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Nevada Resort Association CSR Coalition

The Resort Association's Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Coalition works collaboratively as an industry on shared priorities to make a collective and lasting impact in Nevada. In addition to Association members, the CSR Coalition includes gaming equipment manufacturers Aristocrat and Light & Wonder. The CSR Coalition hears directly from nonprofit leaders and works collectively on solutions to the biggest societal challenges facing our community. Consisting of individuals working in our members' philanthropy, community engagement, diversity, equity and inclusion and environmental sustainability departments, the CSR Coalition has identified key focus areas and established working groups dedicated to these core areas: Ending human trafficking, addressing critical needs in the community such as food insecurity and homelessness, and expanding environment sustainability programs and practices. In 2024, the CSR Coalition held its first Nonprofit Leader Summit bringing more than 50 nonprofits together for a morning of conversation and collaboration around community engagement.

Working Group Highlights

  • Anti-Human Trafficking Working Group: Members collaborate with each other, law enforcement, nonprofits and persons with lived experience to bring more education and awareness of trafficking across the resort industry and to the community at large. The group has organized the NRA's Human Trafficking Education and Awareness Summit for Association members in 2023 and 2024. For the past five years (2021-2025), the Anti-Trafficking Working Group has cohosted a statewide virtual training for the resort industry with Truckers Against Trafficking during National Human Trafficking Awareness Month and actively supports the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Wear Blue Day. In addition, the members worked with Signs of Hope's RISE program and the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department to develop best practices for trauma-informed/victim-centered responses to potential victims.
  • Environmental Sustainability Working Group: Through close collaboration, members developed best practices in food donation programs for the resort industry and continue to identify emerging technology and methods that help resorts meet their stated environmental goals in water conversation, energy reduction and waste diversion.
  • Critical Needs Working Group: The group works closely to identify and assist with fast-moving critical needs in the community. Much of the group's efforts involve taking a closer look at issues coming before the CSR Coalition, working on possibilities and reporting back to the Coalition for possible action. During the pandemic, the group quickly mobilized to provide urgent needs across the community.