service-learning academy community partners.

We have relationships with these partners in the community, whose Web sites are provided here. When the organizations have composed wish lists of potential service-learning projects they would like to have undertaken, they are linked herein. If you cannot open the wish lists, please download and install the latest version of Adobe Reader.

Please contact the Service Learning Academy Community Liaison, Carlynn Hartman-Kurtz, at 554-2712 or chartmankurtz@mail.unomaha.edu before contacting community partners directly.

The community partners are divided into the following categories:

• Children, Youth and Family
• Community and Government
• Education and Arts
• Elderly
• Environment
• Faith-Based and Ethnic Organizations
• Health, Safety, and Disability
• Gender and Domestic Violence
• Housing and Poverty
• Immigration
• Substance Abuse

Children, Youth, and Family

• Bethesda After School Academy (Wish List) (Welcome Letter)
• Big Brothers Big Sisters of Midlands
• Boy Scouts Mid-America Council
• Boys and Girls Clubs
• Camp Fire USA, Midlands Council (Proposal and Wish Lists)
• Child and Family Development Center
• Child Saving Institute
• Children's Respite Care Center
• Christ Child Society (Wish List)
• Edmonson Youth Outreach
• Financial Stability Partnership
• Girl Scouts - Great Plains Chapter
• Girls and Boys Town
• Girls Inc. of Omaha
• Heartland Equine Therapeutic Riding Academy (HETRA) (Wish List)
• Heartland Family Service (Wish List)
• Make-A-Wish Foundation
• North Omaha Good News Bears (Wish List) (Information File)
• Omaha Healthy Kids Alliance (Wish List)
• Social Settlement Association (Wish List)
• Take Flight Farms Project (Wish List)
• Turning Point Campus (Wish List)
• Uta Halee Girls' Village and Cooper Village for Boys
• Youth Emergency Services (YES)

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Community and Government

• Belvedere Point Neighborhood Association (Wish List)
• Carter Lake Resource Center
• City Sprouts
• Clean Solutions for Omaha (CSO!)
• Community Academy
• Community Alliance
• Concord Center
• Dahlman Neighborhood Association
• Destination Midtown (Wish List)
• Douglas County Department of Corrections
• Financial Stability Partnership
• Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce
• LaVista Chamber of Commerce
• MAT
• Mayor's Office - Hotline Database
• Nebraska Advocates for Justice and Equality
• Nebraska City Managers Association, Benchmarks for Public Works
• Nebraska Department of Economic Development
• Nebraska Humane Society (Wish List)
• Nebraska Public Policy Center
• Neighborhood Builders
• Neighborhood Center of Greater Omaha
• New Community Development Corporation
• Omaha City Planning
• Omaha Home for Boys
• Omaha Main Streets
• Omaha Neighborhood Center
• Omaha Workforce Development
• Opportunities Industrialization Center (Wish List)
• Plattsmouth Municipal Airport
• Safe Night
• United Way of the Midlands (volunteer job listings)
• Urban League of Nebraska
• Volunteers Intervening for Equity (VIE)
• Wells Fargo Bank (philanthropic guidelines)
• YMCA--Metro Office

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Education and Arts

• Blackburn Alternative High School (Omaha Public Schools)
• Heartland School
• Holy Name School
• KIOS-FM (Omaha Public Schools)
• Lauritzen Gardens (Wish List)
• Literacy Center of the Midlands
• Mid-City Conservatory
• Omaha Children's Museum (Wish List)
• Omaha Community Playhouse
• Omaha Public Schools
• Phoenix Academy
• Project Omaha (Omaha History Museum at Omaha South High School)
• Take Flight Farms Project (Wish List)

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Elderly

• Brush Up Nebraska Paint-A-Thon
• Eastern Nebraska Office on Aging (Grandparent Resource Center Wish List)
• Franciscan Adult Day Center
• Helping Hands (Keep Omaha Beautiful)
• OASIS (Salvation Army)
• Social Settlement Association (Wish List)

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Environment

• Environmental Protection Agency
• Nebraska Humane Society (Wish List)
• Omaha Healthy Kids Alliance (Wish List)
• Sierra Club (Wish List)

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Faith-Based and Ethnic Organizations

• Catholic Charities
• Christian Outreach Program of Elkhorn (COPE) (Wish List)
• Cush Community Lutheran Church
• El Museo Latino
• Jewish Community Center
• Juan Diego Center (Catholic Charities)
• Latina Resource Center
• Latino Center of the Midlands (Formerly Chicano Awareness Center)
• Lutheran Family Services of Nebraska
• Salvation Army
• Sisters Together, Omaha Chapter
• Southern Sudan Community Organization
• St. Margaret Mary Catholic Church
• St. Vincent de Paul Society
• Turning Point Campus (Wish List)

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Health, Safety, and Disability

• Alegent Health
• Alegent Health Community Benefit Trust
• American Cancer Society
• American Heart Association
• American Lung Association (Wish List)
• American Red Cross
• Angels Among Us (Wish List)
• Arthritis Foundation
• Career Solutions, Inc.
• Center for Holistic Development
• Douglas County Health Department
• Easter Seals
• Heartland Equine Therapeutic Riding Academy (HETRA) (Wish List)
• Heartland School
• Hope Medical (Wish List)
• Lead Safe Omaha Coalition
• Methodist Hospital
• National Safety Council, Greater Omaha Chapter
• Nebraska AIDS Project
• Nebraska Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing
• Nebraska Safety Council
• Ollie Webb Center (Wish List)
• Omaha Healthy Kids Alliance (Wish List)
• Omaha Healthy Start Initiative
• Omaha Hearing School for Children, Inc.
• OneWorld Community Health Centers
• Region 6 Behavioral Healthcare (Wish List)
• Sisters Together, Omaha Chapter
• Visiting Nurse Association
• University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC)
• Word of Mouth (Wish List)

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Gender and Domestic Violence

• Domestic Violence Coordinating Council of Greater Omaha
• Rape/Spouse Abuse Crisis Center
• YWCA

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Housing and Poverty

• Augustana Cornerstone Foundation (Wish List)
• Douglas County Housing Authority
• Eastern Nebraska Community Action Partnership (Formerly Greater Omaha Community Action) (Wish List)
• Family Housing Advisory Services
• Financial Stability Partnership
• Habitat for Humanity
• Habitat ReSTORE
• Lincoln Medical Education Foundation, Pathways to Self-Sufficiency Program
• Messenger of Hope Ministries (MOHM's Place)
• Micah House (Wish List)
• Nebraska Appleseed Foundation
• Open Door Mission and Lydia House
• Siena/Francis House
• The Food Bank (Wish List)
• Together, Inc.
• United States Department of Housing and Urban Development

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Immigration

• Immigrant Rights Network of Iowa and Nebraska
• International Center for the Heartland

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Substance Abuse

• Omaha Campus for Hope (Catholic Charities)

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