Thank 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
read moreLet’s Meet Logan!
Meet Logan Campa! Logan is the newest member of Team P4K and will be serving as the agency’s high school and post secondary program coordinator. “I’m so excited to be working with students as they navigate higher education,” Logan says. Logan’s arrival to Partnership 4 Kids was quite an interesting journey. Born and raised in Hutchinson Minnesota, he studied History and Political Science with an emphasis in Middle Eastern studies at the University of Wisconsin-Superior. He studied abroad in Morocco and after graduation, decided to run for...
read moreStudents Explore Entrepreneurship With Sharks, Popcorn and P4K
There is an old cliché that says the smell of success is sweet, but if you were to ask 98 P4K 8th graders, they might say that success smells more like popcorn. During the month of February, P4K 8th grade students learned about the art of entrepreneurship by starting their own businesses selling –you guessed it—popcorn! “We knew that popcorn would sell well and that the students could imagine all sorts of different ways to make their business unique and set it apart from the other students’ popcorn businesses,” said Partnership 4 Kids Middle...
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