Scholarships
OPPORTUNITIES
The Kearney Area Community Foundation manages over 30 scholarship funds. The crtieria for these scholarships are varied, so please take a moment to search our scholarships to determine if you are eligible to apply.
Using the command "ctrl f" search for scholarships, your school or county.
OPPORTUNITIES
Scholarship forms are not availble using a mobile devise. Please check out our current scholarships using desktop view. There you will have the ability to download the following PDF and Word documents for each scholarship.
Scholarships
Disaster Relief Fund
HOW TO HELP
The Kearney Area Community Foundation has a Disaster Relief Fund set up to help those in the Kearney area suffering loss from the recent devastating flooding. To show your support, click the button below to donate to the Disaster Relief Fund. All donations will stay in our area.
We are cooperating with various other nonprofit organizations in the Kearney area (Mid-Nebraska Community Action Partnership, United Way of the Kearney Area, Salvation Army, and the Jubilee Center) to ensure that people affected in our area will be helped. This group has been in place since mid-March continuing to help people after the earlier flooding affected those in other Buffalo County communities.
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If you live in Buffalo County and are suffering loss from the recent devastating flood, please fill out the Disaster Relief Fund assistance application today!
The deadline is July 31. You may pick up a hard copy version at one of the following locations during office hours:
1) Kearney Area Community Foundation, 412 W 48th Street, Suite #12, Kearney, NE 68845
2) Salvation Army, 1719 Central Ave, Kearney, NE 68847
3) The United Way of Kearney, 4009 6th Ave # 19, Eagles Nest Plaza, Kearney, NE 68845
4) Community Action Partnership of Mid-Nebraska, 16 West 11th Street, Kearney, NE 68845
Or download the fill-form PDF below by clicking the “Grant Application” button. You may fill the form out online, download it and send back to our email at kacf@kearneyfoundation.org
If you filled out this form at the MARC One Stop at the Salvation Army or UNK, you don’t need to fill it out again.
If you have any questions, please call (308) 237-3114.
HOW TO GET HELP
OTHER RELIEF FUNDS
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This is for anyone in Nebraska who has had flood damage/issues in both the March and/or July flooding.
The priority will be given to Elks members, but anyone may apply.
The one-page application needs to be mailed to:
Michael Ohren
914 Claudine Ave
Papillion NE 68046
Or emailed to:
Michael’s email address is white-tail@cox.net
If there are any questions his telephone number is (402) 660-0709.