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Nebraska

Find detailed information here on NCF’s 199 Affiliated Funds serving communities throughout the state.

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News & Events

  • 02/22/2010 - Keith County Community Foundation Fund - Foundation procures Kiewit grant
  • 02/10/2010 - Trend Boosts Rural Areas
  • 01/21/2010 - Kiewit Foundation Awards $20,000 To O’Neill Community Foundation
  • 01/07/2010 - Perkins County:  Hunt Challenge goal met — entire county will benefit
  • 11/26/2009 - The benefits of civic vision
  • 11/18/2009 - State Community Foundation receives $1 million pledge

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Upcoming Events

  • 03/17/10 - Training Opportunity:  Bequest Boot Camp - 10 Exercises to Strengthen Your Bequest Program
  • 03/18/10 - Burwell Community Fund Annual Meeting
  • 04/14/10 - NCF Affiliated Fund Remote Training - Topic TBA
  • 04/14/10 - NCF Affiliated Fund Remote Training - Topic TBA
  • 04/15/10 - Bennet Area Community Foundation Fund - The B.I.G. Event (Bennet Improvement Goals)

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Community Stories

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“Newcomer” Becomes First Founding Member

Verdigre

Why would a man born in Lincoln and raised in Chicago want to come to Verdigre, Nebraska, a place he had never heard of before he saw it?

Pat McCarron tells the story of checking out different ZCBJ* lodges—Czech fraternal organizations—in communities west of the Missouri River. When coming over the hill from Center, Nebraska, he can still see the little village “all laid out there.” He said he and Donna Zimmerman, a good friend who also resides in Verdigre now, stopped at Frank’s Food Mart, located next to the ZCBJ Bila Hora Hall at the time. They wanted to find out the meaning of “Bila Hora.” 

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Donor Stories

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$2.3M Estate Gift for Entrepreneurship and People Attraction

$2.3M Estate Gift for Entrepreneurship and People Attraction

Rudolph H. Elis

A $2.3 million endowment has been established to support entrepreneurship and people attraction in north-central Nebraska. Rudolph H. Elis created a donor-advised fund in 2006 that was funded by a bequest upon his death.

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