Innovative Partnership Between MGM MIRAGE and American Red Cross Brings Cash Relief to Mississippi Gulf Coast Neighborhoods
21 Setembro 2005 - 10:29PM
PR Newswire (US)
BILOXI, Miss., Sept. 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- MGM MIRAGE
(NYSE:MGM) has teamed with the American Red Cross in a creative
partnership to help provide cash relief to Mississippi residents
whose lives have been disrupted by Hurricane Katrina. MGM MIRAGE is
providing supplemental employment to 125 employees of its Beau
Rivage Resort and Casino for this pilot effort to disburse relief
funds at American Red Cross service support sites in Gulf Coast
neighborhoods. Trained in casework and check dispersal by the
American Red Cross, MGM MIRAGE will pay these staffers on an hourly
basis in addition to the regular full pay and benefits they are
currently receiving as Beau Rivage employees. The service support
sites provide monetary assistance to residents in the affected
areas. This complements ongoing shelter, mass feeding, door-to-door
community first aid and counseling services provided by Red Cross
workers throughout the affected area. The Red Cross service support
sites open at 9 a.m. daily, Central Daylight Time, and include:
United Artists Biloxi 10 Theater, 2681 CT Switzer Drive, Biloxi
Future Pipe Industries, 12450 Glascock Drive, Gulfport Isaiah
Fredricks Community Center, 3312 Martin Luther King Blvd., Gulfport
Tent at intersection of Carol and Dunbar Sts., Bay St. Louis St.
Paul United Methodist Church, 3724 Davis Street, Moss Point
Mississippi Mall, 1310 South Haugh, Picayune East Jackson Co.
Service Complex, 5343 Jefferson Street, Moss Point As the American
Red Cross transitions into a recovery mode to assist impacted
families, the workers are needed to staff its service support
sites. "The partnership with Beau Rivage is really an innovative
use of local resources inside the affected community," says Ron
Speakes, the Director of Disaster Operations for the American Red
Cross in the MS Gulf Coast region, who is one of 1,800 national Red
Cross volunteers helping in coastal Mississippi. "The next critical
need of hurricane victims who are ready to begin rebuilding their
lives is cash assistance, and by combining Beau Rivage's manpower
with the cash resources of the American Red Cross, we will be able
to help a lot of people quickly," said Jon Corchis, interim
President and Chief Operating Officer of Beau Rivage. "The most
effective response is through collaboration with partner agencies
and businesses," explains Oscar Barnes, Executive Director of the
Gulf Coast Chapter of the American Red Cross. "We are proud of the
relationship American Red Cross has with MGM MIRAGE. They are
helping us multiply our efforts and reach more people than we could
before." For more information about cash assistance offered by the
Red Cross, contact the Red Cross at 1-800-975-7585 or
http://www.redcross.org/. The Beau Rivage Employee Assistance
Center remains open seven days a week, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. Central
Daylight Time. Services available on site include: * Employee
paycheck distribution. Employees will be provided full pay and
benefits through Dec. 6, 2005. * Wachovia Bank (formerly South
Trust Bank) representatives on site to help employees open a bank
account and sign up for direct deposit of their paychecks *
Internet access for FEMA and Red Cross aid applications * FEMA
representative on site * Job opportunity assistance * Clothing,
basic necessities and food for those in need * 401K plan
administrators on site to discuss 401K accounts * Mississippi
Department of Health for medical assistance, including free tetanus
shots * Crisis counseling services Paychecks are being shipped
overnight to those who cannot pick them up in person and have
provided their contact information to the 24-hour MGM MIRAGE Call
Center at 866-368-7399. Employees are encouraged to contact the
Call Center. An online check-in system is available at a special
website established for Beau Rivage employees at
http://www.beaurivage.com/ MGM MIRAGE has created a special
recovery fund with a $1 million seed donation through the company's
employee-funded Voice Foundation. The company also will match,
without limit, dollar-for-dollar, every employee donation made to
this recovery fund by its 70,000-member workforce through the end
of the year. These funds will be devoted to Beau Rivage employees
and their families to aid in the efforts directed at their
long-term recovery needs. Campaigns to raise funds were launched
Sept. 8 at MGM MIRAGE's 23 other properties nationwide. Plans for
recovery and rebuilding Beau Rivage are underway, with the company
committing to rebuild the resort quickly, and to utilize employees
in the recovery. Information about MGM MIRAGE's plan to rebuild its
Beau Rivage Resort and Casino in Biloxi is available to the news
media and general public at http://www.mgmmirage.com/ under the
"Press Releases" heading. MGM MIRAGE (NYSE:MGM), one of the world's
leading and most respected hotel and gaming companies, owns and
operates 24 properties located in Nevada, Mississippi and Michigan,
and has investments in four other properties in Nevada, New Jersey,
Illinois and the United Kingdom. MGM MIRAGE has also announced
plans to develop Project CityCenter, a multi-billion dollar
mixed-use urban development project in the heart of Las Vegas, and
has a 50 percent interest in MGM Grand Macau, a development project
in Macau S.A.R. MGM MIRAGE supports responsible gaming and has
implemented the American Gaming Association's Code of Conduct for
Responsible Gaming at its properties. MGM MIRAGE also has been the
recipient of numerous awards and recognitions for its
industry-leading Diversity Initiative and its community
philanthropy programs. For more information about MGM MIRAGE,
please visit the company's website at http://www.mgmmirage.com/.
DATASOURCE: MGM MIRAGE CONTACT: Alan Feldman, Senior Vice President
of Public Affairs of MGM MIRAGE, +1-702-891-7147 Web site:
http://www.beaurivage.com/ Web site: http://www.www.redcross.org/
Web site: http://www.mgmmirage.com/
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