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The Firefighters of Southern Nevada Burn Foundation consists of fire department active personnel from Las Vegas Fire & Rescue, Clark County, Henderson, and North Las Vegas Fire Departments.

While fighting fires, firefighters witnessed many burn victims and their families suffer physically and emotionally after ultimately losing their homes and necessities. These firefighters from across the valley decided to do something to help. They began holding fund raisers so that they could give financial support to these victims of fire. At this time, the firefighters also began to work closely with the Burn Unit at UMC hospital in helping to care for these victims, in a joint effort to help those families in need after such a catastrophic event.

The common practice developed into the following: When firefighters anywhere in the valley were faced with a burn victim or family in need of support, they would contact a representative of this coalition to help out.

Due to the firefighters’ success in helping others and raising funds, this coalition began to take it further in the community and began to collect Christmas toys for the disadvantaged children throughout the valley and have provided thousands of children in need at least one gift during the holidays. For over 8 years, they have held successful Toy Drives and given back to the children in our community. Five years ago, they took another step to further the assistance by holding a yearly Firefighter Bachelor Auction which has brought in funding for the many families and charities in the community for support.

In 2003 it became apparent that it was time for this coalition to become a formal charity itself. They became a (501c3) charitable organization and continue today to provide support to those families in need throughout Southern Nevada.

They are hosting their 2^nd annual golf tournament fundraiser July 12, 2015 at Bear’s Best Las Vegas golf course.

They’re currently collecting donations for raffle and silent auction, a portion of raised funds will be donated to The Shade Tree, a Las Vegas-based shelter for women, children and their pets that are victims of domestic violence.

When the Sin City Rollergirls reached out to SunBuggy, it was without hesitation that we provided our popular Mini Baja Chase experience as a gift for their silent auction or raffle.

The Firefighter’s of Southern Nevada Burn Foundation will host its 15th Annual Firefighter Bachelor Auction this summer, inside the SLS Hotel & Casino in its nightclub LIFE. This highly anticipated event includes music, entertainment, dancing, high-end raffles and an auction of approximately 14 eligible firefighter bachelors. Attendees will be able to bid on several exciting date packages, while supporting a great cause for families here in Southern Nevada.

 

Since the beginning of of the Firefighter Bachelor Auction, the foundation has raised nearly $600,000. The money raised from past events has helped the Burn Foundation provide assistance for families with sick or injured children and provided financial aid, temporary living expense, clothing, furniture, psychological counseling, trauma therapy, and the unfortunate circumstance of funeral expenses after a catastrophic event.

 

Here at SunBuggy, we were more than happy to donate our most popular ‘Mini Baja Chase’ as an activity to be raffled out during the fundraiser.

MS is a chronic, unpredictable disease of the central nervous system primarily affecting young adults between the ages of 20 and 50 in the prime of their personal and professional lives. The majority of the money raised at the Dinner remains with the MS society to support services for individuals and their families dealing daily with the devastating effects of multiple sclerosis.

The Dinner of Champions is scheduled for Friday, October 2, 2015 at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino and will be attended by approximately 300+ individuals. This activity will feature items to bid on through a silent auction and gives guests the opportunity to take home great gifts, such as the SunBuggy Mini Baja Chase. The Dinner of Champions draws a strong crowd of leaders who fight this terrible disease every day.

Recently, one million veterans have returned to attend college and universities nationwide, with more than 1,400 veterans enrolled at UNLV. The campus veteran service program is going to celebrate the service of the graduating veterans, who live here in Las Vegas, on May 14th of this year.. Rebel VETS works closely with the UNLV Student Veteran Organization, the Veteran’s Education Benefits Office, and with Nellis and Creech Air Force bases to assist members of the southern Nevada military community in reaching their educational goals.

When SunBuggy was originally contacted, we were excited to support and represent our local community by welcoming these heroes home and we provided our gratitude for their years of service and sacrifice by donating our most popular ride, the Mini Baja Chase for the raffle that will be held at the Graduation ceremony.

The Nevada Storm Ice Hockey fundraising planners contacted SunBuggy in hopes of receiving a donation for silent auction or raffles. Here at SunBuggy, we were more than happy to donate our popular Mini Baja Chase ride.

A group of kids were selected to represent Las Vegas, NV at “Hockey Night” in Boston, MA this coming July. Team Storm is currently planning their fundraising event and auction for May of this year in hopes to get their 2 teams to the event.

The Teen Challenge is a 12-18 month residential recovery program that provides help to those struggling with drug and alcohol addiction. Teen Challenge has four homes in the Bay Area (California) dedicated to assisting men,women, children, teenagers and even entire families who are on the road to recovery! This program reaches out to those who would otherwise be living on the streets. Future generations are influenced positively as Teen Challenge makes an impact on the entire family.

Each year, the Teen Challenge hold a Benefit Golf Tournament & Silent Auction to help raise funds for the continuing needs of the program. When SunBuggy was reached out to for any possible donations to be made for the silent auction, we were 100% more than happy to get involved and help out in any way possible, so we donated one of our Custom Built Dune Buggies for a 2 hour rental at our Pismo Beach, CA location, for the Silent Auction. Sunbuggy will continue to help out as much we can for years to come!

This year, the fundraiser will be expecting over 100 attendees and will be looking for business within the community who would be willing to partner with them by contributing something towards the Silent Auction portion of the event. The kind generosity of ALL who get involved will go a very long way toward this fundraiser and will help keep their doors open to any individual in need!

The annual Santa Cruz High School Cardinal Club Calamari Dinner Fundraiser will be held on April 10th, 2015 at the Holy Cross Church Hall. In order to ensure the success of this very important fundraiser, the school has reached out to many local companies, including SunBuggy! Here at SunBuggy, we provided a two seat Buggy for two hours for the Silent Auction that will be held at this fundraiser.

The school is is seeking out donations for this fundraiser, which will end up being the key to success and will make it poassible for the Cardinal Club to provide SCHS Athletic Programs to continue to exist and further allow student athletes the opportunity to play sports.

Mission Statement

To bring the hearts and minds of our soldiers’ home through healing and play one soldier, one family, one community at a time.

The ‘Welcome Home Troops’ mission is to bring the hearts and minds of our soldiers’ home. It is our vision to do this in two parts:

1. Through play, ‘Welcome Home Troops’ introduce exciting and novel events into our soldiers lives as shared experiences with family and friends. With suicide and divorce being two of the biggest challenges facing our Service Members reintegration; the play that we provide is an integral part of returning the hearts and minds of our soldiers’ home. With events such as NHRA, NASCAR, professional sporting events and Academy of Country Music Awards; we are restoring to our Service Members their most highly emotional connections with their families in a community setting. Until our Service Members can enjoy the simple things of life it is almost impossible to heal from their traumatic experiences.

2. Through healing; once we have a hold of our soldiers’ hearts and they are present i.e. in the moment, we can bring them through their healing processes. The vision is to do this in the following ways. PTS recovery programs the VA Triage Program, and the Post 9-11 War Memorial.

PTS Recovery Program © is a process of integrated services including NLP with Emotional Release Therapy, Timeline Therapy, NeuroFeedback Therapy, with a proprietary study guide, consisting of group study and mentoring; as well as non-traditional health care which includes Chiropractic, Acupuncture, and Nutritional components.

VA TriageProgram © is a service that will help put our Veterans back to work while providing much needed support to our existing VA Programs. We will do this by redirecting our worthy warriors into community services using the existing job skills of our Veterans in a program that will provide assessments, placement and treatment. We will work in tandem with the VA and the EDD to find where the need is and how we can provide the best levels of support, through the coordinated efforts of community providers.

The Post 9-11 War Memorial©; a key component of healing for PTS is to be able to reconcile with loss. This Memorial allows family and friends of the fallen to Honor and pay their respect, in the most personal way. A key component of PTS is Moral Conflict; there is no greater level of moral conflict than the unresolved issues of lives lost in combat. The Memorial is a place to let the lost rest in peace and heal the hearts and minds of the living.

 

SunBuggy has provided over 5 of our Dune Buggy Adventures  (http://www.sunbuggy.com/lasvegas) to be sold in the silent auction as well as be used in the raffle that will take place at the NASCAR tailgate party for the Kobalt 400 March 6-8

The Cultural Diversity Foundation (CDF) is a non-profit organization which strives to provide learning opportunities that afford individuals from disadvantaged populations, regardless of ethnic and cultural backgrounds, opportunities to achieve their highest educational and professional goals. To that end, our mission is to create opportunities to learn by promoting, encouraging and enhancing the educational, professional, and personal growth of disadvantaged or underserved youth and adults through the development of educational programs that support their upward mobility.

The CDF will be holding the 20th Anniversary Educational Taste of Excellence: Wine tasting, Spirits, and Jazz Scholarship Fundraiser will be held on Saturday, March 7th, 2015 from 6:00pm to 10:00pm at the World Market Center, Building C. It will be sponsored AND hosted by CDF, Southern Wine and Spirits of Nevada, as well as Lee’s Discount Liquor. The event will include a food and wine pairing of over 100 varieties of wines.

The CDF contacted SunBuggy directLY, hoping for donations to be made for the silent auction that will take place on the fund raiser evening. Here at SunBuggy we were MORE than happy to help out such a great cause for future generations by providing the silent auction with our most popular attraction, the Las Vegas Mini Baja Chase.