Boys & Girls Clubs of Southern Nevada Receives $25,000 Donation & 150 Bicycle Helmets from UnitedHealthcare Following Fundrai...
January 15 2018 - 5:47PM
Business Wire
- UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team
member Leah Thomas and mascot Dr. Health E. Hound helped lead
helmet giveaway and decorating following bike-for-dollars
fundraiser at CES
- Thomas provided cycling safety
demonstration and healthy training tips
UnitedHealthcare today donated $25,000 to the Boys & Girls
Clubs of Southern Nevada and 150 bike helmets to encourage kids in
Las Vegas to make an active, healthy start in the New Year.
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UnitedHealthcare of Nevada CEO Don
Giancursio helps Elton Sunnyway, left, Breyonna Hooker and D.J.
Owen decorate bike helmets, some of the 150 donated along with a
$25,000 check to Boys & Girls Clubs of Southern Nevada
following a CES 2018 fundraiser on Monday, Jan. 15, 2018, in Las
Vegas (Photo by Isaac Brekken for UnitedHealthcare).
The donation is the culmination of a fundraiser held during CES
2018, where members of the UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team, along
with employees and executives, encouraged conference attendees to
ride stationary bikes at the UnitedHealthcare booth. For each mile
pedaled, UnitedHealthcare donated $1 – up to $25,000 – to the Boys
& Girls Clubs of Southern Nevada.
The check was presented at the Lied Memorial Boys & Girls
Club of Southern Nevada, where UnitedHealthcare also donated 150
bicycle helmets to club members. Leah Thomas, a member of the
UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team, helped fit each child with their
helmet, and provided a lesson in cycling safety and advice about
the best exercises to do before a bike race.
“This generous donation from UnitedHealthcare will help us
encourage healthy living and regular physical activity,” said Andy
Bischel, CEO, Boys & Girls Clubs of Southern Nevada. “Having
the kids at the club talk with a professional rider with the
UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team, and learn what it takes to stay
active and safe, will make a lasting, positive impression on these
kids and our community.”
“It is wonderful to see the kids get excited about exercise,
riding their bikes and being safe on the road,” said Don
Giancursio, CEO, UnitedHealthcare of Nevada. “UnitedHealthcare is
grateful to collaborate with the Boys & Girls Club in Southern
Nevada and help support its efforts to encouraging kids to stay
active and healthy.”
UnitedHealthcare’s mascot Dr. Health E. Hound joined the
UnitedHealthcare pro cyclists to help the children decorate their
helmets with stickers and decals, provided healthy snacks and
posters, and signed autographs.
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UnitedHealthcareUnitedHealthcare is dedicated to helping
people nationwide live healthier lives by simplifying the health
care experience, meeting consumer health and wellness needs, and
sustaining trusted relationships with care providers. The company
offers the full spectrum of health benefit programs for
individuals, employers, military service members, retirees and
their families, and Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries, and
contracts directly with more than 1 million physicians and care
professionals, and 6,000 hospitals and other care facilities
nationwide. UnitedHealthcare is one of the businesses of
UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH), a diversified Fortune 50 health and
well-being company. For more information, visit UnitedHealthcare at
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