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Partnered with churches to launch adopt-a-school and adopt-a-block strategies;

Partnered with healthy family organizations to launch Marriage is Cool initiative reaching hundreds of High School students;

Partnered with healthy family organizations to create and expand mentoring initiatives;

Partnered with healthy family organizations to provide pregnancy prevention training in public schools and gained support to offer marriage and relationship education sessions;

Partnered with housing organizations to promote home ownership and prevent foreclosures;

Hosted meetings, conferences, and major events, engaging hundreds of participants focused on economics, health, education, violence prevention, and voting;

Helped to enhance, develop and promote existing and new communications and media vehicles, including newspaper, magazine, internet, e-mail, etc.

Provided training opportunities for churches, non-profits, businesses, and other organizations;

Worked together to produce an African-American physician’s directory & African-American behavioral health directory;

Partnered with Building Bright Futures to host the first interactive community outreach meeting and launch significant community initiatives to improve academic success;

Supported efforts to help High School students receive college credits, achieve scholarships, and make the successful transition to post secondary opportunities;

Partnered with the North Omaha Voter participation projects to help increase voter turnout; Partnered with other organizations to help register over 12,000 new voters;

Partnered to host and promote voter education events;

Helped reduce gang-related gun violence and homicides in 2008 and 2009;

Partnering with organizations to recruit and expand summer employment opportunities for youth and young adults;

Partnered with Omaha Economic Development Corporation to expand the Community Planning and Real Estate Academy;

Currently working with North Omaha Neighborhood Associations to launch the North Omaha Neighborhood Alliance;

Currently working with partners to launch the North Omaha Arts Alliance;

Partnered with the Urban League, 100 Black Men, and Paul Bryant to host the 1st and 2nd Black Male Summit, reaching over 150 African-American Male 9th Graders and over 40 African-American Male Role Models.

Developed the following collaborations:

Omaha 360 Violence Intervention and Prevention Collaboration
North Omaha Cradle to Career Collaboration
North Health and Healthy Family Initiative
North Omaha Arts Alliance
Pastors, Ministers, and Faith Leaders Covenant
Village Zone Housing and Neighborhood Development
Village Stakeholder Meetings
Economic Task Force
Employment and Entrepreneurship Collaboration
North Omaha Neighborhood Alliance