Ninety minutes pass quickly as Prosper Lincoln drivers gather once a month to provide updates and collaborate on the many community-wide efforts taking place to lift Lincoln higher. What started as 2,100 ideas to address the 2014 Lincoln Vital Signs findings has...
Strong Neighborhoods
Meet Your CLC Community Builders
Using Asset Based Community Development (ABCD) framework, these four-quadrant based CLC Community Builders work with CLC Schools, Families and Neighborhoods to build relationships, make connections, and elevate community/resident voices. Jodi-Renee Giron, NE...
Closing the digital divide
The Internet is a major part of our lives. If we need an answer, we Google it. If we want to stay connected with friends and family, we use Facebook, Snapchat, or Twitter. Students need the Internet to create and submit homework. Families use it to find information...
Three Principles to Improve Outcomes for Children and Families
Recent advances in the science of brain development offer us an unprecedented opportunity to solve some of society’s most challenging problems, from widening disparities in school achievement and economic productivity to costly health problems across the lifespan....
Bump in U.S. Incomes Doesn’t Erase 50 Years of Pain
Incomes are up. Poverty is down. And job openings have hit a record high. But if the economy is so wonderful, why are so many Americans still feeling left behind? The disconnect between positive statistics and people’s day-to-day lives is one of the great economic and...
Working Together Coast-To-Coast On Issues Critical To Kids and Communities
There may be no idea more fundamental to our national identity and values than this: every child deserves the opportunity to reach his/her full potential. But right now only some kids have that chance. Millions face a narrowing of opportunity that threatens not only...
Vision What’s Possible
Published 3/29/2016 NAC48 project gains momentum with employment skills focus The Northwest 48th Neighborhood Advisory Council (NAC48) has taken valuable steps toward its goal to improve employability and career paths for residents of the Arnold neighborhood...
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...
Community, well‐being & future outlook
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...
Neighborhoods and Healthy Child Development
A child’s neighborhood can play an important role in his or her physical, mental, and emotional development. Studies show that over and above individual and family-level influences, a person's neighborhood income level in childhood can profoundly affect his or her...