Building a just society by developing tenacious learners, compassionate leaders, and ethically-driven critical-thinkers.

ABOUT

Our work.

Make a Chess Move disrupts the school to prison pipeline by developing tenacious learners, compassionate leaders, and ethically driven critical thinkers. Through the game of chess, MACM has designed a research-based curriculum that identifies and targets positive youth protective factors and the reduction of youth risk factors. The curriculum is delivered to youth ages 8-26 with an emphasis on developing staff and young leaders from program participants.

Developing Tenacious Learners

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Increasing School Engagement

There is an abundance of research that shows how the school-to-jail track begins with school disengagement. Make a Chess Move is making moves to prevent that early.

Developing Compassionate Leaders

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Reducing Youth

Crime

Most youth violence experts agree that youth violence prevention requires increasing certain protective factors and reducing certain risk factors in the lives of individual youth.

Developing Ethically Driven Critical-Thinkers

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Challenging the

Teen Brain

MACM builds positive social change by starting from the grassroots - changing the way young people make decisions. We challenge them to step up as leaders in their community.

Make A Chess Move - MACM Universe

Open Chess

Catch us every Thursday from 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm

2015 E. 26th Ave Denver, Co 80205!!

MACM Testimonials

"Thank you for you recommendation of Make a Chess Move (MACM). Boston applied for a small grant and was able to partner. It is the most well attended club we have and I think it is 100% a testimony to the facilitators and the way they engage with the middle schoolers.I wanted to make sure to share my gratitude and get a shout out to MACM."

Ms. Brandi, Boston P-8

ABOUT

About

Northeast Denver has once again become the focal point for street violence. While news coverage addresses the challenging efforts to intervene in this violence, MACM is about preventing this violence.

MACM was conceived by and is run by a dream team of grassroots young leaders whose inspirational lives and engaging youth training programs are in demand by not only youth but schools, libraries, recreation centers, and organizations that serve them.

6,909

youth served from Nov. 2017 to Present

100%

of youth faciliators are BIPOC

49

schools served from Nov. 2017 to Present

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MACM HeadQuarters

2015 26th Avenue #B

Denver, Colorado 80205

MACM Safe Zone

1527 E. 29th Ave.