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Join us for RISE & Shine at Astute Coffee (Previously known as The Bike Union)!
This casual, open-table gathering is where our staff loves to meet new people, catch up with volunteers, answer questions, and tell you all about our programs and events! If you've ever been curious about RISE's work or would just like some casual community time with staff and past volunteers, this is a great way to connect! Start your 'casual Friday' off right with us! No RSVP needed! We'd love to see you!

The Women's Wellness Coffee Hour is a support-based coffee hour for women impacted by incarceration. This coffee hour is open to all women (RISE Graduates AND community members) with their own personal lived experience or have a spouse or loved one incarcerated.
Join us every 4th Saturday at Stir Coffee Bar in Omaha.

Join RISE's Jasmine Harris for an hour of policy and advocacy updates going on in the Nebraska legislature.
Drinks and light snacks will be provided.
Agenda:
5:00-5:30: Guests arrive for social time
5:30-6:30: Policy presentation from Jasmine Harris
6:30: Event concludes

Join us as we recap the first quarter book of RISE Reads, Homeward by Bruce Western.
Haven't read the book or are not finished yet? Join us anyways!

Join us for RISE & Shine at Astute Coffee (Previously known as The Bike Union)!
This casual, open-table gathering is where our staff loves to meet new people, catch up with volunteers, answer questions, and tell you all about our programs and events! If you've ever been curious about RISE's work or would just like some casual community time with staff and past volunteers, this is a great way to connect! Start your 'casual Friday' off right with us! No RSVP needed! We'd love to see you!

Supporting Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Students in the Transitional Pipeline.
RISE Reentry Manager, Jason Kotas, will be a panelist on the importance of collaboration within our communities and organizations.
See flyer below.

Join us for RISE & Shine at Astute Coffee (Previously known as The Bike Union)!
This casual, open-table gathering is where our staff loves to meet new people, catch up with volunteers, answer questions, and tell you all about our programs and events! If you've ever been curious about RISE's work or would just like some casual community time with staff and past volunteers, this is a great way to connect! Start your 'casual Friday' off right with us! No RSVP needed! We'd love to see you!

We need 95 Online Volunteers!
Online Coaching provides an opportunity for our program participants to receive in depth feedback on resumes, personal statements, and interview skills.
For this Online Coaching Event, volunteers will be assigned a RISE program participant via private RISE Coaching Portal, where they will review a personal statement, cover letter, resume, and beginning phase of business ideation. While reviewing these crucial pieces of RISE's program (and the reentry process), volunteers will submit honest feedback via a guided online form.
Important things you should know:
- This is roughly a 1-2 hour time commitment, however, it is all self-paced and can be done from the comfort of your own home.
- You will need computer access to complete this volunteer opportunity. Unfortunately, this opportunity is not optimal from your mobile device.
- There is a hard completion date deadline of April 17th, 2023.
- There are NO prerequisites to volunteer for the Online Coaching Event! If you have ever spent time in the workforce, you're qualified!

Join us for RISE & Shine at Astute Coffee (Previously known as The Bike Union)!
This casual, open-table gathering is where our staff loves to meet new people, catch up with volunteers, answer questions, and tell you all about our programs and events! If you've ever been curious about RISE's work or would just like some casual community time with staff and past volunteers, this is a great way to connect! Start your 'casual Friday' off right with us! No RSVP needed! We'd love to see you!

The Women's Wellness Coffee Hour is a support-based coffee hour for women impacted by incarceration. This coffee hour is open to all women (RISE Graduates AND community members) with their own personal lived experience or have a spouse or loved one incarcerated.
Join us every 3rd Saturday at The Mill on Telegraph in Lincoln.

Join us for RISE & Shine at Astute Coffee (Previously known as The Bike Union)!
This casual, open-table gathering is where our staff loves to meet new people, catch up with volunteers, answer questions, and tell you all about our programs and events! If you've ever been curious about RISE's work or would just like some casual community time with staff and past volunteers, this is a great way to connect! Start your 'casual Friday' off right with us! No RSVP needed! We'd love to see you!

The Women's Wellness Coffee Hour is a support-based coffee hour for women impacted by incarceration. This coffee hour is open to all women (RISE Graduates AND community members) with their own personal lived experience or have a spouse or loved one incarcerated.
Join us every 4th Saturday at Stir Coffee Bar in Omaha.
More information to come! Save the Date!

Join us for RISE & Shine at Astute Coffee (Previously known as The Bike Union)!
This casual, open-table gathering is where our staff loves to meet new people, catch up with volunteers, answer questions, and tell you all about our programs and events! If you've ever been curious about RISE's work or would just like some casual community time with staff and past volunteers, this is a great way to connect! Start your 'casual Friday' off right with us! No RSVP needed! We'd love to see you!

Join us for RISE & Shine at Astute Coffee (Previously known as The Bike Union)!
This casual, open-table gathering is where our staff loves to meet new people, catch up with volunteers, answer questions, and tell you all about our programs and events! If you've ever been curious about RISE's work or would just like some casual community time with staff and past volunteers, this is a great way to connect! Start your 'casual Friday' off right with us! No RSVP needed! We'd love to see you!

Join RISE for food, drinks and community building.
This event is in conjunction with the RISE Reentry Simulation taking place on Friday, May 12th at the Gering Civic Center. You can register for the Reentry Simulation here: qrco.de/bdlYrH

9:00AM - 12:30PM MST
Join RISE and the Nebraska Department of Labor for a Reentry Simulation in western Nebraska. The Reentry Simulation is an exercise to help convey to employers, service providers, and the community of the challenges and barriers faced when people return to the community after incarceration.
Participants in this event will be given an assumed "identity" and will go through a series of assignments representing time passed and the tasks needed to go through one's reentry.
Tentative agenda:
9:00am Participants arrive
9:15am Welcome, introductions, instructions
9:20am Simulation begins
10:50am Break
11:10am Debrief with RISE
12:30pm Closing

Join us for RISE & Shine at Astute Coffee (Previously known as The Bike Union)!
This casual, open-table gathering is where our staff loves to meet new people, catch up with volunteers, answer questions, and tell you all about our programs and events! If you've ever been curious about RISE's work or would just like some casual community time with staff and past volunteers, this is a great way to connect! Start your 'casual Friday' off right with us! No RSVP needed! We'd love to see you!

The Women's Wellness Coffee Hour is a support-based coffee hour for women impacted by incarceration. This coffee hour is open to all women (RISE Graduates AND community members) with their own personal lived experience or have a spouse or loved one incarcerated.
Join us every 3rd Saturday at The Mill on Telegraph in Lincoln.

Give to Lincoln Day, coordinated by Lincoln Community Foundation, is a time when everyone in Lincoln is asked to make a donation toward the organizations that are critical to the care, support and spirit of our great city.

Join us for RISE & Shine at Astute Coffee (Previously known as The Bike Union)!
This casual, open-table gathering is where our staff loves to meet new people, catch up with volunteers, answer questions, and tell you all about our programs and events! If you've ever been curious about RISE's work or would just like some casual community time with staff and past volunteers, this is a great way to connect! Start your 'casual Friday' off right with us! No RSVP needed! We'd love to see you!

The Women's Wellness Coffee Hour is a support-based coffee hour for women impacted by incarceration. This coffee hour is open to all women (RISE Graduates AND community members) with their own personal lived experience or have a spouse or loved one incarcerated.
Join us every 4th Saturday at Stir Coffee Bar in Omaha.

Join us for RISE & Shine at Astute Coffee (Previously known as The Bike Union)!
This casual, open-table gathering is where our staff loves to meet new people, catch up with volunteers, answer questions, and tell you all about our programs and events! If you've ever been curious about RISE's work or would just like some casual community time with staff and past volunteers, this is a great way to connect! Start your 'casual Friday' off right with us! No RSVP needed! We'd love to see you!

Join us for RISE & Shine at Astute Coffee (Previously known as The Bike Union)!
This casual, open-table gathering is where our staff loves to meet new people, catch up with volunteers, answer questions, and tell you all about our programs and events! If you've ever been curious about RISE's work or would just like some casual community time with staff and past volunteers, this is a great way to connect! Start your 'casual Friday' off right with us! No RSVP needed! We'd love to see you!

Join us for RISE & Shine at Astute Coffee (Previously known as The Bike Union)!
This casual, open-table gathering is where our staff loves to meet new people, catch up with volunteers, answer questions, and tell you all about our programs and events! If you've ever been curious about RISE's work or would just like some casual community time with staff and past volunteers, this is a great way to connect! Start your 'casual Friday' off right with us! No RSVP needed! We'd love to see you!
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