Prosper Lincoln News
The Future of Healthcare is in Collaboration
Lincoln healthcare providers need skilled staff. Lincoln people need stable careers. Prosper Lincoln’s Employment Skills goal of ensuring access to training and support for skilled in-demand jobs requires collaboration of the highest degree. The Southeast Nebraska...
Cathedral triples capacity for quality Early Childhood learning
One strategy to reach Prosper Lincoln’s Early Childhood goal of ensuring children are kindergarten ready, is to increase capacity of high quality programs. Jeremy Ekeler, Principal at Cathedral of the Risen Christ School, admitted that their day care and preschools...
The Future Builders Challenge 2018
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Bryan Seck to expand Prosper Lincoln work at Chamber
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...
High schoolers can prep now for in-demand careers
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...
Assessing and addressing Lincoln kids’ health
How do we accomplish the Prosper Lincoln goal to nurture every child on the path to success? The answer is multi-dimensional. One particular dimension is health, and the Prosper Lincoln Early Childhood Comprehensive Health Working Group recently released the latest...
Young entrepreneurs discover strengths at summer internship
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...
Partnerships Key to Restoring Malone Center
Clyde Malone Community Center has long been known for its after-school programming, primarily for Lincoln’s African American youth in the neighborhood between the University’s downtown campus and North 27th Street. The center’s new executive director, Kimberly Goins...
After-School Construction Club Introduces Students to Career Possibilities
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 hosts career fair for refugees
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...