Starting July 2, 2018, Bryan Seck, Prosper Lincoln’s co-Developer for Employment Skills took on a new position of Director of Workforce Development for the Lincoln Chamber of Commerce’s LPED (Lincoln Partnership for Economic Development). This role will continue and...
Lydia Clark loves watching home fix-up shows on the Home and Garden TV (HGTV). She dreams of someday restoring old homes. This interest led her to pursue the Construction pathway at The Career Academy (TCA) while she was in high school. While she took her high school...
Te’a Cushman, Northeast Rocket softball player and daughter of Rachelle Woodbury and Brent Cushman, wasn’t thinking about a career in business. Perhaps someday she’d go into law or medicine. So, when she took Gallup’s Builder Profile 10 (BP10) assessment in civics...
Safety first! Then, a career! Thirteen Arnold Elementary students participated in an afterschool club at the Arnold Community Learning Center which provided hands-on activities that really connected the kids with on-the-job experiences in road construction. Students...
Duncan Aviation recently hosted a career fair tailored for local refugees with legal status to work in the U.S. and by doing so, are stepping up to the Prosper Lincoln agenda focus on Employment Skills. Refugees are men and women who have escaped religious, ethnic or...
One of Prosper Lincoln’s strategic objectives related to the Innovation & Entrepreneurship focus area is to provide opportunities that will connect students to innovation. Thanks to the Future Builders Challenge, high school students in Lincoln can identify their...
Lincoln businesses now have a partner in helping them find the next great employee. Our local American Job Center (AJC) provider is ResCare Workforce Services, a national service provider dedicated to connecting talent to business. The AJC is building partnerships...
For the second time in 2017, Prosper Lincoln is working to reach its objectives to connect students to innovation and retain talent. A recent Reverse Pitch event was held at Nebraska Innovation Campus where more than 260 computer science and engineering students...
The Prosper Lincoln focus area of Employment Skills has the goal of ensuring access to training and support for skilled in-demand jobs. United Way of Lincoln/Lancaster County also understands that having a good job is a key to helping a family out of poverty. The...
The unemployment rate in Lincoln is one of the lowest in the nation. But we are challenged by a lack of available skilled talent that companies need to grow and thrive. At the same time, families are living in poverty while working multiple part-time jobs and jumping...