Sands Cares 2022 contributions include new funding for ACDC's
HAPI Medical Center and continued support for its language bank
serving AAPI communities
LAS
VEGAS, April 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Las Vegas
Sands (NYSE: LVS) today announced it will donate $175,000 to the Asian Community Development
Council (ACDC), extending the company's partnership with the
leading nonprofit organization serving the Asian American Pacific
Islander (AAPI) communities in Southern
Nevada.
Sands' contributions will go toward two important
capacity-building initiatives: $100,000 will support ACDC's efforts to establish
the new Healthy Asian Pacific Islander (HAPI) Medical Center to
provide critical health care services for the AAPI community, and
$75,000 will continue support for
ACDC's language bank and in-language hotline, which facilitates
connections to critical social services for AAPI residents in
Southern Nevada.
Sands' medical center support enables ACDC to access a critical
matching grant that puts the nonprofit closer to opening the
facility, which will provide quality health services for the
underserved, uninsured and underinsured populations in the Las
Vegas Valley, while also removing the language barriers members of
the AAPI community face in obtaining medical care. The medical
center builds on the resources ACDC has offered to AAPI communities
in Southern Nevada since 2015,
which include helping residents with voter registration and health
insurance enrollment, facilitating food and rental assistance, and
providing other emergency services such as COVID-19 testing and
vaccinations.
"Sands' partnership has been extremely valuable in helping ACDC
advance some of our highest-priority initiatives," said
Vida Lin, founder and president of
ACDC. "Sands was a major factor in bringing our language bank and
hotline online last year, enabling us to leverage in-language
services to get people to resources during the onslaught of the
pandemic in 2021. Sands' new funding for the language bank and our
new medical center further extends the in-language services we can
offer to the community, especially as we bring the medical center
closer to fruition and are able to deliver high-quality medical
care in a safe, supportive space that is culturally and
linguistically accessible."
The ACDC funding comes through Sands Cares, the company's
community engagement program, and builds on Sands Cares
contributions to ACDC in 2021. Sands' donation kick-started the
organization's capital campaign to establish the API Language Link,
which aims to break down language barriers between non-English
speakers and social service providers by recruiting and training a
team of in-language specialists to assist AAPI community members
with limited English proficiency in navigating the social service
infrastructure. ACDC's API Language Link is available in Cantonese,
Korean, Mandarin, Pohnpeian, Shanghainese, Sinhalese, Spanish,
Tagalog, Taiwanese, Tamil, Thai and Vietnamese.
"ACDC provides an array of vital programs that improve the
wellbeing of AAPI communities in Southern
Nevada, as well as champions these groups across the entire
state of Nevada," said
Ron Reese, senior vice president of
global communications and corporate affairs, who spearheads
corporate responsibility for the company. "Beyond supporting the
crucial services ACDC provides, we are engaging with the planned
HAPI Medical Center and the language bank because these initiatives
closely align with our Sands Cares focus areas of building our
nonprofit partners' capacity to serve the community and working to
remove systemic barriers among underrepresented groups."
Sands Cares' support for ACDC is one of several engagements with
diverse community organizations. Through these efforts, Sands aims
to propel key programmatic initiatives that reduce and remove
barriers and ensure civic representation among all populations.
Since 2020, Sands has contributed to local and national nonprofit
organizations that serve diverse communities, including ACDC,
National Urban League, 100 Black Men Las Vegas, the National
Hispanic Institute and The LGTBQ Center of Southern Nevada, among others.
As part of its partnership with ACDC, Sands Cares will be a lead
sponsor of ACDC's May 1 Run for
Rice/Walk for Wellness 5K – the organization's first annual
charity run/walk to raise funds to establish the new HAPI Medical
Center. The event will take place at the College of Southern Nevada
Charleston campus and is open to the public. Interested
participants can sign up or donate at
https://www.mightycause.com/event/Ricerun2022.
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.
About the Asian Community Development Council
The
Asian Community Development Council (ACDC) is a nonprofit and
non-partisan organization of volunteers dedicated to building,
connecting, and educating the Asian American Pacific Islander
community in Nevada. ACDC was
officially chartered in 2015. The mission of ACDC is to improve the
general well-being and education of the Asian American Pacific
Islander and other ethnic communities in Nevada. Among the services ACDC offers
includes: voter education, health insurance enrollment assistance,
citizenship application assistance, vaccination clinics (Influenza
and COVID-19), food distribution, College Readiness Bootcamp, and
GraduAsian.
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