SunBuggy Gives Back

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.

The Morello Park Elementary PTA is gearing up for it’s largest fundraiser of the school year, “Eagles for Excellence.” Their “Under the Big Top!” themed event will take place Saturday, March 7th, 2015 at the Boys & Girls Club. The Morello Park Elementary PTA funds programs such as Eagle Reading Programs, Science, Math, game night, Parent/Child Book Club Assemblies, Talent Show, Computers, FAME, and Accelerated Reader. This year, Morello Park will host its 17th Annual Dinner, Dance and Silent Auction.

The auxiliary for the Skamania Fire District #4 Fire Volunteers is sponsoring a free spaghetti feed on Sunday, March 25 from 11 am to 2 pm.  The event will be held in the American Legion Hall, Cape Horn Post 122, 10221 Washougal River Road, Washougal, WA, approximately 10.5 miles up Washougal River Road on the left.

There will be a fund raising raffle for multiple prizes from generous donors, plus several home made spaghettis from which to choose.  This event will give people the opportunity to meet others who live in the upriver community.

Thanks to the continued generosity, loyalty, and kindness of individuals and businesses, last year’s auction was Saint John’s biggest event yet! The financial success of their auction truly depends on donors and SunBuggy is more than proud to donate.

On February 21st, 2015, Saint John’s will be bringing the “City of Light” to their fair community with the 12th annual dinner auction, “An Evening in Paris.” The dinner auction is SJB’s largest fundraising event each year, and all of the proceeds provide for their students’ educational programs and also fund daily operating expenses at the school.

Mollie’s House will be holding a silent auction at their fundraising event, “A walk in Her Shoes” on January 24th, 2015. Here at SunBuggy, it warms our hearts to know we have contributed to such a great cause for our fellow humans.

Mollie’s House, is a non-profit organization, founded upon Biblical Principals, whose specific purpose is to serve young ladies who are victims of sexual trafficking. They provide twenty-four hour residential care for young ladies between the ages of 12 and 17 as well as Mental Health services through our Therapeutic Holistic Day Program.

“We strive to rescue, protect and restore the lives of young ladies who are victims of sexual and domestic trafficking. It is our goal to not only provide a safe environment, but also equip them to develop their fullest potential and to live out their God given purpose. We are committed to ending sexual exploitation and trafficking of children by changing individual lives and revolutionizing the public’s perception.”

This January, Chamber members will install Board Members and recognize locals for their contribution to the City of Pismo Beach, CA. Proceeds from this highly anticipated evening support the programs and special events that the Chamber sponsors. We at SunBuggy will be donating to the ‘Silent Auction’.

In March 1938, while officiating the National Downhill ski race at Mount Mansfield in Stowe,Vt., Roger F. Langley, then president of the National Ski Association, had an industry-changing idea. Langley was impressed by the “super patrol” for the race that Charles Minot “Minnie” Dole had created from members of the Mt. Mansfield, Pittsfield, and Burlington patrols. While watching the race at Shambles Corners on the Nosedive trail, Langley asked Dole if he would organize a national patrol like the one in use at the race. Not one to shy away from a challenge, and having lost a friend on the slopes two years earlier, “Minnie” accepted, and the National Ski Patrol was born.

Today, the nonprofit National Ski Patrol still adheres to the creed of “Service and Safety” established more than 70 years ago. As the industry has evolved, so too has the NSP. The emergence of new snow sports like snowboarding, tubing, and snow-skating has introduced new equipment and terrain, requiring new safety and rescue techniques and emergency care methods to be developed and taught. In addition, greater access to the backcountry has brought new training and regimens for NSP members.

As the leading authority of on-mountain safety, the NSP is dedicated to serving the public and outdoor recreation industry by providing education and accreditation to emergency care and safety service providers. The organization is made up of more than 28,000 members serving over 650 patrols, including alpine, Nordic, and auxiliary patrollers. Our members work on behalf of local ski and snowboard areas to improve the overall experience for outdoor recreationalists.

 

We at SunBuggy helped this cause by donating our one of a kind Buggy Adventures to their Silent Auction.

Our Lady of Las Vegas Catholic School’s Harvest Festival is scheduled for Saturday, October 25 from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. and takes place both inside and outside at the school located on the corner of Alta Drive and Campbell. This event has activities for the entire family, including carnival games and prizes, jump houses and inflatables, a harvest café with artisan and handmade crafts, food booths including Filipino, Mexican, Polish and American cuisine, homemade desserts and more. There will also be a silent auction and raffles for both the children and adults. Music, live entertainment and a talent show will take place throughout the day and evening.

“We’ve put a lot of effort into making this a fun event for the entire family,” noted Jamie Sullivan, chairperson for the event. “Our focus is to provide a fun filled day and evening of activities for the entire family, and raise much needed funds to enhance the educational experience for the students.”

This event has activities for the entire family, including carnival games and prizes, jump houses and inflatables, a harvest café with artisan and handmade crafts, food booths including Filipino, Mexican, Polish and American cuisine, homemade desserts and more. There will also be a silent auction and raffles for both the children and adults. Music, live entertainment and a talent show will take place throughout the day and evening.

Operation Homefront, Inc (OH) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization formed in February 2002. It was developed to support the families of deployed service members immediately following 9/11. Operation Homefront is headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, and has evolved into a major nonprofit. The organization currently provides services to military families across the nation with 25 chapters. The majority of their clients are the lowest-paid service members, the E-1 through E-6 enlisted ranks. The target population is American military personnel and/or their families who have unmet needs due to financial hardship, death, injury, or physical or mental detriment as a result of service in Iraq or Afghanistan.

OH provides direct services to alleviate a military family’s or individual’s actual/complete emergency financial burden, as well as counseling and/or recovery support. Emergency financial assistance is in the form of checks paid directly to mortgage lenders, auto mechanics, contractors, hospitals, doctors, dentists and other providers.

95 cents of every dollar donated to OH directly supports those in need, a remarkably high percentage. OH has the highest rating – four stars – for seven straight years from Charity Navigator. Only two percent of the charities rated by Charity Navigator have received at least seven consecutive four-star evaluations.

Our beneficiary will be the Nevada chapter Operation Homefront Nevada (OHN) which was formed in 2007.