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Kids
to Kids
wouldn't exist without the steadfast support of our community
partners.
The
Venetian Foundation
Each
year, the Venetian Foundation adopts the elementary school
in which the majority of the company's employees' children
attend. The students are recipients of Kids
to Kids
books to create their own at-home library collections. The
Foundation has also generously hosted our annual Storybook
Gala for each of its three years.
Focus
Property Group
Focus
Property Group's "Providence" is a 1,200 acre master
planned community that will focus its outreach efforts in
the area of literacy. As
the community develops, so will its partnership with Kids
to Kids.
Visit Focus
Property Group online.
Goodwill
Industries
Goodwill
Industries of Southern Nevada has been a major partner of
the Kids
to Kids
program since 2002. They have generously donated more than
204,862 books to the program.
First
Book
Kids
to Kids recently received more than 58,000 new books, valued
at more than $330,000, from First Book, a national non-profit.
This donation is just the latest in a long and beneficial
partnership with First Book.
The
Summerlin Children's Forum and The Howard Hughes Corporation
"Building
Connections with Books" is a program that focuses on
literacy by partnering Summerlin elementary schools with at-risk
Las Vegas elementary schools. The first phase of the program
partnered three elementary schools in Summerlin: Richard Bryan,
Ober and Lummis and three at-risk elementary schools in Las
Vegas: C.P. Squires, Rex Bell and Lois Craig.
Lexus
of Las Vegas
Lexus
of Las Vegas is helping the Kids
to Kids
cause by generously donating maintenance services and providing
gas for our van which was donated by Lee's Helping Hand.
Barnes
& Noble Booksellers
The
four Barnes & Noble Booksellers in Southern Nevada are
believers in Kids
to Kids.
Not only do they serve as collection sites for the community
to drop off gently used children's books, they support Kids
to Kids
in other ways as well.
We
Couldn't Do It Alone
Kids
to Kids
would like to thank these corporations and foundations for
their generous support in 2006.
Ritter Charitable Trust, $60,000
Bank of
America, $15,000
MGM Mirage
Voice Foundation, $14,585
Station
Casinos, $11,500
Probity
International Corporation & World Jewelry Center, $10,500
Lee's Helping
Hand, Inc., $10,000
MGM Mirage
Corporation, $10,000
Target,
$9,575
Southern
Highlands Golf Club Charitable Foundation, $5,708
The Howard
Hughes Corportation, $5,600
Duncan
& Irene Lee Charitable Fund, $5,000
Focus Property
Group, $5,000
Majestic
Realty Foundation, $11,500
Nevada
Power, $25,000
Jeffrey
Burr, Ltd., $5,000
Providence,
$5,000
Rhodes
Homes, $5,000
Robert
Banks Foundation, $5,000
Sunbelt
Communications Co., $5,000
Citibank,
$3,868.82
Kummer
Kaempfer Bonner & Renshaw, $3,500
Silver
State Schools Credit Union, $3,500
Summerlin
Children's Forum, $3,500
Lexus of
Las Vegas, $3,100
Silver
State Schools Credit Union, $3,000
American
Continental Group, $2,500
Johnathan
Ogden Foundation, $2,500
Las Vegas
Review-Journal, $2,500
Milby &
Oliver, Inc., $2,500
Malady
& Wooten, LLP, $2,500
Sam's Club,
$2,000
Walker
International School, $1,087.44
Tanaka
Elementary School PTA, $1,038.79
Bank West
of Nevada, $1,000
Boulder
City Sunrise Rotary, $1,000
The Draney
Family Foundation, $1,000
GC Wallace,
Inc., $1,000
Marnell
Corrao Associates, Inc., $1,000
MSG Surveying,
$1,000
Pulte Homes/Del
Webb, $1,000
Sierra
Health Services, Inc., $1,000
Walmart,
$1,000
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