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Opportunity Village
For decades, Boyd has been a leading supporter of Opportunity Village, a Las Vegas-based non-profit organization serving southern Nevadans with intellectual disabilities. Over the years, Boyd has contributed hundreds of thousands of dollars in support of Opportunity Village’s mission, including the company’s title sponsorship of Opportunity Village’s Fine & Performing Arts program.
Beyond the company’s financial support, Boyd team members have generously contributed their time to assisting with “Magical Forest,” a holiday theme park that serves as Opportunity Village’s largest fundraiser of the year. Each year, dozens of Boyd team members from across the Las Vegas Valley volunteer to staff Magical Forest for an evening, bringing their commitment to “Boyd Style” customer service to Opportunity Village’s annual holiday wonderland.
Three Square
As the Las Vegas Valley’s central food bank, Three Square is critical to the ongoing effort to ending hunger in the southern Nevada community. Each year, Three Square distributes tens of millions of pounds of food to struggling individuals and families through partnerships with dozens of non-profit organizations throughout its community.
Boyd has been a consistent financial supporter of Three Square since its founding in 2007. And our team members have embraced the cause as well. In addition to their donations to Three Square through Giving the Boyd Way, Boyd team members volunteered more than 170 hours to Three Square in 2023, helping provide food to those in need throughout their community.
Special Olympics Missouri
On June 1, 2023, the annual Law Enforcement Torch Run for Special Olympics Missouri made its way past Ameristar St. Charles along the nearly 900-mile route. More than 35 team members cheered on law enforcement officers representing every branch in the state. The Torch Run brings awareness and helps raise money for athletes who participate in the interstate relay, as well as kicks off the Missouri Special Olympics games.
In 2023, the casino-resort donated another $5,000 to Special Olympics Missouri to help further their mission of providing year-round sports training and athletic competition in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual disabilities.
Shreveport Green: The Urban Farm
In May 2023, Sam’s Town Shreveport volunteers partnered with Shreveport Green to improve a community garden, The Urban Farm. Team members assisted with setting up new raised beds, weeding existing beds and clearing the grounds at The Urban Farm to create better access to fresh food options. At the garden, community members are encouraged to pick fresh produce, such as fruits and vegetables, as well as pick out seeds and propagated plants to inspire the joy of personal gardening.
Later in the year, due to heavy rains and strong winds in the area, the raised beds that were used to grow produce blew over and the plant beds and grass walkways became overgrown. A group of volunteers from Sam’s Town Shreveport returned to The Urban Farm in July to help repair the damages. In addition, volunteers harvested crops to be distributed to the local community through Shreveport Green’s Mobile Market – a program aimed to assist residents of Shreveport with food inaccessibility.
