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FOUNDATION NEWS
September 2007
Tapping into Wealthsprings - Homegrown Assets Rural America is rooted in individual ingenuity; sitting on this asset is risky business. At Aquinas High School in David City, Nebraska, students are learning lessons honed by their community's founders.
February 2006
Rural Nebraska counties will see a gigantic transfer of wealth between generations in coming decades. As land, businesses, investments and other assets are passed on, the amount will be in the billions of dollars.
Shickley, Neb., is one of the elite five in rural Nebraska's 5-year-old effort to keep some of the money that leaves with city-dwelling native sons and daughters as they drive out of town after their parents' funerals.
March 2006 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.
December 5, 2005 Foundation Makes Rural Dreams Come True Statistics don't lie. Rural America is losing its human and financial capital to its urban centers. Talented young people are leaving for better paying jobs off the farm and ranch with no one to replace them in their communities. Just don't tell Jeff Yost that the problem can't be corrected. He'll tell you otherwise.
December 1, 2005 Founders club, strategic plans build economy, rate national attention.
November 14, 2005 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.
November 10, 2005 Remarks by Susan V. Berresford of the Ford Foundation at the Nebraska Community Foundation’s Annual Banquet in Norfolk, Nebraska.
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17, 2005 Al Svajgr gave Diller, his hometown in Southeast Nebraska, 48 heifers, and the community is mighty grateful, not to mention surprised. "Speechless!" was how Beth Roelfs put it. Roelfs is chairperson of the Diller Community Foundation, who accepted the gift on Diller’s behalf. "It made my day," she said, "And, in essence, it made Diller’s future." The Diller Community Foundation is using this gift as a challenge grant to build its unrestricted community endowment.
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January 4, 2005 Kellogg Foundation Awards Grant to HomeTown Competitiveness Program A $100,000 grant has been awarded by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation to support the work of the HomeTown Competitiveness (HTC) Program in Nebraska.
December 21, 2004 Nebraska Community Foundation President Emeritus, Maxine Moul, visits Berlin Maxine Moul, President Emeritus of the Nebraska Community Foundation, was among 170 community foundation practitioners, researchers and experts chosen to attend the first international conference of community foundations in Berlin, Germany.
December 15, 2004 2004 New Board Members Press Release Nebraska leaders from Callaway, Waverly, North Platte and Lincoln were elected to the Board of Directors of the Nebraska Community Foundation at its annual meeting in Nebraska City in November. New officers of the Board were also elected and four new affiliated funds were accepted.
November, 2004 Heartland Council of Community Foundations Celebrates Giving in Nebraska More than $46 million in grants paid out by community foundations throughout Nebraska.
November 28, 2004 Looking Homeward: Nebraska foundation plan seeks to plant seeds to reverse 'brain drain.' There's a factor driving the "brain drain," in Nebraska and the Midlands, that no tax incentive or government program can fully overcome. It's an attitude that sometimes comes over young people nearing adulthood, especially if they grew up mostly in one place. As published in the Omaha World Herald November 28, 2004.
November 17, 2004 Carol Russell To Receive International Ketchum Award Nebraska Community Foundation Board member Carol Russell is receiving a prestigious award from the Association of Fundraising Professionals at their Baltimore meeting next spring. The Ketchum award is an international award, given that the Association of Fundraising Professionals includes members from Canada and Mexico.
November 15, 2004 When Jeff Yost explains the work of the Nebraska Community Foundation he borrows words from Delores Brenneman, a rancher and community leader from Hyannis. As published in the Omaha World Herald November 15, 2004.
April 18, 2004 Nebraska Community Foundation Noted by Omaha World Herald as a "Model of Rural Philanthropy" Over the next 50 years, roughly $94 billion will be passed down from one generation of rural Nebraskans to the next - much of it occurring in the next 20 years.
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