As a multimedia producer, Valerie’s work in storytelling, conservation projects, and environmental education has appeared in broadcast and online at PBS Learning Media Library, Platte Basin Timelapse, Arbor Day Foundation, and Nature Explore. She is co-author of Learning With Nature Idea Book, published by Arbor Day Foundation. Other partners include Spring Creek Prairie and Audubon Society. Valerie is an Inaugural fellow of the Center for Social Impact Strategy at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Lincoln Forever

A great city is defined by a relentless desire and energy to become a better place to live. The noble goal of the Lincoln Community Foundation can most easily be captured in the two simple words Lincoln Forever.

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Lincoln Community Foundation

To help build a great city; to nurture, harness, and direct that energy is the aspiration of the Lincoln Community Foundation. To those who can provide financial resources needed to accomplish great things, …

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