Nevada Women’s Philanthropy granted $500,000 to SafeNest for a citywide expansion of the Project Safe 417 program. It’s the largest investment NWP has made since it was founded in 2006. The 2020 NWP Founders Gift of $30,000 was also awarded to Three Square Food Bank.
Curaleaf Nevada celebrated the reopening of its retail dispensaries by partnering with Las Vegas restaurant 7th & Carson Downtown Kitchen and Bar to provide fresh meals and supply kits to the area’s homeless population. The company’s Acres and Curaleaf Boulevard dispensaries collected money over five weeks via its “rounding-up” exact change payment policy for cannabis delivery service. The funds raised were used to purchase 106 meals and 85 supplies care kits, in collaboration with local charities Food Not Bombs and Caridad.
Massage Envy is allowing members to donate accrued but unused wellness services, such as massages and skin care services, to health care workers and first responders through July 30. They will then partner with the Philippine Nurses Association’s Las Vegas/Nevada chapter to distribute the vouchers to health care workers to redeem a free 60-minute massage, facial or stretch session.
Students from College of Southern Nevada’s Medical Laboratory program, along with their instructors, volunteered their time and expertise and worked in CSN’s lab spaces to prepare specimen collection kits for front-line public health officials. Approximately 2,000 kits are delivered each week to the Southern Nevada Public Health Laboratory, a division of the Southern Nevada Health District. The sample collection kits include a prepackaged sterile swab and a transport tube containing a sterile liquid in a sealed biohazard bag.
St. Jude’s Ranch for Children received a $3 million grant from Clark County to help build a Healing Center with safe homes for child victims of sex trafficking. This comes on the tail of the release of an eight-year study highlighting this public, social and mental health concern for Las Vegas’ most vulnerable children.
Commercial Real Estate Women Las Vegas donated $1,000 to the Las Vegas Fashion Council’s Mask Task Force, which created and donated masks to both Nathan Adelson Hospice and Cure 4 the Kids Foundation.
Project Marilyn received a $5,000 sponsorship from Anthem Medicaid to support the organization’s production of period bags supplied to the community. State Farm agents Shalynai and Leonel Alberto also donated $1,500 to Project Marilyn.
The Shade Tree received a $25,000 community grant from Wynn Las Vegas. The community funds were raised through the Wynn Employee Foundation’s Matching Gifts Program, which matches donations dollar-for-dollar up to $50,000 per employee per calendar year, helping provide critical financial support for nonprofits that serve various missions throughout the community. Wynn has been a longtime community partner of the women and children’s shelter and last year completed a 10-month revitalization of the Shade Tree totaling $2.5 million in donated labor costs and in-kind donations.
City National Bank donated $38,500 to nonprofits to continue their support of COVID-19 relief efforts. The five local nonprofit and community-based organizations receiving financial support include Habitat for Humanity National Partnership, Neighborhood Housing Services of Southern Nevada, Nevada Blind Children’s Foundation, Nevada Business Opportunity Fund and Nevada HAND.
Legal Aid Center of Southern Nevada and Clark County Commissioner Justin Jones launched the Small Business Legal Advice Project—Helping Businesses During COVID-19. This pro bono initiative, the first of its kind in the state, offers free legal consultations with volunteer attorneys to Nevada small-business owners who are facing financial hardships as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Las Vegas Area Council and the Salvation Army of Southern Nevada collected 15,273 pounds of food as part of their Scouting for Food 2.0 COVID-19 Relief Drive. These donations will be used to replenish Salvation Army’s depleted food pantries. With the support of the Las Vegas Area Council’s board and officers, as well as numerous contributions from the community, the Boy Scouts also were able to present a check for over $5,000 to the Salvation Army.
Donors throughout Southern Nevada raised nearly $600,000 to provide scholarships to College of Southern Nevada students. More than $250,000 will be distributed to CSN students in the fall, including: $40,000 from the Hites Family/MGM Scholarship for five graduates to pursue bachelor’s degrees at another Nevada System of Higher Education institution; the Outstanding Student Award Scholarship funded by Key Charitable Trust and the CSN Foundation, which provides $1,000 to 17 CSN students nominated by their departments; and CSN High School Scholarships of more than $70,000 to CSN high school students pursuing associate’s degrees while in high school. The high school scholarships are possible through donations from MGM Resorts, the MGM Foundation, Las Vegas Hospitality Association, Tyrone Thompson Scholarship Fund and Mondays Dark.