It is the mission of CEDARS to help children achieve safety, stability, and enduring family relationships. CEDARS is here to ensure that all kids have a safe environment where they can grow and thrive. We walk alongside them, using a holistic approach that provides support from infancy through young adulthood, with a variety of services to meet individual needs. We’re also here to walk with families, offering them resources, opportunities and education to keep their family connections strong. Our approach is trauma-informed and honors the experiences of those we serve, so families can become stronger and kids can preserve those connections as a central part of their support system. These needs can’t be met by one person, entity or organization alone. That’s why we join together with organizations and individuals across the community to support kids and families. From policymakers to child welfare advocates, trauma specialists to local and state agencies, and community donors to partner nonprofits, we embrace the kind of togetherness that changes lives. Helping all kids receive the best possible care builds a strong foundation and empowers them to develop skills and work toward independence. Providing this security and the opportunities that come with it is at the heart of our mission, and at the heart of the people who carry it out.

Friendship Home exists to support, shelter and advocate for survivors of domestic violence and their children. Friendship Home Seeks To: Provide a continuum of safe, confidential shelter options—from emergency shelter through transitional shelter. Provide a rich array of crisis intervention services, case management, and emotional support to those we shelter as well as those who are waiting for shelter; helping them to rebuild their lives, free from fear. Address the many complexities and barriers associated with domestic violence, sexual violence, dating violence, and stalking on an individual level as well as a community systems level. Continue to reach out to survivors through individual advocacy, emergency case management, and support groups after they leave shelter, offering an environment where survivors feel welcome and are encouraged to share their stories and their wisdom with others.

People’s City Mission was started in 1907 by local churches, offering food and shelter for transient and impoverished men, women and children. Today, the People’s City Mission is Lincoln’s primary homeless shelter housing 350 men, women, and children on an average day. PCM provides emergency and transitional housing to both men and families (including single mothers). The Help Center, opened in 1990, takes the donations our community gives us and distributes them to low-income families within the community for no cost. Here we collect and then distribute food, clothing, household items, furniture, toys, and personal care items. Textiles that are damaged or unwanted are recycled, with funds going back into supporting the services of the Mission. We give away the best and recycle the rest.

Blue Valley Community Action is a medical practice company based out of 3401 N Lincoln Ave, York, Nebraska, United States.

Disability Rights Nebraska is the Protection and Advocacy system for people with disabilities in our state. We protect, support and promote the rights of people with disabilities. This includes people with just about any disability including intellectual or developmental disabilities, mental illness and physical disabilities.

Invest Nebraska is a non-profit, 501(c)(3), venture development organization that advises and invests in companies and early stage business ideas in Nebraska. We support and encourage angel investment and entrepreneurship in all areas of Nebraska, and provide networking opportunities for investors, entrepreneurs and service providers from all corners of the state.

United Way works to bring the whole community together to create long-term, lasting change in conditions like poverty, violence and isolation. We strengthen the lives of people, from children to seniors, through partnerships, programs and community initiatives that deliver tangible results.