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“When you have completed 95 percent of your journey, you are
only halfway there.”
Japanese Proverb
Click Here to Find Out More About the Corporate Philanthropy Program.
Our commitment to sharing with and providing service to those who are less able and less fortunate infuses our Philanthropy efforts, and is an essential anchor of our Diversity Initiative. In fact, each grant request that our Company receives or awards is evaluated for its impact on diversity. Consistent with our overall philanthropic goals, our efforts focus on the following: education, childhood development and community development. Each aims to help improve the quality of life within the communities in which our employees live and work.
Over the past seven years, corporate giving to lower socioeconomic or minority communities has increased from 15 percent to 61 percent of total corporate giving. Numerous organizations and groups have benefited from the Company’s charity and from the generosity of our employees.
As a strategic investment, MGM MIRAGE understands that helping children develop properly in the formative years can not only aid the community in the future, but is an investment in our future workforce. We have extended our support to many organizations and individuals to advance quality education and to provide educational opportunity through scholarships, in-kind services and direct grants for programs. One such program is Classroom on Wheels (COW) that provides early childhood services to more than 400 children in Clark County, Nevada.
Paul E. Culley Empowerment School
In 2006, MGM MIRAGE adopted Paul Culley Elementary School, one of four empowerment schools in the Clark County School District. Through our partnership MGM MIRAGE works closely with Culley administrators to facilitate job assistance for parents, school supplies and mentors (through Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southern Nevada) for at-risk students, as well as teacher training and professional development. In August 2007, Company employees provided all 1,000 students with uniforms, backpacks and school supplies for the start of the school year. To date, the Company and its employees have contributed more than $150,000 in donations, support services and volunteer time to the school.
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Three Square: the fight against hunger.
In 2006, MGM MIRAGE joined forces with several other business and community leaders to create a new non-profit organization, Three Square, dedicated to combating hunger among needy individuals and families in Southern Nevada. Seeded by a $50,000 contribution from our Company and other donations, this group aims to build a model facility designed by leading hospitality industry chefs that will produce fresh, nutritionally balanced meals to non-profit food distribution centers such as shelters, churches and social service outlets. In addition, Three Square plans to erect a food recovery center for food banking and a job training center for the economically disadvantaged. Members of our community affairs, philanthropy, food and beverage, and executive chef staff are spearheading Three Square in trustee and other key potitions.
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The MGM MIRAGE Voice Foundation disburses employee donations to charitable organizations in the communities where our employees live and work. Since its founding in 2002, employees have raised more than $24 million to support deserving nonprofit organizations. To ensure that one hundred percent of our employees’ contributions benefit their intended recipients, MGM MIRAGE underwrites all administrative costs associated with managing and operating the Voice Foundation.
Voice Foundation’s Katrina Recovery Fund
Launched in 2005 as the anchor of our employee relief efforts, the Fund raised over $4 million fir this drive and distributed $3.9 million in 2006 ($1 million seed donation by our Company; $900,000 in employee donations with a $1 million match by our Company; and a $1 million donation from the Lincy Foundation) to uprooted Beau Rivage employees for shelter, food, water, clothing, toiletries, and relocation assistance. The remainder of the recovery fund was donated in 2007 to community organizations who continue to aid the restoration of Biloxi and its residents.
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