It sounds simple enough. And with
the Omaha Community Foundation, it is.
Since 1982, we've invested more than $787 million in Omaha and southwest Iowa on behalf of people just like you — people who love our community, believe in its future and want to be part of making it better.
Rich Juro
Kevin Thompson
Stuart and Amy Chittenden
Mike Cassling
About
The Omaha Community Foundation is proud to welcome Ayanna Boykins as its new Director of Community Investment. In this new role, Ms. Boykins will be responsible for running the Nonprofit Capacity Building Initiative. She will also conduct research on needs within the Greater Omaha community and manage the Foundation’s grant programs. Learn More
A stronger nonprofit community means a stronger city of Omaha. The Omaha Community Foundation believes it is achieving that through the Nonprofit Capacity Building Initiative, a 15-month program for nonprofits in the greater Omaha area to address organizational and leadership capacity needs. Learn More
Many nonprofit professionals and the donors who support them think of endowments as savvy business practice. However, the true definition of endowments as pointed out by a recent article in the Nonprofit Quarterly is a permanently restricted fund. A fund where only the income on the principal is accessible to the agency on an annual basis. A fund that is created as a financial bedrock for the nonprofit. Learn More
Having just taken a three hour tour of the Atlanta BeltLine, a mostly abandoned portion of rail line that runs in a pear shape within the city limits of Atlanta, I am energized by the ability for one person’s vision to potentially transform the landscape, quality of life, and living conditions of a metropolitan area. Learn More
The structure of a nonprofit board really varies depending on the scope and size of the nonprofit organization. Just like any organization, a nonprofit organization exists in a specific stage of its own lifecycle which then determines the needs of the board of directors. Learn More
Nonprofit organizations, big and small, rely on infrastructure to fulfill their missions. From technology to board development, infrastructure strengthens a nonprofit’s ability to serve its clients well. In recent Wall Street Journal interview (The ‘Third Rail’ of Nonprofits: Overhead), Tom Tierney, chairman and co-founder of Bridgespan Group, discusses the importance of nonprofit infrastructure. This is a shift in mindset that the Omaha Community Foundation has had over the last several years. Learn More