Marathon Man
Tax deductible
To honour my father’s life i’m running the Scotiabank Half-Marathon on October 20th & raising funds for a partnership between the Chess Institute of Canada & Eva’s Initiatives for Homeless Youth. I’m marrying Ted’s love of running with his love of helping- connecting his formative and later years- into a neat little package which my therapist has told me will not lessen the pain but which I'm secretly hoping she’s wrong about. By making sure his death isn’t a vacuum that sucked me in, but the spark I needed to be able to burn brighter. Because it's through this experience that I’m coming to realize that ‘the world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are stronger in the broken places’ (Hemingway).
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Chess Institute of Canada and Eva’s Initiatives for Homeless Youth:
Chess Institute of Canada (CIC) is a registered charity incorporated in 2005. CIC’s mission is to change lives through chess. CIC uses chess as an educational tool to develop thinking and social skills, foster emotional well-being and develop positive attitudes - benefits which program participants can carry with them throughout their lives to live more successfully.
At the request of Eva’s Initiatives for Homeless Youth (evas.ca), CIC wishes to provide chess programming at Eva’s Phoenix , a facility which provides transitional housing for 50 youth aged 16 to 24, located on Brant Street in downtown Toronto. The facility also provides educational support, employment training and independent living skills.
The proposed project is a 10-week series of weekly chess clubs led by experienced and specially trained chess instructors. The club will be a welcoming and accessible forum in which participants will learn the basics of playing chess - a tool to meet & and connect with people throughout life - and will practice important skills that apply to many areas of life. The mental practices gained by playing chess are proven to lead to better emotional intelligence, self-confidence and self-mastery, equipping people with life skills that can help them lead healthy, productive lives.
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Chess Institute of Canada and Eva’s Initiatives for Homeless Youth:
Chess Institute of Canada (CIC) is a registered charity incorporated in 2005. CIC’s mission is to change lives through chess. CIC uses chess as an educational tool to develop thinking and social skills, foster emotional well-being and develop positive attitudes - benefits which program participants can carry with them throughout their lives to live more successfully.
At the request of Eva’s Initiatives for Homeless Youth (evas.ca), CIC wishes to provide chess programming at Eva’s Phoenix , a facility which provides transitional housing for 50 youth aged 16 to 24, located on Brant Street in downtown Toronto. The facility also provides educational support, employment training and independent living skills.
The proposed project is a 10-week series of weekly chess clubs led by experienced and specially trained chess instructors. The club will be a welcoming and accessible forum in which participants will learn the basics of playing chess - a tool to meet & and connect with people throughout life - and will practice important skills that apply to many areas of life. The mental practices gained by playing chess are proven to lead to better emotional intelligence, self-confidence and self-mastery, equipping people with life skills that can help them lead healthy, productive lives.
Give $100 to help get this fundraiser to its goal
Organizer
Maxie Darya Winick
Organizer
Toronto, ON
Chess Institute of Canada
Registered nonprofit
Donations are typically tax deductible in Canada.
