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Patient capital. Programs that compound over years.

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Kids & Youth

After 3 P.M., 7 Omaha Youth Charities Pick Up the Real Work

The youth groups worth your money in Omaha are the ones built for the shaky hours after 3 p.m.—after school, after practice, after a new foster placement, after court. These seven charities understand that the real work starts when the official day ends.

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Health & Medical

When Care Gets Delayed, 5 Omaha Health Charities Step In

These five Omaha-linked nonprofits aren’t all solving health access in the same way, and that’s exactly why they deserve a closer look. One cuts the line for no-cost primary care, another for pregnancy answers, another for crisis response, another for cancer innovation, and another for remote hospital care in Nepal.

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Community Development

These 3 Omaha Housing Charities Do More Than Pay Rent

Omaha’s strongest housing nonprofits are not all doing the same job, and that is exactly why this list is useful. One steadies the lease, one connects housing to behavioral health, and one gives pregnant women a full residential runway instead of a handoff.

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Most housing donations in Lincoln stop at rent. These 3 groups think bigger.

Most people picture a house build when they think about housing donations in Lincoln. This piece widens the frame: Habitat handles new-home production, Union College Housing keeps a 56-unit low-income building viable, and The Arc of Lincoln helps people with intellectual and developmental disabilities obtain housing and the support to use it.

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Mustaches For Kids Omaha Made Facial Hair Worth $9 Million

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.

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