| Name of Organization | Mission Statement | Brief description of how the organization would spend the $1,000 grant money, if awarded it. |
|---|---|---|
| Autism Society of Nebraska | The mission of the Nebraska Affiliate of the Autism Society of America is to support and advocate for individuals with autism spectrum disorders and their families. | We would use the grant money to help further opportunities for constituents in Omaha and across the state to connect and grow as individuals. In particular, we are hoping to expand the Artistic Autists program that is meeting both in person and via zoom. |
| Hillcrest Foundation for Enhancing Lives | The Hillcrest Foundation empowers caregivers with education about the care of older adults as well as provide meaningful gifts, travel opportunities and life experiences to support older adults. | The Hillcrest Foundation would use the grant money to purchase materials that support caregiver education, such as diabetes education, sending a caregiver to an Alzheimer’s care conference, or providing one-on-one education on how to care for someone’s loved one. |
| Little White Dog Rescue | Little White Dog Rescue is a non-profit dog rescue. Our goal is to find forever homes for small dogs who have been displaced through no fault of their own(city shelters, mass breeding facilities, and owners who can no longer care for them). We provide a home, medical care, and quality food to each dog while teaching them to a beloved house pet. | Little white dog rescue is limited in the number of dogs we are able to bring into rescue and save by the amount of donations we receive. There are many medically needy dogs that cost thousands of dollars in medical care that are sometimes turned away due to the lack of funds. On average we have adopt out about 400 dogs a year! You can see how vet bills pile up very quickly. The average cost of standard vetting for a healthy dog is just under $500. Unfortunately, most of our dogs do require more than standard vetting due to the lack of any medical care over the numerous years they spent in commercial breeding facilities. If we are able to obtain more donations, then we are able to take more dogs. This in turn saves dogs that really, really need and deserve the care that we can provide through vetting, medications, heartworm prevention/treatment, quality food, and of course hands on foster home care! Every donation goes 100% to the care of our rescue dogs ♡ |
| Wisdom House Collaborative | cultivating a more mindful community | We would provide mindfulness live and on line training to the UNO student who gives the presentation. Alternatively, we could use the funds for an classroom teacher interested in learning and using Mindful Schools curriculum. |
| Mystery Code Society | The mission of Mystery Code Society is to champion gender equity in tech through beginner and intermediate coding education for people of marginalized genders. | Mystery Code Society would use the grant towards the running programs. The cost for each class is approximately $3500. |
| Tri-City Food Pantry | Located in Papillion, the Tri City Food Pantry’s mission is to acquire, store, and distribute nutritious supplemental groceries and toiletries with the express intent to reduce food insecurities in our surrounding communities. The Pantry primarily serves the communities of Sarpy County and Ralston, along with those who attend those school districts. The Tri City Food Pantry is proud of the work it does to support those facing hunger in Sarpy County. |
The Pantry strives to meet the nutritional needs of clients by providing a one-week supply of groceries every 30 days - to help ensure that members of our community do not go hungry as they work to meet their basic needs. While protein can be found in many products, a distribution of 2 lbs of meat per person allows so many of the other pantry items – “Helper”s, soups, pastas & sauces, beans – to become a full meal for a family. The Pantry works each week to balance the protein products provided with the knowledge level of pantry clients for meat and meal preparation. Currently, ground beef (85%, $3.49 per lb), and boneless chicken breast ($2.89 per lb) are the meats purchased by the Executive Director. Options such as hot dogs are also provided when cost effective. Through financial support of the program, the Pantry will be able to better balance these choices for our clients and work to provide the best option for their nutritional needs and culinary experience. |
| Financial Beginnings Nebraska |
Our Mission: Financial Beginnings empowers youth and adults to take control of their financial futures. Our Vision: Financial Beginnings is the pathway to a financially literate nation. In a financially literate nation, individuals cease to see finances as a barrier and instead view them as a tool to realize their dreams. In a financially literate nation, individuals are vested in and contribute to a healthy economic system nationally, regionally, and in their own neighborhoods. |
Financial Beginnings Nebraska would like to hire its first intern this summer, in partnership with the Nebraska Department of Economic Development’s Intern Nebraska program. If awarded, these funds will be used towards our intern’s salary. |
| BFF Omaha | Building Community Through Arts Engagement. | Funds would go towards paying artists involved in BFF programming. Our organization is for artists, by artists. In 2021, BFF directly paid artists a total of $64,027.10 - that’s 41.5% of all expenses! And our neighborhood-wide First Friday events provide 50+ additional artist opportunities each month. 88% of the makeup of our organization are also artists. These dedicated staff members, board members, and volunteers provide a collective average of 175 hours of volunteer work each month. |
| Spielbound | We believe games inspire, motivate, and help us grow. In this positive space, we seek to provide all people the challenge, art, and fun unique to the world of board games. | We would either use this to a) help build a secure, climate controlled space to store the ~20+ museum-quality historic board games for long-term safe keeping so they could be enjoyed and maintained or b) used to pay for supplies and contractors/volunteers to help replace many missing unique board game pieces through use of 3D printing. |
| Team Bike Rescue of Omaha | Our mission at Team Bike Rescue of Omaha (TBR), is to collect and refurbish bicycles for those in need from our community. We strive to work with community organizations to identify those who have the highest need for a bike for recreational purposes, promoting healthy lifestyle, and as a means of transportation. This includes at-risk teenagers, youth, Veterans, the homeless, and others who express a need. | We are a small organization. Many opportunities come to mind from support for operational cost. Assist with our cost for storage, fuel, insurance, internet, phone and one. |
| Eat N’ Talk Africa | Fostering connections and solving social issues within our community through education and promotion of African Culinary Heritage | This grant will help support diverse programs that we have. |
| KANEKO | Creativity begins with an idea - seeing things differently. Our purpose is exploring the creative process - how a new idea is born into the arts, sciences, and philosophy. There is no restriction for creative activity. Imagination has complete freedom. Supporting and promoting freedom in creativity is KANEKO’s mission. | KANEKO would like to use the funds from this grant to provide a needed lift to our technical supplies. Specifically, to update parts of our sound system, which we use for a multitude of purposes, but primarily to provide an exceptional experience. The need to provide crisp, clear sound can not be underrated. KANEKO has many chances to interact with to our guests and constituents, but if our friends cannot understand what we are trying to convey, due to inadequate equipment, we do a disservice to all. |
| RESPECT | Using theatre and community collaboration to stage conversations on healthy relationships. | If awarded the $1,000 grant money, RESPECT would use the funds to update our technology, equipment, and props needed for our continuously changing theatre programs. To build the best relationships with our audience, we are always making sure that our props and stories are current and relatable for those we are reaching in the community. |
| Name of Organization | Mission Statement | Brief description of how the organization would spend the $1,000 grant money, if awarded it. |
|---|---|---|
| Elevate Omaha | Our mission is to create a platform to elevate youth voice and equip young people to become leaders who advocate for themselves and their peers, provide insight about youthdriven solutions, and fund possibility to pave the way to a better future. | The grant money would go to whatever project our youth core team wanted to pursue. The folks in the class could also work with our core team to decide how to utilize the dollars. |
| Catholic Charities Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Program | Family oriented services that mepower individuals and strengthen families | We would use the $1,000 to help purchase food for our shelter clients, and pay for transportation to find work, go to school, and attend doctors appointments. |
| Urban Abbey | We believe the world should be different, and so we are a space of radical hospitality connecting people to God and one another in everyday life. | We would use the grant money to focus on our social justice efforts - including bringing in speakers, poets, writers, and more for a panel addressing specific social justice issues. Additionally, we’d use it for our campus and young adult outreach, letting people know that there is a different kind of “church” out there. |
| Tri-Faith Initiative | Inspired by the faith of Jewish, Christian, and Muslim communities, we cultivate inclusive environments to advance interfaith relationships and understanding. | Tri-Faith Initiative provides many opportunities to learn about the complexities, privileges, and ways people are marginalized around religious literacy. We would love to have some funds toward development of resources and curriculum to support greater recognition of the privileges and marginalization of religious communities in America. |
| Lift Up Sarpy County | Lift Up Sarpy County brings together collaboration to meet the needs of people experiencing life challenges | The $1000 grant funds would go toward continuing the public awareness of our organization that was begun during class work. |
| Learning For ALL | Learning for ALL supports adults in our community to acquire the literacy, language, and life skills necessary to thrive and achieve their life goals. | If awarded, Learning For ALL would spend the $1,000 grant money on additional educational software licenses for our ESL, ABE, and GED students. These licenses will increase our distance learning student capacity and geographical reach. Funding will go directly to increase the resources we need to serve more students in a larger area and throughout more communities. |
| City Sprouts | To use urban agriculture as a platform to develop equitable food systems, provide educational opportunities, and build community. | Grant money would be used toward work in our geodesic dome, specifically to install gravel and a pavestone mosaic that will be both beautiful and functional as we use the space as a classroom, for events, and to grow food for the community. |
| Nebraska Writers Collective | The Nebraska Writers Collective fosters personal empowerment and community-building in the Midwest through creative writing and performance poetry. | Our Communications Director (Celine Haynes) and BIPOC Employee Resource Group Coordinator (Bianca Swift) have created a stunning curriculum that centers and uplifts BIPOC writers and their perspectives. We have a digital copy in-hand, but hope to use the $1,000 grant money to cover printing costs to bring this curriculum to life by gifting it to the young people who participate in our poetry programming. |
| Child Saving Institute (CSI) | CSI opened its doors to children in 1892 to “Respond to the cry of a child”. Today a two-generational approach is applied: To thrive, children must be exposed to and given tools to live beyond poverty; and brain science proves that learning starts well before formal learning emphasizing the maxim “start early and start well”. |
CSI’s Emergency Shelter (ES) provides a space for youth while they are in transition; youth for whom juvenile detention centers, which typically operate using punitive methodologies, would be a detriment. In juvenile cases, a “status offense” involves conduct that would not be a crime if committed by an adult. In other words, the actions are considered to be a violation of the law only because of the status as a minor. Common examples of status offenses include underage drinking, skipping school, and violating a local curfew law. In an average year, approximately 20% of all juvenile arrests involve status offenses. ES is a safe and supportive environment providing housing stability, physical and mental health care, food security, crisis support and intervention. Nearly all have experienced trauma: abuse, abandonment, neglect and homelessness. Youth receive individualized, therapeutic care, emphasizing strengths and positive, pro-social behaviors while addressing behavioral obstacles. ES provides personal clothing and personal hygiene products, and continuance of the youth’s normal routine wherever possible, including: schooling, physical activity, recreational activities, facilitated and encouraged |
| Combined Health Agencies Drive (CHAD) | Funding charities. Changing lives. | CHAD would utilize the funds to help continue to carry our 23 members’ missions across the state by providing valuable information and resources through our workplace givings programs at companies large and small. |
| Girls Inc of Omaha- Pathfinders Mentoring | Girls Inc of Omaha inspires all girls to be strong, smart and bold. The Girls Inc. Pathfinders Program is a mentoring program devoted to providing one-on-one female support to girls in need of/desiring social development, recreational opportunities, and emotional support. The mentors assist their mentees in developing and achieving positive academic, career, and personal goals. In 2021, much of this program will take place in an online setting until social distancing allows for in-person meetings once again. | With Girls Inc of Omaha currently closed to students, all of our programming has moved online. We have been finding creative ways to engage with our matches in the virtual world, including celebrating National Fast Food Day (Winners received gift cards to their favorite places) and National Ice Cream Day (Making ice cream in a bag while listening to “Shake It Off” by Taylor Swift!) We know that our mentees will come online with their mentors if they have something enjoyable to look forward to. As we plan for the coming year, we expect to be closed many more months. We have plans to make pizza flavored lipgloss, decorate flower pots, and paint canvases with melted crayons. Our plans always come from what the girls want, and we can’t wait to make it happen. This $1000 would allow us to help cover the costs of all these events. |
| Live On Nebraska | To heal and connect through organ and tissue donation. | If awarded, we would elect to spend the grant money in an opportunity identified by the student’s project. Alternatively, we would spend the money promoting our educational curriculum, found at https://liveonnebraska.org/education/ |
| Strategic Air Command & Aerospace Museum | The Mission of the Strategic Air Command & Aerospace Museum is to preserve the history of Strategic Air Command, the Cold War and aerospace artifacts and to inspire learning through imaginative, innovative, and inspirational programs and exhibits. | Granted funds would be used during the Museum’s free, off-site event open to the public in the summer of 2022. STEM in the City is an all ages event that makes learning fun! Guests will visit each booth sponsored by another non-profit or business to collect stamps on their passport. Once its complete, the passport can be turned in for a prize! The Museum will bring educational activities, host a live demonstration, and give-a-ways (while they last!). To round out this fun event, there will be live entertainment, bounce houses, a balloon artist, and face painting. This event helps make fun career connections to local businesses for youth in Omaha. |
| Name of Organization | Mission Statement | Brief description of how the organization would spend the $1,000 grant money, if awarded it. |
|---|---|---|
| Tri-Faith Initiative | Inspired by the faith of Jewish, Christian, and Muslim communities, we cultivate inclusive environments to advance interfaith relationships and understanding. | Tri-Faith Initiative provides many opportunities to learn about the complexities, privileges, and ways people are marginalized around religious literacy. We would love to have some funds toward development of resources and curriculum to support greater recognition of the privileges and marginalization of religious communities in America. |
| Lift Up Sarpy County | Lift Up Sarpy County brings together collaboration to meet the needs of people experiencing life challenges | The $1000 grant funds would go toward continuing the public awareness of our organization that was begun during class work. |
| Learning For ALL | Learning for ALL supports adults in our community to acquire the literacy, language, and life skills necessary to thrive and achieve their life goals. | If awarded, Learning For ALL would spend the $1,000 grant money on additional educational software licenses for our ESL, ABE, and GED students. These licenses will increase our distance learning student capacity and geographical reach. Funding will go directly to increase the resources we need to serve more students in a larger area and throughout more communities. |
| City Sprouts | To use urban agriculture as a platform to develop equitable food systems, provide educational opportunities, and build community. | Grant money would be used toward work in our geodesic dome, specifically to install gravel and a pavestone mosaic that will be both beautiful and functional as we use the space as a classroom, for events, and to grow food for the community. |
| Nebraska Writers Collective | The Nebraska Writers Collective fosters personal empowerment and community-building in the Midwest through creative writing and performance poetry. | Our Communications Director (Celine Haynes) and BIPOC Employee Resource Group Coordinator (Bianca Swift) have created a stunning curriculum that centers and uplifts BIPOC writers and their perspectives. We have a digital copy in-hand, but hope to use the $1,000 grant money to cover printing costs to bring this curriculum to life by gifting it to the young people who participate in our poetry programming. |
| Child Saving Institute (CSI) | CSI opened its doors to children in 1892 to “Respond to the cry of a child”. Today a two-generational approach is applied: To thrive, children must be exposed to and given tools to live beyond poverty; and brain science proves that learning starts well before formal learning emphasizing the maxim “start early and start well”. |
CSI’s Emergency Shelter (ES) provides a space for youth while they are in transition; youth for whom juvenile detention centers, which typically operate using punitive methodologies, would be a detriment. In juvenile cases, a “status offense” involves conduct that would not be a crime if committed by an adult. In other words, the actions are considered to be a violation of the law only because of the status as a minor. Common examples of status offenses include underage drinking, skipping school, and violating a local curfew law. In an average year, approximately 20% of all juvenile arrests involve status offenses. ES is a safe and supportive environment providing housing stability, physical and mental health care, food security, crisis support and intervention. Nearly all have experienced trauma: abuse, abandonment, neglect and homelessness. Youth receive individualized, therapeutic care, emphasizing strengths and positive, pro-social behaviors while addressing behavioral obstacles. ES provides personal clothing and personal hygiene products, and continuance of the youth’s normal routine wherever possible, including: schooling, physical activity, recreational activities, facilitated and encouraged |
| Combined Health Agencies Drive (CHAD) | Funding charities. Changing lives. | CHAD would utilize the funds to help continue to carry our 23 members’ missions across the state by providing valuable information and resources through our workplace givings programs at companies large and small. |
| Girls Inc of Omaha- Pathfinders Mentoring | Girls Inc of Omaha inspires all girls to be strong, smart and bold. The Girls Inc. Pathfinders Program is a mentoring program devoted to providing one-on-one female support to girls in need of/desiring social development, recreational opportunities, and emotional support. The mentors assist their mentees in developing and achieving positive academic, career, and personal goals. In 2021, much of this program will take place in an online setting until social distancing allows for in-person meetings once again. | With Girls Inc of Omaha currently closed to students, all of our programming has moved online. We have been finding creative ways to engage with our matches in the virtual world, including celebrating National Fast Food Day (Winners received gift cards to their favorite places) and National Ice Cream Day (Making ice cream in a bag while listening to “Shake It Off” by Taylor Swift!) We know that our mentees will come online with their mentors if they have something enjoyable to look forward to. As we plan for the coming year, we expect to be closed many more months. We have plans to make pizza flavored lipgloss, decorate flower pots, and paint canvases with melted crayons. Our plans always come from what the girls want, and we can’t wait to make it happen. This $1000 would allow us to help cover the costs of all these events. |
| Live On Nebraska | To heal and connect through organ and tissue donation. | If awarded, we would elect to spend the grant money in an opportunity identified by the student’s project. Alternatively, we would spend the money promoting our educational curriculum, found at https://liveonnebraska.org/education/ |
| Strategic Air Command & Aerospace Museum | The Mission of the Strategic Air Command & Aerospace Museum is to preserve the history of Strategic Air Command, the Cold War and aerospace artifacts and to inspire learning through imaginative, innovative, and inspirational programs and exhibits. | Granted funds would be used during the Museum’s free, off-site event open to the public in the summer of 2022. STEM in the City is an all ages event that makes learning fun! Guests will visit each booth sponsored by another non-profit or business to collect stamps on their passport. Once its complete, the passport can be turned in for a prize! The Museum will bring educational activities, host a live demonstration, and give-a-ways (while they last!). To round out this fun event, there will be live entertainment, bounce houses, a balloon artist, and face painting. This event helps make fun career connections to local businesses for youth in Omaha. |
| The AIM Institute | The AIM Institute grows a strong and diverse tech community through education, career development, and outreach. Our vision is to build a thriving city where anyone can pursue a rewarding tech career. | If awarded this grant via the Maverick Philanthropy Initiative, AIM will use the funds to purchase snacks for participants in our Youth in Tech program. This program provides access to curiosity-sparking, hands-on tech activities like designing and 3D printing objects; programming robots to navigate a maze; and building do-it-yourself Raspberry Pi kits to understand the inner workings of a computer. Many of our students may not otherwise have the chance to experience such meaningful interactions with technology due to gaps in their schools’ science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) curriculum and/or lack of access to technology in the home. Many of our students are underserved and forced to deal with issues that most of their peers do not, such as poverty and hunger. Since nobody can focus or retain information while chronically hungry, we provide healthy snacks in order to relieve students’ hunger and ensure they are able to get the most out of our tech education programming. A grant of $1,000 would help us support healthy snacks for children in need of both physical and intellectual sustenance. |
| Visiting Nurse Association (VNA) | VNA is a nonprofit organization with a mission to “delivering community-based care that provides peace of mind, quality of life and independence.” Since 1896, VNA has operated innovative programs that serve the unique public health, home health, and hospice needs of at-risk individuals and families throughout Omaha and Council Bluffs. |
VNA provides Parenting Support as part of a strategy to strengthen children and families at highest risk of adverse childhood experiences and poor lifetime outcomes. Registered nurses, parent coaches, a social worker, and lactation consultants target the needs of low-income families with children by providing intensive home visitation services over a period of 1-3 years, ideally beginning prenatally or shortly after birth. Our program uses a strengths-based approach and evidence or research-based interventions that focus on supporting parents to develop the skills necessary to protect and nurture their children, increase their understanding of developmental stages of childhood, and improve child-rearing competencies. Grant funding will allow VNA to purchase board books to promote positive parent-child interaction, brain development and communication. We estimate that each family will receive five books for their child’s library. These books will have brightly colored pages without words, making this the perfect book for all families, no matter their language or literacy level. VNA staff will help parents learn to make up stories or songs by describing the pictures on each page while promoting positive parent-child interactions. |
| Heartland Equine Therapeutic Riding Academy (HETRA) | HETRA’s mission is to improve the quality of life both physically and emotionally of adults and children of all ability levels through Equine-Assisted Activities. |
Our Therapy Services Scholarship Program ensures that those at the greatest socioeconomic disadvantage can receive the benefits of Equine-Assisted Services. Through our Therapy Services, Occupational and Physical Therapists work one-on-one with participants using Hippotherapy, a treatment strategy in which we partner with horses to achieve clinical results in areas like coordination, posture and muscle development. As stated by Sandy Rafferty, Occupational Therapist & PATH Intl Advanced Instructor, “A horse can provide the same intervention as 35 pieces of therapy equipment.” Therapists use traditional techniques like neurodevelopmental treatment and sensory integration as well as movement of horses. The program is often an alternative for those who don’t respond to traditional therapy. Many state that it doesn’t feel like therapy, but an enjoyable activity in which they aren’t limited by a diagnosis. A difficult challenge faced by those with disabilities is the high cost of care. Our services are affordable thanks to support of our donors. We’ve never turned anyone away due to the inability to pay. Support of this program would ensure that we can continue to offer services to all regardless of socioeconomic status. |
| Society of St Vincent de Paul Omaha | The Society of St. Vincent de Paul is a network of friends, inspired by Gospel values, growing in holiness and building a more just world through personal relationships with and service to people in need. | We would put the $1000 toward helping us develop our Volunteer run Help Line. They take calls and emails from people all over the city asking for help with rent, utility and other emergency assistance and then we refer them to one of our member Conferences, other city resources, or to our outreach group that tries to help as many people as possible that do not live in an area with a Conference. We are trying to build up our Volunteer network, train them, provide them with more resources and connect them with more organizations. The grant money would help us develop this program to help more people. We would be open to the students’ input on what to focus on. |
| Siena Francis House | The Siena Francis House welcomes and empowers those experiencing homelessness to navigate their path to housing. |
If Siena Francis House were to receive this grant money, we would use it to support our organization’s basic services of providing food, shelter, clothing, addiction treatment and supportive housing for individuals from our community who experience homelessness and who seek these services – 24/7, 365 days a year. Siena Francis House programs and services are located in six facilities north of Nicholas Street and bounded by 16th and 18th Streets in north downtown Omaha, Nebraska. The Siena Francis House also provides facility space for partnering organizations that provide housing resources, medical and mental healthcare and other services that our clients may need. Exercising a policy of unconditional acceptance, Siena Francis House provides low barrier services to clients with the respect and dignity they deserve, including those often viewed as “most difficult to serve”— the chronically addicted and mentally ill homeless persons who may not currently be in treatment or taking medication. |
| Legal Aid of Nebraska | For more than 50 years, Legal Aid of Nebraska has provided dignity, hope, self-sufficiency and justice through quality civil legal aid. The legal services we provide allow us to support and stand side-by-side with low-income Nebraskans to ensure the fair enforcement of the law, to protect the rights of the people, and to address the urgent legal needs of our communities. | We would use the grant money for general operating. We have been interested in doing more outreach within our community as well - this includes the prospect of bus benches, billboards, etc. that would be available statewide but are trying to find funding for. |
| Epilepsy Foundation Nebraska | The mission of the Epilepsy Foundation is to lead the fight to overcome the challenges of living with epilepsy and to accelerate therapies to stop seizures, find cures, and save lives. | If awarded it, grant monies would support the activities such as: * Seizure Recognition and Response Training for school personnel and school nurses, * Seizure First Aid certification for community groups, * Local Parent/Caregiver support groups, * Seizure Alert monitors for individuals in need, * And a number of additional supports offered as needed through the Epilepsy Foundation. |
| Nebraska Enterprise Fund | The Nebraska Enterprise fund envisions a vibrant small business eco-system where every small and micro business has the opportunity to start, grow and prosper. The Nebraska Enterprise Fund supports underserved communities by providing micro and small businesses with access to training, technical assistance, and capital. | NEF will use the funds to support its Small Business Clinic which focuses on bringing all small business and entrepreneurial resources into the same location. This allows traditionally under-represented populations to have access to key professional services, advice, and access to capital. |
| College Possible | College Possible makes college admission and success possible for students from low-income backgrounds through an intensive curriculum of coaching and support. | A $1,000 grant would be directed to College Possible access and success programming that includes academic support through ACT test preparation, college application assistance, financial aid consulting, guidance on the transition to college and comprehensive support toward college degree completion. |
| Heart Ministry Center | The mission of the Heart Ministry Center is to provide food, healthcare, and a way forward to people severely affected by poverty in the Omaha area. | The Heart Ministry Center (the Center) is requesting funding for its general operations. If awarded, funding for general operations allows the Center to be flexible with where these funds are allocated. Often, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, the actual program budget can be different from the budgeted amount because adjustments were necessary to meet the shifting needs of the community. As such, the Center is requesting funding for its general operations but most likely these funds will go to help support one of the Center’s major programs i.e. food distribution program, A Way Forward case management program, Fresh Start job training/placement program, social enterprise laundromat, or Monen Healthcare Clinic (which provides medical, dental, vision, and mental health services). |
| Omaha Home for Boys | Our mission is to support and strengthen youth, young adults and families through services that inspire and equip them to lead independent, productive lives. OHB’s ultimate goal is to equip youth, young adults and families with the skills and confidence needed to succeed. OHB provides a true continuum of care to help youth, young adults and families overcome obstacles in order to reach their full potential. Our five core programs are aimed at empowering clients with the skills and confidence needed to transition from a state of crisis to one of safety and growth. |
Funds raised for OHB help our programs address a number of needs. Our programs and services are integrated to help youth and families address immediate needs, plan for the future and ultimately become independent and self-sufficient. Inspiration Hill Residential Living: Serving high-school-age youth, OHB’s Residential Living Program provides a safe, stable environment where youth live, learn and grow to become productive, independent adults. Jacobs’ Place is OHB’s Transitional Living Program that helps young adults who struggle with a lack of housing, education, employment and basic life skills. Branching Out Independent Living: The young adults who seek the assistance of the Branching Out Independent Living Program gain the skills needed to live responsible, self-sufficient lives through employment, education and housing assistance. The Supportive Housing Program offers affordable, stable housing to families and young adults and on-site support services to help clients advance their careers and achieve their education goals. OHB’s Clinical Services Program provides a full continuum of care offering a number of behavioral health, mental health and substance abuse services to meet client needs. |
| CASA for Douglas County | Training, empowering, and inspiring volunteer advocates to improve the lives of abused and neglected children. | Funding received would be utilized to train volunteers. We have a huge need for volunteers and in order to serve the children in our community, we need to adequately train and prepare the volunteers. Training includes initial training - 30 hours prior to being sworn in as a volunteer and then 12 additional continuing education hours annually. $1000 would allow us to serve one child in our community for a year and we currently have over 100 children on our waitlist. This is an amazing opportunity that we are thankful to be a part of. |
| Youth Emergency Services |
Youth Emergency Services assists youth experiencing homelessness and near homelessness by providing critically-needed resources which support them in their desire to be self-sufficient. It’s our goal to help youth in crisis get back on their feet in whatever ways we can. After meeting their immediate needs for food, shelter, clothing and safety, we create a support system which helps them flourish. |
YES would use this grant money to supplement our donated meals and buy pantry items. |