MJ’s Favorite Charities
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Opportunity Village
Opportunity Village is a not-for-profit organization that serves people with intellectual disabilities by providing them with vocational training, employment and social recreation services that make their lives more productive and interesting. Through Opportunity Village’s programs and services, hundreds of people with disabilities are learning vocational skills and being placed in jobs throughout the community.
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Komen Southern Nevada
Susan G. Komen for the Cure® is the world’s largest source of nonprofit funds dedicated to curing breast cancer at every stage – from the causes, to the cures, to the pain and anxiety of every moment in between. As one of 125 Komen Affiliates worldwide, the Southern Nevada Affiliate is proud to serve Clark, Nye, Lincoln, Esmeralda, White Pine, and Mineral counties by providing breast health resources in the state of Nevada.
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Child Focus
Child Focus is a non-profit agency that provides resources and services which enrich the lives of children living in foster care and creates opportunities for each child to develop the individual strengths and abilities that will help prepare them for responsible adulthood.
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Best Buddies
The mission of Best Buddies is to establish a global volunteer movement that creates opportunities for one-to-one friendships, integrated employment and leadership development for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
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Bead for Life
BeadforLife eradicates extreme poverty by creating bridges of understanding between impoverished Africans and concerned world citizens. Ugandan women turn colorful recycled paper into beautiful beads. Women in Northern Uganda gather shea nuts and press them into shea butter for cosmetics and soaps. And people who care open their hearts, homes and communities to buy and sell both products.
The beads and shea butter become income, food, medicine, school fees and hope. It is a small miracle that enriches us all.
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Southern Highlands Charitable Foundation
Since its inception, the Southern Highlands Charitable Foundation has helped many children, teens, and women in need.
Through a variety of events including the annual Governor’s Black-Tie Invitational Golf Tournament, the annual Southern Highlands Fall Festival and 5K run, and numerous Southern Highlands Golf Club member events, over $9 million has been raised and distributed to numerous charities and their beneficiaries.
Monies raised over the years have allowed critically ill children and siblings to be sent to various Summer Camps; enabled magical wishes to be granted daily; provided thousands of children in need with a new backpacks, school supplies, shoes and clothing; created a vibrant Art Enrichment Program; provided disadvantaged students with scholarships for higher education; and has financially assisted families of children newly diagnosed with cancer. -
United Way
United Way is working to advance the common good by focusing on education, income and health. These are the building blocks for a good life—a quality education that leads to a stable job, enough income to support a family through retirement, and good health.
Our goal is to create long-lasting changes that prevent problems from happening in the first place.
Enable children to enter school developmentally on track in the areas of literacy and social, emotional, and intellectual skills
Assist individuals and families to increase their income, build savings, and sustain assets
Ensure that every family has accessible, continuous, culturally competent healthcare and children are healthy upon entering school.
