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The power of your dollar: Give generously for Giving Tuesday

What if we all set aside a portion of our holiday gift spending this year to give gifts back to our community? 

What do you care about? What change do you want to see in the greater Omaha metro? Plan your giving for #GivingTuesday402 now!

Your dollar is powerful. Here are just a few ways your donations can make a difference:

Memories for Kids: A $100 donation can provide a meaningful keepsake item for children who have a parent with Stage IV cancer. Add to your donation cart

Methodist Hospital Foundation: A gift of $120 can cover the cost of a nursing skills training kit for a student at Nebraska Methodist College. Add to your donation cart

Metro Young Latino Professional Association: A $1000 donation can make scholarship support possible. Add to your donation cart

MidAmerica Boston Terrier Rescue: A $30 donation can provide a microchip for each dog in the program. Add to your donation cart

Midwest YouCan Foundation: A $100 donation can cover medical supplies for camp. Add to your donation cart

MilkWorks: A $100 donation can support knowledgeable staff at MilkWorks' free baby weigh station and free weekly virtual support groups. Add to your donation cart

NAMI Omaha: A $25 donation can provide a Family to Family Book for a participant in the Family to Family course. Add to your donation cart

Project Reset: A $25 donation can provide pantry items for a week for one participant. Add to your donation cart

Nebraska Cures: A $100 donation can make health science educational webinar possible. Add to your donation cart

Nebraska DECA: A $50 donation can sponsor a competitive event (materials, trophy, stipends) for up to 200 students. Add to your donation cart

Nebraska Italian Greyhound Rescue: $1,000 donation can help complete intake vetting for a few dogs in need of extra vetting help. Add to your donation cart

Nebraska Wildlife Rehab, Inc: A $50 donation can help an entire litter of rabbits or squirrels (or a single raccoon or fox) be rehabilitated to return to the wild. Add to your donation cart

NALA Rescue: A $700 donation can help cover costs to properly care for an animal in rescue. Add to your donation cart

North Omaha Community Partnership: A $25 donation can provide therapy and other wrap around services to families and individuals in need. Add to your donation cart

Northstar Foundation: A $100 donation can make it possible for a student to participate in a book club for a year. Add to your donation cart

Notre Dame Sisters: A $250 donation can provide electricity for a month for a women leaving a shelter breaking out on her own. Add to your donation cart

Ollie Webb Center Inc: A donation of $100 can pay for five individuals to attend a social skill development program, such as a fall dance at a local community center or a movie at the movie theater. Add to your donation cart

Omaha Home for Boys: A $150 donation can help a young parent buy gifts for their little ones for Christmas. Add to your donation cart

Omaha Jitterbugs: A $50 donation can make it possible to help two kids have access to dance in Omaha. Add to your donation cart

Omaha Parks Foundation: A $250 donation can plant 1 tree in a city park or green space. Add to your donation cart

Omaha Performing Arts: A $100 donation can give a Nebraska student access to master classes, professional feedback and life-changing opportunities. Add to your donation cart

Omaha Sports Commission: A $150 donation can help 6 children to learn a new sport through in-school clinics. Add to your donation cart

Omaha Street School: A donation of $100 can buy needed rug making supplies for Omaha Street School's new Entrepreneurial Program. Add to your donation cart

Omaha Symphonic Winds: A $100 donation can allow the Omaha Symphonic Winds to purchase a new piece of music for an upcoming concert. Add to your donation cart

Papillion Area Historical Society: A $100 donation can make digitally restoring pictures and videos possible. Add to your donation cart

Partnership 4 Kids: A $50 donation can make a semester of programming possible for 1-2 students in the program. Add to your donation cart

Playsmart: A $100 donation can support one student for one week of leadership camp. Add to your donation cart

PLCS Foundation: A $50 donation can ensure a family has hygiene products for an entire month. Add to your donation cart

Project Extra Mile: A $100 donation can help sustain the annual $1,000 Youth Leadership Scholarship Fund (the scholarship is available for one upperclassman youth (Junior or Senior) at the end of each school year. Add to your donation cart

Project Hope, Inc: A $100 donation can make it possible for our organization to purchase 40 gallons of milk. Add to your donation cart

Reformation at the CrossRoads, Inc: A $30 donation can make it possible for three women in the day program to have and enjoy one hot meal. Add to your donation cart

River City Mixed Chorus: A $30 donation can cover the cost of sheet music for one singer for one performance. Add to your donation cart

River City Ringers: A donation of $125 can cover purchasing copies of music for one piece. Add to your donation cart

Rosco's Rescue Ranch: A $2,000 donation can make it possible for the rescue to buy the remaining hay needed to feed the horses through winter. Add to your donation cart

Sarpy County Museum: A $150 donation can cover the cost of utilities for the one month for the Bellevue Log Cabin. Add to your donation cart

SAVE Program: A $500 donation can provide a whole year's worth of mentoring, school support, and personalized resources to one middle or high school student. Add to your donation cart

Scottish Rite Foundation of Omaha: A $100 donation can support the cost of an individual session of therapy for a child. Add to your donation cart

Sleep in Heavenly Peace: A $250 donation can build one complete bunk bed set. Add to your donation cart

Society of St. Vincent de Paul Omaha: A $100 donation can provide enough food from the SSVP Pantry to feed a family of four for one week. Add to your donation cart

Spark: A $5,000 donation can make programing for the Developer Academy and Changemaker Academy possible. Add to your donation cart

SPARKPositivity: A $10 donation can make it possible for SPARK students to learn more about teamwork and cooperation. Add to your donation cart

Spielbound: A $100 donation can bring a classroom full of games. Add to your donation cart

Stephen Center: A $250 donation provides shelter, food and supportive services for a family of 4 for 1 week. Add to your donation cart

Stray to Spay: A $50 donation can neuter and offer a rabies vaccine for one cat. Add to your donation cart

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Check out our first and second and third Giving Tuesday blogs for even more ways to give!

 

 

 

 

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