The Lincoln Community Foundation distributed $158,000 in community grants to local nonprofit organizations. These grants are made possible by contributions from the Lincoln Forever Fund and from a number of LCF donor endowment funds. Organizations that received funding include:
Bright Lights - $10,000
Scholarship support for students in Title I Schools
Child Guidance Center - $10,000
Infrastructure upgrades and capital improvements
Clinic With a Heart - $10,000
General operating support
El Centro de las Americas - $9,000
General operating support
Junior Achievement of Lincoln - $5,000
Expansion of “It’s My Business” middle school curriculum
Legal Aid of Nebraska - $10,000
Capital improvements
Lincoln Literacy - $10,000
English Language and Literacy Academy
Lincoln Medical Education Partnership - $10,000
School Community Intervention & Prevention program
Lincoln Orchestra Association -$5,000
Social Impact Program and Family Literacy Partnership
Live Well. Go Fish - $10,000
Outdoor experience for seniors, youth, veterans and people with disabilities
Madonna Rehabilitation Hospital - $19,000
Community Medical Transportation program
Men with Dreams - $5,000
Program support to reduce juvenile recidivism rate
Nebraska Appleseed Center for Law - $10,000
Increase SNAP Employment & Training Program access
Nebraska Children and Families Foundation - $10,000
Learn and Earn to Achieve Potential (LEAP) program
Old Cheney Farmers’ Market - $5,000
SNAP and Double Up Food Bucks program support
Released and Restored - $10,000
General operating support
Salvation Army - $5,000
Shield Fine Arts Academy
Spring Creek Prairie Audubon Center - $5,000
Haines Branch Prairie Corridor
The Lincoln Community Foundation, established in 1955, strives to continually enrich the Lincoln community by promoting and achieving perpetual philanthropic support. The foundation currently manages $135 million in assets and has distributed more than $117 million in grants to nonprofit organizations that have improved the lives of thousands of residents.