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.
Published by Nikki Palmer on Wed, 04/26/2023 - 5:00am
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.
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.
Published by Nikki Palmer on Wed, 04/19/2023 - 5:00am
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.
Published by Nikki Palmer on Wed, 04/05/2023 - 12:00am
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.
Published by Nikki Palmer on Wed, 11/30/2022 - 5:00am
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.
Published by Nikki Palmer on Wed, 11/23/2022 - 5:00am
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.”
Published by Nikki Palmer on Wed, 11/16/2022 - 5:00am
Centro Latino of Iowa was founded on November 5, 2001, in an effort to assist the growing Latino community of Council Bluffs. It serves to educate and empower Hispanic and Latino families in any way they can, in partnership with the United Methodist Churches (UMC) of Council Bluffs.
Published by Nikki Palmer on Wed, 11/09/2022 - 5:00am
Coughs and throats clearing punctuate the heavy silence as the audience waits for the show to begin. The stage is clear except a few chairs, a couple of tables, and a mural landscaping the back wall. The mural depicts a collage of pictures in street-tag style, courtesy of artist Hugo Zamorano.
Published by Nikki Palmer on Wed, 11/02/2022 - 5:00am
As of 2020, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) estimates that roughly 580,000 people across the country are experiencing homelessness. In Nebraska alone it is estimated that at any one time around 2,400 people are left without a stable home to live in. Siena Francis House is trying to change that by making sure no one is left out in the cold.