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Fresh Start Home Fresh Start is a transitional home in Lincoln, Nebraska for women who are moving out of homelessness.

Our caring case managers assist and support the women who are working diligently to improve their lives.

🎉 R U N Y O U R W A Y TO F U N W A Y ! ! ! 🏃‍♀️Our Project Funway event is happening in just FOUR DAYS!!! Do you...
10/27/2026

🎉 R U N Y O U R W A Y TO F U N W A Y ! ! ! 🏃‍♀️

Our Project Funway event is happening in just FOUR DAYS!!! Do you have your tickets yet?!!? Grab your besties, dress as you wish (feathered-boas-and-sequins folks, we see you!), and get on down to the Cornhusker Hotel on Friday evening for finger food, fun folks, fantastic fashion, and a FABULOUS FUNDRAISER: supporting the women of Fresh Start.

🆕🆕🆕NEW THIS YEAR: Because this is the final year of our event's theme, we're looking back with retrospection, ahead with anticipation, and going out with a bang!

🌟⭐BEFORE the show, we're featuring a JUDGES SHOWCASE comprised of garments made by our judges, all of whom have previously participated in our event.

👗👘👠AFTER THE COMPETITION, we'll feature an ALUMNAE SHOWCASE featuring designs by more than ten of our past star-studded designers.

🪡🔵THE GRAND FINALE? The runway debut of the culminating design of a community art and fashion sustainability initiative led by our UNL Nebraska Textiles, Merchandising & Fashion Design friends, and possibly featuring contributions by members of our own audience!!!

This is your 16th and final chance to be part of the FUN. - ticket 🔗👇🏻

🎉🎉 CHECK OUT OUR SILENT AUCTION ITEMS!! You can now start bidding!! Instructions, details, availability, and the link ar...
10/24/2026

🎉🎉 CHECK OUT OUR SILENT AUCTION ITEMS!! You can now start bidding!! Instructions, details, availability, and the link are below. Bidding closes at the end of the Project Funway evening on Friday, Oct. 30. Thank you for supporting the women of Fresh Start.

❤️❤️❤️ UNL BIG EVENT volunteers came to Fresh Start and helped us with Project Funway prep today!! Our new friends (and ...
10/24/2026

❤️❤️❤️ UNL BIG EVENT volunteers came to Fresh Start and helped us with Project Funway prep today!! Our new friends (and incredibly hard workers!) included a pre-nursing undergraduate, a rural-community child nutritionist graduate student, and a doctoral student helping create a heart-disease vaccine for humans!!! We are inspired by their huge hearts and gorgeous minds. Thank you Monique, Paula, and Shraddha, who are extraordinary women who are helping other extraordinary women. 💚💚💚

📞💸 TRUE STORY: Imagine picking up a surprise phone call from a neighbor you’ve never met, who tells you her employer has...
10/20/2026

📞💸 TRUE STORY: Imagine picking up a surprise phone call from a neighbor you’ve never met, who tells you her employer has decided to award your nonprofit a $10,000 grant! 😱

That’s exactly what happened, thanks to our amazing Havelock neighbor Deb Fritz and her employer, Crum & Forster! 🎉

This gift is deeply appreciated, especially now, as one of our largest funding contracts recently had its budget slashed. Generosity like this keeps our work going. 💙

THANK YOU, DEB! 🙌

👉 Read the full story here: https://freshstarthome.org/article/2026/10/09/fresh-start-receives-unexpected-gift

💪 🔥Thank you to our WONDER(ful) Women of Steel, who SHOWED UP for our residents! They traveled from across multiple stat...
10/17/2026

💪 🔥Thank you to our WONDER(ful) Women of Steel, who SHOWED UP for our residents! They traveled from across multiple states to be right here in Lincoln, bringing heaps of love in many forms!! 💚

Not only did they donate a TON of items for our residents and alumnae community support program, they stayed to volunteer for the afternoon. Some sorted donations for The Daisy Thrift Shop, while others wrote letters of encouragement that our staff will pass along whenever a resident has a rough or sad day.

Our residents were truly touched that so many WOMEN care about THEM, and they’re still buzzing with gratitude that someone came all this way to help. Thank you, Women of Steel! Your words of hope, belief, and encouragement are among the greatest gifts our residents could ever receive. (Don't miss the incredible 3D pop-up card by special guest Ken that reads, in part, words from Les Misérables: "Even the darkest nights will end...and the SUN will rise again...and so will YOU!")

Maybe this weekend you can take a moment to write a letter to someone you know whose heart is ready for someone to fill it with a touch of joy, too. 💚

We never know what wildly imaginative creations our designers at Project Funway will come up with, but how clever is thi...
10/15/2026

We never know what wildly imaginative creations our designers at Project Funway will come up with, but how clever is this dress made from shopping bags from a well-known STORE?!?! Fresh Start Home Nebraska Textiles, Merchandising & Fashion Design

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/19i1Vzaq3j/

GET YOUR TICKETS THIS WEEK so we can include you in our food counts. YAY - the party's almost here!!!!

💚💚 Today, our residents surprised Executive Director Monica Zinke to honor her Founders Award from Inspire: Celebratin...
10/15/2026

💚💚 Today, our residents surprised Executive Director Monica Zinke to honor her Founders Award from Inspire: Celebrating Women's Leadership! With decorated garden rocks and a perennial we hope will bloom in spring, they created a lasting tribute right outside her office window. Any tears shed were tears of gratitude, empowerment, and heartfelt love. 💚 Women celebrating women...is ALWAYS beautiful.

👋 Many hands make light work! 👋 We recently welcomed volunteers from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a...
10/14/2026

👋 Many hands make light work! 👋 We recently welcomed volunteers from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and WOW, they pitched in and worked together so warmly, efficiently, and as an incredible team. They sorted donations and hung and organized clothes for our Daisy Thrift Shop. Like the many groups already reaching out to us for holiday gift planning for our residents, THANK YOU to every hand and heart that supports our amazing women here at Fresh Start. 💚💚 Family & Friends of the Lincoln Nebraska Stake

🎉 CALLING ALL DESIGNER ALUMNI!! As part of celebrating Project Funway's 16th and final event, we have created an opportu...
10/13/2026

🎉 CALLING ALL DESIGNER ALUMNI!! As part of celebrating Project Funway's 16th and final event, we have created an opportunity for past designers to showcase an item on the runway after the competition portion of the show!! Links in the comments. Register by Friday, Oct. 16 -- and share this message with your friends who also participated so they can join the fun, too! See you Friday, Oct. 30, designers!!

⚠ 👗 👠 FASHIONISTAS, DON'T PANIC! Nebraska Textiles, Merchandising & Fashion Design students are hard at work on their cr...
10/12/2026

⚠ 👗 👠 FASHIONISTAS, DON'T PANIC! Nebraska Textiles, Merchandising & Fashion Design students are hard at work on their creations for Project Funway. And because their program is sadly ending after this year, they're doing something for the first time ever: creating their masterpieces from damaged, deaccessioned clothing in the department's historical collection. We can't promise Jackie Kennedy wore any of it...but we can't promise she didn't, either!

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