ABSTRACT
The ability to ground research in a physical, historical, and economic location is a particular characteristic of the case study approach, which allows for contextualized understanding of not only the casino corporations but also the environment in which they operate. It examines the current landscape for Las Vegas's roughly 4,000 nonprofit organizations attempts to adjust to the city's recent hard times and address the challenges faced by its residents. As the global impact of the recession became clear, things got worse for Las Vegas. Although local and state governments provide some services to the homeless and the jobless, much of this responsibility increasingly falls on the various local and national nonprofit organizations established to address needs in their communities. Gambling as an industry in Nevada emerged as a last-ditch effort to recover from the economic valley of the Great Depression, and the organizing forces in this effort centered on Las Vegas as the location for their development of this industry.
