Welcome to The Waypoint Foundation!
At The Waypoint Foundation, we believe strongly in giving back to our community. After all, we have been the recipients of the generosity of many individuals and organizations throughout our lives.
The development of The Waypoint Foundation activities have been based around the specific ways we, the trustees, have been beneficiaries of other people’s generosity in our lives. Some of these activities include being recipients of academic scholarships, participating in scholastic chess tournaments, international travel as exchange students, and great experiences in youth scouting programs.
2011 Chess Tournament Update! Sara N. from Moses Lake, Washington was our tournament champion this year. Sara is in the fourth grade and outlasted a field of 74 students grades K through 12 throughout the Columbia Basin to take top honors in the tournament. For her efforts, Sara took home a cash prize of $1,000. The typical first place prize is $500, but this year in celebration of the 10th anniversary of the passing of Ryan Pugh, for who this tournament is organized, prizes were doubled. For complete results of the tournament, click here. And for a few of the newspaper articles from the tournament click on the following links:
Columbia Basin Herald, Grant County Journal
Please review our website which details our activities. If you find yourself asking yourself what you can do to help, please refer to the “How Can You Help?” page for more information.
The Waypoint Foundation is an exempt organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.
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