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

[Bob Armstrong]

Recently posted on the members' CFC Chess Chat Forum:

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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[Roger Patterson]

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

Recently posted on the members' CFC Chess Chat Forum:

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.

Want introductory CCC material ? - cooperativechesscoalition@gmail.com . Consider joining !

Bob, CCC Coordinator
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maybe you are out of touch....says a volunteer to give technical aid to the rating auditor :-)

And you don't seem to be including anyone who volunteers to help run tournaments, some of whom are not even CFC members and don't even know how to play chess (e.g. Brian Raymer).

And maybe, there are just too many governors to think that there would be a surplus of people to volunteer outside the governor list.

[Bob Armstrong]

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

And you don't seem to be including anyone who volunteers to help run tournaments, some of whom are not even CFC members and don't even know how to play chess (e.g. Brian Raymer).

Hi Roger:

I agree that often organizers are volunteers in the sense that they take no fee for their services. And that often volunteers come out to help an organizer. But this really is outside CFC - 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 ".

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