Penta Building Group employees volunteered time at Three Square Food Bank, helping to sort and pack 9,000 pounds of produce.
The Department of Health and Human Services awarded $4,181,000 to Sunrise Children’s Foundation for Early Head Start funding.
The Ronald McDonald Family Room at Sunrise Children’s Hospital is open. The space was funded by the Engelstad Family Foundation, the Del E. Webb Foundation, Sunrise Children’s Hospital, Speedway Children’s Charities, NV Energy and Lexus of Las Vegas.
Olive Crest opened Project Independence, a facility for current and former Clark County foster youth ages 17-24. The goal is to help people establish skills necessary to be successful and independent as they transition out of foster care. The facility was made possible by a $200,000 Neighborhood Builders award from Bank of America.
Fremont Street Experience donated $145,368 through 12 different SlotZilla Charity Challenges after beginning the program in October 2014 and continuing through 2015. Local charities were chosen to partner with SlotZilla on a specific day, and revenue from flights on the lower Zipline or upper Zoomline were donated to that charity. Charity partners have included Susan G. Komen of Southern Nevada, American Heart Association, Opportunity Village, Firefighters of Southern Nevada Burn Foundation, Ronald McDonald House Charities, Muscular Dystrophy Assocation, Three Square, St. Jude’s Ranch for Children and Shriners Hospitals for Children.
City National Bank’s eighth Annual Holiday Book Drive with Barnes & Noble collected 85,000 new books valued at $200,000 to donate to 43 schools and nonprofit organizations in four states. The amount exceeded the previous record by 33,000 books.
City National Bank donated $103,000 to support literacy-based projects and financial literacy to elementary, middle and high schools in Nevada, California, New York and Georgia, including J.L. Bowler Elementary in Bunkerville, Charles Arthur Hughes Middle School in Mesquite, Dr. Owen C. Roundy, Kathy L. Batterman and Harley A. Harmon elementary schools in Las Vegas, Victoria Fertitta Middle School in Las Vegas, and Fay Herron and Lee Antonello elementary schools in North Las Vegas.
The Arthritis Foundation Nevada chapter presented the Corporate Sponsor of the Year award to Massage Envy. Massage Envy supports the Arthritis Foundation through a national partnership, Healing Hands for Arthritis. On Sept. 16, the 12 Southern Nevada Massage Envy clinics raised $5,868.04 and donated $10 from every massage and facial. Additionally, Massage Envy supports the Arthritis Foundation’s events with sponsorships, volunteers, on-site massages and marketing efforts.
Humana donated 50 quilts to the Ronald McDonald House, which provides temporary housing for families who travel to Las Vegas to receive critical medical treatment for their children. The quilts were made by the Humana Charity Crafters. The Ronald McDonald House Charities of Greater Las Vegas 15th Annual Food Drive raised more than 16,500 pounds of food and supplies valued at over $28,000 at local Smith’s Food and Drug Stores. Raffle ticket sales, and cash and gift card donations totaled over $12,000.
Rockin’ Jump Las Vegas donated $1,000 donation to the American Heart Association’s “Go Red Por Tu Corazon” campaign.
Discovery Children’s Museum is collaborating with Catholic Charities of Southern Nevada, CORE Academy powered by the Rogers Foundation and Boys Town Nevada in identifying 1,000 families to receive a free one-year membership to the museum.
With help from Southwest Medical Associates, the nonprofit Academic Achievement Accessible Scholarship Foundation was supported 100 K-12 scholarships to low-income Clark County children attending schools during the 2015-16 school year.
Yes! Air Conditioning and Plumbing partnered with Sigler Wholesale Distributers to donate a complete air conditioning and heating system to local senior citizen Florine Adams.
City National collected and donated hundreds of personal and household items to Safe Nest to help domestic violence victims in Southern Nevada.
Casey Juliano’s third-grade students and tech club at Nate Mack Elementary received a McDonald’s Make Activities Count grant that will be used in a robotics lab.
The Las Vegas Philharmonic Guild won two Roundtable Awards in the annual Volunteer Council of the League of American Orchestras’ Gold Book competition. Their winning project, “Runway Rhythms” and “Adopt-A-Musician,” showcase fashion designers and celebrities for fundraising, and connect audiences with philharmonic musicians.
Las Vegas Sands Corp. employees in Las Vegas participated in 24 events in 2015, spending almost 8,000 hours volunteering for events benefitting local charities with local and international reach, including Clean the World, Race for the Cure and U.S. Vets Las Vegas.
More than 30 teens from area high schools were honored for their community service by participating in a special runway show at Meadows Mall. The teens, along with their mothers, are members of the National Charity League and Young Men’s Service League Las Vegas chapters and performed thousands of hours of community service at dozens of nonprofit organizations.
Nearly 50 students, faculty and staff of Carrington College’s Las Vegas campus participated in a drive to help Three Square Food Bank.