Sands Extends Capacity-Building Support for the Asian Community Development Council

Las Vegas Sands (NYSE: LVS) announced a $175,000 donation to the Asian Community Development Council (ACDC), expanding the company’s Sands Cares collaboration with the largest nonprofit supporting the Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) community in Southern Nevada. 

The 2023 Sands Cares donation to ACDC coincides with AAPI Heritage Month in May and supports two capacity-building initiatives: the Healthy Asians & Pacific Islanders (HAPI) Medical Center and the API Language Link, allowing ACDC to provide critical in-language health and social services to the AAPI community.  

Sands already provided cash to ACDC for the opening of the HAPI Medical Center last September. The clinic employs a 100% bilingual staff to provide high-quality, in-language care to the AAPI population, addressing many of the hurdles that people have while seeking health care. The Sands money for 2023 will assist the HAPI Medical Center in hosting community health care events to provide medical and dental treatments, mammograms, and immunizations. 

Sands enabled ACDC to establish the API Language Link, which facilitates connections to a variety of social services, in 2021, and Sands Cares funding in 2023 will allow ACDC to hire more language specialists to ensure the organization meets the needs of the HAPI Medical Center and its other direct service locations, including a culturally sensitive food distribution warehouse in Las Vegas and a culturally sensitive food distribution warehouse in Phoenix.  

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Sands Cares funding will allow ACDC to hire more language specialists to ensure the organization meets the needs of the HAPI Medical Center and its other direct service locations, including a culturally sensitive food distribution warehouse in Las Vegas and a second community resource center in Reno, Nevada, in 2021. 

Sands Cares’ key areas are aiding nonprofit organizations with building capacity to improve their impact and assisting diverse communities in addressing structural barriers to vital needs and opportunities.  

“ACDC is improving lives on a daily basis, while also advancing the long-term health and well-being of the AAPI community in Southern Nevada,” said Ron Reese, Sands’ senior vice president of global communications and corporate affairs, who leads the company’s corporate responsibility programs. “We continue to invest in their efforts because of the significant impact they have made with these programs.” We are not just dedicated to being an advocate for the whole AAPI community; we also believe in ACDC’s potential to show leadership in addressing the unique needs of the different groups it serves.” 

Sands Cares’ involvement with ACDC is one of several with other community organizations. Sands hopes to propel programs that remove structural barriers and advance opportunities for underrepresented populations through these activities.