The Center for the Study of Social Policy yesterday announced five organizations nationwide to be inducted into the Youth Thrive™ Learning Community. Nebraska Children and Families Foundation was one of the five organizations. The purpose of the Youth Thrive Learning…
Yearly Archives: 2015
ONE YEAR IN | Project Everlast Lincoln measures its impact
After more than two years of community-based, youth-driven planning, Project Everlast Lincoln began offering services in October of 2014. Looking back over the first year of implementation, Nebraska Children is pleased to see that we’ve had the opportunity to serve…
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Sixpence Success in Columbus
The Sixpence Early Learning Program is an innovative public-private partnership that funds school districts around the state to create high-quality early learning experiences for babies and toddlers in poverty, with teen parents and exposed to other risk factors. The program…
Care packages for Nebraska foster youth
For the fourth year, Project Everlast youth councils will be collecting items and donations for care packages. The councils will assemble, wrap and distribute packages to young people in foster care, or who have just aged out, who don’t have family…
Kids need to be kids . . . especially when they’re in foster care
Nebraska policymakers are currently discussing how to implement the Strengthening Families Act (SFA) in our state. While there are many parts to this important legislation, what we believe will be most critical to system-served youth are the components that relate…
Beyond School Bells unveils mobile maker lab in Nebraska
Beyond School Bells, a collaboration of Nebraska Children, recently unveiled TMC Labs. TMC (Think, Make, Create) labs is a 6’x12′ trailer that houses hands-on, interactive learning resources in science, technology, engineering, mathematics and the arts. We delivered the TMC Labs…
Sixpence announces Child Care Partnership grants
For the first time ever, the Sixpence Early Learning fund will fund collaborations between school districts and licensed child care providers. These new Child Care Partnership grants will give more of Nebraska’s most vulnerable babies and toddlers access to high-quality early…
RFP for Connected Youth Initiative grants of up to $150,000 released
Nebraska Children and Families Foundation today released a Request for Proposals (RFP) to communities wishing to apply for a Connected Youth Initiative sub-grant of up to $150,000. “The purpose of these subgrants is to give communities the financial and technical…
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Beyond School Bells receives Ron Raikes Innovation for Opportunity Award
Jeff Cole of Nebraska Children and the Beyond School Bells collaboration were recently selected as the first recipient of the Ron Raikes Innovation for Opportunity Award. The award was given at a statewide ARKSARBEN recognition event at the Museum of Nebraska Art in Kearney on…
More details on the Connected Youth Initiative
What happened? The Corporation for National and Community Service has awarded a Social Innovation Fund (SIF) grant so that the Nebraska Children and Families Foundation. The grant will be used to expand a successful model to rural communities across the…
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Posted in Teen/Early Adulthood
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Growing the Good Life 