A STATEWIDE FOUNDATION

Committed to all Nebraskans

The Nebraska Community Foundation, Inc. is a non-profit, 501(c)(3) charitable organization that provides Nebraskans and former Nebraskans an easy way to give back to the state and the communities they love.

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Nebraska City Foundation is Working on Futures in Hometown
The Nebraska City Community Foundation gave four scholarships to residents who plan to remain in Nebraska City and helped non-traditional students pursue degrees.  

November 18, 2007 Lincoln Journal Star

Remarks by Susan V. Berresford of the Ford Foundation 

at the Nebraska Community Foundation’s Annual Banquet.  

November 10, 2005 Norfolk, Nebraska

EndowNebraska

Have you considered making a gift to your home town or favorite Nebraska charity, but you're just not sure what type of gift to make?  The EndowNebraska website provides a step-by-step guide which will help you decide.  This guide will help you learn more about planned gifts and how you may qualify for the Nebraska Charitable Tax Credit.  Click here to get started.

Rural America:  In Ord, Neb., the Latest Success is 20 New Residents

A new approach to grass-roots philanthropy is trying to help stem the debilitating demographic downturn that afflicts much of rural America.

Reviving hope in rural communities

The Nebraska Community Foundation (NCF) proves the transformational power of the collective. Today, over 1,400 community leaders serve as advisers to NCF affiliated funds. In the last five years, nearly 25,000 individual donations have been given to these funds. Since being formed in 1993, NCF has reinvested over $51 million in Nebraska and its hometowns. Most importantly, community leaders are now telling us – and each other – that they believe they can be successful. NCF thus incorporates a community-driven system that goes far beyond traditional fundraising and endowment building.

Ord in the Spotlight

Founders club, strategic plans build economy, rate national attention.

Foundation Looks to give young people a reason to stay
Tremendous giving is helping to provide tremendous opportunities for rural areas across Nebraska.  At the Nebraska Community Foundation’s annual meeting in Norfolk on Thursday, stories were shared and awards presented for communities’ ingenuity in raising funds or helping to make towns more attractive to young people.

Community foundation blazes trail for other states to follow
The next time Gov. Dave Heineman needs help promoting Nebraska, he might want to consider four speakers from other states who heaped praise on the state Thursday in Norfolk.

Kellogg Foundation Chooses 
Nebraska Initiative for National Grant

HomeTown Competitiveness, a Nebraska initiative currently working in seven counties and communities in Nebraska, has been chosen as one of six recipients of grants provided through the W. K. Kellogg Foundation’s 75th Anniversary Entrepreneurship Development Systems for Rural America.  The $2 million award, over three years, was approved by the Kellogg Foundation Board of Directors meeting at Battle Creek, MI last month. 

To learn more about the HomeTown Competitiveness Initiative please see the FACT SHEET.

Nebraska Community Foundation

650 J Street, Suite 305

PO Box 83107

Lincoln, NE  68501

Phone: (402) 323-7330    Fax: (402) 323-7349

E-mail: webmaster@nebcommfound.org
Updated 04/17/2008.