Dec 29, 2013 10:00AM ● By Katie Anderson
Opportunity leads to success. Success opens the door for even greater opportunity. Such is the cycle of the American dream. But many youths ...
Nov 23, 2013 09:00AM ● By Katie Anderson
Every year, Heartland Family Service honors families from Nebraska and Iowa with their Salute to Families Celebration during the annual Hear...
Nov 20, 2013 01:30AM ● By Katie Anderson
In the early evening hours of December 7, Susan Koenig will put a fun party dress on her slender frame, bling on her wrists and strappy heel...
Oct 30, 2013 09:30AM ● By Katie Anderson
Lutheran Family Services President and CEO Ruth Henrichs remembers meeting a young man a year ago who had a tattoo on his lower arm that rea...
Oct 04, 2013 03:18PM ● By Katie Anderson
In the spring of 2013, young men and women from Omaha Home for Boys programs spent 18 weeks learning, laughing, and collaborating on the res...
Aug 29, 2013 11:09AM ● By Chris Wolfgang
Considering that the theme of this year’s Ak-Sar-Ben Coronation and Scholarship Ball is “On the Golden Road,” a nod to The Wizard of Oz, per...
Aug 27, 2013 09:16AM ● By Bailey Hemphill
Imagine you’re a child. You spend eight hours at school every weekday, and you return home to an empty house every night. Sometimes, your on...
Jun 20, 2013 06:04PM ● By Katie Anderson
Being “the official sponsor of birthdays” doesn’t mean the American Cancer Society shows up at parties to oversee the unwrapping of presents...
Jun 20, 2013 02:14PM ● By Leo Adam Biga
When a group of Omaha Home for Boys and Jacob’s Place residents helped put the finishing touches on a customized 1999 Harley Davidson motorc...
Feb 25, 2013 09:08AM ● By Bailey Hemphill
In 1958, a volunteer organization called the Omaha Civic Opera Society took the stage, creating and fostering an opera-loving community in O...
Dec 25, 2012 05:12PM ● By Bailey Hemphill
Diabetes has long been thought of as a single disease only suffered by the overweight, the unhealthy, the elderly, or those with family memb...
Dec 25, 2012 09:25AM ● By Linda Persigehl
Since the founding of Downtown Omaha Inc. in 1967 as a nonprofit, privately funded corporation, the DOI has followed its mission statement “...
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