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About Nebraska Afghan Community Center

Mission Nebraska Afghan Community Center(NACC) works to build a unified, educated and self-sufficient Afghan community in Nebraska. Nebraska Afghan Community Center(NACC) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization under the guidelines of the U.S. law operates under Federal tax ID: 92-234639. NACC was established on March 17, 2021 to help and provide grassroots assistances to Afghan families throughout Nebraska. With the government's fall in Afghanistan in August 2021, Afghans who worked with U.S. Government in Afghanistan were forced to leave Afghanistan for various security reasons. Nebraska received a significant number of Afghan families and individuals to Omaha and Lincoln. After the arrival of the new Afghan families, the current Afghan community leaders in Omaha and Lincoln organized a grassroots level support network that provided initial basic support to needy new Afghan families. All of the support was on volunteer basis without any proper organization of an established and dedicated entity. Although this timely assistance proved to be very important, the unstructured nature of the steps undermines the long term effectiveness and sustainability of our community efforts. Thus it was deemed necessary to established this new nonprofit organization and provide the Afghan community with better, organized and sustainable support and services. As part of our efforts to assist the newly arrived Afghans the Afghan Community in Omaha set up a taskforce of 14 key community leaders. The taskforce would have met regularly to brainstorm and plan donation drives, volunteer groups and other activities to support the newly arrived Afghans. This influx of Afghan refugees in Omaha and Lincoln was overwhelming for the local resettlement agencies, and Afghan community members especially when the first 6 months’ support provided by local agencies ends. Nebraska Afghan Community Center(NACC) operates under five community initiatives and each initiative have volunteers and worker