Who We Serve...

Nebraska Appleseed focuses on advancing policies and practices that promote self-sufficiency for Nebraska’s working poor families, promote the integration and participation of immigrant populations in communities across Nebraska, provide safe and adequate child welfare services to children who need protection, increase low-income people’s access to the legal system and support democracy by removing barriers to low-income people’s participation in the electoral and public policy decision-making processes.

How We Do This...

Nebraska Appleseed focuses on core values held by most Nebraskans, such as fairness, opportunity, community, and responsibility, finds common ground to create practical and reasonable solutions to persistent problems, and brings equal justice home to Nebraska’s struggling communities.

Paths To Justice Nebraska Appleseed utilizes all “paths to justice” available to address problems at their roots. These paths regularly include community education, negotiation, research, network building, legislation, and litigation.

Who We Work With...

Strategic Partners/Community Allies Nebraska Appleseed has cultivated a highly diverse continuum of strategic partners and community allies over the past eight years. This ranges from Legal Aid and the Nebraska Bar on the Equal Justice Clearinghouse, artists like Joel Sartore, Ted Kirk, and the Nebraska Arts Council supporting “Reality at the Roots,” to private law firms involved in class actions to give thousands back their Medicaid. It includes Community Action assisting with the Food Security Series, to Catholic Charities involved as one of dozens of community partners in the Immigrant Rights Network, to Voices for Children helping to develop our Child Welfare Accountability project, and to the Nebraska Bankers Association on banking for new immigrants.