P4K Employee Spotlight: Porschea McAllister
Congratulations to P4K Program Coordinator, Porschea McAllister who is our featured employee spotlight this week! Porschea McAllister said the love and compassion P4K shows its students is the same qualities that P4K shows its employees. “Desmond Tutu said ‘We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.’ I believe that this quote summarizes what P4K not only strives to do, but does within its family. P4K is a family. Not just a family of coworkers, but of mentors and students and...
Read MoreThe Road to Success-Timberly Walker’s Story
Partnership 4 Kids (P4K) student, Timberly Walker plans to attend University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO) to study social work this fall. She is eager to dive into her classes and her new “college life”. But college wasn’t always part of Walker’s life plan, in fact, when she was in middle school she had already written college off as a pathway that wasn’t for her. After transitioning from elementary school to middle school, Walker struggled to make friends and to keep her grades up. Luckily, support from P4K staff, mentors and her fellow P4K classmates during her middle and high school...
Read MoreKnicely Done: Serena’s Success Story
Find out more about Serena Moore’s experience with P4K. Click HERE to read the full article.
Read MoreWe are looking for VISTA Summer Associates To Join Our Team!
Dreaming of summer on this overcast day? Check out our VISTA Summer Associate positions! The P4K Summer Associate will: -provide all staff support duties related to P4K summer programming for middle and high school students. – register students in workshops based on career interests, communicate this final registration information to students and parents, prepare attendance record tallies, and provide support needs for staff. – attend all summer workshops interacting with students and providing support staff needs including attendance, meals, office to workshop communication,...
Read MoreThank you for joining us at the P4K Holiday Open House
Happy Holidays to our 435+ volunteers and mentors, community advocates, and Board Members. We celebrate you and thank you for making a significant impact in our students. We thank you for joining us a the P4K Holiday Open House on December 14th. It was a pleasure to spend time with you during this holiday season. As a reminder, our office will be closed beginning Monday, December 25th through January 1, 2018. Happy Holidays from P4K!
Read MoreP4K’s Own Viridiana Almanza Named GrantWatch #WomanCrushWednesday Winner!
Congratulations go out to P4K’s own Viridiana Almanza who was named Grant Watch #WomanCrushWednesday Winner. Click HERE to read the full article.
Read MoreElva’s 2nd Semester Success!
“Partnership 4 Kids never lost hope in me, you gave hope to me and to my family.” Elva Ramirez is one of 100 students in the Partnership 4 Kids scholarship program. She is working towards a degree in Public Health at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Elva joined P4K as a freshman at Omaha South High School, after she learned how much her friend enjoyed being in the program. Finally, Elva asked how she could sign up. Elva applied, interviewed and was accepted into P4K by then Program Coordinator, Nick Sasada. “I remember Nick was such a nice person. He always said hi, and knew who I was....
Read MoreGive Back To P4K With The DataShield Challenge!
Attention all P4K corporate partners: Did you know your business can help support P4K, simply by using DataShield Corporation for your company’s document destroying needs? It’s true! For any P4K associated company that switches to DataShield for your document destruction needs, DataShield Corporation has generously agreed to donate the proceeds from the first two months of services they provide, right back to P4K. A special thanks to P4K corporate partner, Omaha Steaks, for blazing the trail as the very first business to take the DataShield Challenge, generating $1,000 in...
Read MoreShow Some P4K Love Through 2017 CFC Campaign
We are thrilled to announce that Partnership 4 Kids is a participating charity in the 2017 Heart of the Midlands Combined Federal Campaign! What is the Heart of the Midlands Combined Federal Campaign, you ask? The Combined Federal Campaign, or CFC, is the LARGEST annual federal workplace fund drive campaign IN THE WORLD. It allows thousands of federal workplace employees across the U.S. and the world to contribute to awesome charitable organizations that focus on education, human services and so much more. Locally, the Heart of the Midlands CFC reaches federal workers across Nebraska...
Read MoreLouie’s Wine Dive Grand Re-Opening, Mar. 4th -6th, To Benefit P4K!
We are thrilled to be a part of the grand re-opening celebration of what is shaking out to be the coolest new spot in town! The new owners of Louie’s Wine Dive have been working hard to give an old West “O” favorite a fresh new take sure to keep you coming back again and again. Louie’s has generously agreed to share 50% of opening weekend proceeds with P4K! Stop by any time March 4-6, 2016 and raise a glass to “The New Louie in Town” while you support P4K at the same time! Please note that reservations are HIGHLY encouraged. To make your reservations...
Read MoreP4K Scholar Spotlight: IK Igbinigie
IK Igbinigie completed four years of programming with Partnership 4 Kids before receiving P4K’s All Our Kids scholarship to attend UNO. He initially enrolled in P4K because he wanted assistance with college preparation and heard positive things about the program from his peers. He also wanted some additional help and mentoring as he set career and college goals. Since enrolling in Partnership 4 Kids IK has achieved great success. He graduated from North High School with a 4.3 GPA, and is currently a junior maintaining a 3.7 in his Biology major at UNO. IK says that the mentors...
Read MoreHerrre’s Johnny!
Meet John Matthews. He is P4K’s newest high school program coordinator and will be working with the 9th and 10th grade students and their mentors at Benson, North, and Northwest High Schools this fall. John says he looks forward to watching the students grow in their education and ability to fulfill their potential. “They accomplish so many wonderful things in a year, and it is very exciting to be a part of that,” he says. John is no stranger to helping students prepare for higher education. Prior to joining Team P4K, John worked as a program coordinator for P4K partner program, College...
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