My Twitter feed showed me this article today. It includes interactive maps showing the population density in 200 US cities.
As I find sites like this on Twitter I'm always hoping there is a person, or group of people, in each of these cities doing exactly what I've been doing since 1993 to build an information base, with maps, that people can use to understand where kids and families need more help, where existing youth tutor and/or mentor programs are located, and ways to help each program get the talent and dollars on an on-going basis that enables each to be great at helping kids through school and into adult lives.
Sadly, I'm not finding such people.
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Monday, April 29, 2019
Tuesday, April 16, 2019
Mapping Poverty and Inequality in the UK - new maps
I saw this Tweet last week and saved it to do a deeper review when I was back home from my hospital stay.
Here's the link that the Twitter post points to. I've been looking for someone mapping poverty and inequality in England, similar to how others have been doing this in the USA. Here's an article I posted in 2011, following riots in London. Since then, I've not found anyone creating maps like those I'm pointing to above.
Of course, my goal reaches beyond just creating the poverty maps. I want people to create overlays showing where existing youth tutor/mentor and learning programs are located, and where more are needed.
Then, I want to influence the growth of teams of business, non-profit, education and community members who help existing programs grow, and share ideas, that help every program be great.
I've written about this in past articles on this blog, and on articles at TutorMentor.Blogspot.com since 2005. I hope you'll take a look.
I show the need for planning and action teams, working at the program, neighborhood, city, state and national level. I'd like my ideas to be part of these teams and I'd like to be personally in the conversation, via Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIN, or any other format you choose.
In the UK, people often think about inequality in geographical terms.— CityMetric (@CityMetric) April 15, 2019
In reality, there are rich and poor areas almost everywhere, but they are not distributed evenly. https://t.co/sMzV6cn7LY pic.twitter.com/CHXwe6CGVM
Here's the link that the Twitter post points to. I've been looking for someone mapping poverty and inequality in England, similar to how others have been doing this in the USA. Here's an article I posted in 2011, following riots in London. Since then, I've not found anyone creating maps like those I'm pointing to above.
Of course, my goal reaches beyond just creating the poverty maps. I want people to create overlays showing where existing youth tutor/mentor and learning programs are located, and where more are needed.
Then, I want to influence the growth of teams of business, non-profit, education and community members who help existing programs grow, and share ideas, that help every program be great.
I've written about this in past articles on this blog, and on articles at TutorMentor.Blogspot.com since 2005. I hope you'll take a look.
I show the need for planning and action teams, working at the program, neighborhood, city, state and national level. I'd like my ideas to be part of these teams and I'd like to be personally in the conversation, via Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIN, or any other format you choose.