8/25/22 Meeting Notes

General Announcements:

• Shared google drive in Impact Chess workplace: meeting notes and meeting agendas can be found here

• Director of Fundraising: Rianne Ke

  • Raised 1000 dollars

• New member: Cindy

  • Director of website design

    • will be yassifying our website

• IC is a part of the Presidential Service Awards

  • If you complete enough hours you can get awards (good for resume etc.)

    • 250 hrs - gold

    • 175 hrs - silver

    • 100 hrs - bronze

Merch:

• Gifts for advisors: free custom IC sweatshirts

  • Form stronger relationships with advisors

  • $240 spent

• Free merch for all members, thanks Eric!

Special Announcement:

• 8/25 Email from Daniel Arbenson 

  • Assemblyman for the 14th district of New Jersey (a politician contacted us!)

  • Thanked us for creating this association

• Joanna, Winston, Cindy, and Steven should be aware of possible events in Hamilton

Fundraising: 

• Purpose: to buy more equipment and chess sets to donate to underprivileged communities

• Eric sent an email to Hamilton Jewelers and got ghosted (common Eric L)

• Send emails to small businesses who you think can help fundraise

  •  Doesn’t matter if they donate a small sum of money, we can put them on our website as partners to create more credibility

New Event Idea:

• GM Andrew Tang agreed to do an event with us

  • one of our advisors

  • 46k followers on Twitch

  • Great for our platform, would build community engagement and would get our name out there

  • would pay him 100 or so bucks but it’s worth it

• Idea #1: A simul on Lichess with Andrew

  • Easier to organize

  • Might be more exciting

• Idea #2: A potential Andrew v. Jeffrey Xiong (an advisor) chess match 

  • Live streamed on both sides on twitch and could both answer questions within their streams

  • Would maximize engagement

  • Harder to organize?

  • Less interactive (would need some form of commentary to explain what’s going on) - Winston

    • “we should give them shots to make it more exciting” - Rochelle

• Need feedback on the viability of these events

  • We can get them to do their respective events or we can have a chess match between them (need voting for this)

• Andrew is available until Sept 2nd (school starts for him)

Reminder: have further discussion and vote on this ASAP as we don’t have a whole lot of time until September rolls around

Misc:

• Member of the Week system

  • Everyone is a member of this week (thanks Eric!)

• Decided on biweekly meetings from now on – should have a recurring meeting schedule

• Eric got an asymmetrical haircut

Written by Steven Li, Edited by Tianna Wang, Published by Cindy Zhou