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Day of Caring 2024 Recap

You helped us provide more than 5,000 care kits to students in our community!

We would like to extend a special “THANK YOU” to YOU for making our Shine Bright – Care Kits for Kids event a huge success! August 7-11, the MidAmerica Center was filled with excitement, joy, smiles, great energy and a lot of heart.

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Activities on nonprofits…

Article published by Midlands Business Journal Children’s Hospital Medical Center awarded 10 regional nonprofit organizations with a Preventing Childhood Obesity Community Grant of $25,000. Grant recipients include: Boys Girls Clubs of the Midlands, Get Fit Initiative; CEDARS Youth Services, Growing

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American Red Cross receives $80,000 donation

OMAHA, Neb. (KMTV) — United Way of the Midlands recently donated $80,000 to the American Red Cross to support disaster services in the Omaha-Council Bluffs metro area. The Red Cross says funds will help families in preparedness, response and recovery–the

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Raise Me to Read wins Pacesetter Award

Raise Me to Read has been honored with a Pacesetter Award by the Campaign for Grade Level Reading.   The program, which is under the nonprofit organization Family Inc., was named a Pacesetter in Building the Community Learning for Impact

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