Prosper Lincoln News
Nebraska Supports A Quality Early Childhood Workforce
Published 5/13/2016 Parents, child care providers and local communities across the state recognize the importance the early years play in determining success in school and later in life. In an effort to contain significant remediation expenditures in K-12 and other...
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...
SILICON PRAIRIE: Tech Startups Bring Innovation to the Midwest
Across the Great Plains -- even in winter -- the new cash crop is high tech. Tech companies are bringing thousands of people to the Midwest in what is being called America’s new innovation frontier. Mark Strassmann reports on CBS THIS MORNING. To view this broadcast,...
Prosper Lincoln Summit Video 2016
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...
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...