Sponsor / Mentor / Coach in Brief

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Sponsors, Mentors, and Coaches are appointed by the District Director.​

Sponsor

• Organizes interested people into a club
• Works with the officers to set up regular Toastmaster meetings
• Conducts the demo meeting
• Helps the officers recruit enough paying members to charter
• Fills out and submits the necessary forms
• Plans the charter presentation / ceremony
• Time commitment: from initial contact with the people forming the club to the chartering ceremony
• Credit: When the club charters

Mentor

• Advises a chartered club for the first 6-12 months
• Attends and assists with club meetings
• Explains what it takes to be a successful club
• Shows club members how to find and use resources available from the District and from Toastmasters International
• Presents Successful Club Series modules
• Time commitment: six-twelve months
• Credit: Served a minimum of six months

Coach

• Assists a club that has 12 or fewer members (the club must ask for this assistance)
• Helps the club build its membership as well as conduct productive club meetings.
• Assists the club officers with guidance on conducting club business like paying dues, recording educational awards, submitting officer lists
• May join the club, but only after being appointed a Coach
• Time commitment: up to 18 months
• Credit: When the club achieves Distinguished Club status in the Distinguished Club Program (DCP).