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Bridging The Gap Between Foster Care And Adulthood — With Coffee

Published by Nikki Palmer on Wed, 09/20/2023 - 5:00am

Astute Coffee connects young adults to the workforce and supports their self-sufficiency through personal and professional development Programming. (Shutterstock)

Astute Coffee is a social enterprise nonprofit that helps young people who have aged out of the foster care system, giving them steady employment to help them develop job skills as well as life skills to young adults who have not had the chance to learn them elsewhere.

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Omaha Ranked #1 For Corporate Retreats For Mid-Sized Metros

Published by Nikki Palmer on Wed, 08/02/2023 - 2:00am

In a study by CoworkingCafe, Omaha ranked #1 for corporate retreats for mid-sized metros. They used eight different metrics to score cities, such as the number of team-building establishments, amount of co-working spaces available, and multiple different entertainment venues that can be found for visitors; they compared different cities in three different size categories based on population.

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Liberating System-Impacted LGBTQIA2S+ People, Those Living With HIV/AIDS Through Advocacy, Support

Published by jason@omahadail... on Wed, 06/21/2023 - 5:00am

Black and Pink is a national LGBTQIA+ organization that works to liberate and work alongside system-impacted LGBTQIA+ individuals as well as those who have been impacted by HIV/AIDS. The organization started in 2005, they are based in Omaha, NE and are working with many chapters across the country to assist queer individuals. Black and Pink is also an abolitionist organization and works to end the current incarceration system in the United States.

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Nebraska Dyslexia Association: Detangling The World Of Words

Published by josie@omahadail... on Wed, 04/26/2023 - 7:08am

The Nebraska Dyslexia Association (NDA) works to advocate for individuals with dyslexia and ensure they have effective multi-sensory learning, as well as ensure education for professionals to provide adequate support. Originally part of the International Dyslexia Association starting in 1981, the NDA split off into its own organization in 2011.

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Understanding, Advocating During Autism Awareness Month

Published by Nikki Palmer on Wed, 04/26/2023 - 5:00am

Autism Action Partnership and Munroe-Meyer Institute for World Autism Day hosted an event to celebrate World Autism Day on Sunday, April 2, 2023 at Gene Leahy Mall at The RiverFront to bring awareness and educate about the autism spectrum. (Courtesy of Debra S. Kaplan)

April is Autism Awareness Month, and organizations across the country are hosting events to bring awareness and educate about the autism spectrum. Autism Action is one such organization.

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Outlook Nebraska Enriching The Lives Of Eastern Nebraskans

Published by josie@omahadail... on Wed, 04/19/2023 - 8:28am

Outlook Nebraska was founded in the early 2000s with its initial entity that supplies janitorial paper products and primarily employs blind and low vision people. Twenty-years later, it’s the largest AbilityOne facility in a seven-state region.

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Together: Omahans Help Aid Homelessness, Food Insecurity

Published by Nikki Palmer on Wed, 04/19/2023 - 5:00am

Together’s mission is to prevent and end hunger and homelessness in the Omaha and surrounding communities. (Ringo Chiu / Shutterstock)

According to the National Low-Income Housing Coalition there are only 38 units available right now for every 100 extremely low-income renters in the state of Nebraska. Mike Hornacek, president and CEO of Together, a local nonprofit whose mission is to prevent and end homelessness and hunger, cites that we are in crisis stages when you talk about affordable housing, like a lot of communities across the state.

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From Words To Wishes: Bellevue Author’s Book Sales Fund Dream Come True For Bennington Boy

Published by Nikki Palmer on Wed, 04/05/2023 - 12:00am

Josh Goblowsky suffered a traumatic brain injury at the age of three. After a long road to recovery, Josh became a children’s book author to share his unique life experience with readers. He decided to donate all of his book proceeds to The Sunshine Foundation, a wish granting organization that is close to Josh’s heart. (Photos Courtesy of Josh Goblowsky; Bottom middle photo by Alison Rodden / The Daily Record)

Josh Goblowsky is a young man with a big heart and a desire to help others. When he decided to write a children’s book series last year, he made the decision to donate all of the proceeds to charity. He chose The Sunshine Foundation, an organization that had a huge impact on him as a child. Though he didn’t know it at the time, that choice would end up having that same impact on a young boy living in Douglas County.

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Chief Standing Bear’s Courage Honored With Award, Sculptures

Published by Nikki Palmer on Wed, 11/30/2022 - 5:00am

A 9-foot sculpture of the renowned Ponca Chief, Standing Bear, can be seen at Cenntiennial Mall between P and Q streets in Lincoln. (Tim Trudell / The Daily Record)

Ponca Chief Standing Bear won the first civil rights trial in Native American history when, in 1879, an Omaha judge ruled he could return to his tribal homeland in northeast Nebraska to bury his son. Standing Bear vs Crook resulted in Native Americans being considered people under the US Constitution.

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Combining Teaching And Tech To Actualize An ‘Innovation Playground’

Published by Nikki Palmer on Wed, 11/23/2022 - 5:00am

Do Space is a one-of-a-kind concept: It’s a community technology library, a digital workshop, and an innovation playground filled with new opportunities to learn, grow, explore and create. (David Schildman / The Daily Record)

Do Space, located on 72nd street and Dodge, is a nonprofit focused on narrowing the technological divide by allowing people to access and learn about technology they wouldn’t have had the opportunity to use. They are, in their own words, “a community technology library, a digital workshop, and an innovation playground filled with new opportunities to learn, grow, explore and create.”