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.
Prizes: 1x Coneflower, 2x $25 Visa, 1x The Mill gift card

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.

Refugee Women Rising (RWR)
Refugee Women Rising has developed meaningful and mutually beneficial relationships with refugees, refugee leaders, and refugee service providers. To date, we’ve served thousands of refugee women and are fierce advocates for this incredibly marginalized population. We pick up where resettlement agency services end, offering practical skills training, intentional social-emotional programming, and culturally appropriate, holistic wellness support — regardless of how long women have been in the country. Through compassionate, culturally sensitive programming and relationships, we collaborate with refugee women to further themselves personally and professionally.

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!

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.

Chronic Care International
Chronic Care International cares for people in developing countries with diabetes and high blood pressure, two leading causes of preventable suffering and early death. Using a sustainable, patient-centered approach to disease care, CCI collaborates with local healthcare providers and international organizations to strengthen families and empower communities by transforming the lives of some of the world’s poorest citizens. At CCI, our passion is to change the tide of these two primary causes of suffering and early death. We save lives by partnering with others, creating a unique framework of medical resources, education, patient cooperatives, and outcome measurement that enable sustainable long-term care.

Great Plains Colon Cancer Task Force
The Great Plains Colon Cancer Task Force is dedicated to increasing the number of lives saved from colon cancer through education, early detection, and prevention. The Great Plains Colon Cancer Task Force was formed in 1999 to increase public awareness of colon cancer and the importance of early detection and prevention. Health organizations, businesses, colon cancer survivors and volunteers throughout the community engaged in a comprehensive effort to get the community talking about colon cancer and to provide free colon cancer screenings.

Women's Center for Advancement
The Women’s Center for Advancement focuses on assisting survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, human trafficking and stalking and their children to achieve safety and empower them to lead self-determined lives. Their free, high-quality services address our clients’ immediate safety needs and help them to grow into independence over time.

Heartland Integration Center
HIC (Heartland Integration Center), formerly English Learning Network, was founded in reaction to the reality that many immigrants and refugees never fully integrate into the communities in which they now dwell. The majority operate on the margins of society, creating a class of second-class citizens. HIC believes in an integrated diversity model in which immigrants acquire a new language, culture, rights, and responsibilities as new citizens while also educating others about their own culture in order to foster acceptance and alleviate the “US vs. Them” mentality that frequently fuels cultural and racial tensions.

Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Midlands
Their mission is to create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth. Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Midlands helps children realize their potential and build their futures. We nurture children and strengthen communities.For more than 60 years, Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Midlands has operated under the belief that inherent in every child is the ability to succeed and thrive in life. As an affiliate of the nation’s largest donor-and-volunteer-supported mentoring network, Big Brothers Big Sisters creates and supports meaningful, monitored matches between adult volunteers and children, ages 7 through 25, across the Omaha and Lincoln areas in Nebraska and Council Bluffs in Iowa.

Douglas County Health Department
The Douglas County Health Department's (DCHD) mission is to promote and protect the health of the community. The DCHD's vision is to create a healthy, resilient, and vibrant community for everyone. As a certified health department, the Douglas County Health Department is responsible for several programs as well as many other public health services. Programs are grouped into divisions relating to either nursing, environmental health or health education. All programs have an educational component. The goal of this department is to increase the awareness and number of persons reached in this educational process.

Global Partners in Hope (GPiH)
Global Partners in Hope (GPiH) works alongside local leaders in underserved, French-speaking regions of West Africa. Guided by our values of trust, compassion, stability, and hope, we build partnerships rooted in integrity and collaboration. Our vision is that women and children not only survive, but thrive for generations. Through locally led projects, we help create access to clean water and sustainable health care centers powered by renewable energy.

African Immigrant Family Services (AIFS)
African Immigrant Family Services (AIFS) is dedicated to enhancing the quality of life and fostering the social and economic integration of African immigrants and refugees with a focus on French-speaking African Communities. AIFS provides comprehensive culturally-based support services tailored to the unique needs of African families, empowering them to thrive and contribute positively to society. Through advocacy, education, and outreach programs, AIFS works to create a welcoming and inclusive environment where African immigrants and refugees can access the resources and opportunities necessary for success.

No More Empty Pots
No More Empty Pots is a North Omaha–based nonprofit, founded in 2010, that addresses food security, education, and economic opportunity through a systems-focused approach. The organization grew out of community food summits where residents shared their challenges and hopes around food access and opportunity. Since then, No More Empty Pots has developed programs such as the Community Market Basket to increase access to locally sourced food while supporting local growers and entrepreneurs.

HEAL Omaha
HEAL Omaha delivers trauma-informed healthcare and medical case management to individuals experiencing unsheltered homelessness across the Omaha metro area. Through street rounds and backpack clinics, we meet patients where they are—under bridges, in encampments, and on the streets—removing barriers to care while fostering trust through consistency, flexibility, and radical acceptance. Our patient-led, harm-reduction approach prioritizes dignity, autonomy, and relationship-building, recognizing housing as a fundamental determinant of health. In partnership with community organizations, HEAL Omaha works toward the long-term goal of improving health outcomes and helping end homelessness locally.

City Sprouts Community Garden
City Sprouts Community Garden began as a way for Omaha-area residents, volunteers, and interns to grow vegetables, flowers, and herbs using environmentally responsible and sustainable gardening practices, while providing hands-on education for all ages—from toddlers to adults—on gardening, cooking, food preservation, and related skills. Through community gardens and an urban farm, they collaborate with the community to strengthen local food systems, improve community health, empower neighborhoods, and support long-term economic and environmental sustainability, while offering a welcoming space where people of diverse ages and backgrounds can learn and grow together.

Partners in Health Engage
PIH Engage is the grassroots arm of Partners In Health that mobilizes volunteers across the United States to advance health equity by combining advocacy, education, fundraising, and community engagement. It organizes well-trained teams of local organizers who advocate for policies that promote the global right to health, meeting with government leaders to share insights from PIH sites and champion legislation that expands access to high-quality care for underserved populations. Concurrently, PIH Engage educates communities through discussion groups, webinars, lectures, and events, raising awareness about the systemic social and economic factors that drive poor health outcomes, while empowering volunteers—ranging from students to professionals—to become informed advocates.

Previous organizations represented include:

• CASA for Douglas County

• Children’s Hospital Visionmobile

• Chronic Care International

• Community Alliance

• Creighton University Department of Cultural and Social Studies

• Families in Action

• Heart Ministry Center

• Heartland Equine Therapeutic Riding Academy

• Immigrant Legal Center (ILC)

• Keep Omaha Beautiful

• Nebraska Humane Society

• Nebraska Indian Community College

• OneWorld Community Health Center

• Open Door Mission

• Refugee Empowerment Center

• Ronald McDonald House

• Siena Francis House

• Stop Overdose Nebraska

• Together, NE

• Yates Illuminates

• Nebraska Urban Indian Health Coalition

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