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

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 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!

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.

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.

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.

Keep Omaha Beautiful
Keep Omaha Beautiful fosters environmental and community stewardship through education, service, and advocacy. Throughout our history, Keep Omaha Beautiful has always focused on engaging and educating the local community about environmental stewardship and the wise use of resources. KOB's Environmental Education programs connect learners of all ages to the urban nature around them, and promote a healthy community.

Community Alliance
Their mission is helping individuals experiencing mental health and substance use challenges achieve their unique potential and to live, work, learn and contribute in a community of mutual support. They believe in the potential of recovery for all individuals with mental illness and we dedicate our resources to support the journey of each individual we serve. They are an integrated health care organization that offers a whole-person approach, including psychiatric services, mental health and substance use counseling, primary medical care and a range of rehabilitation, employment, community supports and family and peer support.

Together, NE
Together envisions a community of prosperity where everyone experiences safe, affordable housing, food security, health and wellness. Together's mission is to prevent and end hunger and homelessness. This is done through strategic partnerships and collaborations with other nonprofit organizations, government, businesses and caring individuals. Together's core values of hope, dignity, compassion, excellence, and diversity is the guiding force in how the organization leads and serves those who need Together most.

Stop Overdose Nebraska
Stop Overdose Nebraska works to educate the public about life-saving NARCAN®, a fast-acting drug that can save someone who is experiencing an opioid overdose. STOPODNE is also committed to providing information for resources to get people the help they need.

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.

Sienna Francis House
Siena Francis House welcomes and empowers those experiencing homelessness to navigate their path to housing. While Siena Francis House provides emergency shelter, food and clothing to individuals experiencing homelessness, our ultimate goal is to end homelessness by helping each and every guest achieve housing out in the community. As part of this effort, Siena Francis House also provides Permanent Supportive Housing for formerly homeless, disabled persons on our campus.

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 Equine Therapeutic Riding Academy
Their mission is to improve the quality of life both physically and emotionally of adults and children of all ability levels through equine-assisted activities. Therapy Services are conducted by an Occupational, Physical or Speech Therapist.

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.

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

  • Nebraska Urban Indian Health Coalition

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