The Notes: Philanthropy, July 9-15

UnitedHealthcare and Qualcomm Life donated $50,000 to Boys & Girls Clubs of America. As part of the check presentation, nearly 200 Boys & Girls Clubs of Southern Nevada members received kits with activity trackers, soccer balls and mobile games.

Assurant donated $10,000 and 100 prepaid cellphones to Safe Nest.

The Nevada Childhood Cancer Foundation received $12,500 worth of gifts from Thrive Cannabis Marketplace.

City National Bank and its equipment finance affiliate First American Equipment Finance donated $10,000 to Touro University Nevada’s scholarship fund. Southwest Medical Associates, part of OptumCare, donated $145,000 to the Touro University Nevada physician assistant studies program to fund the purchase of three ultrasound machines and models.

Make-A-Wish Southern Nevada worked with Martin-Harris Construction, ACC Plumbing, Helix Electric, Bruin Painting Corp. and Kalb Industries to redesign and rebuild the family bathroom for Allison Gardner, 17. Gardner has suffered since birth from spinal muscular atrophy, a life-threatening and progressive disorder that affects her muscles’ ability to receive signals. She is nonverbal, cannot move most of her muscles and finds joy in the simple pleasures of sensory lights, music and spending time in the bathtub.

Make-A-Wish Southern Nevada opened the Wishing Place on the Allegiant campus in Summerlin. The 7,000-square-foot space will serve as headquarters for the organization, which is paying Allegiant $1 per year for the space. Other donors and partners who contributed to the redesign of the Wishing Place include the architectural firm of Pugsley Simpson Coulter; Henderson Engineering; Jessica Kalb and Shannon Fore, who donated design services; Martin Harris Construction; One Stop Flooring, and Artistic Iron.

The Blind Center of Nevada received $3 million from the Engelstad Family Foundation to help construct a facility as part of its Visions of Greatness capital campaign. It is projected to open in November.

Students from Merryhill Preschool and Merryhill Elementary School collected hundreds of supplies and $1,400 worth of gift cards for Project 150, an organization that helps support local homeless teenagers.

Dickinson Wright attorneys and staff prepared produce bags for 900 Meals on Wheels for home-bound seniors at Three Square.

Macy’s, in partnership with Clothes4Souls, donated 1,800 new coats to students within the middle and high schools serviced by Communities in Schools of Nevada and Clark County School District.

Lawyers and staff of Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck teamed up with the Bank of Nevada and Green Our Planet — which helps fund education and conservation efforts — to beautify Hewetson Elementary School.

City National Bank and Barnes & Noble donated new books and cash totaling nearly $250,000 to 33 schools and nonprofit organizations in Nevada, California, New York and Nashville, Tenn.

U.S. Bank awarded $216,000 in grants to nonprofits organizations in Las Vegas in 2016.

Eric Simmons, electrician and senior project manager at Helix Electric, donated $2,500 in tools to the Associated Builders and Contractors, Inc. Nevada chapter. Simmons had won the tool package for being named the Klein Tools Electrician of the Year.

City National Bank provided Global Robot and Drone Deployment with a $2,500 donation to help fund ongoing programs and research. GRADD provides drones and training for traffic accident reconstruction, 3-D aerial mapping and surveying, solar farm thermographic inspections, and analysis for agricultural and forestry applications.

U.S. Army veteran Raphael Pizarro received a renovated home that was donated mortgage-free by the Veterans Association of Real Estate Professionals in partnership with Bank of America. It is the 25th home Bank of America has donated to military veterans in Nevada.

CenturyLink provided 300 Clark County School District teachers with a complimentary membership to the Public Education Foundation’s Teacher Exchange, a reuse/repurpose/surplus resource center that enables teachers to save hundreds of dollars annually in out-of-pocket expenses for classroom supplies.

Dental Care International celebrated “Give Kids A Smile” day by providing free dental care to more than 63 young people, the value of the services in excess of $34,000. Thirty-five dental professionals volunteered their services.

Seven volunteers from Special Olympics Nevada received the prestigious President’s Volunteer Service Award: Phil Brown, Lorie Beckstead, Whitney Mauck-Lassen, John Rapanos, Jamie Brown, Carrie Nyman and Tanja Ramociotti.

The Gary Sinise Foundation received $137,500 from the Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. The foundation supports America’s active military, veterans and their families.

Local 7-Eleven stores raised $861 for the Veterans Home in Boulder City.

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