Thank you for coming to our tournament! All food sale proceeds are given to charity. Every student and adult helper at our tournament is a volunteer for the program. Through participation in tournaments, your children build chess skills and, by purchasing food at the tournament, you help us raise funds for charities both locally and globally.
The volunteers at the Grove Avenue Chess Tournament have selected to raise funds for Smiletrain and for repaying studio time used for producing Meher’s video. Chess student Toby, who was born with a cleft lip and successfully operated upon, will be volunteering with guitarist Ron Swanson. Both will be on hand to answer any questions about the program you support by purchasing a meal on Saturday. We honor the involvement and diversity of other youth volunteers and are delighted to learn valuable skills from each other.
The mission of the Chess Without Borders program is to combine education with service and philanthropy. This award winning chess program was started at Grove Avenue School by Principal Cindy Kalageropolous and her student, Rishi Sethi. Since its inception in 1999, the program has had an impact in educating hundreds of students, donating almost $67,000 to local and international charities and promoting volunteerism among young students. This includes $26,000 donated so far for plastic surgery and education for Meher (For more information visit
www.shulmanchess.com/History <http://www.shulmanchess.com/History> of Chess)
We are proud of our volunteer leaders for this tournament, Isabella Anzelde and Jane Bradley, pictured below. We would like to welcome our special guest volunteer from India, Sudha Dang, who is joining us and serving food.
Thank you for opening so many possibilities for education, service and philanthropy for our students. We welcome any food donations that you can bring to the tournament that can be sold adding to the total donations made to the charity.
Rich Ni
(Director of Youth Volunteers for Chess Without Borders) and
Dr Kiran Frey
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