Rogers Foundation requiring COVID-19 vaccination for employees

The Rogers Foundation is requiring that existent and aboriginal employees beryllium vaccinated against COVID-19, it announced Thursday.

The arts and acquisition philanthropic radical founded by Jim and Beverly Rogers includes affiliated nonprofits CORE, Educate Nevada Now, Rogers Art Loft and the precocious announced Beverly Theater.

Rory Reid, the foundation’s CEO, said the enactment thought the mandate was cardinal to getting done the pandemic.

“This is simply a assemblage problem, and we each request to bash our portion to support each other. We’re arrogant that our existent employees stock this belief, and we are going to necessitate it of anyone that wants to enactment for america successful the future,” Reid said successful a statement. “We consciousness powerfully that arsenic leaders successful the philanthropic abstraction successful Southern Nevada, it is important that we pb by illustration successful hopes that different organizations some large and tiny travel suit.”

Nearly 100 percent of the approximate 30 employees successful the 4 organizations are vaccinated, according to a quality release. Those without it person a “valid aesculapian oregon spiritual exemption.”

Staff astatine The Rogers Foundation and its nonprofits facilitate scholarships to precocious schoolhouse seniors successful Southern Nevada, money statewide acquisition reforms, sponsor artists-in-residences and more.

McKenna Ross is simply a corps subordinate with Report for America, a nationalist work programme that places journalists into section newsrooms. Contact her astatine mross@reviewjournal.com. Follow @mckenna_ross_ connected Twitter.