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ARIZONA Your “Give Us Five” Donations at Work A Glance at LHM Charities at Work in Phoenix and Tucson. Representatives of the Angels on Patrol organization were excited to receive a donation. Y our donations to Larry H. Miller Charities help 501(c)(3) nonprofit programs that focus on health and education for women and children in your community. Employee committees from each of the LHM Group’s 10 major markets help decide which charities receive funding. In this issue, we’re featuring donations in Phoenix and Tucson, Arizona. Phoenix employees recognize that low-income families face extra challenges. Through funding granted to the Assistance League of Phoenix, 107 children who live in poverty will receive new school clothes. Low- income children often enter kindergarten below the benchmark in literacy skills, and a donation to Valley of the Sun United Way is supplying school- readiness kits that address this problem. These kits teach parents how to use daily activities to prepare children for school. Funding given to A New Leaf is providing after-school and summer programs for 85 children who live at its La Mesita Campus, which includes an affordable housing complex and homeless shelter. FACES, a program operated by Save the Family Foundation of Arizona, received a contribution that helps homeless families with careers, relationships, finances, child care, and other services. TMM Family Services provides care and housing for foster children at its Children’s Village, and Tucson employees are supporting this important cause. These children have been removed from their homes by the Arizona Department of Safety and often arrive with only the clothes on their backs. Funding from LHM Charities is providing these children hygiene items, clothes, and school supplies. The Tucson Jewish Community Center offers Camp J, a summer camp, to teens of all denominations. Some youths struggle to pay the fees, and funding from LHM Charities is helping them participate. Scholarship funding was also provided to underserved teens in Tucson who wished to attend Camp Employees from Larry H. Miller Volkswagen Tucson presented a donation to the Tucson Jewish Community Center. Invention, a STEM camp offered through the National Inventors Hall of Fame. If you have questions about charitable giving in the Phoenix area, contact one of these committee members: Frank Wiles, co-chair (MAO), Mary Marcelli, co-chair (MAO), Karen Morgan (LMD), Stephanie Dinan (AVW), Bonnie Wrana (MNI), Ana Becker (ADR/ACJ/AFI), Heidi Soto (ADR/ACJ/ AFI), Jennie Hay (SCD), Kolene Saboe (HYN), Katelyn Landaal (HYN) or Morgan Brown (LMD). If you’d like to know more about giving in the Tucson area, you can contact one of the following LHM Charities committee members: Brianna Petty, chair (TDR), Shannon Neilson (MAO), Lorraine Telles (TDR), Ken Perkins (TDR), Stephanie Belt (TDR), Yvette Rackley (TVW/TFI), Beth Harp (TVW/TFI), Kathy Romano (TCJ) or Aiden Lopez (TCJ). ◆ LHM Charities Donations for May and June 2017 ARIZONA IDAHO Valley of the Sun United Way $2,800 Assistance League of Phoenix $7,500 A New Leaf $5,000 Save the Family Foundation of Arizona $7,500 TMM Family Services $5,000 Tucson Jewish Community Center $5,000 National Inventors Hall of Fame (Camp Invention) $3,000 Soroptimist International of Salt Lake $9,000 NEW MEXICO Boys & Girls Clubs of Central New Mexico $10,000 National Dance Institute of New Mexico $8,000 New Mexico Young Actors $5,000 Crossroads for Women $5,000 Rio Grande Food Project $5,000 UTAH COLORADO The Home Front Cares Genesis Community Health $5,000 Operation Outreach USA $5,000 Anchor Center for Blind Children $10,000 The Action Center $5,000 Play for the Kids $5,000 Johns Hopkins Hospital All Children’s Hospital $5,000 Utah Recreations & Parks Association $10,000 Cancer Wellness House $10,000 Family Support Center $10,000 Liberty Elementary School $10,000 The Sharing Place $5,000 Family Promise Salt Lake $6,000 $5,000 Farmington City Basketball Court $25,000 Tremonton City Basketball Court $25,000 Art Access $5,500 Arts-Kids $10,000 Intermtn. Specialized Abuse Treatment Center $10,000 University of Utah—KUED $5,000 THOMi Foundation $5,000 JDRF—Utah Chapter $3,270 Primary Children’s Hospital $5,000 Women In Sports & Events - Utah $10,000 WASHINGTON Special Olympics Washington $3,250 LHMWSM.com 9