Chess Mates Foundation Receives $10,000 grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

SEATTLE -- The Chess Mates Foundation today announced a $10,000 gift from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The funds will be used to support and sustain the Chess Mates Foundation’s new and existing scholastic chess programs in nearly 50 greater Seattle area elementary and middle schools.

 

"We are very excited our efforts are being supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation,” said Georgi Orlov, executive director of the Chess Mates Foundation. “The Chess Mates Foundation has been leading the way for chess education in public schools throughout the Seattle area for more than a decade.”

 

Chess Mates Foundation programs focus on the concept that the game of chess makes critical thinking and creative problem-solving fun for children. Chess Mates provides all teaching materials, chess equipment and a trained instructor for each program.

 

The Chess Mates Foundation has developed scholastic chess clubs and provided after-school chess instruction in Puget Sound-area primary and secondary public schools since 1989.

 

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Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, www.gatesfoundation.org
Chess Mates, www.chessmates.org