RollerCon Charities

This page last updated 9/4/24

2024: Total $28,691 collected and donated to charity! – and the Planned Parenthood donation was matched, so your money turned into a grand total of $41,705!! Thank you so much to all the sponsors who donated raffle iteams, and everyone who participated in our fundraising events!

CHARITIES WE SUPPORT
RollerCon vets and supports charities ranked in the highest percentile by Charity Navigator!

New in 2024: The Cupcake GirlsThe Cupcake Girls provides confidential support to those involved in the sex industry, as well as trauma-informed outreach, advocacy, holistic resources, and referral services to provide prevention and aftercare to those affected by sex trafficking. The Cupcake Girls envisions a world where sex trafficking is eradicated and consensual sex workers are safe and empowered. Our Filthy Friday teams are supporting the Cupcake Girls in 2024! More info at thecupcakegirls.org

bethematchforsqueekymeanFor the thousands of people diagnosed every year with life-threatening blood cancers like leukemia and lymphoma, a cure exists. Over the past 25 years Be The Match ® , operated by the National Marrow Donor Program ®  (NMDP), has managed the largest and most diverse marrow registry in the world. It only takes a few minutes and simple cheek swab to be tested. Look for the Be the Match folks at RollerCon and check out more Be the Match info (on facebook). 

The mission of FIRST® is to inspire young people to be science and technology leaders and innovators, by engaging them in exciting mentor-based programs that build science, engineering, and technology skills, that inspire innovation, and that foster well-rounded life capabilities including self-confidence, communication, and leadership. First is supported by our STEM Family games!

 

Planned Parenthood is a trusted health care provider, an informed educator, a passionate advocate, and a global partner helping similar organizations around the world, and RollerCon has supported them with donations since our very first events. Planned Parenthood delivers vital reproductive health care, sex education, and information to millions of people worldwide. In spite of the fact that birth control and access to health care is essential to women’s lives—there are powerful people and organizations attempting to limit or deny women access to it. Find out more about what Planned Parenthood does: https://www.plannedparenthood.org/

thecenterlvThe Gay and Lesbian Community Center of Southern Nevada is a community-based organization that supports and promotes activities directed at furthering the well-being, positive image, and human rights of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer community, its allies, and low to moderate income residents in Southern Nevada. We support their efforts with game seats and other activities! More info: http://www.thecenterlv.org/ https://www.facebook.com/TheCenterLV

What do we do with the food you leave behind at RollerCon? three square feeding americaWe collect and deliver your food to Three Square (a Feeding America partner). Look for the Three Square barrels in the convention area to help feed hungry people in the Las Vegas area! Three Square’s mission is to provide wholesome food to hungry people, while passionately pursuing a hunger-free community. They combine food banking (warehousing canned and boxed goods), food rescue (obtaining surplus or unused meats, bread, dairy and produce from hospitality and grocery outlets), and ready-to-eat meals to be the most complete food solution for Southern Nevada. Please bring your unopened boxed and canned food for the barrels (and if you want to bring perishables, we put those out for the track crew, too). Thanks for helping!

 

Texas and Bacon count Magic Mike vs Chips tip money with very, very thick gloves. Photo by Sylena.

 

2023: Total $ 30,013 collected and donated to charity! Thank you to all the sponsors who donated raffle items, and everyone who participated in our fund-raising events!

Thursday: Lipstick vs Chapstick raised $2220 for The Center, serving the LGBTQ+ community of Nevada for over 30 years!

Friday: Black Diaspora and BIPOC raised $4920 for the National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center (NIWRC)

Saturday: Chippendales and Magic Mike raised $15,653 (including 5 Canadian) for Planned Parenthood!

 

Charitable donations for 2022: our first year back (sort of after? sort of during) COVID.
Short version: $7896 collected for Planned Parenthood.

Longer version:
We usually raise a lot of money for charity a variety of ways, but the majority is from bout tickets. In 2022, we didn’t do bout tickets because we didn’t want to pack you in bleachers during the pandemic. But even without the bout tickets, and minus a few events we also use to collect dough, that’s still well over our 30% of normal years goal! But it wasn’t a normal year, was it? We usually split a bigger pile between many super worthy charities. But in 2022 we gave it all to Planned Parenthood. 

 

Here’s how our charitable donations broke down for 2019:

Total $29,136  in charitable donations in 2019. 

 

Here’s how our charitable donations broke down for 2018:

Total $22,486 in charitable donations in 2018. With matching: $39,373

 

Here’s how our charitable donations broke down for 2017:
We swabbed 65 potential doners for Be the Match
We filled 3 x 50 gallon barrels of food donations for Three Square.
$ 6,050 donated to The Center LV
$ 9,040 donated  to Planned Parenthood
$ 3,430 donated to Nevada Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA)
$ 1,286 donated to Women’s Refugee Commission
$ 400 donated to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) (on behalf of DNN)
$ 1,100 donated to the Sierra Club
$ 1,200 donated to National Public Radio
Total $22,506 in charitable donations in 2017.

 

Here’s how our charitable donations broke down for 2016:
We swabbed 370 potential doners for Be the Match
We filled 2 x 50 gallon barrels of food donations for Three Square.
$ 1,325 donated to Women’s Sports Foundation
$ 4,702 donated to Prostate Cancer Foundation
$ 6,096 donated to The Center LV
$ 5,000 donated (and triple matched to $15,000!) to Planned Parenthood
Total $17,123 in charitable donations in 2016.

 

Here’s how our charitable donations broke down for 2015:
$ 9,856 donated to Women’s Sports Foundation
$ 3,549 donated to Prostate Cancer Foundation
$ 1,000 donated to the Center LV
$ 2194 donated to the Girl Scout Drop In Center of Southern Nevada
$ 1,856 donated to leagues that played in WFTDA sanctioned / regulation bouts
Total $18,455 in charitable donations in 2015

 

In 2014 we donated $9,309 to Women’s Sports Foundation, and $1000 to the Prostate Cancer Foundation.
In 2013 we donated $11,563 to the Women’s Sports Foundation.
In 2012 we collected $5351 for the Girl Scouts of Southern Nevada Drop In Centers!