LPD, Malone Center hand out money to community members [Video]

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The Malone Center partnered with the Lincoln Police Department this holiday season to hand out $18,000 to unsuspecting families.

The Random Acts of Kindness program handed out envelopes last week with $300 in cash to 60 Lincoln families over the past week.

“We run a lot of holiday events for the community. Random Acts of Kindness by far is my favorite,” Ishma Valenti, Malone’s director of teen programming and community engagement, said Monday during a ceremony to recognize the giving effort. “The impact is immediate, the impact is real and it’s genuine.”

Lincoln Police Officer Cameron Hruza (back left) and Capt. Tarvis Banks (back right) gave Goldie Hardeway and EJ Hardeway their Random Act of Kindness gift at the Belmont Community Center on Friday.

LPD officers handed out envelopes at multiple community centers around Lincoln, including Belmont Community Center, where Madisen Hansen, a single mother of two young children, received …

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