Nevada Partnership for Homeless Youth completes the
three-year flagship program developed by Sands to help select
nonprofits reach new heights
LAS
VEGAS, March 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- In a
virtual global celebration held last evening, Las Vegas Sands
(NYSE: LVS) honored Nevada Partnership for Homeless Youth (NPHY) as
the second graduate of the Sands Cares Accelerator, an exclusive
three-year nonprofit membership program designed to help fast-track
rising organizations on the tipping point of making a leap in
community impact.
NPHY joined the Sands Cares Accelerator in 2018 to focus on
building the organization's strategic vision for the next stage in
its evolution as the most comprehensive service provider for the
thousands of young people experiencing homelessness in Southern Nevada.
Through the invitation-only Sands Cares Accelerator, Sands
creates longer-term relationships with select nonprofits via
extended funding, structured guidance and customized support rarely
found with typical corporate-nonprofit engagements. Inspired by the
entrepreneurial and philanthropic spirit of Sands' founder
Sheldon G. Adelson, the Sands Cares
Accelerator carries on his legacy of building successful businesses
and making impact on communities through dedicated engagement.
During the three-year membership, nonprofits focus on building
their capacity in a strategic area or enhancing a program offering
to better serve the community.
"The Sands Cares Accelerator helped us create space beyond our
day-to-day services and programming to look at strategic
opportunities for how we can build lasting solutions to address
youth homelessness in Southern
Nevada," said Arash Ghafoori,
CEO of NPHY. "With the consulting support, guidance and funding
resources provided through the Sands Cares Accelerator, we were
able to complete our goal of developing a comprehensive and
long-term strategic plan to chart our course for the future. Our
time in the program provided an incredible growth opportunity for
NPHY."
Sands and NPHY began working together in 2014, and the company
has supported a variety of NPHY programs to provide resources to
youth in crisis, help clients create pathways to independence and
address long-term solutions for youth homelessness, which has
included co-founding the Movement to End Youth Homelessness and the
Southern Nevada Youth Homelessness Summit. NPHY's entry into the
Sands Cares Accelerator was a natural fit, as Sands recognized the
nonprofit's desire and potential to evolve its offerings to address
youth homelessness, evidenced by its leadership in developing the
Southern Nevada Plan to End Youth Homelessness, the region's first
comprehensive plan to address the issue.
"NPHY's journey through the Sands Cares Accelerator is a good
example of how we've evolved the program over its brief five-year
history, as we gained experience, better understood our members'
needs and found new ways to help them succeed," said Ron Reese, senior vice president of global
communications and corporate affairs, who spearheads corporate
responsibility for the company. "During their membership, we added
a more structured approach for project management and goal-setting,
which helped them work through the process for developing a
strategic plan. Establishing a blueprint for their future is the
type of lasting impact we aim to help nonprofits make."
Sands celebrated NPHY's graduation as part of a global virtual
event highlighting the work of Sands Cares Accelerator members in
the United States and Singapore and welcoming the program's newest
participant, Green Future, which has become the first member in
Sands' Macao region. Green Our
Planet in Las Vegas and Art
Outreach in Singapore are the
program's other current members. The Marty Hennessy Inspiring
Children Foundation in Las Vegas
was the program's first graduate, completing its membership at the
end of 2019.
About Sands (NYSE: LVS)
Sands is the world's
preeminent developer and operator of world-class Integrated Resorts
that drive valuable business and leisure tourism and deliver
significant economic benefits, sustained job creation, financial
opportunities for local businesses and community investment to make
our host regions ideal places to live, work and visit.
Sands' portfolio of properties include the iconic Marina Bay Sands in Singapore and The Venetian Macao, The Plaza
and Four Seasons Hotel Macao, The Londoner Macao, The Parisian
Macao and Sands Macao in Macao
SAR, China, through majority
ownership in Sands China Ltd.
Sands is dedicated to being a model corporate citizen, anchored
by the core tenets of serving people, planet and communities, and
our corporate responsibility performance has led to recognition as
one of Fortune's World's Most Admired Companies and
inclusion on the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices for World and
North America. To learn more,
visit www.sands.com.
Contacts:
Kristin Koca
Kristin.Koca@sands.com
702.923.9142
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