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Congratulations to CARE Chest for Their Recent Award of $118,000 from Impact Las Vegas to Expand Their Work Into the Las Vegas Region

Congratulations to CARE Chest

Congratulations to CARE Chest for their recent award of $118,000 from Impact Las Vegas to expand their work into the Las Vegas Region. The CARE Chest of Sierra Nevada is celebrating 35 years of renewing hope and nurturing independence! 

CARE Chest is a multi-service non-profit agency recognized by area hospitals, low-income clinics, and social service agencies as a vital medical resource for Northern Nevada’s impoverished and underserved populations. Since 1990, CARE Chest of Sierra Nevada has been serving Nevadans in need by providing medical resources free of charge.

Programs and Services include:

  • Medical Equipment and Supplies
  • Prescription Assistance
  • Diabetic Supplies
  • Supplemental Medical Nutrition
  • Incontinence Protection
  • Independent Living and CARE Loans
  • Community Outreach - increasing access to services in underserved areas

Through the Mobile Outreach Program, CARE Chest provides monthly distributions of products across Nevada including Carson City, Churchill, Clark, Douglas, Elko, Esmeralda, Humboldt, Lander, Lincoln, Lyon, Mineral, Nye, Pershing, Storey, Washoe, and White Pine. In 2024, more than 25,000 individuals received services across 45 partner locations.

CARE Chest was the 2025 recipient of the Impact Las Vegas grant, a collective impact granting group based out of southern Nevada, that will provide $118,000 in funding and will allow CARE Chest to purchase a second all-electric e-Sprinter cargo van to be used exclusively throughout the Las Vegas Valley. The new van will help CARE Chest’s outreach team serve more than 1,000 new consumers each month and add five additional outreach locations in the Las Vegas metro area, bringing the total to 13 sites in Southern Nevada by year's end.

The CARE Chest of Sierra Nevada has been a partner of the Community Foundation of Northern Nevada since 1999. If you would like to support the work of the CARE Chest of Sierra Nevada, please consider a gift to the CARE Chest Endowment Fund which helps to support the vital work of this organization. Your gift will become part of a permanent endowment fund that provides support to the mission of the CARE Chest of Sierra Nevada year after year!