The Frank L. Stile Foundation hosted a carnival and donated 500,000 meals to Feeding America, and money and toys to Three Square, St. Jude’s Ranch for Children, and The Shade Tree Foundation.
Fremont Street Experience donated $17,636 to Opportunity Village. The money came from a SlotZilla Charity Challenge.
Four attorneys from Lewis Roca Rothgerber Christie were recognized for pro bono service in 2016 by the Legal Aid Center of Southern Nevada. Partner Dan Polsenberg and associates Brian Blakley and Abraham Smith were inducted into the prestigious 100+ Hour Club for their pro bono contributions on LACSN matters. Partner J. Christopher Jorgensen was recognized as having contributed 50+ hours on matters referred through the LACSN in 2016.
Roseman University of Health Sciences received a $10,000 grant from the Sapphire Foundation for Prostate Cancer to support research being conducted by Dr. Oscar Goodman Jr.
Bank of America donated $208,000 to 20 nonprofits working to increase access to basic necessities such as hunger relief and emergency shelter. The recipients were: Three Square Food Bank, Help of Southern Nevada, American Red Cross – Southern Nevada, St. Rose Dominican Health Foundation, Blind Center of Nevada, Boys Town Nevada, Catholic Charities of Southern Nevada, Goodie Two Shoes Foundation, Las Vegas Rescue Mission, Lutheran Social Services of Nevada, Make-A-Wish Foundation of Southern Nevada, Nevada Partnership for Homeless Youth, The Shade Tree, Special Olympics Northern California & Nevada, The Huntridge Teen Clinic, Nevada Homeless Alliance, Create A Change Now, Nevada Paralyzed Veterans of America, YMCA of Southern Nevada and Baby’s Bounty.
America First Credit Union donated $10,000 worth of turkeys to Operation Warmheart and families at Creech and Nellis Air Force bases.
NV Energy donated 600 stuffed animals to Las Vegas Metro Police. Officers give the toys to children in times of crisis.
Walgreens donated $104,294 to HELP of Southern Nevada for toys, bicycles and gift cards for more than 5,000 families and 10,000 children.
The Neon Museum received $425,000 from the Commission for the Las Vegas Centennial. It will be used to help expand the museum by purchasing nearby land. The money came from revenue generated from the Nevada Centennial license plate.
The Nevada Mining Association donated a Lego wall and toys to the McCaw STEAM Academy. The Lego wall is 80 inches by 80 inches and will be the centerpiece of the McCaw School of Mines’ Makerspace Lab.
Eastside Cannery donated 100 turkeys to Whitney Elementary.
HELP of Southern Nevada distributed toys received from the 98.5 KLUC Chet Buchanan & The Morning Zoo Toy Drive to more than 3,000 families and more than 8,000 children. Toys also were distributed to 65 other agencies, assisting more than 24,000 children. In conjunction with the drive, Naqvi Injury Law donated 1,000 bicycle helmets and 100 bicycles.
Students at Southern Highlands Preparatory School in Las Vegas collected more than 1,000 nonperishable food items during a schoolwide food drive that benefited the Veterans Village Food Pantry.
Representatives from Las Vegas Hospitality Association delivered more than 300 bags of cheer to children in need during the holiday season. Bags had shoes, socks, coats, blankets, gloves, hats, clothes as well as toys, games, books and snacks.
Tronox, a Henderson manufacturing plant, donated $2,000 to benefit students in the coding and robotics program at Pinecrest Academy.
Wyndham Vacation Ownership donated clothing, toys, bikes and scooters to more than 500 children at Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School through a “Giving Tree” service project.
Ballard Spahr donated $10,000 to Nevada Legal Services to help the organization with its $10 million capital campaign for a new facility. Nevada Legal Services is a nonprofit which provides free legal services to low-income Nevadans.
Firehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation donated more than $56,000 worth of life-saving equipment to North Las Vegas Fire Department and Nevada Partnership for Homeless Youth.
Walker Furniture donated housefuls of furniture to Debra Holt and Delia De La Hoya. Holt was raising her granddaughter in an apartment with no furniture. De La Hoya is unable to work and her house had no furniture for her and her children.
Cox Charities donated $25,000 to Boys & Girls Clubs of Southern Nevada.
Findlay Automotive Group donated $6,300 to Easterseals Nevada. The money will be used to purchase and install a new engine for a service van.
The Allstate Foundation, led by the volunteer efforts of agency owner Elisa Conner of Henderson, donated $33,000 to Safe Nest. Conner is the 2016 Allstate Foundation Purple Purse Flame Award. The award comes with a $10,000 grant to Safe Nest. The Allstate Foundation contributed an additional $23,000 to Safe Nest — $1,000 for each Allstate agency owner volunteer in Conner’s effort — as part of the Foundation’s Helping Hands in the Community grants. Safe Nest will use the award money to create a playground.
William S. Boyd School of Law student Beatriz Aguirre was awarded the Waldo De Castroverde Immigration Scholarship. The $2,000 scholarship was donated by De Castroverde Law Group.
Snell & Wilmer committed $62,000 to United Way of Southern Nevada’s Neighborhood Network in a three-year grant. Through the grant, children will receive a quality early education in their neighborhood and caregivers will receive workforce development and training.
The Napoli Group organized a toy drive that collected more than 2,000 toys, bikes and clothing items for the Clark County Department of Family Services and Child Haven.
The Las Vegas office of Holland & Hart celebrated its 10th anniversary by performing 10 acts of kindness:
• Feeding 10 families at the Ronald McDonald House whose children were in the hospital for urgent care
• Donating 75 Halloween costumes to families at The Shade Tree and hosting a Halloween festival at Opportunity Village’s HallOVeen festival
• Volunteering 15 hours with Entrepreneur’s Organization’s Hero’s School to help end poverty in Las Vegas
• Donating 1,700 pounds of food to Three Square
• Helping pack 12,000 pounds of food at Three Square to ensure children on free or reduced lunch programs receive three meals per day
• Sponsoring a tree at Opportunity Village to help teach people with special needs vocational skills
• Purchasing 400 Christmas presents so approximately 144 children in CASA have wrapped gifts on Christmas Day
• Sponsoring three families through the Angel Tree program by choosing an ornament listing a family member’s gift wish
• Planned volunteer day with Habitat for Humanity
• Organization and participation with community partners in Nevada’s first population health conference that provided training to encourage the organization and operation of Medical Legal Partnerships in Nevada.