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GREATER Gives a GENEROSITY. Lincoln Record $65,000 to Students in Crisis GREATER POSSIBILITY. Skylar’s TCA Story
SPARK By THE Numbers
Donor Spotlight: Barbara Rino
Dear Friends and Supporters, As I look back on this year, I’m reminded again and again that this community doesn’t just care about its students; it shows up for them.
And as much as we have to celebrate, there is much more to do. Needs continue to evolve, and we must be ready to meet them.
For the Foundation, this was a year of incredible momentum. For me personally, it was also a year of incredible joy as our family welcomed our newest addition, who will one day be an LPS student herself. As the mom of an LPS graduate, a current LPS student, and one more who will someday walk through those classroom doors, this work has always been personal.
LOOKING AHEAD: 2026–2027 PRIORITIES
The need grew this year, and so did Lincoln’s generosity. We launched our inaugural All In for LPS event and Giving Day, bringing hundreds of people together and raising more than $82,000. Donors stepped forward to help families through emergencies, bring innovative ideas to classrooms, provide scholarships, and create opportunities for students. 2025–2026 IMPACT OVERVIEW • More than $1.7 million distributed to programs, schools, students, and initiatives across LPS. • 3,750 students and family members received critical assistance through the Student Emergency Fund. • $244,000 provided for rent, utilities, gas, groceries, and other essential needs. • 157 classroom and school projects funded through Fund a Need. • 99 Spark Summer Learning scholarships awarded to LPS students. • More than $158,000 in scholarships awarded to more than 80 graduating seniors. Behind every number is a student, family, or educator whose story was changed because someone chose to help. That is the difference you make.
These are big goals, and we cannot accomplish them alone. But this year showed us what can happen when Lincoln decides to go all in for its students. Thank you for believing in our students, in Lincoln Public Schools, and in what we can accomplish together. I am proud of what we have built, grateful for those who make it possible, and more determined than ever to meet the opportunities and challenges ahead. There is much to celebrate. There is much more to do. And I can’t wait to see what we do together next. With gratitude,
Natalia Wiita President
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• Building strong foundations for our youngest learners by investing in early literacy resources that put books and learning tools into the hands of students and families.
Skylar’s TCA Story Spark Recap
Donor Spotlight: Barbara Cook Rino
Lincoln Northeast Music Launches a New Way to Fundraise
UBT Special Education Gift / About Us
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functions. This relationship will also provide continuity, especially in years where parent interest in leadership roles is limited. We wanted to create an organization that is sustainable for not only our time at Scott Middle School, but for future families as well.” For Tvrdy, a partnership with the Foundation through the Collective is simply the next chapter in a relationship that’s already proven itself.
A New Kind of Partnership:
Introducing the Scott Family and Community Collective Parent volunteers show up in hundreds of small ways: fun runs, book fairs, last-minute supplies, as someone there for a child who isn’t always their own. But anyone who’s served on a PTO board knows the other side of that story: a huge amount of volunteer energy going toward things like filing paperwork, reconciling a checking account, or figuring out who has signature authority this year. That’s a problem Scott Middle School set out to solve when they collaborated with the Foundation for Lincoln Public Schools to create the Scott Family and Community Collective. Starting this school year, the Foundation will hold and manage the Collective’s funds, handling the behind-the-scenes work so Scott’s parent volunteers can spend their time supporting their school. Every PTO experiences volunteer turnover, but at the middle school level it’s a unique challenge, since families are only there for three years. Just as a parent gets comfortable running a fundraiser or managing a budget, their student moves on to high school, and the next group starts from scratch. Principal Jesse Tvrdy has watched this cycle play out for years, and says it’s exactly why this shift made sense. “Anytime we can find a way to make life easier for the dedicated volunteers spearheading our school initiatives, we jump at the chance,” she said. “Partnering with the Foundation gives our new Scott Family and Community Collective a streamlined system. It takes the heavy lifting and stress out of money handling, donation tracking, and financial oversight so our families can focus on what matters most: supporting our school.”
“The Foundation has been a steadfast partner to Scott Middle School, consistently driving positive change in our building,” she said. “The Foundation’s involvement with LPS has directly enhanced the teaching, learning, and culture in our classrooms. Expanding our work together with this new Collective feels like a natural continuation of a partnership that has always put our school community first.” So what does this actually mean for Scott families? Every dollar given to the Collective is held in a dedicated fund through the Foundation that is tracked, transparent, and used exactly as intended for Scott students and staff. And this year, that means something concrete. Funds raised through the Collective will cover things like meals for teachers and staff on all four conference nights, end-of-year classroom celebrations for each grade, staff appreciation in May, and support for the student incentive store. Small things, maybe, but the kind that contribute to a school where everyone feels seen and supported. The Foundation is excited about what this partnership means for Scott. And what it could mean more broadly across the district. Every parent group across LPS carries the same administrative load Scott’s volunteers carried before this collaboration. If this model works well here, it’s easy to imagine other schools adopting it too. You can donate to the Scott Family and Community Collective via this direct link.
Jennifer Hunke and Sheila Clayton, the two parents spearheading the Collective, are eager to get to work. “We are very excited to be working with the Foundation for LPS,” they said. “This collaboration will allow us to focus our time on activities that directly benefit the Scott students, teachers, and staff, rather than spending a lot of time on administrative 2026 FALL NEWSLETTER
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From Student to Teacher:
Skylar’s TCA Story
Skylar Jilg-Brown didn’t always want to go to The Career Academy. She was eager for a classic high school experience, and getting on a bus to leave her home school, Lincoln Southeast, wasn’t part of that plan. During her sophomore year, she took a field trip to TCA, and immediately realized it was for her. She applied for the K-12 Education Pathway and attended during her junior and senior years between 2017 and 2019. Skylar knows now that she was born to be a teacher, though she didn’t always see it growing up. In elementary school, she attended a private school and struggled with feelings of safety, acceptance, and understanding as a minority student. When she transitioned to middle school at LPS and enrolled at Lefler, she met teacher Charlotte Ceballos. Ceballos made her feel safe and cared for, and helped her realize teachers can be great, powerful, impactful people. From there, Skylar knew she wanted to make others feel that same sense of belonging. TCA further ignited and fostered that spark within her. She found a sense of belonging and significance she hadn’t always felt elsewhere. She felt valued by her peers and adults alike. There were seven students in her pathway, and years later, they’re still in touch, a testament to the kind of connections TCA builds. At TCA, Skylar competed in Educators Rising competitions, writing children’s books, giving TED Talks, and building and delivering lesson plans. She traveled to Florida and Texas to compete nationally, an experience that exposed her to new people and cultures and broadened her perspective, something she still carries through her career today. She also served on the leadership team for Educators Rising, gaining valuable skills and experience leading.
That same drive to give back is what led Skylar to bring her own students to TCA. She piloted the Ambassador Program during her time at TCA, which included a goal to help every LPS 8th grader visit a college campus, including TCA. For her capstone project, Skylar wrote curriculum for the Elliott Elementary CLC Career Club and delivered the content to students, with the support of TCA director Josh Jones. Jones was a defining part of Skylar’s time at TCA. She still looks up to him and stays in touch today. He didn’t just invest in her as a student, she says, but as a person. “He gave me opportunities when he didn’t have to. He pushed me to be the best version of myself, and didn’t stop when I left TCA. He continues to support me, make me feel important and bring me back to TCA to talk about my experiences,” Skylar said. “Skylar was destined to be a teacher and I am so proud of her for following through on that dream, many don’t.” said Jones. “TCA was built for students like Skylar and I am thrilled to have been part of her incredible journey into teaching in LPS, and to now be able to call her a colleague.” Alongside Josh’s support, Skylar credits her professors, Mary Hagemann, Jame Cartwright, and Joe Flores, with shaping her TCA experience. She says they opened her eyes to who she was as a professional and inspired her through the potential they saw in her, more than she saw in herself at the time. “At TCA our professors were able to get to know us on an individual level, so they were able to support and teach us through a more specific lens than a traditional high school,” said Skylar. “This included helping us with higher education.” Her professors pointed her toward a new University of Nebraska-Lincoln program and supported her through the entire interview and application process. Skylar attended the University of Nebraska-Lincoln on a full ride scholarship, studying elementary education, as part of the inaugural cohort of the Teacher Scholars Academy (TSA). She’s now working toward her graduate degree in educational leadership at UNL. Now in her fifth year as an educator, Skylar has spent the last three teaching 4th grade at Huntington Elementary. She also coaches volleyball at her alma mater, Lincoln Southeast. Giving back to the district that raised her, and becoming an LPS teacher, was always the goal. “I know this district and these people, from teachers to HR to administrators. Everyone and everything in this district has empowered me to be where I am today,” Skylar said. 2026 FALL NEWSLETTER
Now as a teacher Skylar thought, why make her 4th graders wait? Working alongside her fellow 4th grade teachers, they helped introduce students to their future options: military, trade school, higher education, and of course, The Career Academy. Then, together, they brought all of Huntington Elementary’s 4th graders to see it for themselves. “I had so much satisfaction seeing students’ faces light up when they realized their high school experience could be like this,” Skylar said. Students were in awe, jaws dropped, taking in what a nontraditional high school experience could look like, discovering passions and interests they didn’t know they had. They couldn’t stop talking about it afterward. Some wrote letters to their future selves. Sixth graders she’s kept in touch with tell her they’re counting down the days till they can attend TCA. Skylar’s story is just one of many TCA and its pathways have shaped. The Career Academy partners with Lincoln Public Schools to give high school students hands-on, real-world experience in fields like education, healthcare, construction, criminal justice and more, connecting them directly with local professionals and organizations long before graduation. For students like Skylar, that early exposure did more than build a resume. It gave her a clear picture of who she wanted to become, and provided her the support to get there. “More than 11 years ago, the Foundation was proud to stand alongside donors and community partners who believed in the vision for The Career Academy and what it could mean for LPS students,” said Natalia Wiita, President of the Foundation for LPS. “To see Skylar come through TCA as a student and now return to lead and inspire the next generation is exactly the kind of full-circle impact we hope for. It’s a powerful reminder that when we invest in our students, that investment reaches far beyond graduation and strengthens our entire community.” Today, Skylar is doing for her own students what TCA once did for her, showing them that their future can start earlier than they think, and that someone believing in them can change everything. From a reluctant 8th grader who didn’t want to get on a bus, to a teacher bringing her entire class through TCA’s doors, Skylar’s story is proof of what happens when a community invests in its students and continues to invest, long after they’ve walked across the stage.
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A mom is in the hospital, unable to work for an extended stretch, and her family of five can’t cover the electric bill. A parent dies unexpectedly, and an older sister steps in to raise her younger siblings while working to keep them afloat. A tree falls on a family’s home, and in an instant they need everything: food, clothing, even hygiene basics. These are real requests the Student Emergency Fund at the Foundation for LPS has answered. Crises don’t follow the school calendar. A job loss, a natural disaster, a death in the family, or an unsafe living situation is hard enough for anyone. For a student, it comes on top of homework, tests, and simply showing up. The Student Emergency Fund provides financial support so students can focus on learning, not on where their next meal will come from. “Having the student emergency fund available to LPS families is invaluable,” said Andrea Phillips, LPS Mental Health Coordinator. “In a time when costs are rising and community resources are stretched thin, emergency funds help our families in crisis get by. We are very grateful to the Foundation for Lincoln Public Schools for their support.” PAGE
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Last year, the need outpaced the fund. When the 2025-26 school year began, the fund opened with $36,000. Within three weeks, it was depleted and the Foundation had to temporarily close the fund while requests kept coming in. That alone told the story. From the first days of school, requests poured in, and the need showed no signs of slowing. Through an emergency appeal, donor calls, and grant funding, the Foundation was able to quickly reopen the fund. By the end of the year, it had supported more than 3,600 students and family members and distributed over $200,000 for rent, utilities, groceries, gas, and other essentials. This year had to be different. The Foundation shifted the campaign to summer so the fund would be ready on the first day of school. Across July and August, an email campaign, donor calls, and various other efforts raised more than $65,000. The Lincoln community answered when called upon to support students. $65,000 within two months was a Foundation record for the most ever raised in a single Student Emergency Fund campaign. The fund opened the 2026-27 school year ready for whatever students and families face next. So far this school year, the fund has supported 1,300 students and family members and distributed over $68,500. That includes groceries and gas for a family who stepped away from work to be with their son through open-heart surgery. It has helped the sister raising her siblings keep food on the table, and it covered basic needs for the family who lost their home. The school year is just beginning, and so are the calls for help. Scan the QR code to give to the Student Emergency Fund today so support is there the moment a student needs it.
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$26,250 From Google to Make Hands-On STEAM Learning More Accessible to LPS Students
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$103,748 Distributed for Scholarships
This September, Google donated $26,250 to the Foundation for LPS to support STEAM learning for LPS students, including Spark Lincoln Learning. This donation will make hands-on science, technology, engineering, art, and math learning more accessible to students across LPS. Next summer, Google will sponsor a week of Spark, hosting a field trip and sending a speaker to chat with campers. The gift will also help fund Spark scholarships, so students whose families can’t afford camp can spend their summer building, exploring and discovering right alongside their friends. This is part of a larger gift of more than $51,000 from Google that also supports the Foundation’s All In for LPS event and The Career Academy.
9 Weeks of Spark Lincoln Learning Summer Camp (Elementary) THEMES: Bite-Sized Science A Week Among the Stars A Journey Through Time Aero Innovators Eco-Explorers Insect Investigators Secret Agent Camp Animation Imagination STEM Explorers: Discover Your Future
4 Weeks of Middle School Tech Camp Game On! Introduction to Game Design Evolution of Flight Camp CSI: Curious Science Investigators Mission Sphero
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The Sound of Opportunity: How One Rented Violin is Helping Send 13 LPS Students to Vienna
On a warm summer day in the late 1950s, a young girl stood in her backyard in Lincoln, Nebraska, holding a rented violin. Her name was Barbara Cook Rino. She didn’t yet know how to play, but she knew how to tune it, and she was out in the yard, eagerly making music before her first class had even started. Barbara’s parents never finished high school, but they valued education above all else. Her mother, Elizabeth, grew up in poverty and left school to help support her family. “Had she been born when I was, they would have encouraged her to finish high school and go to college,” Barbara said. “She was an amazing student.” Her father, Howard, struggled with reading but loved to learn. During the Great Depression, her parents spent hard-earned money on a set of encyclopedias, and every night after work, Elizabeth read them aloud to him. Howard went on to become a well-known Lincoln auto mechanic. The Cook household never had much extra money, so when LPS offered a free violin class after sixth grade, Barbara begged her parents to rent her a violin so she could participate. Barbara already played piano, but the violin captured her heart. When she later asked for private lessons, Barbara made a choice that would define the rest of her life. She gave up piano and poured her heart into strings. Her teachers noticed. In 8th grade, her orchestra teacher encouraged her to try out for the Lincoln Youth Symphony (LYS), then in its early years. She played with LYS throughout high school. At Lincoln High, her guidance counselor, Windle Reel, saw that she’d enrolled in secretarial courses to find work quickly after graduation. He stepped in, helped her test out of those classes, and moved her into college prep. “Mr. Reel was a life-changing person, and to have been assigned to him as a student was a miracle,” Barbara said. That support propelled her into more than 30 years as a public school PAGE
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orchestra director and private studio teacher, opening doors for her Colorado students the way her LPS teachers had opened them for her. In 2015, Barbara established her first fund at FLPS, the Barbara Cook Rino String Student Fund, for students who share her lifelong passion. Later, she found a way to honor her parents, too. “What better way to honor them than to pay forward an opportunity they would both approve of?” Barbara said. To honor her father’s passion for mechanics and her mother’s love of learning, Barbara established the Howard Cook Auto Mechanics and the Elizabeth Cook Future Educators Funds, which support dual-credit trade programs and early-childhood education. Over the years, the String Student Fund’s original purpose became harder to fulfill, so this spring, the Foundation for LPS amended it to honor Barbara’s intent while meeting a pressing need identified by the Lincoln Youth Symphony: helping LPS string students travel abroad with LYS. Barbara had seen what travel could do for young musicians. As a youth orchestra conductor, she took students who were selected to perform at Expo 86 in Canada and to Washington, D.C., for the nation’s 1976 bicentennial celebration. These experiences, along with a 1972 string teachers’ orchestra tour of several countries in Europe, showed her a world far beyond Nebraska and Colorado. “It gave me such a different perspective,” she reflected. “It seemed logical that if travel could offer me that as an adult, students would gain an incredible new perspective on the world if they were given the opportunity.” When Barbara was a student, that kind of opportunity was out of reach. Her orchestra teacher once approached
Take it all in. Take photos, especially with your friends and fellow orchestra members. Pictures of places aren’t as meaningful as pictures of the people you went and experienced this with. Absorb the culture, talk to people, and soak in every single moment.
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her about a $500 summer music camp. It was more than her father made in a month, and she couldn’t even bring herself to ask her parents. In June, the Foundation awarded $20,000 in scholarships from Barbara’s fund to 13 students heading to Vienna with LYS in 2027. The program that once welcomed an eighth grader with a rented violin is the very same one her fund is now helping send overseas. For one local family, the news was overwhelming: “Our child was so excited to hear about this award. She has been looking forward to this trip since 7th grade. I am very proud of her and so happy that she can experience this wonderful international musical journey.” Barbara’s advice for the young musicians preparing to walk the historic streets of Vienna comes with the warmth of a lifelong teacher: “Take it all in. Take photos, especially with your friends and fellow orchestra members. Pictures of places aren’t as meaningful as pictures of the people you went and experienced this with. Absorb the culture, talk to people, and soak in every single moment.” More than 60 years after she tuned a rented violin in her backyard, Barbara’s gift is doing what she dreamed it would. It’s reminding us that when you invest in a child’s passion, the music doesn’t stop when the school year ends. It plays on for generations.
Students Take the Lead:
Music Launches a New Way to Fundraise
Strings break. Any orchestra student at Lincoln Northeast will tell you that’s just part of being a musician. What they might not tell you is that a single set of quality bass strings costs $179.99, or that a bow rehair can run up to $85. Multiply that across an entire orchestra and add a marching band whose busing alone can hit $7,000 a season. Then add a show choir paying $7,000 a year in choreography, plus licensing, competition fees, color guard flags, props, and sound equipment. The cost of a high school music program adds up fast. Last school year, the Lincoln Northeast Music Department decided to take a different approach. Working with the Foundation for Lincoln Public Schools, they launched the first student-led Fund a Need campaign for an LPS activity, and students kicked it off by doing the asking themselves. Fund a Need has long given LPS educators a way to raise money for specific classroom and program needs. This campaign added something new. Students in band, choir, and orchestra shared the campaign link with the people already in their corner: grandparents, neighbors, family friends, former teachers. The messages were simple and honest. One orchestra student read, “I play in orchestra at Lincoln Northeast, and we’re raising funds for things like strings, instrument upkeep, and music. Every little bit helps.” That’s hard to say no to, and plenty of people didn’t. Students shared the link outside of class time, through their own texts, emails, and age-appropriate social media. They kept their messages positive and focused on what music means to them, and no one was ever told a gift was required or expected. The music directors oversaw the campaign and made sure every student understood the expectations before anyone hit send. The students’ outreach brought in real dollars, with over PAGE
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$1,000 in donations. Then the Pearle Francis Finigan Foundation stepped in and funded the bulk of the remaining balance. Their gift turned a strong student effort into a fully funded campaign. It also sent these students a message worth hearing at their age: when you speak up for something you care about, your community listens. All told, the campaign raised more than $17,000 for band, choir, and orchestra at Lincoln Northeast. For Damon Lamberty, LNE’s Head of Instrumental Music, the impact showed up right away. “I am so grateful for the Foundation for LPS’ support as we piloted this new program,” he said. “Thanks to their support, and the support of our generous donors, we were able to purchase all the necessary music rights for this season. We were also able to purchase a new, state-of-the-art synthesizer to enhance our front ensemble.” The big-ticket items weren’t the only wins. Lamberty points to the everyday gear that keeps a program running but rarely gets a second thought. “The money we raised through the Foundation has allowed us to purchase many of the small things that often go unnoticed, such as new mouthpieces, new flip folders, extra marching shoes, extra reeds, and new bows for our orchestra students!” Some of that support is reaching past the rehearsal room, too. “Thanks to community support, our orchestra will be going to Omaha on November 11 to see a free staging of Opera Omaha’s production of La bohème!” This campaign was a test, and it worked. Students got a real-world lesson in advocating for something that matters to them. Families and neighbors got a direct way to support the kids they know. A local foundation saw that effort and helped carry it across the finish line. We’re hoping it’s the first of many. As Lamberty put it, “We could not have made all these things happen without FLPS.” 2026 FALL NEWSLETTER
UBT Helps LPS Students Find Their Words Imagine knowing the answer and having no way to say it. For many LPS students, that’s not a thought experiment. It’s a school day. Some students with autism or developmental delays communicate with a device rather than their voice. Others are working hard in reading or math, but nobody has quite pinned down where the gap is, so they keep getting the same instruction that isn’t landing. Those are the students Dr. Mindy Roberts, LPS Director of Special Education, had in mind when she told us what would make the biggest difference right now. She named two things: iPads for assistive communication and adapted learning, and Let’s Go Learn licenses
for student Chromebooks, a program that identifies exactly where a student is stuck in reading or math and teaches from there. Union Bank & Trust said yes. Their $50,000 gift to the LPS Special Education Fund for Excellence will put about 75 iPads in students’ hands and expand access to Let’s Go Learn. For UBT President and CEO Jason Muhleisen, the gift is personal. “My family has seen firsthand the incredible impact that dedicated educators, advocates, and support systems can have on the lives of children with special needs. That’s why supporting the Foundation for Lincoln Public Schools’ Special Education Fund is so meaningful to me. At UBT, we’re proud to invest in students, families, and educators who are building a stronger, more inclusive future for our community.” This often equates to student growth and success in the areas of academics and behavior.” That growth shows up in the data, too. An elementary
special education teacher who used the program with 4th and 5th graders saw big gains between beginning-ofyear and end-of-year assessments, sparking exciting conversations with children and parents. The need is real, and it’s shifting. Over the last five years, the number of LPS students with autism, and students with developmental delays has grown. Gifts like this one help close gaps the district budget can’t cover. “We are so very thankful for UBT’s continued commitment to our community and our schools,” Dr. Roberts said. “Their investment opens doors to new opportunities, greater independence, and enhanced academic achievement for LPS learners.”
Staff NATALIA WIITA President
JORDAN HAVLAT Finance Manager
ALIA HUST Development Specialist
ALLISON BOCK Operations Coordinator
KAYLA JACOX Director of Engagement
SHANNON SACK Program Manager
MOLLY OGLESBY Development Specialist
MADDI GALUSHA Operations Coordinator
ANGELINA CUNNING Director of Operations
MARY WEIXELMAN Communication Impact Specialist
RUKHSHONA ISLAMOVA Marketing Specialist
Board Members Alex Cassidy, Chair Trent Fellers, Chair-Elect Draper Daniel, Secretary Andy Martz, Treasurer Dr. Kris Baack, Past-Chair
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