Outreach Coordinator Roles and Responsibilities
The outreach coordinator will be responsible for promoting and propagating CITL through the executive blog, posts on ChessTalk, and public speaking at chess and library events. He or she will also be responsible for managing any personal donors to CITL.
Candidacy Platform
Hi everyone!
I’m Tina Fang from London, Ontario. Last
December, I started Chess in the Library at the Masonville Branch here in
London. Being a founder and a volunteer was an invaluable experience for me. As
I’m sure all of you fellow volunteers can relate, seeing kids play chess puts a
smile to your face, and can create joy from the sense of accomplishment.
Taking on a role as a founder, however, was
difficult at times. London, being two hours away from Toronto, the headquarters
of CITL, has a much less vibrant community for chess. So never mind a program
for kids to play chess for fun- it was non-existent. Starting almost from
scratch here, I knew that promotion is essential to the success of CITL in
London. Sure enough, using media like posters and flyers for promotion, we
gained the much needed publicity for the success of this novel program in
London. So I think to myself: Now that I have done that for the program in
London, why not do the same for the program of CITL?
Media is a powerful tool. Using media, I hope to
present the most scintillating aspects of CITL. At my school, I am often given
the task of creating posters for various club activities. I believe my
extensive experience in creating attractive posters serves me well in designing
various attention grabbers for CITL. With regards to social media, I’m not
slouch either. I love using technology and definitely hope to apply it to
social media such as Facebook and Twitter to show the world what our amazing
program is about.
Besides my experiences with media, I am actually
first and foremost a chess player. I learned about CITL from competitive chess,
so in the future, I hope promote CITL to others as a chess player too. As a
competitive chess player, I am a part of the Canadian chess community. One of
my chess accomplishments was representing Canada at the World Youth Chess
Championships in Brazil last year. This experience introduced me to many top
junior players in Canada, and more importantly, has allowed me to be more
involved in the world of Canadian chess. This involvement, in turn, gives me
the privilege to contacts in the competitive chess community. After I am
elected, I will be sure to use that to our advantage to propagate CITL through
ChessTalk, the most popular chess forum in Canada.
Ultimately, it is the avid chess fan in me that
makes me so keen to promote the royal game that I love. I see being the
Outreach Coordinator of CITL as the golden opportunity to put my expertise and
passion to work for the greater community of chess.
Now, I don’t know many of you wonderful
volunteers, but I do know that it is this amazing program of CITL that bonds us
together to make this program the program it is today. I look forward to
meeting many of you at the CITL Festival and please vote for me as your
Outreach Director :)
Thank you for reading this, and see you all on
Saturday!
Tina
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