Big Swings in Omaha

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.

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.

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.