The NV Energy Foundation has just approved a $75,000 grant to SOK! The foundation funds significant programs and initiatives that have a lasting, positive impact in the communities they serve. And we’re thrilled that they consider SOK worthy of their incredible generosity.
The foundation has also issued a record-breaking meal-bagging challenge to the NV Energy employee volunteer team: Create 15,000 SOK weekend meal bags in two, high-energy, fun events. We will use a portion of the grant for a food purchase to keep the baggers busy for as long as it takes to meet the goal.
The events, led by Shannon Gregory, Director of Delivery Operations – South, are scheduled for August 11th and 12th at two NV Energy locations.
All we can say is, rest-up, carb-up and, of course, 75,000 thank-yous to the NV Foundation and everyone brave enough to answer the challenge.
Our friends at the Helms Helps Alliance will double all donations to Serving Our Kids during September from first-time donors!
If we raise $20,000 in first-time donations during September
Helms Helps will double that amount for a total of $40,000
Do you know anyone who wants to help hungry children right here in our community?
If they donate to Serving Our Kids during the month of September, they can double the impact of their donations.
$99 = $198
When you sponsor one food-insecure child for $99 and Helms Helps will double that so two kids get weekend meals bags every weekend for the entire the school year!
$20,000 = $40,000
This can provide more than 14,500 weekend meal bags for food-insecure children in 98 Clark County elementary and middle schools.
Hungry kids dream of food.
The Helms Helps Matching Donation Campaign can double your first-time donation and Help Feed Their Dreams!
It’s time for kids throughout the Las Vegas Valley to return to the classroom. It’s a time of excitement and hope as they look forward to making new discoveries and new friends that help shape the future they dream about.
But more than 110,000 food-insecure Clark County elementary and middle school students simply hope to get enough to eat, especially on weekends when they can’t access school food programs. It’s time for SOK to kick-off our new campaign to help meet their needs. Our goal is to provide weekend meal bags to 5,000 kids each week.
That takes more money to buy more food. It takes more volunteers to create weekend meal bags and deliver them to more than 98 schools. It takes more caring, generous people like you to donate the time, energy and money to help reach this goal and feed more hungry kids.
Our recent school survey confirms that SOK weekend meal bags improve student health and wellness, school attendance, and academic performance. Of those students receiving SOK weekend meal bags, the survey revealed:
However, it also shows that 56% of kids who receive a weekend meal bag share their food with family members. We’re making great progress, but needs keeps growing. And so must we.
We’ll be posting lots of new volunteer opportunities for the upcoming school year on servingourkids.org by the end of July. Please ask your family, friends and colleagues to get involved. It’s easy. It’s fun. It’s important.
It’s time to join our crusade to end child hunger and help feed the dreams of food-insecure kids throughout the school year.
Many thanks to all who voted for Serving Our Kids as their charity to support during the $100,000 giveaway sponsored by Dimopoulos Law. We are very thankful to Dimopoulos Law for their generous award of $10,000 to help Serving Our Kids feed food insecure children. This generous donation will help us provide 2800 meal bags to children in need! Thank you all for your support!
