Care Chest

CARE Chest, located at 7910 N. Virginia St., in Reno, is a Nevada nonprofit that provides medical resources—including equipment, supplies, prescription assistance and independent-living home modifications—free of charge. The acronym stands for Community Assistance Resource Endowment. Since the group was founded 34 years ago by three local pharmacists who saw a need, CARE Chest has provided nearly 600,000 unique consumer services to the community. Anne McNulty is the group’s executive director.

CARE Chest consumers are typically Nevada residents living at or below 138 percent of the federal poverty level. In addition to our headquarters in Reno on North Virginia Street, CARE Chest also has a second office in Las Vegas and travels to more than 40 communities and community-based locations across the state of Nevada each month to distribute our programs closer to where our consumers live and work.