The Notes: Philanthropy, August 2-8

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Three Square Food Bank received $30,000 and 3,066 pounds of food from the Check City Checks Hunger food drive. Additionally, 85 Check City employees volunteered at Three Square.

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Véronic

Performances of “Véronic Voices” benefited the Human Rights Campaign Foundation as part of the “Lend Your Voice” campaign. The initiative was launched by Véronic in 2014 to benefit selected nonprofit organizations.

Four franchises comprising 57 Jack in the Box locations in Southern Nevada teamed with customers to raise $29,516 during the 33rd annual MDA Shamrock program to benefit the Muscular Dystrophy Association.

HELP of Southern Nevada is partnering with “Jersey Boys” and Whole Foods Market for the annual “HELP2O” campaign to protect homeless people from the dangers associated with summer heat. The organizations are collecting donations of bottled water at Las Vegas and Henderson Whole Foods Market locations through Aug. 31.

Associates from Keller Williams Las Vegas Realty repaired, painted and decorated seven aging housing units used for the Nevada Partnership for Homeless Youth’s Independent Living Program. Keller Williams staff previously repaired major plumbing and structural issues. The Independent Living Program provides homeless youths with housing, utilities, transportation, food and clothing.

Insomniac’s EDC Week Charity Auction raised approximately $70,000 for Culture Shock Las Vegas, which provides a safe and fun after-school environment for local children. Culture Shock hopes to steer young people away from substance abuse, violence and hatred through performance art and dance.

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Raising Cane's

Raising Cane’s raised $22,000 for the Juvenile Research Diabetes Fund.

Bank of America awarded $200,000 to 16 nonprofit groups that focus on workforce development in Southern Nevada. Recipients were Discovery Children’s Museum, Accion Nevada, Community Services of Nevada, Foundation for an Independent Tomorrow, Service Corps of Retired Executives, Communities in Schools of Nevada, Boys and Girls Club, Teach for America, The Shade Tree, International Association for Working Mothers, Special Olympics Nevada, Junior Achievement of Southern Nevada, Opportunity Village, Clark County Summer Business Institute, Legal Aid Center and Fulfillment Fund.

The Vegas Valley Mustang Club donated $2,700 to Catholic Charities of Southern Nevada.

United Blood Services of Las Vegas awarded 16 college scholarships worth $15,250 to local high schools. The amount each school received was based on the amount of blood collected at each. Approximately 6,100 units of blood were donated during the 2014-15 school year by students in Clark County and neighboring school districts.

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Jamillah Ali-Rahman

Jamillah Ali-Rahman, executive director of Friends of Parkinson’s, was named Ambassador for Peace by the Universal Peace Federation, an international, interreligious network of representatives from religious, government and civil society organizations, as well as the private sector, who are dedicated to world peace.

Nevada Women’s Philanthropy donated $350,000 to WestCare Nevada to renovate an aging 33,000-square-foot building at the Women and Children’s Campus in North Las Vegas. Future Smiles received $30,000.

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Cowabunga Bay

Cowabunga Bay donated $6,500 to the Nevada PTA, which named General Manager Shane Huish Outstanding Vendor of the Year.

City National Bank employees and families volunteered at Three Square to fill 2,400 bags of food for the BackPack for Kids program. CenturyLink Las Vegas partnered with Three Square for Backpack Buddies, the company’s food drive program.

More than 40 volunteers from the Allegiant Travel IT department and members of S1 Solutions and Wish for Wheels assembled bikes at Allegiant’s headquarters and delivered them to the Agassi Clubhouse of the Boys & Girls Club of Southern Nevada.

Clark County School District employees donated $2,005 to After-School All-Stars.

Favil West, president of the Foundation Assisting Seniors, was named Nevada Senior of the Year by the Nevada Delegation of the National Silver Haired Congress and the Aging Services Directors Organization.

CBRE Las Vegas donated $26,500 to Family and Child Treatment of Southern Nevada and the Public Education Foundation’s family literacy program. The money was raised during the inaugural CBRE Cares Catch the Leprechaun Run.

Local McDonald’s locations collected 1,000 books for Spread the Word Nevada’s literacy programs and students in the Clark County School District. The chain also donated more than $300,000 in scholarship money to Southern Nevada students and was the sole sponsor of the Hispanic Baccalaureate. Ronald McDonald House Charities of Greater Las Vegas awarded $321,125 in scholarships to 124 high school seniors and 49 college students.

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Taco Bell Foundation

The Taco Bell Foundation donated $56,660 to Boys & Girls Clubs of Southern Nevada for a party celebrating graduates in the Class of 2015.

Colliers International – Las Vegas raised more than $75,000 for children’s charities during the company’s 21st annual Links for Life charity golf tournament. Since 1995, Links for Life has contributed more than $2.4 million to charities including Candlelighters Childhood Cancer Foundation of Nevada, St. Baldrick’s Foundation, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Three Square Food Bank and Create a Change Now.

Habitat for Humanity homeowner Joanne Langston and her family received the keys to a three-bedroom home in Henderson thanks to MGM Resorts and the company’s employees, the city of Henderson and contributions from Habitat’s homeownership program. The Langstons are the 100th partner family in Clark County. The 101st home in Southern Nevada went to Bob and Dawn McKinney, with support from Bank of America and Henderson.

Caesars Foundation donated a vehicle to Catholic Charities of Southern Nevada, a local member of Meals on Wheels America. The vehicle will allow Catholic Charities to deliver an additional 8,990 meals each month to people valleywide who are homebound due to illness or geographical isolation. Caesars Foundation has donated 56 delivery vehicles to Meals on Wheels America programs in 13 years. Additionally, the foundation committed $200,000 to Keep Memory Alive to develop the

Healthy Brains Initiative, a website (healthybrains.org), a mobile app and an online community where anyone can complete a free brain checkup, receive personalized reports and keep up-to-date on brain health news and scientific breakthroughs.

Volunteers in Medicine of Southern Nevada, which provides uninsured people with access to preventive and comprehensive medical care, honored Donald Snyder at the seventh annual Volunteers in Medicine Ball. Snyder is presidential adviser for strategic initiatives at UNLV, former chairman of the board and CEO of First Interstate Bank of Nevada, co-founder of Bank of Nevada and founding board chairman of the Smith Center for the Performing Arts. He also has served as acting president of UNLV

The Penta Building Group raised $125,000 during its 11th annual Charity Golf Classic for the Nevada Childhood Cancer Foundation, the Women’s Development Center and the Nevada Military Support Alliance.

Southwest Career and Technical Academy students Jake Tolbert, Jaden Bailey and Ariel Rojas received $1,000 for “Fight,” a video created for the iChoose to Drive

Safe Driving Campaign, which involves local teens in a behind-the-wheel education safety program.

The school also will receive $1,000 from Cox and Findlay Automotive group. “Fight” can be viewed at ichoosetodrive.com.

Adam Kutner & Associates donated $500 to the Desert Gray Matters 5k Walk & Run, part of the “National Walk to End Brain Tumors” movement.

Tronox employees donated 20 units of blood during a recent United Blood Services blood drive.

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