LRGB was voted Most Philanthropic Company from 2017 to 2026 in AZ Foothill Magazine’s independent readers’ polls. Additionally, Kevin Rowe, LRGB was Voted 2023 and 2024 Most Influential in Valley Nonprofit by the magazine’s readers.
Kevin Rowe was selected as the Philanthropic Business Leader of the Year in Az Business publication's 2023 Champions of Change Awards. Lerner & Rowe Gives Back was named a 2025 nonprofit organization of the year finalist.
Recognized as 2022 Philanthropic Company of the Year by the Phoenix Business Journal.
Voted Nonprofit of the Year 2018 in AZ Foothill Magazine's independent readers' poll.
2019 was another amazing year full of charity and goodwill! We couldn’t have done it without the support and generosity of individuals, our team members, and our community partners.
THANK YOU for helping us raise over $1.25 million total to give back to local neighborhood organizations in nine states!
Bringing a Little Love, Light, and Happiness at ChristmastimeOur community partners with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department joined us for a surprise Christmas gift giveaway pop-up. Kevin and Glen also had fun giving away Walmart gift cards to those who joined us live online.
We are extremely grateful to everyone who supports us and for those who have allowed us to help them in their time of need. Additionally, we wish all of you a blessed, healthy, and happy holiday season.
Photos from the 2019 Las Vegas Christmas gift surprise pop-up:
Our team was at #LovePup’s It’s Hip to Chip Holiday Event in Phoenix on Saturday, December 7 handing out pet bandannas and freebies. At the event #LovePup joined with AZPetVet to once again offer FREE microchips to personally-owned pets for the holidays!
Pet owners who were behind on licensing or renewing their dog’s pet license were also given the opportunity to get licensed and up-to-date without penalties.
#LovePup’s It’s Hip to Chip program is an ongoing Maricopa County program that provides a FREE microchip to every dog that gets adopted from the county shelters. Microchips serve as important permanent identification that gets implanted in your dog so they can be scanned and later reunited with you if they ever get lost.
Our team is thrilled to be a major sponsor of the #LovePup Foundation and their continuous efforts to look after the welfare of animals.
10 Year Supporters & Bike AssemblersThe McKenna Youth Foundation’s annual Children’s Holiday Party is what this season of goodwill and giving is all about—a community coming together to help their fellow neighbors who may be working to overcome economic obstacles in their lives.
For the past ten years our team has been actively involved in assisting the McKenna Youth Foundation during the holiday season. Each year we look forward to assembling bikes for disadvantaged youth in Phoenix and directly interacting with their other family members.
Date: December 7, 2019
Location: Aunt Chilada’s Restaurant (7330 N. Dreamy Draw Dr., Phoenix, AZ 85020)
Participation of children and families is by invitation only. For volunteer opportunities, please contact Terri Damiani with the McKenna Youth Foundation at (602) 332-9601.
We had an amazing time giving back and building relationships with local community members during the 2019 Turkey Giveaway. Our team is also greatly appreciative for all of the support given from our volunteers and community partners.
From our start in Merrillville, Indiana to ending in Las Vegas, Nevada we gave out over 9,000 turkeys and side fixings. We wish everyone a safe and wonderful holiday season!
Lerner and Rowe Gives Back is the official sponsor of the 2019 Ed Doherty Award Luncheon. The Ed Doherty Award is the state of Arizona’s highest individual high school football honor and is awarded annually to the state’s most outstanding high school football player by the Grand Canyon State Gridiron Club.
2019 Ed Doherty Award Luncheon details:
WHEN: Saturday, December 14, 2019 | 10:00 a.m.
LOCATION: The Scottsdale Resort at McCormick Ranch (7700 East McCormick Parkway, Scottsdale, AZ 85258)
Each week during the 2019 high school football season, 56 high school football players from high schools across Arizona are awarded exceptional performance medallions for outstanding play.
Out of these 56 talented players, only one will be named the winner of the 2019 Ed Doherty Award. Those chosen must meet specific eligibility criteria to include: participation during the first three weeks of the current season, recorded exceptional performance, and good academic standing.
The Grand Canyon State Gridiron Club (GCSGC) is a private organization founded to promote, celebrate, and support Arizona amateur athletics.
GCSGC does this by bringing national attention to the extraordinary qualities and pursuits of athletic achievement, academic advancement, and social affinity of local young people across the state of Arizona.
Once again our team jumped in to support our troops by helping the Holmberg’s Morning Sickness radio show put together 1,300 care packages at their KUPDeployment Pack party. The assembled packs will be sent to deployed troops serving overseas from our home state of Arizona. We also donated $5,000 to assist in covering shipping costs.
Our team will have a booth setup at the 2019 Light The Night Walk in support of the Arizona Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s efforts to find cures and ensure access to available treatments for blood cancer patients. We encourage others to join us and other community groups and individuals for what plans to be an unforgettable evening of remembrance to celebrate and honor all those touched by cancer.
This year, the Light The Night Walk takes place on Saturday, November 16 at the Phoenix Municipal Stadium (5999 E. Van Buren St., Phoenix, AZ 85008) from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Other Light The Night Walk highlights include:
For more information about Light The Night, please contact Edyth Haro via email at [email protected] or by calling 602-567-7586. You can also check out lightthenight.org/arizona.
Our Lerner and Rowe Gives Back team started celebrating Veteran’s Day early by participating in Project Hero’s Honor Ride on Saturday, November 9, 2019 in Las Vegas. It was a wonderful event that started out with a wedding of two of the riders, one being a disabled veteran.
That was followed by an award of a custom built recumbent bike that Lerner and Rowe had built for a veteran.
We first learned of the Project Hero Honor ride when one of our employees asked the office to donate to the bicycle event that he participates in annually in honor of his father. We were so moved by the mission and vision of Project Hero that we sponsored their event last year.
Of all the events we do in 6 states, we fell in love with how Project Hero honors our veterans and first responders, so this year we wanted to help them even more by providing a bike to one of our local veterans who would benefit the most. This is a perfect example of why we named our non-profit Lerner and Rowe Gives Back. –Glen Lerner.
In the past 12 months, there have been 63 crosswalk fatalities in Southern Nevada. As a community sponsor of the Dusk to Dawn Pedestrian Awareness campaign, our Lerner and Rowe Gives Back team was on hand to help pass out reflective wrist bands at a recent community event.
The wrist bands are just one of the ways the campaign is trying to help prevent fatal collisions by making pedestrians more visible to motorists during darker driving times from dusk to dawn.
Additionally, the Dusk to Dawn Pedestrian Awareness campaign drew chalk outlines of bodies on Clark County roads where pedestrians have been killed.
This awareness tool was designed to put a “face” to the campaign. By doing so, motorist see a real reminder of what can happen if they are not alert to their surroundings, and/or pedestrians not doing what they can to be more visible to others.
