Community Resources Database

Marathon Kids is a national running program designed to motivate kids by utilizing running logs, boost their activity, and introduce them to the joy of running! Nebraska Extension teamed up with Marathon Kids to bring this great program to our state through Nebraska Extension Marathon Kids (NEMK). 

MarketMaker is the place to source local food, find customers for your food products, and connect Nebraska’s food chain, from farm to table. 

The Marketing Capstone class works with businesses, start-ups, and nonprofits as clients to develop Marketing Plans for these clients. The students work as teams of 5 to 6 students with the client throughout a 15-week spring semester or a 5-week summer session to develop a marketing plan that can address real short term or long-term needs or opportunities for each client. Contact Rob Simon, rsimon2@unl.edu 

Marketing Hometown America brings together Rural Prosperity Nebraska’s People Attraction team and local steering committees for dynamic, collaborative conversations. Residents focus on what makes their community stand out and how they can enhance those assets to attract tourists and new residents. Through these discussions, steering committees set clear goals and create action plans to drive community-wide growth and make their hometown shine.

The Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center is a state-of-the-art cinema facility that serves the University, the Lincoln community, and the State of Nebraska by offering a comprehensive screening of a wide variety of high-quality cinema. 

This training program from Nebraska Extension provides volunteers with science-based horticulture education, which prepares them to share their knowledge with Nebraskans. 

Master Irrigator is a producer-directed comprehensive educational series from Nebraska Extension focused on taking your irrigated acres to the next level. We are hosting a series of Design Summits bringing together farmers, industry, extension, and policy partners. 

Nebraska high schools are invited to join us for a day of engaging mathematics. Math Day is designed for students in grades 9, 10, 11 and 12 and for exceptional students in lower grades. Math Day consists of one individual and two team mathematics competitions. The PROBE top 25 Nebraska high school students (sum of PROBE I and II) are awarded a total of $41,500 in one- or four-year scholarships to UNL.   

Math in the City (MATH 435) is an interdisciplinary, hands-on course in which students utilize mathematical modeling to understand current social issues of local and national interest. Participants collaborate with local organizations that provide data and act as consultants. The learning and discovery process connects academia and industry. Unlike other university-industry partnerships, the design of the projects and the choice of problems is primarily student- oriented, within a timely, "front page news" topic provided by the instructor. 

Micropipettes are used daily in almost all professional laboratory environments for liquid handling and require practice to repeatedly perform accurate and precise sample dilutions and additions of standard mixtures. This course will teach you how to use a micropipette correctly, consistently, and accurately for liquid handling. 

Learn practical, research-based strategies to improve your operation’s efficiency and profitability while leveraging the Midwest’s unique advantages in forage and grazing resources. Join the Midwest FEEDS (Forage, Education, and Efficiency in Diversified Systems) Practicum—a hands-on, multi-session educational program tailored for cattle producers. 

Milkweed in the Classroom provides a collection of resources designed to help students investigate the monarch butterfly migration as a locally relevant phenomenon. Through a series of standards-aligned lessons, students will ask questions, analyze available data, and construct a scientific argument to answer the guiding question, “How has the monarch migration has changed over time and why?”

The Minority Health Disparities Initiative engages stakeholders to identify critical knowledge and service gaps in communities all over Nebraska. Our team works directly with communities and researchers to develop collaborative research teams and integrates the community at every step and within every aspect of the research process. Together we build innovative projects that address these identified gaps.

Explore the events and activities hosted by the University of Nebraska State Museum, Morrill Hall. 

Give your guests an experience they will never forget as you dine among the elephants and fossils at Morrill Hall. Built nearly 100 years ago, Morrill Hall is part of Nebraska’s premiere natural history museum. We have several rental spaces available for hosting receptions, business meetings, classes, and events. Add on full-museum access and allow your guests to roam all the Museum’s galleries and exhibits in a relaxed environment. Guided tours and private planetarium shows can make your event even more special.

Discovery and curiosity are central to our education mission. Check out our collection of activities you can do at home. Or explore the options we have available for classrooms and students in scientific exploration through one of our many programs or kits.  

Established in 1871, the University of Nebraska State Museum is the state's premier museum of natural history. The mission of Museum is to discover and disseminate knowledge about the natural world through research and education. Visitors to Morrill Hall will find interactive exhibits featuring Nebraska’s past and present biological diversity, and its cultural heritage with a dedicated First Peoples of the Plains gallery. The four-level, 70,000 square foot museum is located on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln City Campus near the corner of 14th and Vine Streets in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Resources from Nebraska Extension for moving our bodies to improve overall health and fitness.

The Nation Nourishment Program from Nebraska Extension is a hands-on and classroom-based food growing experience for  Umoⁿhoⁿ Nation community members seeking to learn to grow food for their family, community, and local economy. 

The Drought Center helps people, organizations, and institutions build resilience to drought through monitoring and planning, and we are the academic partner and web host of the U.S. Drought Monitor. Our capabilities include climatology, social science, and public engagement, and we work at all scales, from individual ranches to local, state, and tribal government, and countries around the world.

The UNL Tribal Extension Office sponsors the Native American Coalition (NAC) which builds relationships and partnerships between the Nebraska Extension and Native American communities and organizations. The work of NAC is to help build bridges between tribal and non-tribal communities, to facilitate community development and leadership in Native communities and to bring Native American traditional worldviews, languages, cultures and histories to the University of Nebraska and non-tribal communities.