In brief: Giving

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• Golden Rainbow has received a $25,000 grant from M·A·C Cosmetics’ AIDS Fund. The funds will be used to support the HIV/AIDS nonprofit organization’s Affordable Housing Program, which is designed for people living with HIV/AIDS in Southern Nevada who would otherwise be homeless.

• The UNLV Alumni Association has pledged $100,000 to the Rebel Athletic Fund’s Loyalty Circle Program, which provides scholarships to student athletes. The $100,000 donation will be spread out over five years, providing $10,000 scholarships to two student athletes each year. These scholarships cover the annual cost of books, and room and board.

• Rebuilding Together Southern Nevada has received $20,000 from the JPMorgan Chase Foundation for repair and renovation projects for low-income homeowners and first time homebuyers in support of the “Neighborhood Stabilization Affordable Homeownership” Program. RTSNV is the local non-profit of the national organization that provides free home repair, accessibility modification and energy conservation services for low-income homeowners, particularly the elderly, people living with disabilities, multi-generational families and military veterans.

• The Consumer Electronics Association, owner and producer of the International CES, made a total of $75,000 in donations to Green Chips and Repurpose AMERICA, local Las Vegas nonprofit organizations promoting clean energy and minimized waste. Green Chips supports sustainable initiatives and will use its $50,000 donation to help retrofit the Las Vegas Rescue Mission with solar panels.

• The Young Professionals Against Cancer raised $5,000 at their annual Bubbles and Bling event. The event is sponsored by the Miss and Mrs. Nevada pageants and delegates.

• United Family of Dealerships donated $12,500 to the Clark County READS Library Enhancement Program. The gift will enable the Public Education Foundation and its literacy initiative, Clark County READS, to replace outdated books in the H.P. Fitzgerald Elementary School library.

• Helping Hands of Vegas Valley, a nonprofit providing food and transportation to disadvantaged and homebound seniors, received a $5,000 grant from Catholic Healthcare West/St. Rose Dominican Hospitals for its low-income qualified pantry program.

• Brighton Collectibles contributed $18,100 to the St. Baldrick’s Foundation annual head-shaving event for research and treatment of childhood cancer. Participants collected donations and sponsorships for shaving their heads on March 3. St. Baldrick’s was started in Las Vegas in 2007 at McMullan’s Irish Pub by owners Brian and Lynn McMullan, who lost their 2-year-old daughter Kyra to cancer 15 years ago.

• Dollar Loan Center CEO Chuck Brennan contributed $3,800 to Opportunity Village, an amount based on the 38 regular-season touchdowns scored by the Oakland Raiders during their recent football season. The donation follows a $15,000 donation Brennan made at the conclusion of Dollar Loan Center’s annual “Heat Is On” campaign. Opportunity Village is a not-for-profit organization that serves people with intellectual disabilities.

• Female staff members at the law firm of Snell & Wilmer LLP held a wine and cheese social March 8 to honor S.A.F.E. (Stop Abuse in the Family Environment) House. They also collected gently used professional and business casual apparel, toiletries and cash to benefit the charity.

• The Library Tree Lane fundraiser to benefit Henderson Libraries raised $27,000, its largest amount to date. The Friends of Henderson Libraries puts on the annual event. The money will benefit the district’s teens collection.

• City National Bank has awarded 85 “Reading is the Way Up” grants totaling more than $83,000 to support literacy-based projects at elementary, middle and high schools in Nevada, California and New York. “Reading is The Way Up” is an award-winning literacy initiative through which City National has donated more than 115,000 books to elementary school libraries in the three states, along with 639 teacher grants to enhance literacy, totaling contributions of more than $500,000 since the program’s inception in 2002. R.O. Gibson Elementary is a local school that benefit from the donation.

  City National and Barnes & Noble also partnered to donate almost $15,000 in new books and monetary support to C.H. Decker Elementary School in Las Vegas during the holidays, as part of the two companies’ book drive program supporting education and literacy.

• Cox Charities has awarded $190,000 in grants to 42 nonprofit organizations in southern Nevada. The donation went to causes that support children, families and education, with an emphasis on programs focused on science, technology, engineering and math. Cox Charities is funded primarily by Cox Communications employee contributions and fundraisers, and a committee of employees selects grant recipients. Since 2007, Cox Charities has awarded almost $600,000 to organizations in southern Nevada.

• Millenium Staffing Services is conducting its annual Easter/spring food drive to benefit both Safe Nest and the City Mission of Las Vegas. In addition to food, the company also is collecting women’s undergarments for Safe Nest and children’s undergarments for City Mission.

• Representatives from the Caesars Foundation presented a check for $25,000 to Junior Achievement of Southern Nevada on Feb. 26. The financial support is to help ensure Junior Achievement’s sustainability and provide funding to extend reach to even more students in the community.

• Las Vegas philanthropist and public relations professional Mary Vail has organized a food drive for the past 13 years as part of the USA Weekend Magazine-Make A Difference Day. As a tribute, Vail is being recognized with a national award for her charitable contributions and a $10,000 cash prize for a charity of her choice at the Make A Difference Day awards presentation in Washington on April 19.

• Alfonso Ayala, Chelsea Brown and Stephanie Dupree are resource development officers at United Way of Southern Nevada. Ayala, Brown and Dupree’s main responsibilities include coordinating and managing workplace campaigns, obtaining new clients and educating nonprofits on the benefits of partnering with United Way. Their main goal is to strengthen workplace giving through spreading program awareness and building relationships.