Women's Fund of Greater Omaha

Adolescent health - the Women's Fund of Omaha strives to create sustainable community-wide change through a research-based, comprehensive approach that will increase sexual health knowledge and health of youth and decrease the number of youths engaging in risky sexual behavior. It also focuses on systemic change within partner and community organizations and works to increase staff capacity in clinics, provide free std testing and treatment, condom access and no cost contraception across the state.

Advocacy - the Women's Fund of Omaha leads several efforts to encourage community advocacy and effective public policy solutions that can improve the lives of all women and girls. These include: circles - a diverse network of women of all identities who support the mission while creating a space where women can build authentic relationships with one another; Women's policy intensive - focused training to educate women on the public policy process to prepare them to advocate for themselves and their communities.

Freedom from violence - the Women's Fund of Omaha is working collaboratively to ensure that together, we are creating a community where women of all identities are free from violence - including sex trafficking, commercial sexual exploitation, domestic violence, and sexual assault. Our comprehensive approach identifies and implements key strategies for improving how our system responds to survivors of violence. These strategies include strenthening survivor leadership, supporting responders and strengthening network collaboration with the intended outcome of increasing system responsiveness to victims of violence and increasing services and supports for survivor healing.

Research - the Women's Fund of Omaha identifies critical issues facing women and girls through research.grants - as a public foundation, the Women's Fund of Omaha invests in partner organizations that carry out efforts to improve the lives of women and girls in our community and across our state based on our priority areas of access to sexual and reproductive health care and education, freedom from violence, leadership development and economic security.