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Making an endowment gift to United Way of the Midlands is a simple and meaningful way to support an organization you believe in and help provide assurance that it will continue. Your gift can also serve to honor or memorialize someone or something special to you.

For many loyal UWM supporters, their gifts highlight their dedication to work, family, community and giving back to an organization that is close to their heart.

We will continue to update these pages with stories of donors who have supported the Omaha-Council Bluffs community by making long-lasting gifts to United Way of the Midlands.

  • Ellen C. Karnett established a trust to ensure the well-being, education, and training of children with intellectual disabilities. Her vision was to...
  • John Gottschalk joined the Omaha World-Herald in 1975 and oversaw its conversion to the era's modern technology. In 1980, he was named vice president and guided the company's acquisition of suburban weeklies and other subsidiaries.
  • Upon his death in 1979, the estate of Peter Kiewit awarded a grant of $750,000 to United Way of the Midlands to create the Peter Kiewit Endowment Fund. This endowment fund alone has provided funding of more than $2.4 million over the 36 years since it was established.
  • In 1998, United Way of the Midlands learned we had been named as a beneficiary in the estate of Mrs. Becker, a long-time Omaha resident. We are deeply grateful to Mrs. Becker for her $1.3 million gift – at that time, the largest one-time gift to the United Way of the Midlands.
  • Born and raised in Council Bluffs, Lewer was the youngest of three children and a graduate of Nebraska Wesleyan University in Lincoln. After college, he enlisted in the Army for four years...
  • Edward W. Banister, long-time supporter of United Way of the Midlands, passed away November 23, 2021. Giving annually to United Way of the...
  • Tim Harrison is a Private Wealth Advisor, holding the Certified Private Wealth AdvisorŽ (CPWAŽ) designation, and is the founder and CEO of Harrison Financial Services. For more than 25 years, Tim...
  • Mark A. Weber has worked his entire career to help families tax efficiently transfer their wealth upon death to their heirs. In his book, A Spectrum of Legacies, he describes how...
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