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The Southwest Gas employee charitable giving campaign, Fuel For Life, donated $64,159.08 to Catholic Charities. The award will be used to fund various social services programs that assist Las Vegans in need.
PODS Las Vegas helped collect more than 200 community-care package items for the troops of Nellis Air Force Base, many of whom will be deployed overseas this fall, at the Adopt a Serviceman event.
Toyota Financial Services partnered with three auto, remarketing firms – ADESA, Manheim and Norwalk Auto Auctions – to provide a donation of $24,443 to Boys & Girls Clubs of Las Vegas. This is part of a larger contribution of $464,425 from Toyota to Boys & Girls Clubs of America that will be divided equally among 19 local Boys & Girls Clubs running Diplomas to Degrees, the organization’s college readiness program.
United Health Foundation donated $500,000 to United Network for Organ Sharing to integrate UNOS’s kidney paired donation matching service into the national transplant system’s technology infrastructure.
The Home Depot Foundation donated a truckload of mattresses, valued at more than $97,000, and approximately 3,500 square yards of carpet, valued at nearly $100,000, to Veterans Village Las Vegas. The foundation, which has been actively engaged in supporting Veterans Village since its inception last year, also recently awarded Veterans Village with a $600,000 grant – the largest grant to a single project and the largest grant in THDF’s western division.
As part of a $50,000 donation to Clark County READS, Generation Vegas provided new books for the Mabel Hoggard Magnet School library. Generation Vegas was founded in 2012 by a dedicated group of local business owners who are committed to making Las Vegas a better place for future generations by promoting education, community and leadership.
Project 150, a local organization dedicated to helping homeless, displaced and disadvantaged students at 15 high schools in Southern Nevada, raised $2,000 from a fundraiser at a Las Vegas Wranglers hockey game. The Wranglers donate a portion of the group’s ticket sales, as well as a percentage of sales from that night’s Chuck-A-Puck fundraising program, back to the organization.
Tronox, along with 10 community partners, donated gift cards and construction tools to the UNLV Solar Decathlon Team. Tools will be used for the construction of the DesertSol Project, a prototype house being built by students and entered into the international 2013 Solar Decathlon Competition. The house will be designed and constructed to take advantage of the Mojave Desert’s renewable resources to produce a sustainable home that is self-reliant in the desert.
Tronox held a company blood drive at its Henderson plant to benefit the United Blood Services. Between employees, friends and family members, 20 pints of blood were donated.
During the first quarter of 2013, the NV Energy Foundation contributed $389,000, including multiyear commitments, to nonprofit organizations statewide. Grants were given to Southern Nevada organizations including the Smith Center for the Performing Arts, United Way of Southern Nevada, College of Southern Nevada Foundation, Cultural Diversity Foundation, Down Syndrome Organization of Southern Nevada and the Assistance League of Las Vegas. Northern Nevada organizations that received grants include DRI GreenPower Program, American Red Cross-Northern Nevada Chapter, Nevada Museum of Art, Imlay Safe Haven Rescue Zoo, Winnemucca Senior Center, Tahoe Rim Trail and Virginia City Community Chest.
Three Square Food Bank recently received $16,926 from Bank of America’s 2012 Give A Meal Campaign. The funds were collected during the holiday season through the corporate office of Bank of America as well as the local Las Vegas area branches.
Girl Scouts of Southern Nevada explored the many facets of careers in the construction industry during Ms. Fix It Herself, a collaboration with National Association of Women in Construction, NV Energy, Par-3, HERServices Inc. and Sisters in the Brotherhood Carpenters Union.