Front Porch Investments and New Visions Homeless Services announced a Request for Proposals from “qualified and mission-aligned real estate developers to lead the development of a transformative, community-centered, affordable or mixed-income housing project” on a currently vacant 4.72-acre site located south of 96th & Cady Avenue. NVHS is in the early stages of developing 46 units of permanent supportive housing for senior veterans on the parcel to the north of this site.
Project Intentional, a local nonprofit which coordinates donation drives and intentional outreach programs, has relaunched after a “purposeful pause” in 2024. To kick off its return, Project Intentional is partnering with Max I. Walker this August on the Coats for Kids campaign—collecting and distributing winter coats to Omaha children at no cost. This collaboration is the first of several planned as Project Intentional resumes programming and broadens its reach. From August 1 through October 31, customers and community members are encouraged to donate new or gently used children’s coats at any of the 10 Max I. Walker Dry Cleaners locations across the metro.
Metropolitan Community College’s 180 Re-Entry Assistance Program, the nation’s largest college-based, re-entry program, celebrated its 10-year anniversary with a luncheon and awards ceremony Thursday, July 17, at the Swanson Conference Center on the Fort Omaha Campus. In the past decade, the program has served more than 11,500 people transitioning from incarceration and court-imposed issues through holistic programs and services, including education, workforce training, job placement assistance, peer mentoring, transition support, basic needs fulfillment and more. The program also provides on-site credit and noncredit classes at Nebraska prisons and work-release centers.
Dunham House executive director and U.S. Marine Corps Colonel John Folsom laid out plans on July 15th to construct a permanent national memorial honoring the more than 6,500 U.S. servicemembers who were killed in action or died of wounds in named operations between October 2001 and August 26, 2021. The etched granite memorial is estimated to cost $2.5 million and will sit at the front entrance of Omaha’s Dunham House, the nation’s first long-term residential facility built specifically for combat-wounded veterans who have suffered catastrophic wounds, such as multiple amputations and traumatic brain injuries. Dunham House is scheduled to open next spring.
After opening its new entrance on Douglas Street, the Child Saving Institute has announced that its Early Childhood Education Center on 45th & Dodge Street will now be known as the “A.W. Clark Child Development Center,” named after the organization’s historical founder.