Sands Extends its Partnership with The LGBTQ Center of Southern Nevada

Sands Cares 2022 funding continues assist for the Arlene Cooper Group Well being Heart; supplies capacity-building funding to improve The Heart’s occasions heart

LAS VEGAS, June 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Las Vegas Sands (NYSE: LVS) at present introduced Sands Cares funding of simply over $142,000 for The LGBTQ Heart of Southern Nevada (The Heart), extending the corporate’s partnership with Southern Nevada’s main nonprofit group serving the LGBTQ+ neighborhood.

The Heart has been a significant a part of Las Vegas for greater than 25 years, providing inclusive, life-enriching packages, occasions, training and assist teams for individuals who determine as LGBTQ+ and allies of the neighborhood. The Heart serves because the hub for an array of important sources and care, together with meals and meal supply, bodily and psychological well being care companies, and neighborhood advocacy.

Sands’ contributions will assist two essential capacity-building initiatives to assist The Heart broaden companies, whereas producing recurring income to sustainably fund packages: continued assist for the Arlene Cooper Group Well being Heart with funding for a brand new examination room and counseling rooms to accommodate rising demand for companies, and an funding for renovation of The Heart’s occasions heart.

These contributions proceed the capacity-building focus of the Sands Cares partnership with The Heart by serving to transition the Cooper well being heart right into a full-service medical clinic on the trail towards turning into a Federally Certified Well being Heart (FQHC) in 2023, and enabling The Heart to improve the occasions heart to ship enhanced choices that present revenue-generating revenue via particular occasions and rental charges.

With six completely different rooms and house for as much as 600 individuals, the occasions heart is dwelling to quite a lot of The Heart’s choices, together with well being teaching programs, assist and advocacy group conferences, in addition to rental occasions and celebrations corresponding to weddings, concert events and theatrical productions.

“Sands continues to be a devoted companion in serving to us understand our strategic imaginative and prescient to higher serve the LGBTQ+ neighborhood by investing in initiatives that assist our long-term sustainability and ship vital sources to assist our mission,” mentioned John Waldron, CEO of The Heart. “The Sands Cares funding helps us present life-saving sources to positively affect the lives of individuals in disaster, victims of crime and people looking for medical help in a secure and supportive setting, in addition to ship affirming packages and companies for the LGBTQ+ neighborhood.”  

The 2022 Sands Cares funding continues the partnership established in 2021, through which Sands helped shut out part certainly one of The Heart’s capital marketing campaign to broaden the Arlene Cooper Group Well being Heart in downtown Las Vegas. Funding enabled The Heart to advance plans to supply full onsite well being and wellness look after LGBTQ+ and low-income downtown residents, whereas supporting the group’s long-term objective of producing recurring income via the clinic to maintain its LGBTQ+ programming in Southern Nevada. By way of Sands Cares and different neighborhood funding, the well being heart was capable of improve affected person service days to 6 from 4 in 2021, whereas increasing its choices to incorporate remedy for people unable to pay for companies, outreach actions for communities most weak to HIV an infection, teaching programs for individuals residing with HIV, prevention collateral to tell at-risk communities, and medical provides used to deal with circumstances associated to sexual well being.

“The progress The Heart has made with the well being heart over the previous 12 months has been outstanding, which gave us robust confidence in increasing our assist to incorporate the occasions heart as one other capacity-building focus of our partnership,” mentioned Ron Reese, senior vice chairman of world communications and company affairs, who spearheads company duty for the corporate. “The well being heart and the occasions heart are two key property that each serve the LGBTQ+ neighborhood and make sure the long-term sustainability of The Heart. We sit up for seeing their continued progress in these endeavors.”

As a part of Pleasure Month in June, Sands is collaborating with The Heart on occasions to rejoice the LGBTQ+ neighborhood, together with the group’s annual PrEP Rally that helps educate the neighborhood in HIV prevention and different sources for hurt discount. The Heart is providing Pleasure month actions and occasions all through the month of June and neighborhood members can be a part of by visiting http://thecenterlv.org, or by calling 702.733.9800.

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About The LGBTQ+ Group Heart of Southern Nevada

For greater than 25 years, The Heart has cared for, championed, and celebrated LGBTQIA+ people and those that are underserved in Nevada. We perform as the guts and residential of the LGBTQIA+ neighborhood by making connections, delivering packages, and offering a secure house for well being and wellness, social companies, arts and tradition, advocacy, and neighborhood constructing. Ongoing Heart packages assist LGBTQIA+ youth, adults, households, seniors, vets, individuals with disabilities, these residing with HIV, and underserved populations. Moreover, we’re proud to supply the Heart Advocacy Community, the primary nationally accredited program of its sort, specializing in LGBTQIA+ points for sufferer advocacy. For extra info on how The Heart empowers everybody to thrive in Nevada, please go to The LGBTQ Heart of Southern Nevada.

SOURCE Las Vegas Sands