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Help Build the Future of Go in the US

Published on 12/21/2012

The American Go Foundation's annual fund-drive is under way. "Every dollar you give is matched by the hundreds of hours AGF board members, mentors and volunteers spend on helping our programs and encouraging others to teach go," says AGF President Terry Benson. The AGF and AGA worked "more closely than ever to promote go" in 2012, Benson says, and "Now the AGF needs to rebuild our treasury."

The AGF Store, previously available only to approved AGF programs, is now open to college clubs and AGA chapters, while continuing to serve schools, libraries and community programs.

The AGA has renewed its matching grant program for college clubs to help them purchase playing equipment from the AGF Store for club use. The AGF had a booth at the American Library Association convention again this year to encourage libraries to order the Hikaru no Go manga for only $20. "These sets are the seeds for the future of go which we’ve planted in hundreds of communities around the country," says Benson, "often with the assistance of local volunteers working with their community’s youth librarians. The library clubs are nurtured with the equipment made possible by generous go players."

The AGF provided most of the funding to broadcast and archive the sessions at the 2012 International Go Symposium and the AGF also provided $11,000 in scholarships for kids to attend this year's US Go Congress and US Go Camp, as well as $1,000 for new go comics on the TigersMouth website. The $1,000 AGF College Scholarships reward college bound organizers and "We just received a shipment of $15,000 worth of boards, stones, and bowls to replenish our supplies for youth programs."

"If you have helped the AGF before," urges Benson, "please renew your support. If you haven’t, please start now."

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