Junior Achievement of Southern Nevada has announced its 2022-2024 board leadership, which will guide the financial literacy nonprofit organization as it continues to expand its financial education, entrepreneurship and workforce development curriculum for K-12 students. Sandi Milton, senior vice president/marketing communications for Nevada State Bank, is chairwoman of the board and is joined by two vice-chairs, Nathan Lloyd, general counsel of ASNY, and Tim Goldsmith, assurance partner of Ernst & Young. Serving on the JASN executive committee are James McGinnis, director of food and beverage at Wynn Las Vegas and Encore as board treasurer, and Vandana Bhalla, corporate broker/real estate agent/property manager at Signature Real Estate Group as board secretary. The new committee chairs are (Education) Sarah Lester of U.S. Bank; (Finance & Risk)
Gavin Takeshita of BDO; (Funding) Rick Arpin of KPMG; (Governance) Melissa Fernandez of NV Energy; and (Marketing) Samantha Cashman Rayburn of Formula 1.
Brian Burton, President & CEO of Three Square Food Bank, has announced that he will leave his position with the organization on September 30. A fixture in the Southern Nevada nonprofit community and leader of Three Squarefor the past 11 years, Burton plans to continue his work battling food insecurity in his home state of Arkansas.
Three Square also announced that a total of 625,848 meals will be provided for the nearly 364,000 food-insecure valley residents, thanks to the combined efforts of Southern Nevada’s culinary community, residents and visitors during Las Vegas Restaurant Week.
Nevada Donor Network (NDN) announced that Denise Valdez has joined its advisory board. A multiple Emmy Award-winning journalist, Valdez has more than 20 years of experience in broadcast television and now serves as an evening anchor at KLAS-TV for the 5, 6 and 11 p.m. newscasts.
Make-A-Wish® Southern Nevada, in partnership with Subaru of Las Vegas, has granted an all-terrain wheelchair wish to a local teen. Diagnosed with a severe nervous system disorder as a newborn, Colin, now 13, has endured 12 surgeries to treat his condition. Although unable to verbalize his thoughts, he doesn’t allow his illness to hold him back from doing what he loves the most—camping and exploring the outdoors with his family.
Leaders from Station Casinos announced a $120,000 donation for its 22-year long Smart Start education program, which benefits 11 partner schools throughout Clark County. Additionally, Station Casinos leaders distributed gift bags filled with school supplies to all students at Whitney Elementary School and brought sweet treats and a custom three-tiered cake for teachers and staff from the Red Rock Bake Shop.
Capriotti’s Sandwich Shop, an award-winning national restaurant franchise, donated 75 lunch boxes to students at Matt Kelly Elementary School in honor of the campus’ annual red-carpet program. The lunch boxes included school supplies like sticky notes, sharpies, pens, crayons, markers, colored pencils and lunch on Capriotti’s.
The Source+, an award-winning cannabis company with dispensaries in Nevada and its first East Coast dispensary in Northampton, Massachusetts, will kick off the school year by supporting local nonprofit the Obodo Collective during its August roundup initiative.Steve Haffer, The Source+’s CEO.
“It’s important that students and teachers feel prepared and confident to go back to school without feeling the burden of returning without the necessary supplies to engage in learning,” said
De Castroverde Law Group partnered with Findlay Subaru of Las Vegas to offer the 2022 Road to College Academic Scholarship to Allison Hill, a student at Las Vegas Academy of the Arts.