Focused planning, commitment and continuity – leveraging our charity fund raising efforts through strategic partnerships/collaborations with unaffiliated, local community groups
THE MINUTEMAN FOUNDATION
COMMUNITY SERVICE CLUB
www.theminutemanfoundation.org
The mission of the Minuteman Foundation, through its service arm, The Community Service Club, is to help provide for the non-financial needs of an aging community; our community. Their plan is to help ensure that Anthem residents, as they age, can be as involved in their community and they want to be.
Their specific goals are to accumulate a reserve fund sufficient to guarantee that services continue to be provided to the community. They want to purchase a van and hire a full-time driver to provide transportation for residents and to install a warm water therapy pool in one of our recreation centers.
The Minuteman Foundation is the sole support of the Community Service Club. This club has some 200 volunteers who provide service to an average of 250 individuals every month. These services include transportation, handyman, counseling and referral services. The club has trained professionals, who provide Alzheimer’s and bereavement counseling. The club also provides wheelchairs, scooters and other handicap accessible equipment for the short-term use of our residents.
The Minuteman Foundation receives grants from businesses in the Las Vegas area, as well as private donations. It also raises money with a yearly golf tournament, bingo nights and this past year, a Minuteman Cookbook.
The Women’s Club is proud to have provided funds from our fund raising to help purchase a security system to protect the storage area, where all the club’s equipment is stored.
GORDON MCCAW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
http://ccsd.net/schools/mccaw
57 Lynn Lane
Henderson, NV 89015
702-799-8930
702-799-8910 - Fax
McCaw Elementary School, working in partnership with parents, family and the community is dedicated to creating an environment that ensures that all students achieve the highest standards both academically and socially to become lifelong learners and productive members of our global and diverse society. McCaw’s primary goal is to increase achievement in the areas of writing proficiency, math and reading as measured by proficiency exams.
The school, located in the old downtown Henderson area, has 660 students in 34 classrooms. 350 of the students are classified as low income, high risk. 70% of the student population is struggling with literacy and 20% are in special population programs (autism, etc.). They have a pre-school program for 60 students who are 3 and 4 years old. Many of these students arrive at the beginning of the program with the language skills of a one year old.
The school specifically needs non-fiction texts for the upper grades and “consumables” for grades K-3. There are 8 new teachers this year, 6 with no prior teaching experience, and they cannot afford to supplement classroom materials from their own pockets, as the older, more financially stable teachers do.
SCAWC funds in 2006 provided each of 80 teachers $50 for classroom supplies, tuition for structured after school programs for at risk children and clothing for needy children.
HENDERSON ALLIED COMMUNITY ADVOCATES (HACA)
HACA’s mission is to build a better Henderson by leading the community in assisting those at risk in moving toward self-sufficiency. They do this by understanding the needs of the community, providing quality services, building strategic alliances, advocacy and developing resources. Their overriding goal is to offer a gamut of self-sufficiency options that lead to a stable family life for parents and children.
HACA works with low income families, including families being assisted by Safe House, a shelter for women and children. Over 10,000 individual services and referrals are made each year.
HACA provides a food pantry, clothing closet, bus tokens and prescription assistance. For homeless clients, they provide an address, e-mail and phone availability to enable these clients to stay in contact with their support systems.
They assist the homeless in obtaining employment and work along with other HAA programs to get them off the street. HACA provides emergency shelter for up to 4 weeks and has transitional housing programs for families moving from homelessness to stable housing. They have a tenant based rental assistance program for families transitioning from Domestic Violence Shelters.
Part of the family resource center is the Breakfast Bookworm program and the Back 2 School Celebration. These events benefit the four at-risk schools in Henderson and one in Boulder City with literacy programs and school supplies. The Women’s Club and our community proudly participate in collecting supplies for both these programs as well as providing cash assistance for other HACA programs.
NATHAN ADELSON HOSPICE
MISSION STATEMENT - "Nathan Adelson Hospice provides patients and their loved ones with comprehensive end-of-life care and influences better care for all in our community. We honor the importance of choice and control for those who are ill, so they may define for themselves the most comfortable and dignified manner in which to live."
Nathan Adelson Hospice was founded in Nevada over 27 years ago. Nationally acclaimed for its expertise, Nathan Adelson is the only provider of hospice services in the community to be accredited by the Joint Commission of Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations and is a non-profit community based hospice in Southern Nevada.
More than 2,600 residents in the Las Vegas area received services from the hospice in 2004 (latest available data). Unlike some hospices, Adelson provides in-patient care to all age groups, from pediatric to geriatric. They also provide counseling services for the families. Between in-patient, at home hospice, counseling and adult care they service an average of 400 people per day. Adelson turns no need away, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, religious affiliation, availability of insurance and ability to pay.
Many residents of Sun City have benefited from the outstanding care offered by Nathan Adelson. In order to meet the growing need for hospice services closer to home for residents of the southeast areas of the Las Vegas Valley, Adelson is raising money to build a 16 bed facility and adult day care facility in Henderson. The Women’s Club, through its charity efforts plans to assist in the decoration of one of the rooms in this new facility.
Nathan Adelson is staffed with professionals, as well as many volunteers. Volunteer application forms are available at the charity table at each luncheon.
SAFE HOUSE
“Stopping Abuse in the Family Environment”
http://www.safehousenv.org/
921 American Pacific Drive #300
Henderson, NV 89014
702-564-4203
SAFE House is a nonprofit organization committed to stopping abuse in the family environment by providing counseling, advocacy, education, and crisis intervention and shelter services for abuse victims. The organization was founded in 1994 and today SAFE House serves thousands of women, men and children throughout Clark County. The city of Henderson has donated land for SAFE House to build a new counseling center. The Sun City Anthem Women's Club is directing its monies to the building fund.
SUSAN B. KOMAN BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION
Each year the Women’s Club, in partnership with the Sun City Anthem Community Association, participates in the annual Susan B. Koman Walk for the Cure.
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