Earlier this season, he gave America's Foundation for Chess, a nonprofit organization, $7,500 to sponsor a chess-in-the-schools program at Madrona Elementary School in Seattle.
They included $500,000 for the Chess-in-the-Schools program and $5 million for the New York/New Jersey 2014 Super Bowl host committee.
It is too bad there was no mention that Carlos was part of the Chess-in-the-Schools program, involving 36,000 disadvantaged children in New York.
Today, for instance, for a forthcoming book based on his poetry-in-the-schools program, he had to put the selected poems in proper order.
Carlos is a wonderful role model for others entering the Chess-in-the-Schools program, which is endorsed by the Board of Education but primarily supported by private philanthropy.
Those most affected are small arts organizations like the William Inge Center for the Arts Playwrights-in-the-Schools program in Independence, Kan., on the campus of Independence Community College, about 140 miles south of Kansas City, Mo.
"There was a real need for it out here," Mr. Leibowitz said, arguing that the Chess-in-the-Schools program that is so popular in New York City had left Suffolk County out in the sticks.
I took the opportunity to promote science and mathematics among indigenous students through my involvement in the Innovators in the Schools Program, summer science camps, and science fairs.
He teaches in the California Poets in the Schools Program.
