United Way of the Midlands
Jessi Hedlund currently serves as the JAG Expansion Manager at United Way of the Midlands since July 2023. Prior to this role, Jessi was the Career Program Manager and Internship Coordinator at Avenue Scholars Foundation from April 2022 to June 2023. Experience includes positions at Central Plains Center For Services as a Higher Education Liaison & PALS Coach and Independent Living Specialist (January 2019 - April 2022), and as a Career Advisor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (August 2017 - January 2019). Jessi served as an Educational Specialist for the Peace Corps in rural Colombia from August 2014 to November 2016, and taught Spanish at Lewis Central Community School from August 2012 to May 2014. Educational qualifications include a Master’s Degree in Education Administration with a focus on Student Affairs from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, alongside additional master's coursework in Special Education and a Bachelor’s Degree in Spanish Language and Literature, Criminology, and Education from Colorado State University.
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United Way of the Midlands
For nearly 100 years, United Way of the Midlands has served the Omaha-Council Bluffs metro by bridging the business and not-for-profit sectors to create a Circle of Support that helps our neighbors overcome difficult challenges and start building a better future. UWM’s funded programs and direct services address social and economic disparities and meet families’ essential needs such as healthy food, safe and stable housing, physical and mental health services, career preparation and job training. With your caring support, we proudly fund a network of health and human service programs that help those in need across Douglas, Sarpy and Pottawattamie counties. United Way works closely with the agencies that host the programs to note measurable results in the lives of their clients. And we collaborate with many individual and corporate donors and foundations to keep the network of hope strong. United Way of the Midlands will continue to evolve alongside the growing needs of our community. We will champion those who are in the fight to better themselves and others. We will be informed and accountable. We will skillfully combine passion with reason. We will build up what has fallen and create what should have been here all along. Together, we will create life-changing opportunities through programs that meet the Basic Needs of our most vulnerable population, support children during their academic years and help prepare young people for productive careers. We see what can be, and what should be, because we are community-based and we are community-focused. We are United Way. And we are community strong.