We have great news! Surplus table centerpiece items from the Spotlight Gala are now on sale! Every year, we shine a spotlight on Nebraska’s children through a student art project funded by a generous grant from the Omaha Schools Foundation. As table centerpiece items for the annual Spotlight Gala, the…...
Time to Move Forward with Child Care Update
The Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG) is the most significant source of funding for providing child care assistance to working families to help ensure kids are safe so parents can work. For families with young children, child care has become the largest expense in the family budget and…...
HR 4980: Pathways to permanency
It’s rare to find an issue that draws unanimous bipartisan support among members of the U.S. Congress in the news today. Fortunately, when it comes to some children’s issues, politicians from both sides of the aisle often come to an agreement on the importance of investing in tomorrow’s generations. Last…...
CHIP Helps Reduce Disparities in Access to Health Care
Access to quality affordable health care helps children prepare to be healthy and successful adults. As a consequence of economic instability, children of color are less likely to have the health insurance coverage that they need. New data released for 2013 showed that 7.6% of kids nationwide do not have health insurance.…...
2014 Spotlight Gala Award Videos
The 2014 Spotlight Gala featured amazing videos of each of our award recipients. They were expertly produced by our friends at Rebel Interactive. Thanks again to Rebel Interactive for their high-quality work, and for being a Diamond Sponsor for the Spotlight Gala. If you couldn’t make it to the event or…...
Children’s Health Insurance Program Critical for Rural Kids
The Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) was created in 1997 to provide health insurance coverage to U.S. children in families with an income too high to be eligible for Medicaid and inadequate to afford private health insurance. In Nebraska, children in families with incomes of up to 200% of the…...
September is Attendance Awareness Month
It’s already September! Across the country, communities, school districts, and nonprofits are marking Attendance Awareness Month. The research is pretty clear: missing lots of school, for any reason, can cause children to fall behind academically and put them at increased risk of dropping out or delaying graduation. In January of…...
New Policy Research Associate Joins Voices for Children
My name is Jenna Sutton, and I just became the new Policy and Research Associate at Voices for Children in Nebraska through Lutheran Volunteer Corps. This past May, I graduated from a liberal arts college in Michigan called Hope College with a Bachelor’s degree in both Psychology and Chemistry. I…...
