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2. Boys Town (organization) - Wikipedia

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   Boys Town's fundraising practices drew scrutiny in 1972 after the Omaha Sun, a local newspaper, investigated the nonprofit after a tip from local Omaha businessman Warren Buffett. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] The charity was found to have an endowment of over $191 million in 1971, enough to place it at #230 on the Fortune 500 , yet continued to fundraise even ...

3. Boys Town, Nebraska - Wikipedia

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   The village of Boys Town was established on December 12, 1917 as the headquarters of Father Flanagan's Boys' Home (), founded by Father Edward J. Flanagan. [6]The village houses the national headquarters of Boys Town, homes for the youth served and the families that care for them, a church, a museum (The Hall of History), a school, a post office, a fire station, visitor’s center, cafe and ...

4. Boys Town - Wikipedia

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   Boys Town, Nebraska, a suburb of Omaha, USA Boy's Town (prostitution) , Mexican US-border district with legal prostitution Boyztown , a gay red-light district in Pattaya, Thailand

5. Reports of sex abuse at iconic Boys Town youth home in Omaha ...

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   An Omaha native, she also is the daughter of reporter Mick Rood, who shared a Pulitzer Prize for local investigative reporting at the Omaha Sun newspapers in 1973 for a special report on Boys Town ...

6. Edward J. Flanagan - Wikipedia

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   Flanagan was moved by the plight of youth. In 1917, he founded a home for homeless boys in Omaha. Bishop Jeremiah James Harty of the Diocese of Omaha had misgivings, but endorsed Flanagan's experiment of housing and education. Because the downtown facilities were inadequate, Flanagan established Boys Town, ten miles west of Omaha, in 1921 ...

7. West Omaha, Omaha, Nebraska - Wikipedia

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   Ralston, a city in south-central Douglas County surrounded by Omaha on three sides and roughly bounded by 72nd to the east, 84th to the west, L on the north, and Harrison on the south. Elkhorn, on the outskirts of western Omaha and annexed in 2007; Millard, a broad area of southwest Omaha and annexed in 1971.