Findlay Toyota donated $10,000 to After-School All-Stars Las Vegas. Staff and students from the nonprofit joined Findlay Toyota representatives, including general manager and After-School All-Stars board member Rich Abajian, at the Henderson dealership to celebrate the donation.
Junior Achievement of Southern Nevada recently hosted its fourth annual Suite Holidays Tour and Tasting Experience. The resort tour raised more than $70,000 that will be used to teach financial literacy to Clark County students.
Dress for Success Southern Nevada elected 2015 officers for its board of directors: Shelli Ryan, chair (Ad Hoc Communication Resources); Bart Patterson, vice chair (Nevada State College); Olivia Fierro, secretary (Fox 5 News); Araxie Grant, treasurer (Las Vegas Sands Corp.); and Monica Moore, assistant treasurer (Epiphany Business Service). The nonprofit also welcomed two new board members: Brenda Bradbury, director of human resources at MGM Grand, and Brooke Thomas, director of the Nevada Boise Complex for Merrill Lynch.
We R Community, the Public Education Foundation’s service-learning initiative, began its seventh year. The program teaches high school students about community service, philanthropy and volunteerism. Each We R Community class receives $5,000. Participating schools include Basic, Boulder City, Chaparral, Cheyenne, Cimmaron-Memorial, Clark, Desert Oasis, Desert Pines, Green Valley, Las Vegas, Mojave, Northwest Career & Technical Academy, Rancho, Sierra Vista, Valley and Western high schools.
Bank of America’s LGBT advocacy and awareness organization, Ally, joined with United Way of Southern Nevada to provide dental care to local children in need. Ten volunteers and community partners created 4,000 dental kits for distribution.
Keenan Sanders, staff process engineer at Tronox, and Connie Hall, safety manager at Tronox, taught Cashman Middle School students about engineering and opportunities in the field. The effort was part of the school’s “Careers in Engineering Day.”
The Clark County School District and USA Sevens Rugby partnered in an Adopt-A-Country program designed to teach sportsmanship, teamwork, exercise and healthy living. Schools and their partner countries are: Kay Carl Elementary/Portugal, Jack Dailey Elementary/France, Dean Peterson Elementary/Wales, Elise Wolff Elementary/Fiji, H.P. Fitzgerald Elementary/Scotland, Robert O. Gibson Middle School/England, Keith C. & Karen W. Hayes Elementary/South Africa, Jesse Scott Elementary/Japan, Jerome Mack Middle School/Uruguay, Justice Myron E. Leavitt Middle School/Argentina, Zel & Mary Lowman Elementary School/Kenya, Mario C. & Joanne Monaco Middle School/Canada, Paradise Professional Development School/Australia, Lewis E. Rowe Elementary/USA and C.P. Squires Elementary/Samoa.
Champions for Nevada, hosted by the Financial Guidance Center, honored people and groups who provided housing resources to the community. This year’s honorees were Sen. Harry Reid, Gov. Brian Sandoval, Rep. Dina Titus, Rep. Steven Horsford, Nevada Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto and Wells Fargo.
Capriotti’s donated proceeds from opening day at its Downtown Summerlin location to the Las Vegas Rescue Mission.
Two hundred volunteers from 110 Southern Nevada McDonald’s restaurants visited Three Square Food Bank to assemble ready-to-eat meals for the Kids Cafe program, fill boxes for the Senior Share program and stock the mobile pantry.
Shelli Ryan, CEO of global technology consultancy Ad Hoc Communication Resources, was appointed chair of Stride Center, a nonprofit that encourages economic self-sufficiency for people and communities in the San Francisco Bay Area.
The Mario Batali Foundation opened a Books for Kids library that serves 82 children year-round at Acelero Learning Reach Out Center, 1522 Pinto Lane, Las Vegas. It is the ninth Books for Kids library the foundation has funded and the first in Nevada.
At the conclusion of the Life is Beautiful festival, Three Square Food Bank received 1,542 pounds of donated food, the equivalent of 1,280 meals. In addition, a portion of proceeds from ticket sales was donated to Three Square.
The Grant a Gift Autism Foundation’s fifth annual Fashion for Autism Gala raised $246,553. Three local professionals were honored: Scott Kavanaugh of First Foundation Bank, Autism Community Partner Award; Dr. Mario J. Gaspar de Alba of Childrens Healthcare Clinic, Autism Community Care Award; and Carrie Carter Henderson of BESTAgency and Las Vegas Fashion Council, Autism Advocate Award.
Town Square donated to Nevada Ballet Theatre 10 percent of sales of a limited-edition gift card.
Spread the Word Nevada brought books and literacy services to Robert Lunt Elementary School, the first of the 30 schools funded through the Engelstad Family Foundation’s $1.8 million “Every Child Reads” grant.
Control Power Concepts, a power engineering and technical field services company, and Miko Sushi raised almost $7,000 for Laura Dearing Elementary School and Green Our Planet at the second annual Miko Sushi Golf Tournament.
Tronox contributed $500 to help fund the annual Haunted Mines Party at Gordon McCaw Elementary School.
Michael I. Kling, founder of Kling Law Offices, completed his sixth LoToJa race, a one-day, 200-plus mile bike race from Logan, Utah, to Jackson, Wyo. Kling raised $14,531, a LoToJa Hometown Hero donation record. Overall, the Hometown Heroes raised $180,000 for cancer research.
Staff at Chenin Orthodontics paid $1 a pound for children’s Halloween candy, then sent the candy to troops overseas with cooperation from the Nellis Air Force Base Airman and Family Readiness Center and Operation Gratitude.
Dunkin’ Donuts Las Vegas hosted its second “Adopt-A-Family” drive benefitting Nevada Childhood Cancer Foundation. Sixteen Dunkin’ Donuts restaurants adopted a family supported by the foundation to provide needed items.
AAA Nevada honored Ben Kole, a 12-year veteran firefighter with the Las Vegas Fire Department as the 2014 professional Rescuer of the Year. Kole revived a newborn girl who was not breathing after an emergency delivery in her family’s apartment. AAA Nevada donated $10,000 to the American Red Cross Southern Nevada Chapter.
Four formerly homeless Las Vegas families received used cars as part of the National Auto Body Council’s Recycled Rides program. The families were selected by Family Promise of Las Vegas, which partners with the National Auto Body Council.
The Juice Standard, 4555 S. Fort Apache Road, Las Vegas, donated all of its November proceeds to the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health.
Employees of Houldsworth, Russo & Company joined Rebuilding Together Southern Nevada volunteers to paint the exterior of a home and spread 20 tons of stone for desert landscaping.
Jim Bridger Middle School, Kenny C. Guinn Middle School and Mario C. and JoAnne Monaco Middle School each received a $20,000 Verizon Innovative Learning Grant from the Verizon Foundation to advance science, technology, engineering and math curriculum.
Station Casinos and the Royal Purple Las Vegas Bowl partnered with the Military Warriors Support Foundation to give away a home.
Caesars Entertainment staff and clients volunteered to beautify Doris Reed Elementary School.
Caesars Foundation donated $200,000 to the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health’s HealthyBrains initiative. The initiative, set to debut in 2015, will provide people with important facts and tips essential to maintaining brain health.
More than 40 volunteers from Bank of America visited Veterans Village in downtown Las Vegas to paint, power-wash and clean the grounds. Veterans Village serves more than 1,000 military veterans each year in need of transitional or permanent housing, food and/or medical and mental health services.
United Nissan representatives and Forman Automotive Group owner Don Forman donated $5,000 to Three Square Food Bank from a test-drive fundraiser.