SEARCH RESULTS

Gifts to this fund provide much-needed scholarships to students in the College of Nursing. Scholarships may be awarded at both the undergraduate and graduate levels and to students studying at any of the College of Nursing’s five campuses.

A gift to this fund benefits and supports the general needs of the department, including awards for faculty, scholarships for students, grants for travel, and support for student activities and awards.

• UNK

The Barbara L. Johnson Endowment for Student Community Services provides annual support for UNK’s Campus Kitchen and its mission to feed in-need community members.

• Uncategorized

UNL’s Veterinary Diagnostic Center needs to raise money for new state-of-the-art facility.

• UNMC

Cancer survivor’s generosity benefits UNMC and others who’ve helped him Steve Sears has been highly successful in his life. After receiving his undergraduate degree in accounting from the University of Kansas, he went to Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management to get his M.B.A. He was hired by PepsiCo shortly after graduating and spent two […]

• UNK

by Kristin Howard Sarah Collins, a sophomore from Omaha, knew she wanted to be a teacher long before choosing the University of Nebraska at Kearney. She expected a standard arc of education classes to prepare her with method and theory, then a semester of student teaching to get real-world experience to launch her career in […]

• News Release
• Women Investing in Nebraska

Women Investing in Nebraska (WIN) has awarded two grants that total $168,000 to help Nebraska’s veterans with legal services and help University of Nebraska students with the cost of learning materials. Legal Aid of Nebraska received an $84,000 grant to assist in its services to military veterans in the care of the Veteran’s Administration Hospital. […]

• UNL

A Conversation with University of Nebraska graduate Eartha Johnson Eartha Johnson of Houston, Texas, has a passion for helping others, whether as a business professional, volunteer or donor. She is founder and CEO of Risk Mitigation Worldwide (formerly LegalWatch, Inc.), an award-winning company that trains corporate executives on how to prevent lawsuits, regulatory sanctions and […]

• UNMC

by Ed Rider He thought he would never practice medicine again. The stigma associated with seven years of alcohol and opioids misuse — being labeled an addict — affected his medical license and his practice. With no job and few prospects, he returned to school in hopes of pursuing a career as an alcohol and […]

• News Release

Women Investing in Nebraska (WIN) announced grants totaling $244,752 to two Nebraska initiatives during its annual awards ceremony Oct. 7 in Omaha. Grants were awarded to develop new training for the University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Nursing and expand the Foster Care Closet of Nebraska’s Mobile Closet program. Each organization will receive a […]

• UNMC
• UNO

On May 25, join the Omaha community in Omaha Gives! — a 24-hour charitable challenge to benefit the community’s nonprofits. This year’s online fundraising event features nearly 700 local nonprofits, including two University of Nebraska programs: the UNO Maverick Food Pantry and the UNMC SHARING clinics. Both address key affecting the Omaha community. Through Omaha […]

Few people ever earn a statue for their life’s work. Don Welch, recently retired poet and professor at UNK, has one. (And maybe few people of his stature who have a statue would ever do what he does next – pretend to wipe off the pigeon poop.)