by Mary Kay Roth | Apr 30, 2025 | Parents, Providers, Supporters
Zainab Khudhair came to Nebraska about a year ago, moving here from her homeland of Iraq to be with her husband and his family in Lincoln. The 21-year-old had been studying mathematics and hoped to become a teacher, but she hit something of a snag when she arrived in...
by Mary Kay Roth | Mar 6, 2025 | Providers, Supporters
Last semester, Jane Anderson not only learned what a public health nurse might do for our community, she also helped provide supportive advice for a community nonprofit, Lincoln Littles. “Overall, I was able to learn a lot about public health nurses and what it means...
by Mary Kay Roth | Feb 18, 2025 | Employers, Supporters
When Christine Weeks started her advertising agency, Eleanor Creative, she had four young children, not much money and had experienced her own childcare hardships and challenges, with unpaid maternity leaves and little support for new moms. Weeks didn’t want any of...
by Mary Kay Roth | Feb 12, 2025 | Parents, Providers, Supporters
Of course, a toddler cannot understand an intercom message about a tornado warning and an infant cannot march out of a building in case of a fire drill. But a tweaked set of emergency messages and procedures used at Lincoln Public Schools is now arriving for Lincoln’s...
by Clover | Dec 16, 2024 | Parents, Providers, Supporters, Uncategorized
Prior to 2020, a group of early childcare directors in Lincoln started discussing the need for a program that would help support the directors of these centers. When that call came, Lincoln Littles answered. Lincoln Littles created the Peer Mentor Program as an...
by Mary Kay Roth | Oct 15, 2024 | Employers, Parents, Providers, Supporters
Five years ago, a movement was born in our community when the Lincoln Community Foundation launched the first Lincoln Littles Giving Day with dollars aimed at supporting our youngest Lincolnites. A year later the Lincoln Littles office emerged. This talented,...
