By TYLER ELLYSON UNK Communications KEARNEY – Don Wellensiek and Dave White were busy Tuesday methodically stacking mattresses inside a semitrailer parked near the Nebraskan Student Union at the University of Nebraska at Kearney. It was time-consuming work for the UNK Facilities Management employees, but far better than the alternative of chucking the beds in a roll-off dumpster headed for the landfill. The semitrailer they loaded ended up at Orphan Grain Train, a Norfolk-based … [Read more...]
Women Investing in Nebraska offers funding for nonprofits
Nebraska nonprofit organizations and University of Nebraska groups addressing critical community needs at the local or state level are invited to submit funding ideas to Women Investing in Nebraska (WIN) for the group’s 2016 grant awards. For information about how to submit a letter of inquiry, go to womeninvestinginnebraska.org. Submission deadline is Feb. 19. WIN will award two equal grants for projects addressing critical community needs in Nebraska. One grant will be awarded to a … [Read more...]
UNK philanthropy class awards $10K to Buffalo County nonprofits
KEARNEY – Nine nonprofits in Buffalo County received a total of $10,000 in grant money to fund 11 projects as part of a philanthropy class project at the University of Nebraska at Kearney. On Wednesday, UNK students in the Marketing 388H “Philanthropy: Learning to Give” class hosted its awards ceremony and named nonprofit organizations that received grants through their class’s Community Enrichment Grant. The grant, funded by the Learning by Giving Foundation, teaches students the … [Read more...]
