Nebraska AmeriCorps*VISTA Projects
(updated Updated July 2008)
Blue Valley Community Action
PO Box 273
Fairbury, NE
Collena Laschanzky
(402) 729-6510
Founded in 1966, Blue Valley Community Action (BVCA) Partnership serves families and communities in southeast Nebraska and north central Kansas. BVCA Partnership operates over 30 programs that provide individuals with emergency assistance and develop long-term, community-based strategies to prevent poverty.
Habitat for Humanity of Omaha, Nebraska
2204 Ames Avenue
Omaha, NE 68110
www.habitatomaha.org
Melissa Breazile
(402) 457-5657 ext. 111
Habitat for Humanity of Omaha builds houses in partnership with low-income families. Selected families help build the homes and then buy a home at a 0% interest mortgage.
Midwest Consortium for Service-Learning
200 Nebraska Union
Lincoln, NE 68588
Gary Heusel
(402) 472-9638
Enhance the learning of college students and strengthen community service through service-learning. Faculty, staff, students, and community agencies provide programs and activities for youth. Getting youth engaged in service-learning and interested in continuing their education is critical.
Mosaic Community Development
1258 South 13th St
Omaha, NE 68108
Christian Gray
(402) 933-6672
Mosaic Community Development is a faith based organization working to reduce poverty.
National Society for American Indian Elderly - CCI
200 E. Fillmore St #151
Phoenix, AZ 85004
www.nsaie.org
Dollie Chauvin
(602) 424-0542
The National Society for American Indian Elderly (NSAIE) was established in 1987 as a 501 (c)(3) organization to improve the quality of life for on-reservation American Indian senior citizens by supporting a network of tribally established and administered services. It is managed by an American Indian Board of Directors who live and work with the American Indian elderly whom they serve. The NSAIE project has generated more resources by placing VISTA volunteers directly with the tribal elder programs to focus on the need in individual communities.
Omaha Opportunities Industrial Center
2724 North 24th St
Omaha, NE 68110
Pamela Vaughan
(402) 457-4222
A licensed educational institution providing Occupational training and Adult HS equivalent.
ServeNebraska - the Nebraska Volunteer Services Commission
State Capitol - Sixth Floor, West
Lincoln, NE 68509-8927
Greg Donovan, Program Officer
Phone: (402) 471-6249
ServeNebraska works to mobilize Nebraskans to strengthen their communities through volunteering, collaboration, and national service programs.