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Sunset Station raised $6,500 for the Boys & Girls Club of Southern Nevada at a charity poker tournament.

Hash House A Go Go in Henderson raised more than $3,000 for Hope for Prisoners, a local nonprofit organization that works with Metro Police to empower criminal offenders who are reintegrating into mainstream society. The Southern Nevada schools that received grants, worth $500 to $1,500, are CT Sewell Elementary, CH Decker Elementary, Desert Pines High School, Don Hayden Elementary, Edith Garehime Elementary, Elise Wolff Elementary, Harley Harmon Elementary, Judi Steele Elementary, Peterson Behavior Junior/Senior High School, Ruby Duncan Elementary, West Career & Technical Academy and Will Beckley Elementary.

Miracle Mile Shops at Planet Hollywood turned its fountain blue in March and donated all change tossed in to Boys & Girls Clubs of Southern Nevada.

After-School All-Stars Las Vegas received a $50,000 grant from the National After-School All-Stars organization to support after-school academic and enrichment programs for more than 5,500 at-risk students in 13 Clark County elementary and middle schools.

Southwest Medical employees donated 16,128 volunteer hours in 2014 to a variety of Southern Nevada charities, such as ALS of Nevada, American Lung Association of Nevada, Assistance League Las Vegas Operation School Bell, Baby’s Bounty Las Vegas, College of Southern Nevada Foundation, Helping Hands of Vegas Valley, Las Vegas Rescue Mission, Pahrump Senior Center, Ronald McDonald House Charities of Greater Las Vegas, Three Square Food Bank and United Way of Southern Nevada.

More than $165,000 to fight childhood cancer was raised during St. The grant will allow the Rape Crisis Center to create child sexual abuse prevention and treatment initiatives, including an abuse prevention curriculum for pre-school and early elementary children, resources for parents and a dedicated advocate to work with victims who are students in the Clark County School District.

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