Where Your Dollars Go

By becoming a member worksite, your dollars will support many of the following worthwhile projects:

ACLU

• $30.00 pays for 400 "Know Your Rights" wallet cards for incoming high school students
• $150.00 is the filing fee for a civil right lawsuit in Federal Court
• $1500.00 provides a stipend for an area law student to research selected civil liberties topics

Capital Humane Society

• $10 vaccinates 3 adult dogs.
• $25 puts educational materials into 1 elementary school classroom each month for one school year.
• $50 tests 5 dogs for the Parvo Virus.
• $100 microchips 20 adoption animals.
• $250 sterilizes 5 adoption animals.
• $500 tests 100 dogs for Heartworm.

Foundation for Lincoln City Libraries

• $0.50 per week provides one hard-bound book or DVD to add to the library collection.
• $2.00 per week pays for a software upgrade for one computer available for public use.
• $100 helps provide printed materials for the Youth Summer Reading Program.
• $10.00 per month helps provide support for youth programs.
• $1.00 per week helps support One Book One Lincoln programming.

Girl Scouts

• $0.50 per week provides a set of Girl Scout handbooks for a Leader.
• $75 per month provides one stipend Leader for an after-school troop at Clinton or Elliott Elementary School.
• $7 provides Welcome to the Daisy Flower Garden -- a Daisy Girl Scout handbook that begins their Girl Scout journey (kindergarten and first grade girls).
• $10 provides membership assistance for one girl or one adult to join Girl Scouting.
• $35 provides Camping 101 -- an overnight for a second or third grade Brownie Girl Scout.

Habitat for Humanity

Construction materials needed for a Habitat home:

• $10 Box of nails
• $35 Shingles
• $50 Bathtub faucet
• $75 Kitchen Sink
• $75 Window
• $100 Low flow toilet
• $150 Front Door
• $250 Paint
• $350 Light Fixtures

Houses of Hope

• $5.00 provides daily food cost for one client.
• $5.00 provides reduced fare bus pass for a client without their own transportation.
• $10.00 pays for printed recovery materials for a client.
• $30.00 funds for sheets, blanket, pillow, towels and toiletries for a new client.
• $50.00 covers one day of food for all residents at one residential facility.
• $100.00 helps defray utility costs at a residential facility

KZUM

• $25 keeps one locally produced program on for one hour. We air 150 hours of local shows each week.
• $500 covers the yearly cost of a syndicated program such as Pipe Dreams (pipe organs) or The Grateful Dead Hour.
• $4000 will enable us to purchase a remote broadcast unit to cover area ethnic and cultural festivals.

Lincoln Children's Museum

• $110 makes it possible for 10 families to experience the Museum for one year through the Have a Heart program.
• $50 helps buy enough art materials to provide two-weeks worth of fun and creative activities in the Museum's Artist's Studio.
• $250 makes it possible for the Museum to offer special Mr. Potts' Garden activities throughout the summer by helping us purchase plants, soil, pots, seeds and more.
• $25 can help the Museum provide healthy snacks to children participating in Summer Camps and School-Year Camps.
• $80 makes it possible for an entire classroom of children from a low-income school to enjoy a field trip to the Museum through the Have a Heart program.

Lincoln Children's Zoo

• $105 provides free admission to the zoo for 15 at-risk children.
• $100 allows for care for butterflies each week in Laura's Butterfly Pavilion.
• $250 a week feeds and provides care for Jura, the endangered Amur Leopard.
• $120 per week for routine animal physicals at the Zoo's Veterinary Clinic.

Lux

• $60 provides a scholarship for art classes for a low-income child.
• $150 provides a scholarship for art classes for a low-income senior citizen.
• $1200 provides materials for one year for an artist-in-residence.
• $1500 provides clay and glazes for ceramics classes for one year.
• $3000 provides exhibition cards to educate the public and promote emerging and established artists.

Make-A-Wish Foundation of Nebraska

• $100 buys amusement park or zoo passes for John's family during their trip to San Diego.
• $0.50 per week ($26.00) provides a few disposable cameras to George's family to capture their memories.
• $50 can give beach towels and sunscreen to Laura and her family for their trip to the ocean.
• $30 gives Ben a helmet for his wish to skate with pro-skateboarder, Tony Hawk.
• $20 covers the tip for the limo driver that takes Sam to the airport.
• $15 per month ($180) provides each child with "wish enhancements" - Cinderella dress, tiara, wand and a magical family dinner as a "send off" for Renee's trip to Disney World to meet the princesses.
• $50 gives Dylan a sign with his name on it for his new backyard playstructure.

The Mediation Center

• $100.00 provides a professionally skilled mediator to guide divorcing parents through creating child-centered parenting plan.
• $40.00 provides mediation instead of litigation to parties filing in Small Claims Court.
• $400.00 provides full scholarship for one individual to receive mediation training.

The Nature Conservancy

• $25 helps a mentor travel to a beginning rancher's house to talk about sustainable grassland management.
• $50 helps to protect a bison and its habitat at the Niobrara Valley Preserve.
• $75 helps clear a riverbank of invasive plants.
• $100 provides an acre of native seed for a restored prairie.
• $125 houses a researcher for a week.

Nebraska Appleseed

• Each dollar contributed makes possible the $1.4 million of free legal assistance that Appleseed provides to Nebraskans every year.
• For every $1 contributed, Appleseed raises $15 in grants for addressing the rights and needs of low-income families, children in foster care, new immigrants, and Nebraskans without health care. 

Nebraska Children's Home Society

• $57 per hour - Caseworker time with an unplanned pregnancy client.
• $120 - Car seat and other needed infants items.
• $250 per curriculum - Adoption University Curriculum (Elem-Mid-High) School.
• $300 a month - Cradle Care for infants.
• $600 - Search Process for an adoptee or birth family.
• $1300 - Home Study for an adoptive family.
• $1500 - Fire-proof file cabinets for adoption records.
• $18,900 - Adoption.

Nebraska Domestic Violence Sexual Assault Coalition

• $12 provides 50 brochures to domestic violence victims to assist them in safety planning.
• $30 provides 20 victims of sexual assault with a resource booklet to help them cope with the experience.
• $50 provides training packets to 40 participants in educational workshops.
• $75 allows the statewide resource lending library to purchase update books, videos, and manuals for service providers throughout Nebraska.
• $150 helps to secure training space for staff of local domestic violence/sexual assault programs.
• $300 operates the statewide hotline for Spanish speaking victims of domestic violence and sexual assault for one month.

Nebraska Humanities Council

• $125 helps a humanities scholar take a fourth grade school group "back in time" to explore Nebraska history.
• $30 covers award certificates for every low-income family completing a 6-week Prime Time Family Reading Time program in a community.
• $90 covers gift books for 15 low income children.

The Nebraska Trails Foundation

• $200 purchases 100 feet of railroad right-a-way for a new trail.
• $100 provides construction material for a trail bridge.
• $500 provides a ton of limestone to surface a trail.
• $150 provides a safety screen for a pedestrian-bike trail over pass.
• $175 purchases a trail bench.

NET Foundation for Radio

• A dollar a day pays for an episode of Car Talk.
• $100 pays for an episode of Wait Wait Don't Tell Me.
• $35 a month pays for a day's worth of Morning Edition and All Things Considered.
• $425 pays for a day's worth of Morning Edition and All Things Considered.
• $20 per month buys about 2 dozen cds for the NET Radio music library.
• $20 per month covers 3 weeks worth of Wait Wait Don't Tell me or 3 week's worth of Marketplace Money.
• $365 pays for one week's worth of A Prairie Home Companion.

Planned Parenthood of the heartland

• $12 one pregnancy test with all-options information.
• $25 one 45 minute educational presentation about responsible choices for 30 students.
• $52 three months of contraception for one woman with Depo Provera.
• $188 new family planning patient visit for one woman including health exam, Pap test and breast cancer screening.
• $1,750 avoiding unintended pregnancy for 50 women with Emergency Contraceptive.

Seniors Foundation

• $65 helps defray the average volunteer travel cost to assist older adults in Lincoln for a month.
• $75 supports snow removal for one older adult for an entire snow season.
• $20 supports a clinic visit for one older adult.
• $15 supports one nutritional education session for an older adult.
• $10 supports the cost of a set of service awareness material to an older adult.

Other

• MADD
• NET Foundation for Television
• Voices for Children in Nebraska
• Wachiska Audubon Society