Over 1,100 people gathered at Pinnacle Bank Arena, on the morning of February 10, 2016, to hear about the work accomplished through Prosper Lincoln and to learn how to get involved in helping lift Lincoln to even higher heights. This video contains the Prosper Lincoln...
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Louder Than a Bomb Slam Poetry Video
On the morning of February 10, 2016, at Pinnacle Bank Arena, over 1,100 people attended the Prosper Lincoln Summit. They came to hear about work accomplished and to learn how to get involved in helping Lift Lincoln Higher. Thanks to The Nebraska Writers Collective,...
Lincoln Vital Signs 2016
In early 2014, Lincoln philanthropic organizations, the business community, the City of Lincoln and Lancaster County commissioned a report called Lincoln Vital Signs. The purpose was to create a shared understanding of our city, both its strengths and its challenges....
How Emerging Entrepreneurial Hubs Are Becoming America’s New Boomtowns
Published 2/17/2016 Two studies released last week indicate that at least a handful of smaller cities in the US, including the Raleigh-Durham area of North Carolina, Salt Lake City, Jacksonville, Florida and Nashville are emerging as places that investors and...
MORE THAN 2,100 IDEAS
Published 1/21/2016 The Prosper Lincoln Engagement Team invited representatives from all sectors of our city – businesses, nonprofit organizations, neighborhoods, government, faith communities, philanthropies and individuals – to answer, “What should our community do...
Early Childhood Best Practices – National
Published 1/20/2016 Ages 0-3 Early Childhood Home Visiting [DHHS Maternal and Child Health www.mchb.hrsa.gov/programs/homevisiting; DHHS Administration for Children & Families www.homvee.acf.hhs.gov; Zero to Three www.zerotothree.org; example: Every Child Succeeds...
Invest in Early Childhood Development
“The highest rate of return in early childhood development comes from investing as early as possible, from birth through age five, in disadvantaged families. Starting at age three or four is too little too late, as it fails to recognize that skills beget skills in a...
Make it Work for Lincoln
Published 1/20/2016 ATD Lincoln formed the Knowledge Management Council (KMC) in response to a perception of business managers that it was becoming difficult to find enough employees with the necessary skills and experience to fill local job vacancies. Over the past...
Lincoln Business Skills & Training Requirements
Published 1/20/2016 This report discusses the results from the Make it Work for Lincoln survey of employers conducted by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Bureau of Business Research (UNL-BBR). The survey of employers in the Lincoln Metropolitan Area was conducted...
Perceptions of Personal & Community Satisfaction
Published 1/20/2016 The 2014 Nebraska Metro Poll continues an on-going effort to understand the perceptions and concerns of urban residents. The Metro Poll expands upon the efforts of the Omaha Conditions Survey conducted by the Center for Public Affairs Research...