COMPASSIONATE
Las Vegas
Compassionate City Awards 2024
A compassionate city thrives when its people actively care for each other and their community. Through the Compassionate City Awards, we highlight individuals making a lasting impact across eight priority areas.
• Climate Change
• Environmental Sustainability
• Education
• Health and Wellness
• Housing Security
• Humans Trafficking
• Strengthening the Family
• Restorative Practices
Congratulations to the 2024 recipients.
Billy Allen
Education
To me, compassion embodies the essence of empathy and sympathy towards others. It's about understanding and acknowledging the struggles and joys of those around us, and actively seeking ways to support and uplift them. In the context of libraries, compassion is fundamental to our mission of serving our community. It's about creating welcoming spaces where everyone feels valued and respected, and where their needs and aspirations are met with understanding and care. Libraries are beacons of compassion, offering solace, support, and opportunities for growth to all who walk through their doors.
Ashley Nickerson
Environmental Sustainability
Compassion means lending a hand no matter where someone comes from or what struggles they've had. Everyone deserves to feel safe, welcomed, and like they are part of something bigger to make a better future for everyone. The little acts of kindness you do today in your neighborhood could make a big difference for someone (or everyone!) in the years to come.
Richard Egan
Health & Wellness
Compassionate means being empathic with a passion. Compassion is the motivator to become a mover and shaker in your chosen field related to relieving physical, mental, or emotional pains suffered by others. It is the cornerstone of fidelity to the work we do for our communities - without compassion changes a job to a calling it might just be a job not a calling. I am humbled by the amount of compassion the Nevada Office of Suicide Prevention Team Members have, every last one of them past and present.
Heather Engle
Housing Security
Compassionate to me means genuinely understanding and empathizing with the struggles and hardships faced by those we serve. It’s about providing unconditional support, resources, and opportunities for individuals to rebuild their lives with dignity and respect. Compassion drives our mission to create a safe and nurturing environment where everyone feels valued, safe and empowered.
Kimberly Small
Human Trafficking
Compassion means showing understanding, support, and acceptance towards all. It means meeting people where they are and being willing to walk with them through their journey no matter how far or how long.
Mujahid Ramadan
Restorative Justice
Compassion is Constant Unconditional Love.
Evelyn Valdez
Strengthening the Family
Compassion means putting yourself in someone else’s shoes and trying to empathize with their current situation.
It means giving back every little chance you get, because it can mean a lot to the person receiving it and you want them to know that someone cares.
Delivering with Dignity
Organization Recognition
Delivering with Dignity Las Vegas was launched on March 23, 2020, as an emergency response to the healthcare and economic crisis created by the novel coronavirus and has grown exponentially in its effort to help the most vulnerable and isolated individuals in Southern Nevada. Through partnerships with locally-owned restaurants, leading nonprofit agencies, and private corporations, the program delivers meals directly to the doorsteps of residents, keeps dozens of restaurant staff employed, and expands to support community facilities, including domestic abuse and homeless shelters.
Delivering with Dignity Las Vegas was launched on March 23, 2020, as an emergency response to the healthcare and economic crisis created by the novel coronavirus and has grown exponentially in its effort to help the most vulnerable and isolated individuals in Southern Nevada. Through partnerships with locally-owned restaurants, leading nonprofit agencies, and private corporations, the program delivers meals directly to the doorsteps of residents, keeps dozens of restaurant staff employed, and expands to support community facilities, including domestic abuse and homeless shelters.
Just Serve
Organization Recognition
JustServe strengthens the fabric of our community through strong partnerships with over 600 local organizations. Connecting initiatives such as homelessness, blood donations, foster care, outdoor cleanups, and refugee transition, with volunteers makes JustServe a valuable team player.
The JustServe digital platform connects 2200 local projects with thousands of volunteers looking to make an impact by giving time, talent, or substance, all in our Las Vegas area.
Additionally, over 40 community-minded JustServe Specialists act as “service concierges,” helping match the project with the person and vice versa. These specialists teach, connect, and spread the good news of volunteerism.
Through national partnerships with the 9/11 Day of Service, Martin Luther King Service Day, and Global Youth Service Day, over 50,000 hours were logged on those three days in 2023, just in Las Vegas, not to mention the service hours given throughout the rest of the year and the nation.
JustServe weaves the threads that tie us together, making Las Vegas a better place to live.
