Slow Burns in Omaha

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.

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.

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.