Engelstad Warrior Scholarship Fund

Las Vegas News: Mike Rowe of ‘Dirty Jobs’ unveils scholarship program at local high school Las Vegas Sun: Mike Rowe’s foundation seeks to bridge skills gap with scholarships for Western High grads to vocational schools Vegas PBS: Exploring the need for trade careers,...

Las Vegas (KLAS)

A $1.9 million grant from the Engelstad Foundation has been awarded to Communities in Schools of Nevada to help at-risk students stay on track for graduation and fight chronic absenteeism of younger students. Read full story here

Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health

Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health has been selected to receive a $500,000 donation from The Engelstad Foundation to support its Graduate Medical Education (GME) Program. This is the second gift The Engelstad Foundation has made to the Lou Ruvo Center...

In the News

AP News, February 26, 2020:  Southern Nevada college gets $6M for health science building Las Vegas Review-Journal, Jan. 19, 2020:  COMMENTARY: Generous donor deserves community’s gratitude. KSNV-TV, Dec. 3, 2019:  Donating $155 million to UNLV med school ‘most...

Engelstad Scholars Give Back to the Community

In her first semester at UNLV, Krizel Sagun enrolled in the New Scholar Course for incoming Engelstad Scholars and gained an entirely new way of thinking. “It was so eye-opening; it changed the way I think about the world around me,” she says. Now in her last...

Changing the Trajectory of Lives

[siteorigin_widget class=”SiteOrigin_Widget_Image_Widget”][/siteorigin_widget] Kris Engelstad and the Engelstad Family Foundation are helping make the dreams of dozens of UNLV School of Medicine students come true. People | Oct 10, 2018 | By UNLV School of...