Rising Leaders Institute
Applications for Class 6 (2025) have closed. Class 7 (2026) applications will open Summer 2025.
The Young Nonprofit Professionals Network of Greater Omaha and the Nonprofit Association of the Midlands have partnered together to enhance the leadership capacity of young nonprofit professionals in the Omaha metro community through the Rising Leaders Institute (RLI).
RLI is a one-year program in which young professionals will learn skills necessary to achieve a nonprofit leadership position through (1) mentorship and (2) facilitated discussion with subject matter experts.
- Rising Leaders will have the opportunity to work with a mentor.
- Facilitated discussion will revolve around leadership competencies including Leading Yourself & Leading With Others.
Rising Leaders Institute participants will meet on the third Tuesday of the month, February - December, 2025. Participants in the program are expected to attend all six RLI sessions.
The 2025 Rising Leaders Planning Committee Includes:
- Parker Brown, Child Saving Institute
- Tamara Dwyer, City of Omaha
- Abby Fogle, ynpnGO Board & Bemis Center For Contemporary Arts
- Sarah Dee Hollibaugh, Education Rights Counsel
- Abby Hughes, Nonprofit Association of the Midlands
- Michael Johnson, Avenue Scholars
- Patrick Kilcoyne, ynpnGO Board & Metropolitan Community College
- Matt Martin, Nonprofit Association of the Midlands
- Andy Saladino, Youth Emergency Services
- Erica Schumann, Women's Fund of Omaha
- Hannah Tamayo, KVC Nebraska
- Hannah Young, Nonprofit Association of the Midlands