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Making a Difference: Making a Difference – Black Rock Solar
Since 1990, The Shade Tree has been providing shelter and assistance to homeless and abused women, children and their pets. Local nonprofit Black Rock Solar is helping them continue their mission of protecting those in need by building a new solar array for the shelter, dedicated this past November. The array is designed to help offset The Shade Tree’s utility bill, lowering overhead and freeing up funds for essential community services.
Black Rock Solar conducted multiple rounds of fundraising for the renewable energy project and helped The Shade Tree secure a rebate from NV Energy’s RenewableGenerations program. The nonprofit built a new carport and installed solar panels on two separate buildings for the thirty-four kilowatt array, all at no cost to the shelter. Groupon Grassroots featured the project as one of its Earth Day fundraising campaigns, bringing in $2,500 to help complete the endeavor, while other individual donors contributed funds for paint and asphalt work. The Shade Tree has not been the only recipient of Black Rock’s generosity, either. The bighearted group has also built fifty photovoltaic arrays at low or no cost for schools, other nonprofits, Native American tribes and community groups throughout the state.
“Organizations like The Shade Tree add extraordinary value to their communities,” said Patrick McCully, Executive Director of Black Rock Solar. “We are honored to be able to help them continue their mission, and grateful to all those who contributed to making this project a reality.”
For more information on The Shade Tree, visit www.theshadetree.org.
