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Contributions & Donations
Sound The Alarm
Beau Rivage volunteers participated in the Sound the Alarm campaign in April. Employee volunteers
visited residents in the area’s under-served communities to promote fire safety and install free smoke detectors in homes that needed them. Over the course of the day, Beau Rivage team members installed more than 50 detectors.
Back-To-School Fun
Trop Greenville held a back- to-school event for team members and their families. In an effort to help relieve some of the financial burden of buying school supplies, the casino provided all children who attended with a backpack filled with supplies. The event also featured face painting for the kids, spin the wheel fun, and plenty to eat.
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Red Beans Cook-Off
Silver Slipper Casino Hotel participated in the 18th Annual Red Beans ’N Rice Cook-Off to benefit the United Way of SE Louisiana. The event was held in the Slidell Municipal
Auditorium. The Silver Slipper team came in second place for their red beans and rice dish.
Gold Strike donates $110K to Mid-South area nonprofits
TUNICA RESORTS — Gold Strike Casino Resort donated $110,000 to 11 local nonprofit agencies in the Mid-South. The employee-driven grant funds were distributed to organizations focusing on areas from
child advocacy and family services to education and food insecurity.
Among the organizations receiving donations of $10,000 were Mid-South Food Bank, Healing Hearts Child Advocacy Center, Ronald McDonald House Charities of Memphis, The ARC of Northwest and Memphis Museums Inc. Operation Homefront, Kindred Place, Memphis Child Advocacy Center, Mississippi Council on Economic Education, Palmer Home for Children and YMCA of Memphis & the Mid-South.
Gold Strike and MGM Resorts International are committed to making a positive impact in communities through the companywide social impact and sustainability initiative, Focused on What Matters. The initiative includes pillars such as Fostering Diversity and Inclusion, Protecting the Planet and Investing in Our Communities.
Fill The Bus
Hard Rock Biloxi partnered with United Way of South
Mississippi during the month of July to collect school supplies for the annual Fill the Bus campaign. Employees donated everything from crayons to paper towels to help children return to school with the needed supplies.