Your financial and in-kind contributions help HRCA provide valuable resources and opportunities for our community to gain skills that extend far beyond the chessboard. You can help sustain our thriving chess community and ensure that more people have access to the life-enriching benefits of chess. Together, we can build a strong community, one move at a time.
When you support HRCA, you are:
- Expanding access to chess programming
- Your support helps provide scholarships and financial aid so students can join chess clubs, camps, and tournaments
- Your support helps provide scholarships and financial aid so students can join chess clubs, camps, and tournaments
- Empowering girls
- HRCA provides girls-only clubs, opportunities, and mentorship to improve retention and representation in chess
- HRCA provides girls-only clubs, opportunities, and mentorship to improve retention and representation in chess
- Fostering life skills
- Chess teaches sportsmanship, teamwork, focus, patience, and resilience
- Chess teaches sportsmanship, teamwork, focus, patience, and resilience
- Training Coaches and Volunteers
- Your support ensures every student has a supportive and skilled chess mentor guiding them
- Your support ensures every student has a supportive and skilled chess mentor guiding them
- Igniting curiosity
- Chess inspires students to think creatively, analyze outcomes, and take initiative
- Chess inspires students to think creatively, analyze outcomes, and take initiative
- Nurturing Confidence and Success
- Chess creates a space where youth and adults can find success and build self-esteem
- Chess creates a space where youth and adults can find success and build self-esteem
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Program Supporters
Hampton Roads Chess Association proudly recognizes and thanks our community partners and supporters for their ongoing commitment to education, equity, and community engagement. Your investment in and/or support of our mission ensures that children and families across Hampton Roads have access to the lifelong benefits of chess.
- Asian Indians of Hampton Roads
- Cape Henry Collegiate
- Chesapeake Bay Academy
- ChessKid and Chess.com
- Churchland Primary School
- City of Norfolk
- City of Virginia Beach Parks and Recreation
- Hampton Police Athletic League
- Heartwise Scholars Microschool
- Ivy Memorial Baptist Church
- King’s Grant Presbyterian Church
- Nauticus/Battleship Wisconsin
- Newport News Parks and Recreation
- Newport News Public Library
- Norfolk Collegiate
- Norfolk FestEvents
- Norfolk Public Library
- Norfolk Public Schools
- Star of the Sea School
- St. Gregory the Great School
- United States Chess Federation
- Virginia Beach City Public Schools
- Virginia Beach Police Department
- Virginia Chess Federation
- Virginia Zoo
- Wegmans Virginia Beach Town Center
- Wyndham Oceanfront Virginia Beach