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Giving We want to hear from you. Send your business-philanthropy information to news@vegasinc.com Three Las Vegas programs aimed at fighting childhood obesity received grants from the UnitedHealth HEROES program. After-School All-Stars Las Vegas and Girls on the Run Las Vegas each received $1,000, while Touro University Nevada received $500. The UnitedHealth HEROES program is a collaboration between UnitedHealthcare and Youth Service America. City National Bank contributed more than $150,000 to 80 nonprofit organizations, schools and community groups in 2012. Employees also volunteered more than 1,800 hours of service staffing charitable events, reading to students and painting a mural at Helen Jydstrup Elementary School. NV Energy and its foundation donated $6.1 million last year to more than 400 nonprofit groups statewide. Employees volunteered 39,500 hours of service. Recipients include the Rape Crisis Center, Heaven Can Wait Animal Sanctuary, Goodie Two Shoes, Junior Achievement and 100 Black Men of Las Vegas. The Miracle Mile Shops at Planet Hollywood raised more than $150,000 last year during its "Caring, Giving, Changing" fundraising campaign. The Association of Gaming Equipment Manufacturers donated $10,000 to Spread the Word Nevada. The money will be used to buy a box truck to deliver books more efficiently. Spread the Word Nevada distributes more than 30,000 books each month to 28 low-income and at-risk schools in Clark County. Additionally, Barrick Gold Corporation donated $50,000 to Spread the Word Nevada to help more than 800 students at Richard Rundle Elementary School. The gift allows each student to participate in tutoring and literacy programs and receive free books every month for two years. Park Place Infiniti created an internship for students at the Southwest Career and Technical Academy and Southeast Career Technical Academy. Students can work paid six-week internships in the dealership's service department, parts department or sales floor. In addition, Park Place Infiniti donated more than $15,000 worth of automotive machinery to the schools. The dealership also sponsored a "Walk with the Heart of a Child" event to benefit the Children's Heart Foundation. Park Place Infiniti was a Heart of Silver sponsor and won the award for most team spirit. HealthCare Partners Medical Group, a physician-run primary, specialty and urgent care provider, donated a supply of flu vaccine to Volunteers in Medicine of Southern Nevada, a nonprofit group that treats uninsured patients who don't qualify for government assistance programs. Additionally, Dignity Health donated $50,000 and Quest Diagnostics donated $50,000 of in-kind services to VMSN. The money from Quest will pay for lab tests. The Hard Rock Hotel donated 500 pounds of food, or more than 359 meals, to Three Square Food Bank. The food was collected during Mark OToole's holiday shows at Vinyl. Smile it Forward, a nonprofit group that provides free dental care to people in need, distributed 850 bags of food to the Central Christian Church Food Pantry, which feed more than 2,500 families a month. Three dentists and assistants also provided free dental care for members. A $20,000 donation from Citibank helped turn an empty room in Goodwill's corporate headquarters into a job training office for unemployed Southern Nevadans. The Citibank Freedom Room features a hand-painted mural by local veteran Christian Gabriel, new furniture, audio visual equipment and a smart board. Southern Nevada residents who shop at Smith's Food and Drug donated more than 40,000 pounds of food and household supplies and more than $13,800 in cash to the Ronald McDonald House. Smith's locations around valley hosted the 4 20130401_VI04_F.indd 4 courtesy The Associated General Contractors of Las Vegas' Young Constructors Forum donated $8,547 to the Women's Development Center for its "A Place to Play" fundraiser. The money will help build a children's play area for the center's clients. The nonprofit provides transitional housing for homeless women and children. drive with the help of more than 300 volunteers. The 13th annual "Light The Night Walk" raised more than $275,000 for the Southern Nevada office of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. The money will be used for patient services and research to find cures for blood cancers. Golden Rainbow raised $265,793 last year, enabling the nonprofit group to help more than 500 clients. The organization helps people affected by HIV and AIDS. Golden Rainbow provided 8,184 nights of shelter, 527 days of utility service, 1,054 days of transportation and medical and dental assistance to more than 500 households. The Girl Scouts of Southern Nevada received $2,316 from the "Oh What Fun Winter Gala" hosted by LeTip of Las Vegas and LeTip of Red Rock. The money will be used to send underserved girls to Girl Scout Camp Foxtail, which teaches financial literacy and entrepreneurship, healthy living, science, technology, engineering and math. Summer sessions begin June 16. Fashion Show Mall hosted a runway show to recognize the contributions of two youth service organizations: the National Charity League's Las Vegas chapter and the Young Men's Service League. More than 30 teens participated. The event was sponsored by the mall, Best Agency and Faiss Foley Warren Public Relations. The Dr. Joel and Carol Bower School-Based Health Center, formed in 2004 through a partnership between Nevada State College and the Clark County School District, received a $50,000 grant from the Nevada State Health Division. Funding will support expansion plans for the center, including preparation for an electronic health record system, development of an emergency preparedness plan and exploration of mental health services. Generation Vegas donated $50,000 to the Public Education Foundation to enhance school libraries. Mabel Hoggard Elementary School updated hundreds of its non-fiction books. Baby's Bounty is expanding to Montgomery County, Maryland. It is the first franchise for the group that helps families of newborns in need. In addition, Southwest Gas employees donated $18,599 to the Las Vegas chapter of Baby's Bounty. U.S. Bank workers donated hundreds of school supplies to Title 1 Hope, which will distribute them to local homeless students. Madame Tussauds Las Vegas brought its Benjamin Franklin wax figure to Paradise Elementary School to celebrate Nevada Reading Week. Fourth-grade students got to examine the figure and hear a story about Franklin read by a company staffer. InTouch Credit Union's Charleston Boulevard branch collected 177 pounds of food for Three Square Food Bank. InTouch has four branches in the Las Vegas Valley. Registration fees raised by the Bank of Nevada for a seminar at the Smith Center for the Performing Arts raised $20,000 for the Legal Aid Center of Southern Nevada, Nevada Legal Services and the Southern Nevada Senior Law Program. Almost 250 attorneys, judges and other legal professionals attended to learn about opening and closing arguments, using expert witnesses and appellate and writ practice. | 1 APRIL 2013 | 3/28/13 2:50:30 PM