On November 11, 2025, more than 300 ISSA Show North America attendees rolled up their sleeves at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center to assemble 500 personal-care bags for women and girls in need across the Las Vegas area. The now-annual ISSA End Period Poverty Service Project marked its third year with its most significant impact yet.
These 500 bags symbolize the 500 million people worldwide facing period poverty—those without reliable access to menstrual products, hygiene facilities, or proper waste management. Here in Nevada, one in seven women and girls ages 12 to 44 lives below the Federal Poverty Level. The need is real, and the cleaning and facility solutions industry continues to step up.
John Nothdurft, ISSA Director of Government Affairs
For the last three years, Aunt Flow has sponsored the ISSA End Period Poverty Service Project by donating 5,000 organic cotton pads to be packed in the kits. Other sponsors include brands like Hospeco, Imperial Dade, Dial, MaskIT and Tork.
This year, ISSA partnered once again with Purse Power, a Las Vegas nonprofit dedicated to supplying hygiene essentials to those in need.
Purse Power has been honored for the past three years to partner with ISSA in our shared mission to end period poverty. We appreciate ISSA’s leadership and partnership as we work to make a lasting impact. Together, we’re building a brighter, more equitable, and dignified future for our community and our world.
Shelly Elmer, Executive Director of Purse Power
Purse Power will distribute the personal-care bags to the following local organizations:
- Betty’s Village is a unique and inclusive residential community for adults with disabilities.
- Catholic Charities of Southern Nevada provides refugees from all over the world with resources to become self-sufficient and lead independent lives upon arriving in the U.S.
- Community In Schools of Nevada works to address students’ basic health and social-emotional and academic needs, empowering them to stay on track for a successful future.
- The Lighthouse of Restoration Organization makes an impact on the lives of single mothers and grandparents who are raising children and are low-income.
- Nevada Partnership for Homeless Youth provides Southern Nevada’s homeless youth with help, hope, and the support needed to rebuild their lives.
- SAFE House provides shelter, counseling, personal and legal advocacy, and community outreach to abused women and children.
- The Shade Tree provides safe shelter to homeless and abused women and children in crisis.
Thank you to our sponsors and every participant who made this year’s service project a standout moment of the ISSA Show. Together, we’re making a meaningful difference in the fight to end period poverty.
Stacy Seiden, ISSA Senior Government Affairs Manager
Learn more about ISSA’s End Period Poverty Service Project.
