Consolidated Companies, Inc., headquartered in Lincoln, has been honored with the 2012 Outstanding Corporation Award presented by the Association of Professional Fundraisers – Nebraska Chapter. This award recognizes a business with a strong record of exceptional generosity that, through direct financial support, has demonstrated outstanding civic and charitable responsibility and has encouraged and motivated others in the community to take leadership roles in philanthropy and community involvement.

Consolidated Companies, headquartered in Lincoln, was nominated by the Nebraska Community Foundation and was recognized at a celebration of National Philanthropy Day at the Embassy Suites in Lincoln on Tuesday, November 13.

Consolidated Companies, a family-owned business, is a telecommunications provider for communities in central and western Nebraska. The company has invested vast financial resources in order to keep many of Nebraska’s most remote communities connected to the world by providing telephone, broadband and digital television. It also has invested charitable resources in economic development, infrastructure, schools, and young people because, as the company slogan explains, “It’s our home, too.”

For information about Consolidated Companies, Inc. visit: www.nebnet.net.