Town Hall Meetings
Thursday, January 17, 2008
You can help create a bright future for every child in our community. Come participate in an interactive Building Bright Futures Town Hall Meeting where you will have the opportunity to share your concerns, ideas, and suggestions about how to create world-class education and youth development in our community. There . . . read more
Building Bright Futures Town Hall Meetings
BBF Outreach Meetings Continue in to February & March
You can help create a bright future for every child in our community.
Come participate in an interactive Building Bright Futures Town Hall Meeting where you will have the opportunity to share your concerns, ideas, and . . .
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Money for minds:
Some of Omaha's richest support initiative to help poor kids succeed
Every year in the Omaha area, hundreds of kids - mostly the poorest - drop out of school into lives of dead-end jobs, financial struggle and worse.
But what if all those kids had had a preschool program that kept them from entering . . .
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Solid Foundation Key to Building Bright Futures
The leaders of four task forces that will help carry out the vision of Building Bright Futures were named today.
They include Mayor Mike Fahey, an assistant Omaha schools superintendent and the vice chancellor of the University of . . .
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Omaha's Wealthy Combine Resources To Send Kids To College
Susie Buffett, Others Combine Money To Offer Scholarships
OMAHA, Neb. -- A private effort to extend education opportunities to disadvantaged children was launched in Omaha on Tuesday morning.
Building Brighter Futures said it is ready to provide college scholarships to every low-income high . . .
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Work with kids drives home the need for a community's support
it all began as a big idea: to change the world as it is known to metropolitan Omaha's low-income children and families.
Michael Yanney says he doesn't remember the day, or even if it was just one meeting. But nearly two years ago, . . .
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Poverty Amid Prosperity
Alarming figures reveal the reality of a metro area in which econimic hardship has a stronger and stronger grip on the black community
Omaha is known far and wide as the home of Warren Buffet ( wikipedia ), one of the wealthiest men on the planet. It boasts the headquarters of five Fortune 500 companies, the most for any U.S. city of its size. But the Omaha metropolitan . . .
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