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Purpose
The Fund for Omaha is the Omaha Community Foundation’s largest grant program and is designed for programs that respond to community needs and support effective solutions. It also serves as a means for the Omaha Community Foundation to stay current with community needs. Annually, the total amount available through the Fund for Omaha is approximately $300,000, roughly divided between spring and fall grant cycles. A 15-member grant committee evaluates the proposals and awards funding to help address issues within the community.
Eligibility
Eligible applicants are those defined as public, tax-exempt organizations by Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code that provide services in the Omaha metropolitan area. This organization’s governing board must approve applications prior to submission. Successful applications will include the following components:
• Respond to a demonstrated or emerging community need.
• Support effective, proven, or promising solutions.
• Build upon and maximize other community resources.
• Address the question of what success will look like.
Restrictions
The Omaha Community Foundation does not make grants in support of individuals, for political campaigns or lobbying efforts, for new small businesses established for personal gain or profit, to support annual fund drives, capital campaigns, to fund an agency’s deficit or endowment, or for the direct support of religious activities. Secular activities provided by religious organizations may be eligible for grant funds.
Application timelines
Grant proposals are accepted up to fourteen (14) days before the two annual deadlines: March 1 and September 1. If the deadline falls on a weekend or holiday, the proposal is due on the following business day.
Application Procedure
Detailed instructions and the application form are available on the Fund for Omaha Fact Sheet and Application, available for download in the sidebar at the top right of this page approximately two months prior to each deadline. All applications must be submitted via email to grants@omahafoundation.org.
FALL 2008 AWARDS
• Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Midlands: $15,000 to enhance and expand community based mentoring for Hispanic youth.
• Charles Drew Health Centers, Inc.: $8,000 to provide relationship education services to assist with the prevention of infant mortality.
• Corrigan Heritage Inc.: $3,975 to replace the two air conditioners on the roof.
• Eastern Nebraska Community Action Partnership: $10,000 to develop programming that specifically meets the needs of teen girls who are participating in existing youth programs.
• Family Housing Advisory Services: $10,000 to expand financial literacy education and asset-building opportunities for low and moderate income people in the community.
• Habitat of Humanity of Omaha, Inc.: $10,000 to renovate 6 homes in 2009 and to obtain larger pieces of land to build homes on.
• Justice for Our Neighbors: $10,000 to fund an AmericCorp worker to assist the attorney with free immigration legal services.
• Latino Center of the Midlands: $15,000 to provide education services in 7 areas of adult learning.
• Legal Aid of Nebraska: $10,000 to support an interdisciplinary medical legal collaborative to improve health and welfare of low income children and their families.
• Lutheran Family Service of Nebraska: $12,000 to expand the current part-time Community and Volunteer Support Specialist position to full-time.
• Metropolitan Area Continuum of Care for the Homeless: $12,000 to construct a housing pipeline to monitor housing development and strategize the construction of low demand housing for homeless people.
• MICAH House: $15,000 to cover the additional costs of nights of shelter.
• Mission for All Nations: $10,000 to provide 25,000 needy people with a 5-7 day supply of food in addition to clothing, hygiene products, and household items.
• Omaha School of Music: $10,000 to provide high risk students in 4th through 8th grade with exciting and motivational instruction in music.
• Omaha Street School: $5,632 to provide OSS students with a more well-rounded school experience.
• OneWorld Community Health Centers, Inc.: $10,000 to support a car seat distribution program for patients.
• Stephen Center: $11,455 to assist with replacing the heavily used commercial dishwasher that was destroyed in a fire this summer.
• Uta Halee Girls Village: $10,000 to provide training to advance the practice of family inclusion in the treatment process.
SPRING 2008 AWARDS
• Brookside Church: $9500 to provide Omaha area foster children with positive summer camping experiences and year-round mentoring relationships.
• Camp Fire USA, Midlands Council: $10,000 to add "Kidz Math" to the existing "Striving Towards Excellence" program.
• College of St. Mary: $10,000 to pair CSM education students with North and South Omaha socio-economically underprivileged girls in Girls, Inc. to learn Science, Math And Related Technology (SMART).
• Compassion In Action, Inc.: $10,000 to continue reentry and transitional services for women incarcerated that include their children and provide community support for a successful reentry into society.
• Domestic Violence Coordinating Council: $12, 000 to support the development and implementation of the Sudanese Women's Integration Program (SWIP).
• Good News Bears Club of Omaha, Inc.: $10,000 to provide At-risk Youth Afterschool Tutoring Program, a weekly educational enrichment program for at-risk elementary, middle, and high school students.
• Holy Name Housing Corporation: $6500 to Continue and expand supportive services for Crown (Credit to Own) project.
• Hope Center, Inc.: $10,000 to teach children at the Hope Center for Kids the proper social skills and job basics needed to attain and maintain employment.
• Inter-Faith Response, Inc.: $8000 to fund the Emergency Assistance Fund for homelessness prevention including rent and utility assistance.
• Language & Culture School of Omaha: $1500 to establish a summer program to help Latina mothers guide their children to achieve academic success.
• Literacy Center for the Midlands: $6000 to pilot a family literacy program that will consist of adult education, parenting education and interactive family literacy activities.
• Metropolitan Community College Foundation: $6000 to provide students the opportunity to use their construction skills in "real world" situations that will benefit people in need through service-learning home repair class, also known as "MCC Cares."
• Omaha Children's Museum: $10,000 is to offer a safe, educational facility and programs to students from Liberty Elementary School which is located across the street from the Omaha Children's Museum.
• OneWorld Community Health Centers, Inc.: $10,000 to provide a multilingual book to patients aged 10 years and younger when they come for medical, dental and WIC visits.
• Ronald McDonald House Charities, Inc. of Omaha: $10,000 to provide dental screening and treatment services through the Caremobile for children at schools in the metropolitan Omaha area.
• Sacred Heart School/CUES: $4565 to the Backpack Express Literacy Program.
• Suntaman Communications: $10,000 to provide educational services to underprivileged at-risk youth.
• Ted E. Bear Hollow: $9000 to support Camp Hope, an overnight camp to allow grieving teenagers to experience peer support from others who have experienced a death with the guidance of professional artists and grief experts.
• The Hot Shops Art Foundation: $10,000 to sustain the organization through the first quarter of development in consultancy fees and to offset the costs of a feasibility study.
• United Methodist Ministries: $5000 to expand current after-school, senior and youth outreach programming in a north Omaha neighborhood.
• YWCA: $10,000 to support the Legal Services Program, provided for low income victims of domestic violence in the Omaha Metropolitan area.
For more information, please contact Sarah Gilbert, Omaha Community Foundation Associate Director of Philanthropic Services, at 402-342-3458, or sarah@omahafoundation.org.
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