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Harrah's Entertainment
> Community Engagement
> HERO Volunteerism
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HERO Volunteerism
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Harrah's is deeply committed to making its communities healthy and vibrant places in which to live and work. Employee-based Harrah's Entertainment Reaching Out (HERO) teams at each of our resorts lend time, expertise, creativity and passion to initiatives that improve people's lives. In 2009 HERO teams contributed 114,000 volunteer hours at nearly 600 individual HERO events.
Harrah's encourages its HERO teams by providing resources and helping develop relationships with community nonprofit organizations. Volunteerism initiatives frequently are combined with philanthropic gifts to achieve greater impact and meet both environmental and social needs. For example, our Atlantic City employees helped build the nation's first green-certified* Habitat for Humanity home with the support of a $125,000 grant from the Harrah's Foundation. The completed house was quieter and more comfortable than a traditionally built home, and offered lower energy and water costs.
*NAHBGreen - National Green Building Program
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