Cleveland Clinic Nevada Invests $500,000 in Expanding Food Access with The Just One Project
Cleveland Clinic Nevada has committed $500,000 over five years to The Just One Project to help address hunger and expand access to nutritious food across Southern Nevada. The partnership is already underway with an expansion of our Food is Medicine Farmers Market to Lorenzi Park in Las Vegas. The investment connects Cleveland Clinic Nevada’s focus on health with TJOP’s experience creating community-based food access, giving us sustained support to bring nutritious food and resources into more Southern Nevada neighborhoods.
Community partnerships are an essential part of how The Just One Project serves Southern Nevada.
Our programs are strengthened by businesses, healthcare organizations, hospitality partners, volunteers, food donors, foundations, and other organizations that contribute resources and expertise to the work. Those relationships allow us to accomplish more than we could independently.
Our new partnership with Cleveland Clinic Nevada is an important example.
In August 2026, Cleveland Clinic Nevada announced a $500,000 commitment to The Just One Project, provided as $100,000 annually over five years. The investment will support our work addressing hunger and expanding access to nutritious food in Southern Nevada.
This is more than funding for a single event or distribution. It gives us five years of committed support to strengthen and expand work already happening in the community.
Why a Healthcare Organization Is Investing in Food Access
Food has always been the foundation of our work. Through Food For All, we provide multiple ways for Southern Nevadans to access groceries, fresh produce, prepared meals, and other food assistance based on their circumstances.
Cleveland Clinic Nevada does not need to build a separate food distribution network to act on its commitment to hunger. By investing in an established community organization, its resources can strengthen infrastructure that is already serving Southern Nevada.
For TJOP, the partnership brings resources from an organization that understands why reliable access to nutritious food matters to individual and community health.
Each partner contributes something different to the same goal.
The Partnership Is Already at Work at Lorenzi Park
On August 25, 2026, we celebrated the partnership by expanding our Food is Medicine Farmers Market to Lorenzi Park in Las Vegas.
The location matters because food being available somewhere in a city does not necessarily make it accessible to every household.
Transportation, distance, mobility, schedules, and the availability of fresh food nearby can all affect what people are realistically able to bring home.
Our Food is Medicine Farmers Markets address some of those barriers by bringing fresh, nutritious food directly into communities. The program also creates opportunities for nutrition education, recipes, health screenings, and connections to other resources.
At Lorenzi Park, the new partnership moved immediately from investment to implementation: Cleveland Clinic Nevada and Keep Memory Alive joined us in the community as we opened the new market and served individuals and families.
The market provides a visible example of where the partnership begins. Cleveland Clinic Nevada’s five-year commitment is designed to help us extend community-based food access into additional Southern Nevada neighborhoods over time.
Food is Medicine Is About More Than a Produce Distribution
The Food is Medicine name reflects an important principle behind the program: people need meaningful access to nutritious food if they are going to incorporate it into everyday life.
We are not suggesting that food replaces medical care. Our role is food access.
The Farmers Market model allows us to focus intentionally on fresh, nutritious foods while pairing distribution with information and resources that can help people use those foods at home.
It is one part of a much larger Food For All system.
Someone who can visit a neighborhood Farmers Market may benefit from this model. A homebound client may need grocery delivery instead. An older adult may qualify for prepared meals through Meals on Wheels. Another family may access groceries through a No-Cost Community Market or Pop Up & Give Mobile Market.
We use multiple models because food insecurity does not create the same barrier for everyone.
Cleveland Clinic Nevada’s investment helps us expand one of those access points into communities where it can make a difference.
What Long-Term Partnership Makes Possible
There is a practical advantage to the structure of this partnership.
Five years of committed funding gives us something nonprofits continually need: the ability to plan.
Expanding a program requires more than the food distributed on market day. It requires staffing, transportation, procurement, coordination, volunteers, outreach, and the operational systems that make consistent service possible.
When announcing the investment, Cleveland Clinic specifically identified the value of sustained support in helping TJOP expand proven programs and build long-term capacity.
That matters because communities need programs they can rely on.
Opening a new market once is an event. Building the capacity to continue serving a community is impact.
A Model for Community Partnership
The Cleveland Clinic Nevada partnership illustrates something we have learned repeatedly at TJOP: the strongest community partnerships begin with a shared problem, not identical organizations.
Cleveland Clinic Nevada brings healthcare expertise and a significant commitment to addressing hunger as part of community health.
TJOP brings the food-access infrastructure, programs, staff, volunteers, and community relationships needed to translate that investment into service.
Keep Memory Alive brings its own longstanding connection to Cleveland Clinic Nevada and the Southern Nevada community.
The organizations do not need to play the same role. They need to contribute meaningfully toward the same outcome.
That is the value of partnership.
For TJOP, community partners are not simply sponsors whose names appear beside ours. They are part of the network that makes our work possible.
The new Food is Medicine Farmers Market at Lorenzi Park is one result of that network—and over the next five years, we look forward to seeing where this partnership allows us to go next.
Partner With The Just One Project
Businesses and organizations can support The Just One Project in many ways, including financial investment, program and event sponsorship, employee volunteer opportunities, food donations, and other collaborative initiatives.
Every partnership looks different because every organization has different resources to contribute.
What matters is finding where those resources can meet a real community need.
If your organization is interested in helping strengthen food access and community stability across Southern Nevada, we invite you to contact us to explore partnership opportunities with The Just One Project.
