Prosper Lincoln News
Building partnerships with business to build a pipeline of qualified employees
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...
Fostering a Love of Literacy: Through Libraries, Schools, and Families
When leaders at the Oakland (California) Public Library’s Melrose branch realized that they weren’t drawing a good crowd to their traditional story times—even though the sessions featured some dynamic children’s librarians—they decided they needed to try a different...
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....
Could we improve America by treating 2-year-olds better?
In Wichita, Kansas, single mother Tiffany McNitt sometimes cries after dropping her kids, aged 2 and 3, at their babysitter’s house on her way to work. It’s not just that she’ll miss them—she worries her children aren’t learning anything and are already falling...
East High Students Build Little Free Library…and relationships
Last spring, after a classroom discussion on the importance of reading, East High senior Chantel Bade mentioned that she'd like to keep a supply of books at the trailer court her dad manages. That thoughtful idea blossomed into a school-wide effort to build and stock...
Fun for the Littlest Learners
Learning doesn’t start on the first day of Kindergarten, so why wait until then to start a child’s education? Families in the South of Downtown neighborhood had a chance to kick-start their preschool-aged children’s education at an Early Childhood Fair at Everett...
Parents Burning the Midnight (and Weekend) Oil
Written by: Brian Knop, Fertility and Family Statistics Created by: United States Census Bureau Of the 72.3 million children in the United States living with at least one of their parents, 43 percent (31.0 million) live with a parent who is working a nonstandard...
Site visits connect university students with innovative jobs
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...
Early Childhood Community Conversation
Prosper Lincoln held an Early Childhood Comprehensive Health Community Visioning Session on November 2, 2017 to look for ways to ensure children are healthy and Kindergarten-ready. Read the compilation of results from the conversation here.
United Way to Fund Workforce Development
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...