As the leading business organization in Nevada, the Vegas Chamber is committed to ensuring Nevada businesses have the resources and environment they need to succeed, create jobs, and thrive in a global economy. Our organization stands upon three pillars to work towards these goals for your business and our community: Advocacy, partnership, and resources. Advocacy: The Vegas Chamber provides a strong and unified voice at all levels of government, ensuring Nevada is protected against harmful policies. The Vegas Chamber advances an agenda for the current - and future - needs of our business community. Partnership: Creating meaningful relationships and working synergistically with other key organizations and stakeholders is paramount to the collective success of our state. The Vegas Chamber continually cultivates these partnerships to give our region an even greater voice. Resources: The Vegas Chamber creates opportunities for local businesses to thrive by providing programs and services that help members grow their businesses, save money, and expand their networks. Membership is open to businesses that maintain a voluntary annual dues investment. Benefits of membership include networking opportunities, community engagement, government advocacy, image enhancement, information access, numerous discounts and benefits, and heightened credibility.

In 1937, a group of judges sought to improving the effectiveness of the nation's juvenile courts and the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges (NCJFCJ) was born. Pursuing our mission of improving the courts and systems practice for our nation's children and families, as well as raising awareness of child welfare and domestic violence issues continues to this day. The NCJFCJ provides cutting-edge training, wide-ranging technical assistance, and research to help the nation's courts, judges and staff in their important work. Each year, the NCJFCJ provides education, technical assistance, and publications to an estimated 30,000 judges, court administrators, social and mental health workers, police, probation officers, and others working in the juvenile and family courts at its headquarters in Reno and throughout the country. In conjunction with the University of Nevada, Reno and the National Judicial College, the NCJFCJ participates in unique advanced degree programs for judges and other court professionals.

Culinary Union has been fighting and winning for working families in Nevada since 1935.

Catholic Charities of Southern Nevada provides food, shelter and comprehensive services and inspire our community through collaboration, recognizing that each person is created in the image and likeness of God, and that God’s compassion transforms lives.

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United Way of Southern Nevada believes that everyone deserves a roof over their heads, a good job, and access to a quality education. Join us and help ensure that every person in Southern Nevada has the opportunity to succeed.

The Boys & Girls Club of Truckee Meadows is the leading non-profit youth services agency in northern Nevada. Its mission is to enhance the quality of life for children, ages 0 to 18, in the Truckee Meadows through after-school, summer and track break programming and services. The Club is committed to creating healthy children, in body and mind, with a sense of competence, usefulness, responsibility, belonging and influence, through diverse programs and community involvement. Founded in 1976, the Club now serves nearly 13,000 children at 40+ sites throughout Nevada. At all of its sites, the Boys & Girls Club strives to provide kids with positive and productive outlets for their energy with programs such as after-school tutoring, character and leadership development, healthy lifestyles, athletics and art. And while the Club invests more than $3,000 annually into each of its members, memberships cost just $20 per year, providing equal opportunity to all children in the community.

The Great Basin Institute is an interdisciplinary field studies organization that promotes environmental research, education, and conservation throughout the West. The Institute advances science-based adaptive management of public lands n through educational outreach and direct service programs. We connect passionate, experienced and knowledgeable people with the important work of managing landscapes, wildlife and other resources across the West.

OUR MISSION: Feeding the hungry today and solving hunger for tomorrow through community partnership. The Food Bank of Northern Nevada provides emergency food services to families through a network of more than 150 partner agencies in a 90,000 square mile service area throughout northern Nevada and the eastern slope of the sierra in California. We serve more than 115,000 people each month, nearly half of whom are children and seniors. Last fiscal year, we provided more than 20 million meals to neighbors in need. The Food Bank also plays a leading role in collaborating with other committed northern Nevada community members and organizations to address the root causes of hunger. The Food Bank incorporated in 1983 and has operated as a 501C3 non-profit organization for more than 35 years. We have grown from a small pantry to a regional distribution center helping many families who struggle with hunger. We are a proud member of Feeding America, a network of more than 200 food banks.

The American Gem Society (AGS) is a nonprofit trade association that has stood for consumer protection, ethics, and ongoing education since 1934. Our members are held to the industry's highest standards and our credentialed members, also known as titleholders, are required to pass an annual recertification exam in order to maintain their AGS titles. Members of the AGS are passionate about jewelry and dedicated to creating a positive buying experience for their customers. To learn more about AGS, visit americangemsociety.org or find a credentialed AGS jeweler near you at AGS.org/Find-a-Jeweler.

We are the Family Learning Center. We are the ones who make the impossible possible. We want to shake the world up, not just watch it turn. We want to obliterate the cycles of poverty by providing access to the tools of success to everyone who has a desire to succeed. We want to create a better world in the life of one child, one family, one community, and the whole world through education. This is the very core of our existence: redesigning the future for not just one but for many. We want each person to experience life the way it was meant to be - to live and not just survive. Together we can change the world, one child and one family at a time. We are the Family Learning Center !

AmeriCorps VISTA Program Manager: Coordinated services for 10 VISTA members throughout the State of Nevada. AmeriCorps Service Learning VISTA Team Lead: Provided technical assistance to team members throughout the State of Nevada in implementing the Service Learning methodology in local communities. Southern Nevada Service Learning VISTA member: Assist local organizations in Las Vegas to develop and implement Service Learning programs for adolescents.