Grants to NABC Tournament Committees
The North American Bridge Championships (NABCs) are held yearly in the spring, the summer and the fall. The ACBL Charity Foundation provides grants to each NABC Tournament Committee who then select a local charity or charities to receive funding.
Check presentations to local selected charities are held during each NABC and are reported in the NABC Bulletins.
2025 NABC Charity Recipients
Spring NABC Memphis, TN
The ACBL Charity Foundation and the local NABC Charity committee present a $5000 check to the Sunshine and Daisy Mobile Food Pantry. (From left): Local Charity Committee members Don Paterson and Carol Patterson, Memphis NABC Chair Bruce Wachsman, Sunshine and Daisy Mobile Food Pantry co-founders Gretchen Gintz and Andrea Denette, and ACBL Charity Foundation Trustee Cindy Shoemaker.
2024 NABC Charity Recipients
Spring NABC Louisville, KY
Pictured (from left): Bronia Jenkins, ACBL Executive Director, Kevin E. Fields Sr., President, Louisville Central Community Center, Cindy Shoemaker, ACBL Charity Foundation Trustee and Region 10 Director and Joanne Traver, Louisville NABC Tournament Chair.
Summer NABC Toronto, Canada
Firoozeh Radjai (center), director of philanthropy for YWCA Toronto, accepts a check for $5000 from the local NABC committee. From left are ACBL Executive Director Bronia Jenkins, ACBL Charity Foundation Chair Rebecca Brown, Toronto Tournament Chair Darlene Scott and Toronto NABC Charity Chair Jennifer Verdam.
Fall NABC Las Vegas, NV
Rebecca Brown, President, ACBL Charity Foundation, Liz Hamilton, LV NABC Tournament Chair and Jennifer O'Neill, LV NABC Charity Chair, present a $5,000 check to the Assistance League of Las Vegas President Sylvie Courtemarsh and League Member Marie Allison. Pictured from left: O'Neill, Allison, Courtemarsh, Brown and Hamilton.
2023 NABC Charity Recipients
Spring NABC New Orleans, LA
Jackie Zayac, President of the ACBL Charity Foundation, presented a check for $5000 to Heather Sweeney, director of development of Second Harvest Food Bank, along with tournament co-chairs Larry Federico and Jackie Madden.
Summer NABC Chicago, IL
Charity Foundation President Jackie Zayac, left, and Tournament Chair Suzi Subeck, right, present a check for $5000 to Sally Draper, executive director of the Rosecrance Foundation, an organization that provides substance abuse and mental health treatment at 60 locations in Chicago, northwest Illinois, eastern Iowa and southern Wisconsin.
Fall NABC Atlanta, GA
Jack Feagin and Claudia Feagin, Second Helpings Atlanta volunteers; Juliet Eden, Development and Marketing Coordinator, Second Helpings Atlanta and Jackie Zayac, President, ACBL Charity Foundation.
2022 NABC Charity Recipients
Spring NABC Reno, NV
ACBL Charity Foundation President Nancy Strohmer presents a $2500 check to Jim Forbus and Dawn Forbus of Honor Flight Nevada. With them are Reno Tournament Chair Jackie Zayac and Reno NABC Charity Committee Chair Diane Todd.
Maddy Browne and Katie Metz of Casa de Vida Reno (center) receive a $2500 check from ACBL Charity Foundation President Nancy Strohmer (left) and Reno Tournament Chair Jackie Zayac and Reno NABC Charity Committee Chair Diane Todd (right).
Summer NABC Providence, RI
District 17 Director and Charity Foundation Trustee Cindy Shoemaker and Tournament Co-Chairs Joe Brouillard and Lois DeBlois present a check to Kelly Seigh (far right), Director of Corporate & Community Relations of the Rhode Island Community Food Bank.
Fall NABC Phoenix, AZ
Mesha Davis (third from left), CEO of the Arizona Foundation for Women, receives a donation of $5000 from Phoenix Tournament Chair Ken Titow, Phoenix Charity Chair Joanne Titow and ACBL Charity Foundation President Nancy Strohmer.