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Sands Extends Capacity-Building Support for the Asian Community Development Council
Published by Las Vegas Sands on May 25, 2023 LAS VEGAS, NV / ACCESSWIRE / August 24, 2023 / ...
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[{"type":"text","content":"Sands Extends Capacity-Building Support for the Asian Community Development CouncilPublished by Las Vegas Sands on May 25, 2023LAS VEGAS, NV / ACCESSWIRE / August 24, 2023 / Las Vegas Sands (NYSE:LVS) announced it has donated $175,000 to the Asian Community Development Council (ACDC), building on the company's Sands Cares partnership with the leading nonprofit organization serving the Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) community in Southern Nevada.Coinciding with AAPI Heritage Month in May, the 2023 Sands Cares donation to ACDC supports two capacity-building initiatives: the Healthy Asians & Pacific Islanders (HAPI) Medical Center and the API Language Link, enabling ACDC to provide critical in-language health and social services to the AAPI community.Sands previously supported ACDC with funding to open the HAPI Medical Center last September. The clinic provides the AAPI community with a 100% bilingual staff to deliver high-quality, in-language care, removing barriers often faced in obtaining health care services. Sands' 2023 funding will help the HAPI Medical Center host community health care events to deliver medical and dental services, mammograms and vaccinations.In 2021 Sands enabled ACDC to establish the API Language Link, which facilitates connections to a variety of social services, and the 2023 Sands Cares funding will enable 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.Both areas of support represent Sands Cares' focus areas of helping nonprofit organizations build capacity to increase their impact and assisting diverse communities in removing systemic barriers to critical needs and opportunities.\"The support we have received from Sands Cares over the past three years has made possible two tremendous service expansions, both underscored by the fact that language should never present a barrier to receiving the care and services people need,\" Vida Lin, founder and president of ACDC, said. \"Sands' partnership is helping us make vital connections to ensure the well-being of the diverse AAPI communities we serve.\"The HAPI Medical Center provides culturally sensitive primary health car...