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Kids & Youth · The Big Story

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.

Kids & Youth

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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Community Development

Omaha Has a Smart Place to Donate the Bike in Your Garage

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.

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Food & Basic Needs

Omaha Has 4 Better Places for Baby Clothes Than Your Trunk

A bag of baby clothes is only useful if it lands with the right family fast. This Omaha guide points you to four nonprofits serving foster placements, pregnant women, and young moms so your donation doesn’t disappear into a mystery bin.

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This Week in Omaha · Omaha Picks

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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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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.