Overview
The Cultural Centers of Lincoln serves as a model of multicultural collaboration to develop a public dialogue that will increase understanding of the value of diversity for Lincoln/Lancaster County and all Nebraska communities. While each community cultural center represents a distinct constituency, they share many characteristics, values, and goals. The Cultural Centers of Lincoln operates to support the individual centers, while building upon their strengths in a collaborative manner to produce community outcomes centered on diversity, social justice, and cultural competency.
Ponca Tribe of Nebraska
In order to restore, preserve and protect all rights aboriginally held by our people and their descendants, promote peace, prosperity, happiness, and the general welfare of the members of our Tribe and our posterity, to exercise home rule, to assert our inherent sovereignty, to protect our right of self-government, to conserve custom, to improve our social order, to protect our rights as individuals, to promote our economic welfare, to promote domestic tranquility, to promote business enterprises both cooperative and individual, to promote educational opportunities for all Ponca people, to consolidate our land holdings by purchase, exchange, transfer, gift, or otherwise, do ordain and establish this Constitution in accordance with our inherent sovereignty, and all previous aboriginal rights of our members and Treaties previously entered into with the United States of America.
Asian Community and Cultural Center
Serving All Refugees and Immigrants, Celebrating Cultural Heritage: Support and empower all refugees and immigrants through programs and services and advance sharing of the Asian Culture and other cultural heritages in our community.
The El Centro de las Américas
To promote the self-sufficiency and self-determination of Latino families and community by providing bilingual, high quality social, educational, economic, public health and advocacy services.