Friday, September 29, 2023 Lincoln, Neb. — The Cooper Foundation Board of Trustees awarded a grant of $20,000 to Foster Care Closet towards general operating to support emergency services and meet the immediate needs of youth entering foster care. Foster Care Closet’s goal is to restore dignity to youth in
Tuesday, July 11, 2023 Lincoln, Neb. — The Cooper Foundation Board of Trustees awarded a $30,000 grant to Rabble Mill to support the addition of an English/Journalism teacher for Bay High, the Lincoln Public Schools High School Focus Program located at The Bay. In 2022, Bay High launched its inaugural
Thursday, April 6, 2023 Lincoln, Neb. — The Cooper Foundation awarded a grant of $10,000 to RISE Academy to support the position of a Lincoln Reentry Specialist to provide in-prison programming and reentry services to incarcerated and formerly incarcerated men and women in Lincoln, Nebraska. RISE is the largest nonprofit
Monday, December 19, 2022 Lincoln, Neb. — The Cooper Foundation awarded a grant of $20,000 to the Nebraska Big Red Satellite toward the design, build, and launch of a satellite into space for the study of solar energy. Big Red Satellite is a team of Nebraska middle and high school
Thursday, September 29, 2022 Lincoln, Neb. — The Cooper Foundation awarded a grant of $10,000 to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Center for Digital Research in the Humanities to advance educational components of the web portal, Nebraska Stories of Humanity, which provides interactive stories and documentation from Nebraska Holocaust survivors &
