Potawatomi Hotel & Casino: Playing Card Requests & Auction Item Requests Grant

Potawatomi Hotel & Casino is committed to community support through philanthropy, providing jobs and financial assistance. Their Heart of Canal Street program has donated over $13.6 million since 1994, helping local children. They recycle used playing cards for nonprofit organizations and donate auction items for fundraising events within a 125-mile radius. However, they do not support K-12 schools or for-profit entities, ensuring their contributions are directed to those in need.

Supporting Community Through Philanthropy
Potawatomi Hotel & Casino demonstrates concern for the community in a variety of ways, starting with making an impact on state and local communities by providing thousands of jobs and being a strong employer.
The efforts to strengthen our community begin with the business’ signature community program— Heart of Canal Street. Since 1994, Heart of Canal Street has donated more than $13.6 million to organizations that provide the gift of a promising future to thousands of local children.
Potawatomi Hotel & Casino is committed to supporting the community, whether through city and county revenue-sharing payments that reduce the tax burden and help provide essential services, or by building community, civic and business partnerships to advance and address the needs of the area.
Part of Potawatomi Hotel & Casino’s social responsibility efforts includes recycling its used playing cards within the community. These cards are made available to organizations for use with adults.
PHC limits its donations of playing cards to nonprofit, civic or other business/trade organizations within an approximate 100-mile radius of the Casino. Organizations must pick up the cards.
One of the ways Potawatomi Casino Hotel Milwaukee helps area nonprofits, civic or other organizations (within an approximate 90-mile radius of the property) is through the donation of items for fundraising events. Auction and raffle items provided at the discretion of PCH include:

• Restaurant Gift CardsHotel Stays
• Community Foundation

A major effort of the Foundation and its funds is to assist charitable organizations that help those people who are faced with economic challenges. As a result, the Foundation targets its resources to those areas with a high percentage of individuals with low and very low incomes.
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Ineligibility

The Casino does not accept requests for playing cards from K-12 schools or provide cards to people under 18 years of age. The Casino avoids any situation that may be considered marketing to minors.For auction item requests, PHC does not donate items to:Corporations or other for-profit entitiesThird-party fundraisersK-12 schoolsCasino nightsIndividual appeals or benefitsChurches, political causes or events that will include people under 18 years of age in attendance.