The Notes: Philanthropy, April 3-9, 2016

Southwest Medical Associates donated $5,000 and partnered with Dress for Success Southern Nevada for a sale at Opportunity Village Thrift Store. Health care providers offered health and wellness checks and health coaching.

Organizers of the Consumer Electronics Show donated more than $20,000 to Southern Nevada schools for sustainability projects.

The Foundation for Positively Kids opened a school-based health care center at Dr. William “Bob” Bailey Middle School. The center offers sick visits, well-checks, sports physicals, immunizations and other pediatric medical services to Clark County School District students 18 and younger, as well as younger siblings who reside in the same household and children in need of immunizations for school enrollment.

Carrington College’s Las Vegas campus raised more than $135,000 for the American Lung Association in Nevada.

The Simmons Group donated $35,000 and more than 300 hours of employees’ time helping charitable organizations in 2015. Among the organizations that received monetary or in-kind donations: CORE Academy, Communities in Schools of Nevada, Keep it Alive Foundation, KNPR, Shade Tree, Southern Nevada Children First, Three Square, Noah’s Animal House, American Diabetes Association, American Heart Association, Children’s Heart Foundation, Nevada Childhood Cancer Foundation, JDRF Nevada, National Hemophilia Foundation, the Brevard Association for the Advancement of the Blind and United Way of Southern Nevada.

Sands Cares, the corporate citizenship program of Las Vegas Sands, donated $100,000 to five nonprofit organizations serving the Las Vegas Valley. The program, called the Sands Give-Back Bank, enables team members to determine where the company allocates charitable funds. Organizations that received funding were HELP of Southern Nevada, Shade Tree/Noah’s Animal House, Communities in Schools of Nevada, Three Square and U.S. Vets Las Vegas. Each organization received at least $10,000.

City National Bank employees volunteered at the Assistance League of Las Vegas as part of the Operation School Bell program to help disadvantaged students. Employees gave more than 60 elementary school children new clothes, jackets, shoes, personal hygiene kits and books. The bank also donated $1,000 to the organization.

The Nevada Department of Education’s Office for a Safe and Respectful Learning Environment awarded block grants to needy schools in Nevada. A total of 132 schools will receive a minimum of 161 social workers and other mental health professionals.

The Las Vegas Business Academy awarded a $38,000 scholarship to former UNLV basketball player Justin Hawkins toward his graduate education at the UNLV William F. Harrah College of Hotel Administration.

Sunrise Children’s Foundation received $43,000 from Albertson’s and $10,000 from America First Credit Union.

UnitedHealthcare donated books and activity worksheets to 100 Las Vegas-area schools. Southwest Medical Associates health clinics received reading stations, children’s books and activity worksheets to help make visits to the doctor’s office more enjoyable.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services gave $558,575 to the Las Vegas Paiute Tribe for the Special Diabetes Program for Indians.

The community committee and employees of the Hakkasan Group donated more than $63,000 and 1 ton of goods to Shade Tree clients who are the victims of domestic violence, homelessness and sex trafficking. In addition, employees volunteered more than 450 hours serving residents of the shelter.

The Rape Crisis Center increased the number of volunteer training sessions in 2016 to meet the needs of sexual assault victims and their families. Classes will be offered in summer and fall. Visit

rcclv.org for application information.

NV Energy employees and family members spent Martin Luther King Jr. Day filling bags for Three Square Food Bank’s Back Pack for Kids Program, which provides food to children who lack adequate nutrition during the weekend. Eighty-four NV Energy employees and their families filled 6,010 bags in 2 1/2 hours, a Three Square record.

WSOP.com presented the Trauma Intervention Program of Southern Nevada with a check for $9,918, proceeds from an online promotion conducted for emergency responders.

Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield contributed nearly $900,000 to Nevada nonprofits in 2015.

Silver Sevens donated $5,000 and the proceeds from Red Dress pins and promotional food and beverages sold in February to the American Heart Association.

The Valley Electric Association donated more than $24,976 in 2015 to local organizations. VEA paid the December electric bills for Pahrump Senior Center, Amargosa Senior Center, Beatty Senior Center, Fish Lake Valley Community Center and Sandy Valley Senior Center.

Las Vegas Firefighters Local 1285 and Henderson Professional Fire Fighters Local 1883 each donated $2,500 to the “Fire Hurts … Red Cross Helps” campaign, which helps families recover after a house fire.

The Hard Rock Cafe raised more than $19,000 for the Children’s Heart Foundation during last year’s “Pinsanity” initiative.

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Dignity Health-St. Rose Dominican donated $291,187 to help fund five nonprofit programs:

• $75,000 for wrap-around services for the homeless — WestCare Nevada, HELP of Southern Nevada, Lutheran Social Services, Volunteers in Medicine of Southern Nevada and Clark County Social Services

• $55,250 for school-based asthma care for low-income students and families — Joel and Carol Bower School Based Health Center, Nevada State College, Clark County School District and American Lung Association

• $44,537 for assistance for human-trafficking victims — ARMAN, Generation Medical Center, Hookers for Jesus and Purple WINGS

• $41,400 for transportation and medical services for the homeless — Catholic Charities of Southern Nevada, Volunteers in Medicine of Southern Nevada and Touro University Nevada

• $75,000 for diabetes screening and prevention for low-income people — Volunteers in Medicine of Southern Nevada, Nevada Diabetes Association and Roseman University of Health Sciences

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