Pay It Forward in Nebraska

Mustaches For Kids Omaha should have been a one-year joke. Instead, Adam Perez's 2009 idea became one of the city's most reliable engines for children's-charity funding, moving more than $9 million locally while keeping the whole ridiculous ritual accountable to kids.

Picking one Nebraska charity is often the wrong question. Give Nebraska is the statewide system that lets one gift move across multiple local nonprofits through workplace campaigns, payroll deduction, and donor choice.

The right place to donate a bike in Omaha is the one that treats it like transportation infrastructure, not castoff gear. Community Bicycle Shop of Omaha turns used bikes into mobility, repair access, and actual ownership.