This year, the Holland Foundation winds down, gifting its final grants as part of a long-standing sunsetting plan. For more than three decades, the Holland Foundation has played a meaningful role in strengthening the ACLU of Nebraska’s ability to defend and expand civil rights and civil liberties across our state. Their investment went far beyond funding. It reflected a deep belief in building people, leadership, and long-term capacity for change.
The Holland Foundation helped cultivate a pipeline of leaders committed to advancing justice in Nebraska. As we mark our 60th anniversary this year, we recognize that this milestone is made possible in part through enduring partnerships like this one.
Holland support made it possible to invest in the people and the infrastructure that sustain this work, ensuring that the ACLU of Nebraska can continue to respond to critical moments, expand our reach, and remain a consistent voice for rights and freedoms across generations to come.
As the Holland Foundation concludes their chapter, their legacy lives on through the leaders they helped shape, the communities they supported, and the enduring commitment to seeing civil rights and civil liberties strengthened across Nebraska. We are deeply grateful for their partnership and the lasting impact they have had on our organization, as well as the broader philanthropic community.
Not one organization or one foundation can alone stop a democratic backslide or the erosion of our individual rights and freedoms; however, our partnership with the Holland Foundation has demonstrated that such a partnership between such organizations and funding foundations - rooted in trust and a commitment to center the communities they serve - creates positive change for Nebraskans, and results in a freer and fairer Nebraska for all.