The Notes: Philanthropy, Nov. 20-26

Mon, Nov 21, 2016 (2 a.m.)

Southern Nevadans raised more than $110,400 for Three Square Food Bank as part of Walmart’s campaign to “Fight Hunger. Spark Change.” MGM Resorts International donated $50,000 to Three Square’s BackPack for Kids program.

Findlay Cadillac and Findlay Honda Henderson donated a 15-passenger van, valued at $26,000, to Nevada Partnership for Homeless Youth.

A $10,000 grant from the NV Energy Foundation will benefit the Friends of Nevada Wilderness stewardship program. The grant helps cover salary to organize and host events, as well as travel costs.

Life Time Athletic Green Valley, 121 Carnegie St., raised more than $25,000 for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital during the club’s annual “Ride for a Reason” event.

Veritas raised more than $60,000 for Ronald McDonald House Charities of Greater Las Vegas as a part of the Veritas Sales Conference Giveback Program.

Eugene Santiago, Betty Campbell and Patti Gerace joined the Helping Hands of Vegas Valley board of trustees. Santiago is a volunteer for the agency and a caregiver for his mother, who is a recipient of Helping Hand services. Campbell is program coordinator at the UNLV Lied School of Real Estate Studies. Gerace is the director of marketing for Walker Furniture.

The Mary and Sam Boyd Clubhouse received a $16,500 Triple Play grant from Amerigroup Foundation. The clubhouse was the target of a string of vandalism incidents in early 2016.

The Nevada Arts Council awarded nearly $50,000 in grants to 14 Nevada artists selected to receive FY17 Artist Fellowships, including Cynthia Dufault, Mykola Suk, Brittany Bronson, Stephan Caplan, Brett Alters, Dawn-Michelle Baude and Jennifer Grim.

In celebration of Nevada Ballet Theatre’s 45th season, Jeff White Custom Jewelry and prima ballerina Cynthia Gregory debuted a specially designed series of pendants.

Lootique is open at 72 W. Horizon Ridge Parkway, Suite 125, Henderson. The store returns proceeds to the community through donations to organizations such as Safe House Nevada, Humanitarian Aid Fund, Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund and Heaven Can Wait Animal Society.

City National Bank was a $6,500 Champions Club sponsor of this year’s Shriners Hospitals for Children Open golf tournament Oct. 31-Nov. 6.

Henry’s Place, the youth camp named in honor of Metro Sgt. Henry Prendes, who was killed while responding to a domestic violence call in 2006, launched and hosted 12 boys on its 14-acre site in Cedar City, Utah, this summer.

Best Mattress presented $10,000 to Opportunity Village.

Catholic Charities of Southern Nevada received $2,500 from Meals on Wheels America to support its client pet support program.

Michael Scheidle is one of 75 men and women performing 10 months of national service as part of the Atlantic Region’s FEMA Corps Class 23. FEMA Corps is a track of the National Civilian Community Corps, an AmeriCorps program. Scheidle and his team are focusing on disaster response and recovery.

Charlie Luh of Luh & Associates, a founding sponsor of the 1000 Books Foundation, donated 500 activity journals, 200 T-shirts and 200 temporary tattoos to the North Las Vegas Library District for use in the district’s “1000 Books Before Kindergarten” challenge, which encourages young children to read.

MGM Resorts International donated $10,000 to Dress for Success Southern Nevada to help maintain and expand the nonprofit’s boutique.

Hooters Hotel donated its August marketing budget to Habitat for Humanity, Nevada Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, Three Square Food Bank, Goodwill of Southern Nevada, Communities in Schools, Salvation Army Southern Nevada, St. Jude’s Ranch for Children, Shine Family Foundation and Make-A-Wish Southern Nevada.

SyFy’s “Sharknado: The 4th Awakens” after-party at the Stratosphere raised $7,500 for the Animal Foundation.

HomeAid Southern Nevada collected enough back-to-school supplies to create more than 1,000 backpacks that will be filled with supplies and personal hygiene items to be provided to homeless, displaced and disadvantaged high school students in Southern Nevada through Project 150.

Cox Charities donated $140,000 to 31 local nonprofits. Individual awards ranged from $1,500 to $5,000 each to groups focusing on children/families, education/STEM or diversity. Recipients and their programs were:

• The Animal Foundation, KEPPT/Pets for Life

• Baby’s Bounty, Baby Cargo

• Blind Center of Nevada, Yes I Can

• Communities in Schools, CIS Academy Explorations

• Create a Change Now, Garden at Tom Williams Elementary School

• Discovery Children’s Museum, Discovery on Wheels, House Calls

• Friends in the Desert Foundation, Food Program

• Friends of LVMPD Foundation, Every 15 Minutes

• Gay and Lesbian Community Center of Southern Nevada, Arts & Cultural Series

• After-School All-Stars, What’s Cool After School

• Herbert A. Derfelt Elementary School, Going Googly over Google Chromebooks and Making Memories for Years to Come

• HopeLink of Southern Nevada, Breakfast Bookworm

• Huntridge Teen Clinic, Teen Medical & Dental Programs

• Las Vegas Natural History Museum, Mobile Museum

• Las Vegas Rescue Mission, Family Food Pantry

• LVCC Library District Foundation, West Las Vegas bitLAB

• Nevada Childhood Cancer Foundation, Camp Cartwheel

• Nevada Partnership for Homeless Youth, NPHY Drop-In Center, Food for Homeless Youth

• Nevada PEP Include Me, Disability Awareness Program

• Public Education Foundation, The Community Knowledge Center

• Refuge for Women, Refuge for Women Las Vegas Safe House

• Serving Our Kids Foundation, Weekend Food Bags for Needy Children

• Sign Design Theatre Co., Summer Day Camp

• Southern Nevada Children First, Drop-in Center

• Spread the Word Nevada, Kids to Kids

• Street Teens, Food Program

• The Shade Tree, Children’s Activity Center

• Three Square, Backpack for Kids Program

• Together We Can, EATS and Mentoring Program

• Trauma Intervention Program of Southern Nevada, 2016 Summer New Volunteer Training Academy

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