Local fundraisers raised thousands of dollars for the St. Baldrick’s Foundation. At McMullan’s Irish Pub, a check presentation took place in which Pandora Jewelry donated $10,000 to the local cause through Bald by Design, a fundraising team led by Phil Ralston, who is on the board of directors for St. Baldrick’s.
Golden Entertainment’s casinos, including the Strat, Arizona Charlie’s Decatur and Arizona Charlie’s Boulder, donated perishable food to Casa de Luz. The food is being given to people in need.
Drai’s Cares, a community initiative created by the staff of Drai’s, donated food and supplies from the Drai’s Beachclub restaurant and 40 cases of water provided by Oxigen Water to Share Village, formerly known as Veterans Village. The donated items will sustain the center for about a month.
Caesars Entertainment donated approximately 116,000 pounds of food to Three Square Food Bank and provided thousands of personal protection equipment items such as gloves, masks and hand sanitizer to University Medical Center.
Goettl Air Conditioning & Plumbing CEO Ken Goodrich gifted more than $1.5 million to install ultraviolet germicidal lights in the homes of more than 600 employees. This type of UV light kills many strains of viruses and is used in hospitals and food-processing plants.
Cox Communications donated 5,000 protective shoe covers to University Medical Center.
Las Vegas Sands donated 2 million medical masks and 20,000 protective suits to help health care professionals, first responders and nonprofit organizations. The company previously provided 100,000 masks to the Las Vegas health care community and 5,000 masks to Las Vegas Metro. It also donated 1,900 coronavirus test kits to the state of Nevada. In addition, Sands pledged $250,000 to local nonprofits, including Three Square, Communities in Schools of Nevada and Share Village, and donated 60 pallets of food and more 55,000 bottles of water to local organizations.
Kre8 Media Outdoor Advertising partnered with the Governor’s Office to support the COVID-19 Prevention Campaign by offering five digital mobile billboards pro bono to explain preventive measures to mass audiences.
Nevada Gold Mines committed more than $1.8 million to help those affected by COVID-19, including $1.5 million to the Nevada COVID-19 Response, Relief and Recovery Task Force and $100,000 to Three Square Food Bank.
City National donated $2 million to help colleagues, clients and communities confront the financial challenges caused by COVID-19, including a $15,000 donation to United Way of Southern Nevada.
The Public Education Foundation, Spread the Word Nevada and Communities In Schools of Nevada partnered with a host of community donors to assemble and deliver 10,000 Direct to Care to Kids kits to local students who attend high-poverty schools in Southern Nevada. Assembled by volunteers, the kits were delivered via AT&T in-home technicians. Each kit included personal hygiene items donated by Sands Cares, school supplies and STEM workbooks for various ages donated by the Public Education Foundation, books donated by Spread the Word Nevada and bags donated by Cox Communications and Siegel Suites.
UnitedHealth Group’s Southern Nevada-based companies—Health Plan of Nevada, Southwest Medical Associates and OptumCare—reallocated their campus cafeteria staff to provide 10,500 meals to thousands of area homeless. The City of Las Vegas and Clark County partnered in this effort to distribute meals to Cashman Isolation/Quarantine Complex and Courtyard Homeless Resource Center, among others.
Future Smiles, a school-based preventive and restorative dental health program, donated 600 masks, 3,300 pairs of gloves and 50 gowns to University Medical Center and to volunteers for grocery giveaways at local elementary schools with community partners Three Square Food Bank and Communities in Schools of Nevada. The donations also included containers of disinfectant wipes, containers of hand sanitizer, toothbrushes and toothpaste.
David Copperfield, Jay Leno, Bill Maher, Kathleen Madigan, David Spade, Boyz II Men, Brad Garrett, Carrot Top, Terry Fator, Ray Romano, Jabbawockeez, Shin Lim, Thunder from Down Under, Hans Klok, Australian Bee Gees, Fantasy and Bill Blumenreich Presents each showed their support for the MGM Resorts family with donations to the company’s Employee Emergency Grant Fund. These donations brought the fund to almost $11 million, which will be used to support MGM employees affected economically by the pandemic.
Matter Real Estate Group donated $100,000 to support efforts to fight against the spread of COVID-19. The funds will be divided between recommendations made by the state and county.