After eight years, the Omaha Community Foundation is ending its annual Omaha Gives donation drive and will instead form a partnership with SHARE Omaha for a year-round giving program.
According to a post on the OCF's website, the new partnership with SHARE Omaha will help local nonprofits with their ongoing fundraising efforts, volunteer recruitment and other philanthropic goals. According to SHARE Omaha's website, they offer the public opportunities to connect with metro nonprofits through donations, volunteering and shopping wish lists.
“The partnership to elevate a single online giving platform will allow each group to focus on what they do best,” the release states. Omaha Gives has raised $58 million in donations for more than 1,000 local nonprofits since the first event in 2012, according to the post.
The donation portal’s official online transition will take place in the spring, according to a post on the Omaha Gives website. “While Omaha Gives has been an integral part of our work throughout the last decade, we see the incredible opportunity to combine our efforts for greater nonprofit impact,” said Donna Kush, Omaha Community Foundation’s CEO and President. “We are eager to support SHARE Omaha as they build upon a dynamic and robust online resource that will support donors and nonprofits in exciting ways into the future.”
SHARE Omaha executive director Marjorie Maas said in the release that joining the new platform will give local nonprofits “free promotional benefits right away.”
You can read more about the partnership here.