Talent is everywhere.
Opportunities are not.
You can create that opportunity when you partner with HRCA.
Your support brings quality chess programs, trained coaches, and valuable learning resources to our community. It also helps remove financial barriers so more people can experience chess education, meaningful friendships, and opportunities to grow.
At the board, children, teens, and adults practice more than their next move. They learn to think through challenges, recover from mistakes, respect an opponent, and try again. They find teammates, encouragement, and a community where they belong.
Your support helps sustain affordable instruction, financial assistance, and welcoming opportunities to play and compete. Your generosity helps turn potential into possibility.
Give a child a place at the board and an opportunity to grow.
Help adults find friendship, connection, and a chess community
they can share with future generations.
You don’t have to play chess to change a young person’s future—
supporting chess may be your best move yet!
Your next move can open a door
Give Today. Create Opportunity.
Help someone take their first lesson, join a welcoming chess community, or experience the excitement of tournament play. Your gift supports operating costs, financial assistance, and accessible programs that give more people a chance to learn, belong, and grow.
Prefer a separate page? Open our donation form.
Your Gift Changes What’s Possible.
A Chance to Begin
Financial assistance and affordable instruction help members of our local community join in when cost could otherwise keep them on the sidelines. Your support gives curiosity a place to start.
Confidence to Keep Going
Lessons, practice, and competition give players of all ages opportunities to solve problems, learn from setbacks, and discover the satisfaction of making progress.
A Community to Belong
Welcoming programs connect both children and adults with peers, coaches, and mentors. Your gift helps create spaces where players of different ages, backgrounds, and abilities can grow together.
Good Food. Great Fun. Spirit Nights and FREE Chess Meet Ups
Shop for gifts, gather friends for dinner, or join us for casual chess! Follow each fundraiser’s instructions so your purchases support HRCA’s local chess programming.
Dave & Buster’s Power Card Fundraiser
On sale now through Orders close at 11:59 PM
Give fun. Support local chess.
Purchase $10 or $20 Dave & Buster’s Power Cards for gifts, stocking stuffers, or your next family outing. 50% of every card purchased supports HRCA!
- Any location. Valid at any Dave & Buster’s.
- No expiration. Give now and enjoy later.
- In-person pickup required. Physical cards must be picked up at an HRCA event December 5–15, 2026.
- Pickup locations and additional information are on our sales page.
Bring your cards to our January 18 chess meet up for even more fun!
View Power Card Fundraiser FlyerFood Fundraisers & Chess Meet Ups
Pick an event, invite your friends, and make your next meal a move for community chess!
Swipe or scroll sideways to browse upcoming fundraisers.
Marco’s Pizza Fundraiser Day
All Day
Six participating Southside locations!
Make pizza night a move for community chess. Marco’s will donate up to 50% of qualifying sales to HRCA. More orders mean a bigger giveback!
Not applicable with specials or discounts.
Participating Locations
How the Giveback Grows
Panera Chess Meet Up & Fundraiser
4–8 PM
Panera Bread · Town Center, Virginia Beach
Bring friends for free casual chess. Open to the public – all ages and skill levels welcome.
Purchases support HRCA so spread the word! Even if you don’t play chess, enjoy dinner and make a difference!
Mention HRCA or show our flyer when ordering in person. For online or app orders, enter FUND4U at checkout.
You can support HRCA just by ordering dinner, even if you don’t play chess!
Ordering & Event Information
Dave & Buster’s Chess Meet Up & Fundraiser
5–8 PM
Dave & Buster’s · Lynnhaven Mall, Virginia Beach
Make your Monday a game night! Join HRCA for free casual chess, buy dinner, and enjoy arcade fun. Open to the public—bring friends and family!
Mention HRCA or show our flyer so your purchases count toward the fundraiser.
Coming just for dinner or arcade games? Your purchases can support HRCA even if you don’t play chess!
Event & Fundraiser Information
MOD Pizza Chess Meet Up & Fundraiser
4–8 PM
MOD Pizza · Battlefield Blvd, Chesapeake
Make your Monday a pizza and chess night! Join HRCA for free casual chess, delicious pizza, and time with friends. Open to the public—all ages and skill levels welcome!
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Join us for a game or simply stop by for dinner.
Family, friends, and community supporters are welcome!
Event & Fundraiser Information
More Ways to Make Your Move
Give supplies, share your time, tell your story, or explore everyday ways to support HRCA. There’s a place for everyone on our team.
Our Community Makes It Possible
Thank you to the partners and supporters who help turn potential into opportunity. Your commitment to education, access, and community helps children and families across Hampton Roads experience the lifelong benefits of chess.
- Arete Academy
- Asian Indians of Hampton Roads
- Bayside Presbyterian Church
- Chesapeake Bay Academy
- ChessGorilla
- ChessKid and Chess.com
- City of Norfolk
- City of Virginia Beach Parks and Recreation
- Dave & Buster’s Virginia Beach
- King’s Grant Presbyterian Church
- Marco’s Pizza Virginia Beach
- Nauticus/Battleship Wisconsin
- Norfolk Collegiate
- Norfolk FestEvents
- Norfolk Public Library
- Norfolk Public Schools
- Sam’s Club Virginia Beach
- St. Gregory the Great School
- The Non-Profit Habit
- United States Chess Federation
- Virginia Beach City Public Schools
- Virginia Beach Police Department
- Virginia Chess Federation
- Virginia Zoo
- Wyndham Oceanfront Virginia Beach