Community Fair Organizations

Community Fair Raffle: By visiting each station at the community fair, you will receive a ticket that grants you the opportunity to participate in a raffle. The greater the number of tickets you acquire, the increased likelihood of winning a prize. Please note that only one ticket can be obtained per station.
Prices: 2x 15$ Coneflower, $25 starbucks, $50 amazon gift card

Heart Ministry Center
When you ask someone about the Heart Ministry Center, most often what you hear is a story about one of the thousands of individuals and families who have at some point been connected to our mission; who have benefited from our food distribution program, healthcare clinic, job placement program or laundromat; who faced daily vulnerability; who once again felt the strength of dignity and respect.

Ronald McDonald House
The mission of Ronald McDonald House Charities in Omaha (RMHC) is to create and operate programs that directly improve the health and well-being of children. We strive to do so by providing opportunities that strengthen children and families during their most difficult and challenging times. The specific purpose of the Ronald McDonald House Charities is to support access to care, reduce financial burden, provide psychosocial support keeping families together, enhance clinical experiences and outcomes and help families resume normalcy.

Nebraska Humane Society
The Nebraska Humane Society (NHS) protects, saves and enriches the lives of animals in the communities we serve. At NHS, we love dogs, cats, horses and all animals. A lot. We shelter them when no one else will and lavish them with kindness and dignity until they find their forever homes or are reunited with their families. Each year, more than 20,000 animals come through our doors. Some only need a place to stay, while others need lifesaving medical care. Each one is treated with compassion and dignity as we work to find them their forever home. This is only possible through the generosity of our community - people like you!

Refugee Empowerment Center
Immigrant Legal Center (ILC) and Refugee Empowerment Center (REC) provide high-quality legal services, resettlement services, education, and advocacy. In October 2022, ILC and REC merged as one unified nonprofit organization. Bringing together more than fifty years of service to the community, the combined organization serves individuals from over 60 countries of origins in multiple capacities including legal representation, social work, and resettlement. Anyone interested in volunteering or making monetary donations to help in this work are encouraged to visit www.immigrantlc.org.

ILAC
For over 50 years, Creighton University has provided programming in the Dominican Republic through the Institute for Latin American Concern, or ILAC. This is made possible through a unique partnership with Centro de Educación para la Salud Integral (CESI) in Santiago, DR. Through this partnership, Creighton-ILAC offers dental, medical, nursing, pharmacy, law, physical therapy, occupational therapy, undergraduate and high school students the opportunity to learn through service. Healthcare professionals in the fields of medicine, nursing, pharmacy, and dentistry are invited to participate in the 2024 ILAC Summer Health Program in the month of July. Visit Creighton.edu/ilac for details!

Nebraska Indian College
Nebraska Indian Community College is envisioned as a comprehensive Tribal College which values service through high quality education. The college is distinctive in serving the diverse people of the Umonhon (Omaha) and Isanti (Santee Dakota) Nations. It features an enriched living and learning environment and year-round operation. The identity of the college is framed by a substantive commitment to multicultural learning. Institutional programs value and cultivate the creative and productive talents of learners, faculty, and staff, and seek ways to contribute to the self-sufficiency of the Nations served, the well-being of our communities, and the quality of life and development of its learners, faculty, and service areas.

CASA for Douglas County
CASA for Douglas County’s mission is to train, empower and inspire volunteer advocates to improve the lives of children that have been abused and neglected.  Our vision is to provide a CASA Volunteer to each child in foster care that needs one.  Empowering volunteers ensures children involved in the child welfare system have a dedicated, passionate, and powerful voice advocating for their best interest. CASA stands up for children and holds out hope for safe, loving, and permanent homes while providing critical and transformative resources, recommendations, and solutions.

Families In Action
Families in Action (FIA) is a stand-alone, grassroots nonprofit serving Latina women and children in Omaha, Nebraska. FIA’s mission statement was written directly by participants: To come together as women and families to promote health, well-being and knowledge and to be role models for our children and community. FIA accompanies families in lifting up their voices through art, education, gardening, health clinics, mental wellness classes, nutrition education, physical activity, sewing and other programs designed by Latina women. FIA received a National Award from the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in recognition of its commitment to health prevention and promotion.

OneWorld
OneWorld Community Health Center is a nonprofit Federally Qualified Health Center dedicated to providing compassionate, affordable, high-quality health care and supportive services to everyone with a special commitment to medically underserved persons. We consistently rank in the top 2% for health outcomes among the nation’s 1,400+ community health centers. We care for approximately 50,000 unique patient annually with 15 clinics across 3 counties. Of those patients, 98% live below 200% of poverty and almost 50 % were uninsured. Approximately 65% of our patients speak a language other than English as their primary language with Spanish being the most common but we additionally serve refugees from all over the world.

Open Door Mission
Open Door Mission is a Gospel Rescue Mission founded in 1954 committed to breaking the cycle of homelessness and poverty. Each day, Open Door Mission’s campus offers 917 safe, shelter beds to people experiencing homelessness, serves over 4,747 nutritious meals to feed the hungry, and provides homeless preventive resources to more than 1,000 people living in poverty to empower them to remain in their own homes.

Project Harmony
Project Harmony is a nonprofit, community-based organization in Omaha, Nebraska, that has served more than 72,000 children during the past 27 years by providing a child friendly environment in which specially trained professionals work together to assess, investigate, and resolve child abuse cases. In a nationally unique model, Project Harmony has one centralized location that co-houses with Omaha Police Department Child Victim/Sexual Assault Unit and Domestic Violence Unit, Homeland Security, Omaha Fire Department, Nebraska Health & Human Services/Child Protection Service Initial Assessment and Child Abuse Hotline, Lutheran Family Services and Child Saving Institute. Project Harmony exists to protect and support children, collaborate with professionals and engage the community to end child abuse and neglect.

Nebraska Methodist College
Nebraska Methodist College, located in Omaha, Nebraska, is an accredited, private, not-for-profit nursing and healthcare college. It's where students live with meaning and discover what they want to give back to the world while thriving in a close-knit, caring community established in 1891. With an enrollment of over 1,100 students, NMC is small enough to truly care about each student and large enough to provide outstanding undergraduate, graduate and certificate programs in nursing and allied health. NMC students experience a holistic culture of caring while mastering the art and science of healthcare. They gain the skills and experience needed to become outstanding contributors to society through service-learning experiences, community-based education, and leadership development integrated throughout the curriculum.

Nebraska Urban Indian Health Coalition

Creighton Department of Cultural and Social Studies
The Department of Cultural and Social Studies houses nine academic programs: Criminal Justice, Cultural Anthropology, Global Health Equity, Health Administration and Policy, Justice and Society, Medical Anthropology, Public Health, Social Work, and Sociology. Students, faculty and staff strive to achieve the unique goals and objectives for each program’s unique areas of study while also recognizing the synergy among them and reflecting the Creighton's Jesuit Catholic mission in their teaching/learning, research, and service. All of our programs aim to mentor students to become agents of social change and prepare them for a wide range of life and career pathways with a special attunement to society and culture as contexts that shape the quality of life for all.

Yates Illuminates
Yates Illuminates is a new non-profit born from a community effort to save the old Yates Elementary School in the Gifford Park Neighborhood. After extensive renovation, it is now home to an array of local non-profits and serves as a vibrant community center, with classrooms, offices and multipurpose spaces, a kitchen and an auditorium with a stage.
Our mission is to serve the community by offering social, cultural and educational resources to create an inclusive environment that uplifts every person's possibilities.

Genoa Indian School Foundation
The mission of the Genoa U.S. Indian School Foundation, a non-profit organization, is to collect and preserve the history of the Genoa U.S. Indian Industrial School and promote the heritage of the school, which was in operation from 1884 to 1934.

Previous organizations represented include:

  • CASA for Douglas County

  • Children’s Hospital Visionmobile

  • Chronic Care International

  • Creighton University Department of Cultural and Social Studies

  • Families in Action

  • Heart Ministry Center

  • Immigrant Legal Center (ILC)

  • Nebraska Humane Society

  • Nebraska Indian Community College

  • OneWorld Community Health Center

  • Open Door Mission

  • Ronald McDonald House

  • Yates Illuminates

For any questions about the community fair, please contact ghcmidwest@gmail.com