Projects Report
This report shows the various collaborative projects between UNO and the community.
Engagement Type:
Volunteering
Activity Type:
Volunteerism
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 9
Start Academic Year: 2017-18
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Total K-12 Students: 4
End Academic Year:
None
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
5
Topics:
Homelessness/Shelter
Description : Volunteers will be working at the Thrift Store to organize and sort donations.
Engagement Type:
Volunteering
Activity Type:
Volunteerism
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 0
Start Academic Year: 2017-18
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
None
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
32
Topics:
Food and Water Security, Employment and Workforce, Self-Sufficiency
Description : Volunteers will be creating materials for conservation education and hygiene for children and students in Madagascar.
Engagement Type:
Volunteering
Activity Type:
Volunteerism
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 3
Start Academic Year: 2017-18
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Total K-12 Students: 1
End Academic Year:
None
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
12
Topics:
Homelessness/Shelter
Description : Volunteers will assist with ReStore operations, which may include receiving donations, merchandising the store, cleaning, or organizing.
Engagement Type:
Volunteering
Activity Type:
Volunteerism
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 2
Start Academic Year: 2017-18
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
None
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
2
Topics:
Homelessness/Shelter
Description : Volunteers will assist with assembling packets of information and other organization tasks.
Engagement Type:
Volunteering
Activity Type:
Volunteerism
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 14
Start Academic Year: 2017-18
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
None
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Homelessness/Shelter
Description : Volunteers will be assisting in the ReStore by rearranging, cleaning, and organizing inventory.
Engagement Type:
Knowledge and Resource Sharing
Activity Type:
Workshop
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 0
Start Academic Year: 2019-20
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Fall
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2019-20
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Education, Veteran Support, Poetry
Description : For this project Todd Robinson led a writing workshop at the Willa Cather branch library for Nebraska Warrior Writers, an organization of military veterans, in which we read several poems about place before writing of our own roots.
Engagement Type:
Knowledge and Resource Sharing
Activity Type:
Access to Higher Education
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 0
Start Academic Year: 2021-22
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
None
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Education, Disadvantaged Populations, Employment and Workforce, Capacity Building
Description : Based on data from the state if NE department of education's financial aid office it shows that completion and submission rates are below the national average and that the target of OPS 7 high schools showed that they are below the state average. State is lower than the national. Urban league and Goodrich have partnered to learn how the pandemic has contributed to the change and the role that FAFSA plays in that. Source link for other impacts/outcomes of 19 + million lost by the state. The project contributes to student sucess for UBL students and enrollment overall. Addtionally, it benefits youth who can't access higher education when able based on deadlines, supports state funds driven by FAFSA dollars, allows Goodrich to connect potential students who might benefit from better deadlines and possible increase for them to work with the seven omaha public schools to help them understand the barriers due to lack of bandwidth, and this support UBL as a pipeline program.
Engagement Type:
Knowledge and Resource Sharing
Activity Type:
Specialized service contract
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 0
Start Academic Year: 2020-21
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Spring
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2020-21
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Wellness, Aging, Business, Economic Sufficiency Awareness, Raise Awareness
Description : The Dundee Book Company's outdoor reading series was the first in Omaha to re-emerge after the pandemic, and has given poets, essayists, and fiction writers from Omaha and Lincoln an opportunity to promote new work for the first time since the pandemic began. Crowd sizes ranged between 10-40. Todd Robinson introduced readers to the audience, promoted the reading series, and supported the bookstore.
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
Course
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 18
Start Academic Year: 2017-18
UNO Student Hours: 198
End Semester:
None
Total K-12 Students: 8
End Academic Year:
None
K-12 Student Hours: 8
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Food and Water Security, Inter/Trans-culture
Description : UNO professor Dr. Johnathan Benjamin Alvarado partnered with UNO adjunct professor and South High Magnet School faculty Mr. Gutierrez to assist the Heartland Worker’s Center in their “I Vote for My Family” campaign that worked to increase voter turnout of South Omaha residents for the midterm election. Students learned about issues that affect Latino voters and barriers the Latino population face in America’s political system while they worked alongside the staff at the Heartland Worker’s Center (HWC) canvassing, phone banking, and knocking doors. The students, faculty, HWC staff, and community members celebrated their diligence at the Heartland Worker’s Center while sharing pupusas and pan dulce.
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
Course
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 14
Start Academic Year: 2017-18
UNO Student Hours: 140
End Semester:
None
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
None
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Homelessness/Shelter
Description : Holocaust center - writing transcripts of a documentary of one of the survivors