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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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Grant fund proposal for 211 service advanced

Grant fund proposal for 211 service advanced  April 11, 2019 Sen. Mike McDonnell, LB641 Lawmakers gave first-round approval April 11 to a bill that would provide grant funding to a statewide health and human services referral program. LB641, introduced by Omaha Sen.

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Grant fund proposal for 211 service advanced

Lawmakers gave first-round approval April 11 to a bill that would provide grant funding to a statewide health and human services referral program. Currently, the Telecommunications Relay System Act levies a surcharge on telephone lines in Nebraska to provide specialized

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Peter Buffett to talk at UNO about following own path

Article published by Omaha World-Herald Written by Kevin Coffey, World-Herald Staff Writer Peter Buffett is Warren Buffett’s son. That’s what most people think when they hear his name or see him at the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting. But the youngest

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Rallying for our Flooded Farmers

THE DIRT The ongoing flooding in Nebraska and Iowa has pushed many farmers over the edge, making the next harvest an impossibility for some. Many have lost their homes, their farms, and their livelihood. At Dirt-to-Dinner, we thought some of

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