Dream Big Nevada

Other miscellaneous programs of the nonprofit were events and fundraising and community at large, programs to support causes of the nonprofits mission statement, like act blue, benevity fund, mighty cause, and network for good, among many other causes. For 2022 got vax was a major program to deal with the covid 19 pandemic crisis. In 2022 the nonprofit collaborated with the community to continue our vaccine efforts with gotvax. Together we made sure over 13,000 low income and immigrant nevadans received their doses of life saving covid 19 and other vaccines. Furthermore, for the esperanza fund, 13,335.00 was granted to 44 families receiving an individual check of 300.00 each in the past years. Despite the fact that the Nevada governor did not renew the program with the nonprofit, we will continue to advocate its benefits and success to assist the community at large. Live nation worldwide is a mexican singer alejandro fernandezs donation to the nonprofit mission to help support scholarships for daca renewals and general programming. He donated a large portion of his annual fiesta patrias ticket sales proceeds to the nonprofit organization.

COVID CAMPAIGN/Chan Zuckerberg Initiative: When the world was hit with COVID 19, we were in the midst of an aggressive fundraising campaign with several Las Vegas casino properties that had DACA and other immigrant employees and interests. All those conversations ceased when our Strip went dark, cutting off our financial future. We applied through the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative for their COVID Assistance grants, and through these grants we were able to continue our operations as well as buy PPE for our families, many of which couldnt afford these life saving materials. We were also able to provide families with valuable COVID resources which then opened the doors for our participation in the Esperanza Fund and our ability to pay our staff to provide that assistance.In 2021,the nonprofits COVID-19 Vaccine Program provided over 13,000 doses. Through hosting vaccine clinics and calling and texting people and community, to let them know where they could get the shots

Deferred action for childhood arrivals (daca) scholarship program issued a total of $6,435.00, in scholarships for 2022, to cover the $495.00 application fee to renew daca applications. For 2022, moreover, the nonprofit hosted 150 virtual daca informational sessions at the re-opening of the daca program with 13 participants from the community at large, receiving an individual check of $495.00 each.

The Esperanza Fund was established to support Nevadas immigrant communities, and to strengthen nonprofits, working with these communities during COVID. The Fund was established with a $750,000 gift from The Open Society Foundations,our organization received no funds to execute this project. We received $87,900.00 in these funds to be directly granted to undocumented community members. We fundraised additional funds to assist more families throughout the program. Qualifying families were asked to fill out an application with limited information to assure that no information would leave our organization. The families, if approved, received a check for the amount of $300.00 to use for utilities, food or rent. We had the families come to our office, and we provided them with wrap around services that included: immigration information and other services that they could apply for that were open to undocumented individuals or to their US citizen children &family members.

DACA Education Campaign: In 2019 the Supreme Court heard the oral arguments for the DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals). We were told that the decision for the case would come in 2020. As part of our DACA Education Campaign, we were able to purchase equipment to film videos of our DACA recipients expressing how DACA had changed their lives. We were also able to begin a Facebook Live weekly video, in which we kept our DACA recipients and their families informed about the progression of the Court. On March 3rd, we began to wait for the decision that ultimately came on June 18th, 2020. Once the decision was announced and was in favor of DACA recipients, we were able to quickly inform those who had signed up of what was happening and for a brief period of time some were able to apply for the program. As the decision was contested, in Dec,2020 we were made aware that the decision had been upheld; Again we were able to reach out to to reach out to eligibles.