Nebraska's Changing Population Demographics Initiative

The NHC encourages non-profit organizations to submit grant proposals under this new program emphasis.

Nebraska's Changing Population

Multi-year initiative explores demographic changes

The Nebraska Humanities Council (NHC) has adopted a multi-year initiative to explore the three most important demographic changes shaping Nebraska’s future: The influx of new immigrants and refugees; a continuing movement of people from rural to urban and suburban communities; and the aging of the state’s population with the exception of the new, young immigrant and refugee families.

In 2007, the NHC begins its focus on "The Good Life: Urban-Rural-Suburban," the geographical shift in population. In 2005, the first year of the initiative, the NHC began with "The New Nebraskans," with emphasis on our growing immigrant and refugee population. That focus also will continue throughout the initiative.

The NHC encourages non-profit organizations to submit grant proposals under these new program emphases. The NHC especially encourages ethnic organizations and non-profit groups that have not submitted grant proposals to the council.

Eligible applicants include schools and colleges, ethnic and cultural organizations, local governments and agencies, and other non-profits. The NHC hopes to fund projects that will encourage productive civic discussion of the issues faced by new immigrants, refugees and their host communities that will, in turn, help shape informed public policy in our state.

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