Hash House A Go Go in Henderson raised more than $3,000 for Hope for Prisoners, a local nonprofit organization that works with Metro Police to empower criminal offenders who are reintegrating into mainstream society. Rick Harrison, star of “Pawn Stars,” also donated $1,000, and AlertID donated $5,000.
The Tyler Robinson Foundation unveiled the TRF Cares Family Room at Sunrise Children’s Hospital. The foundation was started by local band Imagine Dragons and the Robinson family to help families of pediatric cancer patients.
Wynn and Encore partnered with the Meeting Planners International Foundation to launch a scholarship for professional meeting planners. The scholarship — $75,000 that will cover two new recipients each month over the next three years — pays for networking opportunities, educational resources and industry research.
Raising Cane’s donated proceeds from the opening day of its new store in North Las Vegas to the Make-a-Wish Foundation.
Habitat for Humanity Las Vegas raised the walls on its 105th home. The Wells Fargo Bank-sponsored house is one of six single-family homes Habitat Las Vegas is expected to complete by June. The four-bedroom, 1,500-square-foot home went to Taryna Wallace, a single mother of four.
Clark County Sheriff Joseph Lombardo and Gigi Shaukat, a philanthropist and former marketing executive at Procter & Gamble, joined the board of directors of Make-A-Wish Southern Nevada.
Joe Kaminkow joined the board of directors of the Cal Ripken Sr. Foundation. Kaminkow is senior vice president of game development at Aristocrat Technologies, chief game designer at Zynga-Chicago and founder of Spooky Cool Labs. The foundation uses baseball- and softball-themed programs to build character and teach perseverance, loyalty, nutrition and leadership to underserved youths.
Southwest Gas Corp. donated $85,963 to Catholic Charities of Southern Nevada. Southwest Gas employees raised the money through the company’s Fuel For Life campaign, which allows employees to donate to a local nonprofit organization.
The Engelstad Family Foundation contributed $10 million to Three Square Food Bank. The money will be awarded over the next five years. Only income from the fund will be distributed to the food bank, leaving the principal intact to grow over time, creating a permanent reserve.
Cox Business executives created and donated 250 teddy bears to St. Jude’s Ranch for Children, Ronald McDonald House, the Clark County Fire Department and Metro Police.
City National Bank awarded more than $115,000 in grants to support literacy at schools in Nevada, California, New York and Georgia. The Southern Nevada schools that received grants, worth $500 to $1,500, are CT Sewell Elementary, CH Decker Elementary, Desert Pines High School, Don Hayden Elementary, Edith Garehime Elementary, Elise Wolff Elementary, Harley Harmon Elementary, Judi Steele Elementary, Peterson Behavior Junior/Senior High School, Ruby Duncan Elementary, West Career & Technical Academy and Will Beckley Elementary.
Miracle Mile Shops at Planet Hollywood turned its fountain blue in March and donated all change tossed in to Boys & Girls Clubs of Southern Nevada.
After-School All-Stars Las Vegas received a $50,000 grant from the National After-School All-Stars organization to support after-school academic and enrichment programs for more than 5,500 at-risk students in 13 Clark County elementary and middle schools.
Southwest Medical employees donated 16,128 volunteer hours in 2014 to a variety of Southern Nevada charities, such as ALS of Nevada, American Lung Association of Nevada, Assistance League Las Vegas—Operation School Bell, Baby’s Bounty Las Vegas, College of Southern Nevada Foundation, Helping Hands of Vegas Valley, Las Vegas Rescue Mission, Pahrump Senior Center, Ronald McDonald House Charities of Greater Las Vegas, Three Square Food Bank and United Way of Southern Nevada.
More than $165,000 to fight childhood cancer was raised during St. Baldrick’s Day at New York-New York. More than $10,000 was raised at Vinyl at the Hard Rock, and additional money was raised at Irish pubs around the valley.
Trish Bradley Garvin, independent sales representative at F. Schumacher & Co.; Courtney Bray, branch manager at U.S. Bank Decatur; and Dr. Vani Dandolu, obstetrics and gynecology chairwoman at the University of Nevada School of Medicine, joined the board of Baby’s Bounty, which provides cribs, car seats, clothes and hygiene items to babies in low-income families.
Venetian, Palazzo and Sands Expo employees partnered with the Outside Las Vegas Foundation to clean a section of the Angel Park Loop trail and Bruce Trent Park. It was the first of four cleanup events planned for this year. The program is part of Sands Cares, the corporate citizenship program at Las Vegas Sands Corp.
Patrick Lindsey is the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open tournament director. Lindsey replaced six-year tournament director Adam Sperling, who will remain with the organization as executive director.
Mac King’s Magical Literacy Tour book drive collected 3,500 books to donate to four at-risk schools: Howard Hollingsworth Elementary, Berkeley L. Elementary, Ruby S. Thomas Elementary and Jim Thorpe Elementary. Book drives were held at Savers of Las Vegas, the YMCA of Southern Nevada, Egg Works, Egg & I, The Toy Box and Splashville. Donations benefited the Public Education Foundation.
The Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health received $2 million from the Elaine P. Wynn & Family Foundation to study Parkinson’s disease and develop ways to test new therapies. The contribution was given in honor of Wynn’s mother, Lee Pascal, who had Parkinson’s disease.
The Rape Crisis Center received a $265,000, two-year grant from the Engelstad Family Foundation. The grant will allow the Rape Crisis Center to create child sexual abuse prevention and treatment initiatives, including an abuse prevention curriculum for pre-school and early elementary children, resources for parents and a dedicated advocate to work with victims who are students in the Clark County School District.