Charitable Fund of Cozad

12/03/2025

Impact Wednesday - today we are featuring Holiday Spirit again. We have 127 families who are asking for help this Holiday season. Over 150 kiddos are in need of new clothing and toys. In total there will be 358 people served with boxes filled with food for their holiday meal, toiletries and soaps. If you can donate to any of the organizations that are serving these families please drop donations off at the food pantry M-W-F from 1-5, clothing at the Methodist church and toys at the Grand Generation Center.

11/19/2025

Impact Wednesday - today we want to feature the National Honor Society annual food drive for the Cozad Food Pantry. They collect a lot of food every year to go to families in need of help with food. Word got back to the school that the pantry was completely out of soup. The picture shows how much soup showed up today. Thanks Cozad NHS for making your impact in our community.

11/05/2025

Impact Wednesday - Today we are featuring the Holiday Spirit Program. This program has been serving Cozad for at least 17 years. This is a collaborative effort between Charitable Fund of Cozad, Cozad Food Pantry, Cloth'em and the Rotary Toy drive. The purpose of this collaboration is to spread the donations given to every family in need fairly and make an effort to not leave any family out. Families can pick up applications during the month of November from any Cozad church. Applications must be returned to Charitable Fund of Cozad no later than November 24th this year(it is always the Monday after Thanksgiving).
If you are able to donate you can donate toys at the Grand Generation Center, or contact any Rotary member. Food at the food pantry or through the National Honor Society food drive at the high school. The middle school is taking donations of toilet paper, paper towels, laundry soap and toiletry items. Monetary donations for children's clothing or new clothing donations can be dropped off at the Methodist Church 1515 B Street.
Last year 129 families were served totaling 373 people in our community impacted by this collaboration.

10/29/2025

Congratulations to the winners of our Cozad vs Minden football pool
Qtr 1 - Canda Montgomery
Qtr 2 - Jeff Cornelius
Qtr 3 - Linda Benjamin
Final - Robert Dyer

Thanks to those who have donated all or a portion of their winnings back to us.

10/29/2025

Impact Wednesday - Today we are featuring Give Big Cozad. Give Big Cozad is November 6th at the Elks. Give Big Cozad impact several organizations in Cozad, including us and several of our partner agencies. Make you impact on Cozad and Give Big Cozad.

10/24/2025

10/22/2025

Impact Wednesday - today we are featuring L2 for Kids. L2 for Kids mission is to help families that struggle to get new clothes for their children for school. In 2025 they served 158 kids(70 families) get new clothes for school. Each child is given a certain amount of money based on their age and they are allowed to shop in Walmart and pick out the clothing they like. The cost of the clothing for those 158 kiddos was $14,348.00. Thanks to the money we allocate to them and several private donors no children were told no.
L2 for Kids directors are looking for help in Cozad to learn the program and possibly take over the Cozad portion of L2 for Kids. If you are interested in more information please contact them at [email protected] or Henry Potter at 308-530-0441

10/20/2025

Congratulations to the winners of our football pool Cozad vs Holdrege

Qtr 1 - Sera Shoemaker
Qtr 2 - Andy Jesseph
Qtr 3 - Lewanna Marsolek
Final - Marietta Adams

10/13/2025

The winners for our Football Pool for the Cozad vs Adams Central game are:

Qtr 1 - Karmen Morse
Qtr 2 - Angie Chavez
Qtr 3 - Lyle Davis
Final - Dave Lueth

Congratulations to all of the winners.

10/08/2025

Impact Wednesday - Today we are featuring Sheltering Hands (formerly Parent Child Center). From their 2024 Impact Report - they served 158 Survivors. These survivors include 115 domestic violence survivors, 9 sexual assault survivors, 12 child sexual abuse survivors, 17 stalking survivors, 3 survivors of childhood sexual abuse/incest and 2 human trafficking survivors. Services provided to these survivors included crisis intervention/safety planning, housing advocacy, legal advocacy, protection order assistance, emergency shelter, financial advocacy and assistance, children advocacy and activities, cultural advocacy, case management & transportation. No one should live in fear, it is not acceptable and together we can make it stop.