I am the Director of Volunteering at Chess Without Borders, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to combine chess education with service and philanthropy. I met Nabeel when he was attending his elementary school’s chess club in Barrington, IL. At the time, he was being held back in school and was struggling with a speech impediment, but chess provided a haven for him to develop strengths in other areas (problem solving, strategy etc.) that required non-verbal skills. Chess is really what brought him back to par with his peers and made him feel academically capable again. He now stands as a chess volunteer, teacher, researcher, and marketing/publicity director for Chess Without Borders. Over the years, Nabeel and I have worked together …show more content…
In addition to spending most of his summer developing our website and social media presence, he has also intensively networked with other nonprofits. Nabeel did this by representing Chess Without Borders at the 2016 United Nations Youth Assembly in New York. Here, he was invited to address hundreds of international delegates on how chess can potentially close the achievement gap in the global school environment. This was an incredibly proud moment for me, but it was also an immense milestone in Nabeel’s journey in public-speaking. After he had delivered an emotional, humorous, and passionate speech, several nonprofits, including Youth for Refugees Advocacy and Barefoot Philippines, reached out to him to see how they could bring chess to their own nation’s communities. This year, Nabeel has been working closely with the nonprofit in India, Project Checkmate, to create a curriculum for teaching chess to blind children. He hopes to blend this into Chess Without Border’s global chess curriculum, so the 100+ chess clubs that the organization runs around the world can accommodate the …show more content…
He has invested a considerable amount of effort, care, and persistence into our organization’s values and projects, and his devotion makes me have full confidence in his humanitarian endeavors. I once knew him as the boy who was always afraid to open his mouth in chess club, but he has evolved into a charming, well-spoken, and intelligent young man with an unwavering ambition to advance children’s education and healthcare. Most importantly, he is both a leader and a team player and observes the virtues of responsibility and patience when working with younger students and adults that need his direction and care. For the company itself, Nabeel has been a saving grace. Chess Without Border’s founder became involved in a data analytics start-up company in New York City two years ago, and ever since, the nonprofit had been falling short on direction and organization. Nabeel sympathized for my work load, started sacrificing personal free time to help the organization, and ended up carrying out the founder’s responsibilities on a level that one would expect from a graduate student out of business
David Ortiz has saved the lives of hundreds of children by giving them medical care they would not otherwise have access to through his charity, the David Ortiz Children’s Fund. In February of 2005, he visited CEDIMAT hospital in the Dominican Republic, where he saw children suffering after they had heart surgery. He instantly donated two hundred thousand dollars to the hospital. Ortiz started his charity because he wants to give children everywhere the opportunity to live long, happy lives (DavidOrtiz.com). He makes sure that kids who need urgent care receive it as soon as possible. In the first year alone, sixty kids were given open-heart surgery (DavidOrtiz.com). With his aid, kids who cannot afford or do not have access t...
Craig has started a worldwide movement that inspires the youth of today. In many ways he continues to shape the way young minds think through his personal life story, the creation and expansion of We Day, and the continuous effort to stay connected to modern technology. To begin with, Craig Kielburger started wanting to make change and help people at the young age of 12. He saw that Iqbal Masih, a boy not much younger than him, was killed because he spoke out against child labour. This act of courage from a boy in such a hard situation sparked Craig’s curiosity and was the beginning of his organization “Free the Children”. These humble beginnings would bring so much change for the world and the story would inspire children around the world for many years to come. Additionally, Craig started and grew We Day which is an annual "youth empowerment" event that motivates youth to take action on local and global issues. This event has grown to inspire more children every year; “In 2007 at the first We Day, 8,000 youth came together at Toronto’s Ricoh Coliseum to discover...
The Children’s Miracle Network is a non-profit organization that provides charitable funds to 170 children’s hospitals in the United States and Canada. Nearly 500 corporations participate in fundraisers and campaigns that provide hospitals with equipment, research, and care to children who suffer from injuries and illnesses. To date, Children’s Miracle Network has raised more than 4.7 billion dollars, and what’s unique about this organization is that every penny stays within the network (CMN, n.d.). Children’s Miracle Network has been extremely successful over the last thirty one years due to the relationships that they have built with corporations, the extreme media coverage that they obtain, and the lives and stories of those associated with CMN that have influenced communities to make a difference one dollar at a time.
Who’s smarter at chess - computers or humans? Chess is all about ultimate way of thinking, which puts it on a same level as an extreme sport.In the eighteenth century, Wolfgang von Kempelen caused a stir with his clockwork Mechanical Turk—an automaton that played an eerily good game of chess, even beating Napoleon Bonaparte.CLIVE THOMPSON is a freelance journalist and blogger who writes for the New York Times Magazine and Wired.He blogs at collisiondetection.net. This essay is adapted from his book, Smarter Than You Think: How Technology Is Changing Our Minds for the Better (2013). A writer for Scientific American fretted that the inventor "Would Substitute Machinery for the Human Mind." Eighty years later, in 1997, this intellectual
Thus, through my personal principles and values I show great strength of One of these causes, the Miracle League of the South Hills is particularly close to my heart. A friend of my mother has a child who is severely autistic, and all my life my family and I have volunteered for many organizations to help special needs children, of all of these Miracle League has left the greatest impression on me. Ghandi once said, “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others,” and that is exactly what has happened to me during my long term association with the Miracle League. I truly believe my association with this organization has helped me to become a better person, more kind, caring, outgoing, and energetic. Miracle League was founded on the belief that, “Every child deserves a chance to play baseball.”
In 2006, Steve and his foundation contributed to improve two hospitals in Paraguay. In one hospital they helped build a new pediatric centre in one and a cervical cancer treatment in the other, and in Arizona, Steve and his foundation helps builds pre-schools for children that cannot afford to go to any regular pre-school. Steve and his foundation co-founded a football program in Northern Uganda, a country that had been at war for 22 years. Steve and his foundation created the football program because Uganda’s children had been forced to become soldiers, or slaves. Others were scammed by agents who were promised to become professional soccer players. So Steve’s foundation helped build a centre for sports and therapy, were children could have programs for art, sports and other programs. Steve’s generosity caught the eyes of the NBA and the Canadian government, and was awarded the Order of Canada, the highest civilian award. He also received the J. Walter Kennedy Citizenship Award from the NBA. Even time magazine recognized the superstar’s generosity and named him 100 of the most influential people in the
I always enjoy going online and starting a game of Chess to engage in a battle of wits against people from across the globe. While I first undertook this game as a time sink, it quickly became a hobby that I am passionate about. After pursuing structure to improve my abilities, I discovered my school has never had an organization for this game of kings. I would not settle for playing against matchmade strangers forever, so I founded our school’s first chess club and became its president, to enjoy my hobby more and also to teach it to
Through Waverly’s experiences in “Rules of the Game” by Amy Tan, the reader learns that one should not let one’s success change and affect one’s values and actions. Once, when Waverly is playing a chess tournament, during every move, Waverly will “pause, suck in [her] lips, twirl [her] chosen piece in midair… with a triumphant smile thrown back at [her] opponent for good measure.” (154) Waverly is very bold and confident to “suck in [her] lips” and “twirl [her] chosen piece in midair”. She behaved very rudely despite Waverly’s earlier teachings about chess etiquette from Lau Po. Waverly thinks too highly of herself and believes that since she is a chess champion, the same rules as before do not necessarily apply to her. Soon after Waverly becomes an even more well-known chess player, her parents begin making “many concessions to allow [her] to practice.
Trevor Pearlman is a member and past chapter chair of the Young Presidents’ Organization and a guest speaker for the American Leadership Academy. Family: In 1991, Trevor married Elaine Chaplik, an attorney from Indiana with a practice that specialized in Business Law, Banking Law and Savings and Loans failures, and Officer and Director Liability. Elaine’s father, Arnold Chaplik had been an Executive Vice-President of the Bunzel Paper Company who was also active with his Congregation and a member of Kiwanis International. Although Elaine is no longer a practicing attorney, she has been active in the Dallas non-profit and Jewish communities, and has served on the boards of Greater Lansing Jewish Welfare Federation, Jewish Federations of North America, Dallas Children's Theater, Dallas Summer Musicals and the Legacy at Willow Bend Retirement Community. She was also Co-Chair and Underwriter of Jewish Family Service (JFS) of Greater Dallas’ 2014 Woman-to-Woman fundraising event.
And the skills we try to learn can be less strenuous to obtain. He takes us back to kasparov and how when he was coming about in the soviet union only a few kids that showed promise could get lessons from a grand master and then be able to access records to famous chess games. Clive Thompson considers the fact that computers have leveled the playing field. Now any kid anywhere in the world that has access to the internet can learn more about chess games. Playing an artificial opponent made the game a little faster and the instincts of a player became fast as well. A player could also experiment and see what the outcome of different moves could be. This also means grandmaster players are being produced at a much younger age than ever before. He makes a reference to grand master Bobby Fischer who became a grand master at age fifteen. He does this to show how with the emergence of computers new grand masters are getting younger and younger. Such as Sergey Karjakin who became grand master in two thousand and two at the age of twelve. This clearly shows how computers speed up the learning
Game Appreciation is the second stage of TGFU. This stage is important because the teacher begins to teach students the rules of the game. Teaching students the rules of a game before having them participate will help their performance, and improve game play. If a student is unable to learn the rules, then it would be ha...
OSL is driven by the founders’ personal motivation to ‘continue helping the community’ and to provide people with a platform to volunteer (Chryssides, 2017). This became a vital part of OSL’s driving force and since then, their mission has grown to provide everyone in the community with a platform for conversations, volunteering and opportunities. Their success may be measured in various ways, such as through the degree of their expansion, the number of people they have reached, the number of and size of their sponsorships, or through the recognition received; from winning the Australian of the Year to being demand all around the world, ‘receiving multiple requests each week from Europe, the US, India and Asia’ (Richards,
He spent six weeks researching on sex trafficking and what he was able to do the help, he built a team, and took them on a plane to the community of Svay Pak. There they came up with and founded Agape International Missions, where trafficked girls could be saved from being sold again. His team couldn’t come up with a way for the under aged girls to be safe from the community. He produced from this concern, the Agape Restoration Home (ARH) which opened for business in 2006. Every call the restoration home received, they helped a new found girl find hope instead of see fear with a holistic* rehab.
People often fail to see the life-changing role sports can play for at-risk youth in low-income urban neighborhoods and the need for more sports-based youth programs to reduce crime and increase high school graduation rates in our cities. An article written about a year ago about “Royals, local government team up to open a youth urban baseball academy at 18th and vine,” The Kansas City Mayor calls it a dream and others called it a fairytale. Projects like this don’t come very often, or at least not nearly as often as we’d all like. They are calling it the Kansas City Urban Youth Academy. The possibilities are incredible. On the surface, they will be teaching baseball to kids from 6 to 18 years old, but really, they want to be doing much more than that. The only way communities can progress and build infrastructures like this one in areas that are termed as gang infested areas like this one is by spreading the message of love in community related events such as
...ership skills and helped me acquire organizational and time management skills, a key combination for success at the graduate level.