Northeast Nebraska Community Action Partnership to Host a

Fill the May Basket Personal Care Item Drive

Northeast Nebraska Community Action Partnership, formerly Goldenrod Hills, is hosting a Fill the May Basket drive as part of National Community Action Month. Held annually in May, National Community Action Month highlights Community Action Agencies' work helping millions of families and individuals escape poverty and achieve economic stability each year.

The Fill the May Basket drive will be aimed at collecting personal care items including soap, shampoo, toothbrushes, toothpaste, deodorant, toilet paper, diapers, feminine hygiene products and laundry detergent.
Families come into our offices because they are having a hard time making ends meet. Personal care items are far down the list of necessities when you are having a hard time paying for food and keeping up with your bills each month. Yet personal care items are essential for both health and employment purposes.  For these reasons, we are asking businesses and community members to donate personal care items to our food pantry.  Donations may be made by placing items in the boxes in area businesses and churches around Pender throughout the month of May or by dropping items off at our office.  Northeast Nebraska Community Action Partnership has been serving the area since 1966 with programs and services that strive to meet the needs of the communities in our service area and help families become self sufficient. For more information, please contact Amy Munderloh at (402) 385-6300 or visit www.nencap.org.

Our Mission:

People helping people, improving lives in Northeast Nebraska.

About us: Northeast Nebraska Community Action Partnership (NENCAP), Inc. is a private, non-profit headquartered in Pender, Nebraska. The agency was chartered in 1966 as the Thurston County Community Action Council in Macy, Nebraska under the provisions of the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964.  In 1967, the office moved from Macy to Walthill, NE.  The first three programs the agency administered were Head Start, Commodities Supplemental Food Assistance and Weatherization. As the service area grew, the central offices were relocated to Wisner, Nebraska in 1987. In the next 25 years, the agency grew into four buildings on main street in Wisner.  A goal for the agency was to secure a building large enough for all staff to be in one building. In March of 2012 the agency was able to achieve its goal after the Pender Hospital moved into a new facility in January 2012. The agency then moved into the Pender Hospital building so all staff could be in one building.

In March of 2012, the agency also changed its name from Goldenrod Hills Community Action, Inc. to Northeast Nebraska Community Action Partnership, Inc. The change in the name is a part of an ongoing national initiative to highlight anti-poverty efforts underway at Community Action Agencies across the country. The initiative, spearheaded by the national office of the Community Action Partnership, is designed to increase awareness of Community Action-America's poverty fighting network.

NENCAP serves an income-eligible population in a 14-county area of Northeast Nebraska, including the counties of Antelope, Burt, Cedar, Cuming, Dakota, Dixon, Dodge, Knox, Madison, Pierce, Stanton, Thurston, Washington and Wayne.
 

This institution is an equal opportunity provider.