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For over 130 years, Omahas Child Saving Institute has been a model of consistency and remained operational throughout two world wars, the Great Depression and COVID. Now, the institute is

Executives and staff from the nonprofit celebrated the groundbreaking of a $46 million expansion and renovation project that, when completed in October 2025, will expand several areas and programs.

Executives and staff from the nonprofit celebrated the groundbreaking of a $46 million expansion and renovation project that, when completed in October 2025, will expand several areas and programs.

The expansion will prioritize early childhood education, mental health services and will add capacity to the juvenile justice center.

/PRNewswire/ -- Child Saving Institute (CSI) has a rich 130-year history in the Omaha community of providing hope and healing to local children and families....

Couple honors son with donations to nonprofit

COUNCIL BLUFFS - A Girl Scout troop for girls whose families are homeless in Council Bluffs managed to sell more than 20,000 boxes of Girl Scout cookies this year.

Girl Scout troop for kids without homes sells nearly 20,000 boxes of cookies This year, the group has sold nearly 20,000 boxes of cookies in all 50 states - a feat for a troop of about six girls confronting unstable living situations in the middle of a pandemic. By Lateshia BeachumWashington Post Share After reading about New York City’s Girl Scout Troop 6000 – which launched in 2016 to serve young girls in housing-insecure situations – Jaymes Sime was inspired to offer the program at t...

“It affects everybody on every level,” said Brandy Wallar, director of New Visions Homeless Services. Demand is greater, yet the shelter has to limit numbers to allow for social distancing, she said. As of early December, the shelter’s 64 beds were full, and additional men were using its overflow area. “We try to keep overflow at 30,” which is less than it often was before the pandemic, she said. The number of people using the shelter’s food pantry is three times t...