The CCC Post ( Week of Dec. 9 - 15/11 ).

[Bob Armstrong]

The CCC Post ( Week of Dec. 9 - 15/11 ).

Q: The relationship between an organization and its members can be measured by the extent of member volunteer involvement. Outside of the CFC Governors, CFC seems to have almost no other member volunteers involved in administration. Is the relationship between CFC and its members unhealthy at the moment?

A: The Cooperative Chess Coalition ( CCC ) can only list 2 member volunteers outside of governors: the CFC Handbook Updater; the U 16 Olympiad Coordinator. And there appears to be a member cooperating with the Rating Auditor on research. But there are no non-governor volunteers on any of the committees so far as CCC is aware, except for parental involvement in the WYCC, and on the Youth Advisory Committee. And re this committee, there is a move afoot to form a smaller new governor-dominated “ Youth Committee “, and turn the current Advisory Committee, into a Youth Committee Advisory Group. CCC feels CFC makes insufficient effort to involve members in its operation – there are no ordinary members on either of the new Long-Term Planning or the Membership Drive Committees. There is no volunteer member Fund-raising Committee to our knowledge. Members have to be given real opportunities to affect decision-making, and CFC must be pro-active in terms of member volunteers if it wants to get their involvement.

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[Erik Malmsten]

The CCC Post ( Week of Dec. 9 - 15/11 ).

Q: The relationship between an organization and its members can be measured by the extent of member volunteer involvement. Outside of the CFC Governors, CFC seems to have almost no other member volunteers involved in administration. Is the relationship between CFC and its members unhealthy at the moment?

A: The Cooperative Chess Coalition ( CCC ) can only list 2 member volunteers outside of governors: the CFC Handbook Updater; the U 16 Olympiad Coordinator. And there appears to be a member cooperating with the Rating Auditor on research. But there are no non-governor volunteers on any of the committees so far as CCC is aware, except for parental involvement in the WYCC, and on the Youth Advisory Committee. And re this committee, there is a move afoot to form a smaller new governor-dominated “ Youth Committee “, and turn the current Advisory Committee, into a Youth Committee Advisory Group. CCC feels CFC makes insufficient effort to involve members in its operation – there are no ordinary members on either of the new Long-Term Planning or the Membership Drive Committees. There is no volunteer member Fund-raising Committee to our knowledge. Members have to be given real opportunities to affect decision-making, and CFC must be pro-active in terms of member volunteers if it wants to get their involvement.

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The CFC has all kinds of volunteers who run CFC-rated tournaments and collect memberships, run local and school chessclubs, sit on local and provincial organizations and participate in online forums.

The reason I support a large number of Governors is in the hope that all of the Governors would be active on committees, so that not just the Executive are busy. I hoped that Governors would already be active in their local areas and be willing to do a little more, or find others in their club to help. By being listed as a Governor would be a commitment to volunteer. But you want to shrink the number of Governors yet increase the number of volunteers?!

[Bob Armstrong]

Hi Erik:

I agree that often organizers are volunteers in the sense that they often take no fee for their services. And that often volunteers come out to help an organizer. As well volunteers run chess clubs. And some may sit on other organizations as volunteers.

But this really is outside CFC - for tournaments, for example, CFC contributes little, except the potential that the organizer has to get the tournament CFC-rated. It is not really part of the CFC " decision-making system ". Nor are clubs.

CCC is focusing more on volunteers in the actual CFC administration and decision-making. It is here that we see too few volunteers.

Bob A, CCC Coordinator