This report shows the various collaborative projects between UNO and the community. Various filters are provided to gain a better understanding of how different UNO units collaborate with the community.
| Project | Project Focus Areas | Community Partners | Campus Partners | Engagement Type: | Activity Type: | Other Activity Type: | Start Semester: | Start Academic Year: | End Semester: | End Academic Year: | Total UNO Students: | UNO Students Hours: | UNO Faculty/Staff Hours: | Total K-12 Students: | K-12 Student Hours: | Total Number of Other Participants: | Topics: | Other Topics: | Description: | Subtags: |
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| Stephenson-Harrington Internship (SHI) - Jasmine (Fall 2017): 2017-18 (1252) | Arts, Culture and Humanities, Educational Support, Environmental Stewardship | inCOMMON Community Development | Goodrich Scholarship Program, Service Learning Academy (SLA) | Community-Based Learning | Internship/Externship | None | Fall | 2017-18 | Fall | 2017-18 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Neighborhood Revitalization, Raise Awareness, Other | Event Planning | The intern provided administrative support, assisted with the planning of the organization's first Gala, and worked with the Diamonds (youth group). | |
| Seven Days of Service - 3/19/18: 2017-18 (003) | Economic Impact, Environmental Stewardship | inCOMMON Community Development | Multicultural Greek Council, Student Service and Leadership Collaborative (The Collaborative) | Volunteering | Volunteerism | None | Spring | 2017-18 | None | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Neighborhood Revitalization | Volunteers will help prepare the grounds for spring and clean and refresh the common areas. | |||
| inCommon Survey (Fall 2019): 2019-20 (1311) | Economic Impact, Educational Support, Environmental Stewardship, Social Justice | inCOMMON Community Development | Support and Training for the Evaluation of Programs (STEPs) | Engaged Research | None | None | Fall | 2019-20 | Fall | 2019-20 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Employment and Workforce, Neighborhood Revitalization, Leadership and Mentoring, Capacity Building | STEPs will be partnering with inCommon, a nonprofit community development organization, to develop a database and interactive dashboards for their Park Avenue Social Capital Survey results. These evaluation resources will support the development of sustainable evaluation practices for inCommon. | ||
| inCOMMON Consulting (Spring 2020): 2019-20 (1335) | Educational Support, Social Justice | inCOMMON Community Development | Support and Training for the Evaluation of Programs (STEPs) | Knowledge and Resource Sharing | None | None | Spring | 2019-20 | None | None | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Capacity Building | Consultation - information TBD | ||
| Three Days of Service - 10/16/17: 2017-18 (119) | Economic Impact, Environmental Stewardship | inCOMMON Community Development | Student Service and Leadership Collaborative (The Collaborative) | Volunteering | Volunteerism | None | Fall | 2017-18 | None | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | Neighborhood Revitalization | Volunteers will be doing some fall cleaning at both our community center and our apartment complex. Some cleaning and organizing will be done inside, some outside. | |||
| 2023 7 Days of Service: 2022-23 (3032) | Social Justice | Abide Omaha, American Red Cross, Girl Scouts Spirit of Nebraska, Girls Inc., inCOMMON Community Development, Intercultural Senior Center, Keep Omaha Beautiful, League of Women Voters, Mlikweed Matters, NAMI Nebraska, Salvation Army | Volunteer and Civic Engagement Programs | Volunteering | Volunteerism | None | Spring | 2022-23 | Spring | 2022-23 | 25 | 350 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | The UNO community (students, faculty, and staff) and community members/organizations are invited to participate in serving the Omaha community in the areas of Health, International Service, Environment, Education, and Social Justice during 7 Days of Service! There will be various volunteer opportunities on-site at the organization, remotely, and on campus. | |||
| Fundamentals of Public Speaking -001(Spring 2024): 2023-24 (3258) | Educational Support | 3 Sisters, Abide Omaha, Building Bright Futures, Council Bluffs Pantry Association, Empowerment Network, Felius Cat Cafe and Rescue, Good New Jail and Prison Ministry, Habitat for Humanity: Council Bluffs, Heartland Equine Therapeutic Riding Academy (HETRA), Heartland Workers Center, inCOMMON Community Development, Mode Shift Omaha, Release Inc, Restored Wings, Ronald McDonald House Charities, Omaha, Trans Stitchin | Communication | Service Learning | None | None | Spring | 2023-24 | None | 24 | 288 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Students will be required to give two speeches for this course - an informative speech, and a persuasive speech. In the informative speech, the students will talk about their research on the different areas of improvement within the community. Following this speech, the students will each choose a nonprofit of their choice and give a persuasive speech as to how the nonprofit is contributing to the area of focus they chose for the informative speech. At the end of the semester, the students will vote for one organization to recieve the $1000 grant. CMST 1110.11 MPI | ||||
| Race, Crime, and Injustice(Fall 2023): 2023-24 (3153) | Social Justice | inCOMMON Community Development, Mental Health Association of Nebraska, Youth Emergency Services | College of Public Affiars and Community Service | Service Learning | None | None | Fall | 2023-24 | None | 26 | 338 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Students will work in groups (or independently) and partner with a local nonprofit organization to learn about their efforts to combat the effects of racism (i.e., redlining, mass incarceration, food deserts, inequitable public education, predatory lending, maternal mortality, and voter suppression) or any other “ism” covered in class. Students will research and inform fellow groups on the nonprofit organization’s history, significance, goals/mission statement, rationale, stakeholders and targeted groups, events, program activities, planned outcomes, clients, staffing, management plan, financial support/budget, and their personal experience volunteering at the organization. Each student is expected to volunteer at least five hours of community service to the selected organization from the list provided. Lastly, students will vote on which local nonprofit organization presented could most benefit from UNO’s $1,000 MPI course grant based on the course project findings. CRCJ 8120.001 |