/MC met with Bruce Ives and John Jiang of Metro Chicago Information Center to review T/MC uses of GIS maps, the T/MC strategy, and ways T/MC and MCIC could work together to make interactive maps more available to help communities build and sustain more and better programs to help youth move to careers and address other issues of poverty.
  • 2004-05-02 On May 1 I emailed members of the GIS group and requested a map showing the location of the Chicago school where Girl Gangs were terrorizing students and faculty. This was featured on the front page of the Chicago Sun Times. On May 2, Jim Cory, from Madison, Wisconsin, sent me the map. On May 5th this map was available in the Program Locator section of www.tutormentorexchange.net and I was sending copies to media for follow up stories.
  • 2004-05-06 T/MC contacted by the Center for Educational REsources and Outreach in Newton, MA. They requested permission to include a T/MC GIS map that they found at www.tutormentorconnection.org in a "series of academic cources for secondary students that provide opportunities to learn in real-world contexts". This map will be used in a module titled Wealth of Nations. Permission was granted.
  • 2004-09-23 Julie Hamilton, Scot Hamilton and Shon Doseck, a GIS Analyst with Pangaea Information Technologies, Ltd, in Chicago, met to disucss T/MC GIS strategies. Shon has volunteered to take a lead role in the project and has recruited his company to host the T/MC map gallery and provide other in-kind support needed for the project.
  • 2004-10-26 Shon got a basic GIS map site up and running on a site hosted by his company, Pangaea Technology. We can work on customizing it when he gets a little more time. If they allow me remote access, I can even work on it. Here's the site: http://arcims.pangaeatech.com/website/TutorMentorConnection/viewer.htm
  • 2005-03-14 Received email from Dr. Charanjeet Singh who leads the GIS NKCA project at UCLA. In response to my email he has offered to help build a similar GIS portal for T/MC. Steve Roussos, of www.akouo.org sent this referral a few weeks ago.
  • 2005-10-27 Dan Bassill met with a team of researchers and GIS experts from the Msgr.John J. Egan Urban Center at DePaul University to share information about the T/MC mission and its efforts to recruit partners at universities.
  • Undated Met with Peter Sherer, Director of Development and Strategic Partnership for Experience Corps. Experience Corps is a signature program of Civic Ventures, which was formed by Marc Freidman, who wrote "Kindness of Strangers". It's goal is to mobilize retirees to be volunteers in school based and non-school tutoring, mentoring and literacy programs. Peter had visited the T/MC web site and was very interested in the Maps.
  • Undated Jan Richter of Connect For Kids, based in DC, paid for 2 hours of professional consulting used to help the T/MC develop a poverty/tutor-mentor editorial that the T/MC has submitted as a letter to the editor at the Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Sun Times. Dan Bassill of the T/MC is part of a media advisory group that Connect For Kids/Benton Foundation works with to help generate more public visibility of issues related to kids and poverty.

Documents and slide decks

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Ordered by how often the subject comes up. “Read from page” opens the document at the first page that mentions it.

  • News Articles from tutormentorconnection.org · 21 of 45 pages
  • Articles from the T/MC Site · 25 of 107 pages
  • 1993 Montgomery Ward Newslink: pages about the tutoring program and T/MC, 1993–2000 · 11 of 25 pages
  • 1994 T/MC case statement, January 1994 (updated to 1996) · 12 of 32 pages
  • No General Would Go to War Without a Map · 23 of 28 slides
  • 2002 Technology vision of the Tutor/Mentor Connection · 12 of 17 pages
  • 2004 T/MC Newsletter, Issue 26 (draft B) · 4 of 13 pages
  • 2004 T/MC Newsletter, Issue 30 (Spring 2004) · 5 of 13 pages
  • Program Locator (December 7) · 4 of 4 slides
  • 2004 Use of GIS for Capacity Building · 14 of 24 slides
  • 2004 T/MC Newsletter, Issue 25 · 4 of 13 pages
  • 2004 Grant Application: Humana Chicago Benefits 2004 · 4 of 5 pages
  • 2011 T/MC History Links: 1965 to June 2011 · 4 of 7 pages
  • 2008 eChicago conference presentation · 6 of 9 pages
  • 1999 Proposal for an internet-based tutor/mentor learning network (S. Roussos) · 10 of 18 pages
  • 1993 The T/MC Report: newsletter pages, 1993–2002 · 8 of 28 pages
  • 2004 T/MC Newsletter, Issue 26 (draft A) · 3 of 10 pages
  • About T/MC (from the website) · 9 of 15 pages
  • 2005 Tutor/Mentor Learning Network: vision of T/MC · 6 of 9 pages
  • Interactive Map · 3 of 3 slides
  • 1995 Agency analysis of Cabrini Connections and T/MC (MaryAnn Manfredini) · 6 of 27 pages
  • 1999 The case for investment in T/MC · 3 of 4 pages
  • 1999 CHAMPS Award · 3 of 8 pages
  • 2000 ERICA Award · 4 of 4 pages
  • 2008 A minister working with maps (blog article) · 5 of 5 pages
  • 2005 Chicago Innovation Award nomination · 3 of 7 pages
  • Neighborhood Analysis: Doolittle and Phillips Schools · 6 of 10 slides
  • 2001 Tutor/Mentor Learning Network · 5 of 9 pages
  • 1996 Actions 1993–1995 and goals for 1996 · 3 of 8 pages
  • 2000 The role of faith communities · 3 of 11 pages
  • 1998 Goal of T/MC: a city of good programs · 2 of 2 pages
  • 1995 Goals and progress, November 1994 to August 1995 · 2 of 4 pages
  • Social Network Analysis Overview (Durian Consulting) · 8 of 70 slides
  • 2003 Annual Report 2002–2003 · 5 of 33 slides
  • 1999 T/MC case statement, February 1999 update · 3 of 13 pages
  • 2001 HUD Best Practice Award · 3 of 11 pages
  • T/MC Theory of Change (Leadership Pyramid) · 4 of 34 slides
  • Theory of Change · 4 of 34 slides
  • 2003 Strategies for Lend-A-Hand from T/MC · 4 of 9 pages
  • 1993 PCI public-relations plan: first use of the “Tutor/Mentor Connection” name · 4 of 8 pages
  • Connecting Those Who Need Help: The Role of Intermediary · 4 of 21 slides
  • 2005 Skoll Foundation application · 3 of 10 pages
  • 1994 T/MC work done in 1994 · 4 of 6 pages
  • 2002 Annual Report 2001/2002 · 4 of 22 slides
  • Internet Database Platform · 2 of 16 slides
  • 2000 T/MC growth, 1994–2000 · 4 of 9 pages
  • 1995 Hospitals and health care: a T/MC strategy · 3 of 4 pages
  • 1999 Letter to State Senator Barack Obama · 1 of 1 pages
  • 1999 Email to State Senator Barack Obama · 1 of 1 pages
  • 1995 TQM charts: Justice and Healthy Start · 2 of 3 pages
  • 2011 Athletes “Adopt a Neighborhood” strategy · 4 of 5 pages
  • 2005 Building a Network: May 2005 eConference · 4 of 34 slides
  • Tutor/Mentor News, Recognition & Awards (web page) · 3 of 10 pages
  • Technology Plan Diagrams · 1 of 5 slides
  • 2005 Testimony to Rep. Jim Watson’s task force hearings · 1 of 6 pages
  • 1995 Cabrini Connections & T/MC annual reports, 1995–1997 · 2 of 7 pages
  • 1994 T/MC public awareness goals · 3 of 14 pages
  • Mapping a Path to a Career · 3 of 24 slides
  • 1997 Get Intense: sports-celebrity strategy · 3 of 3 pages
  • Link Library Reformatting · 4 of 5 slides
  • 2008 Prevention conference presentation · 3 of 18 pages
  • 2003 2003 Recruitment Campaign: Final Report · 2 of 24 slides
  • 1995 Chart of T/MC activity, 1994–1995 · 1 of 1 pages
  • 1997 How many programs are needed? 1997 maps · 1 of 2 pages
  • 2005 eConference and Conference Introduction, May 2005 · 2 of 33 slides
  • 2002 Cabrini Connections & T/MC Annual Report 2001–2002 (overview) · 2 of 13 slides
  • Tipping Points · 3 of 14 slides
  • The T/MC Model · 1 of 20 slides

In the news

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  • Undated CAN CALL TV Fall
  • Undated ESRI News: ESRINews TMCMaps
  • Undated Newsletter team1a
  • 1994 Metro Info Center
  • 30 Apr 1998 Chicago Tribune: letter
  • Jun 1998 Chronicleof Philanthropy Maps letter June
  • Oct 1998 School to Work Reporter: School To Work Reporter
  • 1998 Chronicleof Philanthropy Maps
  • 1998 STW Reporter
  • 1999 URISANews
  • 30 Mar 1999 Chicago Tribune: Evanston conf
  • 9 Apr 1999 Digital City Evanston TMC Conf
  • 23 Jun 1999 Connect for Kids.org
  • Dec 1999 Helping The Kids URISA News Dec
  • 2000 Mentoring Coalition Dade Cty
  • 20 Jan 2000 American News Service TMC Mapping
  • 2001 Ecumenical Child Care Network2001
  • 2002 Directions Mag.com mapping
  • 2002 ESRI News: ESRINews TMCMaps
  • 16 Oct 2002 GIS for Everyone TMC use of GIS
  • 15 Aug 2003 Suburban Chicago News: Suburban News TMC Recruitment
  • 2004 Social Innovation Award Nomination
  • 2009 Youth Today: YOUTH Today
  • 2009 YOUTHToday
  • 15 Oct 2015 Chicago Tribune: Interactive Maps
  • 21 Oct 2015 Chicago Tribune: Maps

Library links

259

Links T/MC collected for program leaders; many outside sites have since moved or closed.

Planning files

270

Files in T/MC’s planning folders whose titles mention this subject.

Website pages

139

Pages of T/MC’s website, tutormentorexchange.net, 2008–2026.