Partner With Step-Up Omaha
Connect with emerging talent, strengthen your workforce pipeline, and help build long-term opportunity across Omaha.
STEP-UP OMAHA! collaborates with employers and organizations from a wide range of industries across the Omaha metropolitan area to strengthen and expand the future workforce pipeline. We connect businesses with prepared, motivated young adults who are ready to contribute, learn, and grow through mutually beneficial and diverse work experiences that create value for both the intern and the employer.
Our young adults are placed in a variety of roles—from administrative positions in banks, government agencies, and corporate offices to hands-on opportunities in groundskeeping, urban gardening, construction, and event planning. Each placement is intentionally designed to build transferable skills, increase exposure to career pathways, and support long-term workforce development across our community.
By partnering with Step-Up Omaha, you're not just filling a short-term need—you're building a reliable talent pipeline, strengthening your workforce, and positioning your organization for long-term success.
Four Ways to Invest
Hire Participants
Provide a high-quality, structured work experience by hiring participants directly from the initiative.
Subsidize Opportunities
Provide subsidized or partially subsidized work experience opportunities to expand access for youth and young adults.
Sponsor Participants Financially
Participants will be placed at designated community-based worksites separate from your organization.
Make a Financial Contribution
Make a financial contribution to directly support and expand program impact.
Key Benefits for Employers & Sponsors
- Strengthen workforce diversity and inclusion across your organization
- Bring in fresh perspectives, energy, and innovative thinking
- Build a long-term pipeline of prepared, local talent
- Expand your workforce capacity in a cost-effective way
- Build a stronger community by developing connected, workforce-ready young people
Take the Next Step
Ready to get involved? Choose the option that best fits your organization. Each option guides you through a short form so we can connect you with the right opportunities.
Completed forms can be submitted to employers@stepupomaha.com.
Build With Us
This is more than a summer job program—it is a direct investment in Omaha's future workforce. When you invest in Step-Up Omaha, you help develop talent, strengthen our community, and create lasting impact.
Become a partner