Zoom is online meeting software we can use to help stay connected. When the time comes, click the link above. This works on a computer, tablet, iPad, or smart phone. For each Zoom meeting, click the link provided when it is time for the meeting. This is what that looks like: Join Zoom Meeting https://zoom.us/j/787401155?pwd=TUdQVTlsdG9INk4rdnFweDZFZTZLdz09… Read More
Payday Lending Ballot Initiative
OTOC’s Payday Lending Action Team has been working for several years to combat inhumane interest rates on delayed deposit loans. In 2020 we are participating in a state wide ballot initiative to put reduced interest rates into law. 2020 Ballot Initiative A coalition of nonprofits across the state have teamed up to put this issue… Read More
Starting the Year with Issue Cafes!
Mental Health Panel on Feb. 25 Mental Health leaders brought in a panel of mental health agencies and services to begin a conversation about the biggest needs for keeping people with mental illness out of jail. Some of the main issues discussed were lack of or shrinking funding and resources, both from the state and… Read More
OTOC represented at Great Plains United Methodist Conference Seminar
Long time OTOC leader Kevin Graham of First United Methodist was a presenter at the Great Plains Conference of the United Methodist Church’s Mercy and Justice webinar on Saturday, January 18. The webinar was to teach Methodists in Nebraska and Kansas about community organizing as the Methodist churches are looking to start teaching community organizing… Read More
Temporary Protective Status Update
65 people gathered on Friday evening to watch the film “The Last Dream.” It is a documentary about a group of youth in Baltimore whose parents are Temporary Protected Status recipients. With the TPS program under threat and caught in legal battles, the children, most of whom are US citizens, are also caught in the… Read More
Medicaid Expansion Hearing
On Nov. 13, the Omaha World Herald reported on the public hearing on the advisability of implementing expanded Medicaid with the Section 1115 Waiver experiment proposed by the Nebraska State Dept. of Health and Human Services (DHHS). At that hearing, 24 out of 24 speakers opposed it. You can oppose it, too. Comment here. Background: Besides… Read More