Employees with the U.S. Department of Energy Environmental Management Nevada Program helped raise more than $126,000 for the Las Vegas Rescue Mission in downtown Las Vegas by participating in a fundraising walk.
EM Nevada Program employees and employees with environmental program services contractor Navarro Research and Engineering participated in the mission’s annual Walk a Mile in My Shoes fundraiser held Oct. 8, according to an Oct. 25 Office of Environmental Management news release.
“It is a great opportunity to support the community,” Ryan Dodd, Navarro’s industrial sites manager, said in the release. “We can give back in a way that directly impacts where our office building is in this part of Las Vegas. It shows continued community support for Las Vegas and the needs of the southern Nevada area where we reside.”
Barbara Ulmer, Navarro’s community commitment plan coordinator, said helping the shelter was rewarding, according to the release.
“The funds Team Navarro raised will feed 115 people in need, give relief for two nights for a family of three and provide two nights of shelter for those in need in our community,” Ulmer said.
Heather Williams, the mission’s director of development, said in the article that the goal was “to create awareness about the problem of homelessness and also raise funds to provide the services for the people.”
“I am forever grateful. After I finished the program, the mission hired me to work here. I am now at UNLV (University of Nevada, Las Vegas) working on my bachelor’s degree,” Garfield Wolfe said in the article. Wolfe used to struggle with addiction and was in and out of jail. He was helped by the Las Vegas Rescue Mission.
