When you click with your mouse on a Chicago community, a gallery of detailed maps is displayed for that community (only South Lawndale maps complete). There are maps of tutor/mentoring programs, businesses, churches, and schools. You can find contact information for each organization shown on the map when you click on the individual locations.

In future versions we will map the entire city, and some suburbs of Chicago. In each category (schools, business, churches, tutor/mentor programs, etc.) we will create sub-categories, to help users gain an more detailed understanding of the challenges facing youth in the neighborhood, as well as the assets available to overcome those challenges.

We seek donations and partnership from business, university and philanthropy partners who value this system, want to use it in their own community, and don't want to reinvent the cost of creating a system that could be used by multiple stakeholders in multiple locations. If you are interested in investing or volunteering time, email tutormentor2@earthlink.net or call 312-492-9614 to get involved.

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