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Sheldon Adelson is donating millions to good causes through his Sands Cares initiative, including Clean the World; these children in Haiti are among the beneficiaries. (Image: Clean the World)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

While we may not always be the biggest fans of his efforts to stamp out online gambling in the US here at casino.org, we are prepared to admit that Sheldon Adelson may not be all bad. Nope, we haven\u2019t been on grandpa\u2019s hooch again, we\u2019re merely applauding the news that Las Vegas Sands Corp has unveiled a multimillion-dollar philanthropic corporate citizenship program that aims to promote good causes in the US and beyond.<\/p>\n

The program – known as Sands Cares – is to be funded from Adelson\u2019s own sizeable pockets<\/a> (he\u2019s worth a cool $38 billion) and has already pledged $7 million to the University of Nevada at Las Vegas (UNLV), plus $1 million to the Clean the World charity, a global nonprofit organization that recycles discarded soap and shampoo products for use in Third World countries.<\/p>\n

Civic Responsibility<\/h2>\n

\u201cWe need to take our place globally as a company,” said Las Vegas Sands president Michael Leven. “In my view, we really haven\u2019t been good enough at this type of stuff in the past.\u201d<\/p>\n

Leven added that the company is in now in a \u201cmuch better place financially\u201d than it was a few years ago. He\u2019s not kidding; LVS has a market capitalization of more than $67\u00a0billion, the largest in the gaming industry.\u00a0\u201cIt speaks to the employees that we have a global perspective,\u201d he added. \u201cWe have to take our rightful place. I think we want to be recognized globally in terms of civic responsibility. That goes with the territory.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The initiative at UNLV – which spans five years – \u00a0will benefit the Las Vegas William F. Harrah College of Hotel Administration (generally considered one of the best hotel training schools in the country) and help create a new building for the school, as well as a \u201cglobal professional and executive education program.\u201d\u00a0The Center for International Hospitality and Gaming Education – which is being created through the Las Vegas Sands donation – will train future hotel-casino industry executives to work in Nevada and around the world.<\/p>\n

Clean the World<\/h2>\n

Meanwhile, the donation to Clean the World, which amounts to the charity\u2019s largest gift ever, will help to promote global hygiene. Moreover, Venetian and Palazzo employees will volunteer their time to create hygiene kits to be used in Las Vegas homeless shelters, while 100,000 more kits are earmarked for global disaster relief efforts. LVS began supporting Clean the World in 2011, and has since helped recycle waste products into 367,000 bars of soap. It made a donation to the charity in the wake of the Philippine Typhoon, but, as Leven says, it\u2019s too easy to help only during emergencies: \u201cWrite the check and away it goes. What we wanted was a planned program where we don\u2019t have to wait for emergency. We\u2019re going to do this as part of our budget process.\u201d<\/p>\n

“This partnership is monumental for our mission to propel the global hygiene revolution,” co-founder and executive director of Clean the World Shawn Seipler noted. “LVS’ willingness to step beyond the normal product recycling partnership shows a deep commitment to this cause.\u201d<\/p>\n

The program has also pledged to offer a \u201cmore cohesive approach to corporate giving and support in local communities where Las Vegas Sands operates,\u201d promising to \u201cfine-tune its efforts to address the most pressing issues in its local communities through property-level support of initiatives that make local communities more livable and attract people to the area.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sands Cares will certainly help to show large casino companies in a positive light, perhaps a necessity for the industry at a time when voters in America and around the world decide whether to allow new casino resorts into their communities. Plaudits, Mr. Adelson, and until the next anti-online-gambling tirade, we take it all back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While we may not always be the biggest fans of his efforts to stamp out online gambling in the US here at casino.org, we are prepared to admit that Sheldon Adelson may not be all bad. 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