College of public affairs and community service

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The College of Public Affairs and Community Service (CPACS) helps ensure the university is responsive to the critical social needs and concerns of the community and state. The college offers academic and professional programs to prepare students for careers in criminal justice, gerontology, public administration, aviation and social work. In all of its efforts, the college gives particular emphasis to UNO’s commitment to service in the community.

As the university’s designated nonprofit charitable organization, the University of Nebraska Foundation is pleased to be the college’s gift and fund manager. All contributions go completely and directly to the area you designate.

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UNO Fund – Public Affairs and Community Service

The CPACS Fund for Excellence helps meet the greatest needs of the college by providing crucial scholarship dollars to students in financial need, research awards to faculty, and travel support for students attending academic conferences, to name a few.


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When you make a gift to the University of Nebraska Foundation you can trust that it will be used in the way in which it was intended. That’s a promise we’ve kept with our donors since our organization was founded in 1936.