Brian “Alf” Grzegorczyk has spent the past 16 years turning a Cheyenne charity he founded called Thankful Thursdays into a fundraising powerhouse for local nonprofits.
So far, the charity has donated more than $4.5 million to local groups, helping everything from fire departments and softball leagues to pet rescue programs and veterans.
At his own bar, Alf’s Pub, Grzegorczyk has added a series of smaller games to support Thankful Thursdays, the most recent being a bar-top game called Queen of Hearts.
In just the last 18 months, Queen of Hearts became one of the best tools he’s seen yet for drawing people into the bar and fueling his charitable giving — until a statewide crackdown on what regulators say is illegal gambling.
