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The UNO Barbara Weitz Community Engagement Center offers unique office spaces for community organizations.

We aren’t your average office rental space!

The CEC is a unique and welcoming office environment that offers opportunities for collaboration, capacity-building, organizational growth, and campus partnerships.

By having office space in the CEC, located on UNO’s beautiful Dodge Street campus, our building partners thrive in a collaborative and vibrant community that offers the following benefits:

  • Early reservation access to the CEC’s extensive, free meeting spaces and parking
  • Easy access to immediate/last-minute meeting rooms
  • Guest parking for meetings and events (large events, immediate or on demand parking needs, list access, etc.)
  • On-site free, secure wireless and videoconferencing
  • Access to copier rooms and UNO Creative Production Lab
  • Student-run welcome and information desk for guests
  • Belonging to a community of supportive nonprofits that share expertise and resources
  • Access to world-class faculty experts and their students for program evaluation, research, and consultation
  • Increased organizational capacity through UNO's nationally recognized Service Learning Academy
  • Facilitated connections to UNO students as interns, volunteers, and employees
  • Student energy and ideas in the same space
  • Facilities and amenities available on campus (e.g., library, fitness center, food, etc.)
  • Central, accessible, and bike-friendly location in the center of Omaha, in walking distance of Elmwood Park
  • Ideal satellite office space for large organizations who are interested in connecting with UNO’s students, faculty and researchers.


Types of Community Organizations in the CEC

  • Nonprofits
  • Multi-agency collaborations focused on a project for public benefit
  • Government projects or initiatives (governmental organizations)
  • Micro-enterprise organizations (must have a major social entrepreneurship or public good/benefit component)
  • Institutions of higher education (including other NU campuses), early childhood, K-12 and/or K-16 initiatives
  • Philanthropic initiatives, programs, or organizations

Before You Apply

Organizations will need to include the following information attached with their application:

  • Current year budget, YTD vs Actual, current Financial Statement, Budget for Next Fiscal Year
  • Most recent strategic plan
  • Organization’s listing of current board members/directors

How to Apply for Office Space

  • Start by contacting us regarding your interest in office space
    • Heike Langdon, the CEC's Manager of Possibilities, will email you to set up a meeting to discuss your interest and get access to the application
  • Review our rental fees
  • Review this shared commitment document
  • Review the before you apply section above
  • Submit your application
  • Go through a committee review and approval process

For Approved Applicants

  • Approved applicants provide required documentation including a signed lease agreement, certificate of Insurance with limits of $1,000,000 per occurrence, and $3,000,000 aggregate naming the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska as an additional insured, and go through the orientation process.
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Applications are due on the first business day of every month.

You can request more information and sign-up for email alerts by contacting us at cec.unomaha.edu/contact.

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