GIVING OPPORTUNITIES Always donate in your own home town first before considering donating abroad, you have a better chance to know, where your money goes! WISDOM OF PHILANTHROPY 3 SIMPLE QUESTIONS: Investing time and research before adopting a local charity as your favorite charity is not all that complicated. The right answers to just 3 simple questions can provide you with enough information; giving you the confidence that your donated funds will indeed be used wisely: 1] IS YOUR DONATION TRULY TAX DEDUCTIBLE: Find out if the charity of your choice is recognized by the IRS as a 501 c3 charity, enabling you to truly deduct your donated funds from your taxes. 2] TRUTHFULNESS: Does donated money, time and efforts really serve every child in the community, or what ever a charity is specialized in? With other words, does your potential favorite charity handle donated funds wisely; remaining loyal to its own mission statement and public announcements?  3] UNDERSTANDING CHARITY OVERHEAD EXPENSES Last but not least, are the charity's employees overpaid? To certain extend, every charity in our valley needs professional employees and operating funds for various legitimate overhead expenses. The IRS says, that charity employees must receive fair salaries and/or wages which employees would also receive at a similar job outside the charity. As long as a charity respects that law, it is safe to donate to such a charity, as professional, caring and experienced staff is equally important in a charity and in a 'for profit' business.  CHOOSING A FAVORITE CHARITY If all these questions are answered satisfactory, then you can make a good choice to adopt the charity in question as your favorite charity! Such neighborhood - to - neighborhood collaboration is the best way you help support education for our local children; which will demonstrate to them the importance of philanthropy within our community; of becoming a reliable provider for their own family in adulthood,   who will  successfully run local businesses; schools; corporations you provide food & clothing for local homeless children! This way the world around us can't help but admire us; and our role model ways of neighborly collaboration habits,  and make 'Sin City' Las Vegas a better place for all our local children with combined efforts! Thank you Las Vegas!   LOCAL MEDIA: If you are asking yourself which charity to choose, because you are a little bit concerned about a recent newspaper article you have read describing various local charities and their seemingly overpaid employees, you may appreciate to know that the Las Vegas Railroad Society [incorporated 1999] never had any paid employees to this very day. Instead......  APPROXIMATELY 70,000+++ VOLUNTEER HOURS: To this day, our LV Railroad Society's  Founder  has donated herself 70,000 volunteer hours to this day; and Las Vegas Railroad Society Board and Committees have donated volunteer hours over and above to help get this charity off the ground over the years on behalf of our local community and all its children throughout the United State's worst recession in history. Those efforts included nonstop negotiation with BLM, State of Nevada, with Clark County and the Las Vegas City Council for years to help secure the necessary land of up to 200 acres for constructing a much needed Smithsonian-type 'Railroad Heritage Park' for the  community to preserve Las Vegas important railroad history with re-enacting the steam era of the Gilded Progressive Age, enabling today's and tomorrow's generation to experience the era with live-steam powered train rides in 1/3rd scale & 1/8th scale all throughout the 200 acre park properties and unlimited educational program activities.  CITY APPROVAL & STRONG BOARD SUPPORT: Thus, with unanimous LV City Council 'yes' vote, the 200 acre park property is now in place, and each Executive Board member; Director and Committee member is also a committed volunteer, following the steps of the charity's dedicated Founder's mission, vision and non-stop, tireless volunteer efforts to help this cause further toward reaching its ultimate goal of funding, laying tracks and construction, thus, making the Founder's dream of creating Las Vegas' biggest and most fun FIELD TRIP MECCA for students a final reality.  MARKETING: The LVRRS' 'Railroad Heritage Park' and 200 acre live-steam railroad route will be advertised around the globe with world-wide broadcasted TV documentaries and in travel magazines, etc., thus, corporate donors will receive well-deserved global name recognition. Las Vegas' newest addition of a Smithsonian-type 'Railroad Heritage Park' will be truly enjoyed by millions of locals and tourists! THREE MORE REASONS WHY TO DONATE TO THIS CHARITY: DONATE/ SPONSOR: For a long time now local teachers have run out of field trip options. We welcome your tax deductible donation, because you and other caring individuals like you help us create this much needed field trip Mecca; to offer uncountable year-round-active educational program activities and train rides to all physically challenged local children groups and to over 400,000 students of our local schools. YOUR FAVORITE CHARITY: If you have a favorite children's charity, please consider helping our cause, because indirectly your favorite charity and many, many other wonderful children's charities will also benefit from your wisely donated dollars, making it money well spent, plus you receive your 100% tax deduction.  LOOKING BACK AT A WISE DECISION: One day a grandchild, perhaps your own grandchild will see its family name on a walkway, building, or on a historic structure inside the year-round-active 'Railroad Heritage Park'. At that moment, that child's unexplained feeling, that legacy, may be the catalyst towards a philanthropic life. These grandchildren and their grandchildren shall remember the family stories and will know why philanthropy is so important, and not just that someone made a donation a long time ago......   CORPORATE NAMING OPPORTUNITIES  PLUS EVENTS - DONATION GIFTS - SEED MONEY: We are currently looking for 'Victorian High Tea Society' food sponsors! Please contact us.  DONATE AUCTION ITEMS: For events, antiques, paintings, jewelry, etc.  ANNUAL DOLLAR DONATION Commit to monthly or annual donations/ Contact Us BRICK DONATION: More.... FOR CHILDREN PROGRAMS: More... DONATION SUGGESTION, NOT ON OUR LIST? Please contact us DONATE LAND: Please contact us  DONATE A HOUSE: Please contact us DOUBLE BENEFIT OF DONATING STOCKS: Please contact us MUSEUM GIFT DONATION: More... MINING MUSEUM GIFT DONATION: Mining memorabilia MARINA MUSEUM GIFT DONATION: Marina memorabilia MINIATURE & DOLL MUSEUM DONATION: Miniature furniture and antique dolls ONE WATER TOWER DONATION: Our goal 4  RAILROAD HERITAGE PARK Sponsorship opportunities for tea room, barber shop, etc. ONE LONG RAILROAD TUNNEL: Get your company name on it! DONATE 1 MILE OF RAILROAD TRACK: Our goal 12 miles SPONSOR OUR ROUNDHOUSE: Phase one goal SPONSOR OUR TURN TABLE: Phase one goal SPONSOR ONE RAILROAD STATION: Phase one goal SPONSOR ONE 1/3rd SCALE LIVE-STEAM LOCOMOTIVE: Our distant goal is 8 locomotives  SPONSOR ONE 1/3rd SCALE RAILROAD CAR Each locomotive hauls 10 railroad car DONATE ONE RAILROAD BRIDGE / TRESTLE: Our goals is 11 bridges / trestles SPONSOR THE RAILROAD MUSEUM BUILDING: Contact Us SPONSOR OUR CULTURAL CENTER BUILDING: Check it out  SPONSOR OUR RAILROAD CAR BARN: Please contact us