MISSION
Founded in 2020, Partners for Livable Omaha is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to increasing the livability of communities throughout the Omaha metro.
VISION
Partners for Livable Omaha (Livable Omaha) partners with organizations, stakeholders and experts who share a common vision for strengthening our communities. Our programs build bridges across disciplines and across community populations. We focus on creative workforce development, arts-based community empowerment, design-based solutions, and creating new livability resources that are accessible to all.
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PROGRAMS
OurStory Small Houses
Launched in 2024, OurStory Small Houses creates aging-ready homes that seek affordability at the intersection of innovation, design, finance, and policy. OurStory fills a gap in the market for small house designs that are constructible, financeable, environmentally sustainable, and empowering. OurStory added an architectural internship program in 2025.
Omaha Mobile Stage
Launched in 2021, Omaha Mobile Stage (OMS) uses creative placemaking, community-based arts and cultural resources, and multidisciplinary collaboration to expand live performing arts opportunities and make space for creatives to participate in community and economic development in the Omaha–Council Bluffs metropolitan area. OMS added an audio engineer internship program in 2022.
STAFF
Jessica Scheuerman, Founder and Executive Director, jessica@livable.org
Kaylea Kuhlman, Marketing and Communications Manager, kaylea@livable.org
James Schroeder, Production Manager, jim@livable.org
Brandon Rial, Brand and Office Manager (contractor), brandon@livable.org
2025 OurStory Architectural Interns
Carl Williams
Ozborne Eckhorn
Thank you to our 2025 Omaha Mobile Stage Production Crew members!
Bobbi Trujillo
Logan Smith
Benjamin Asbach
Nathanael Atwood
Keiria Lowe
MaKenzie Mellem
Laura Vinopal
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Adam Fritz, Tax Manager, Gallup
Sara Howard, OPPD Director + Policy Advisor, First Five Nebraska, Chair
Emma Mabry, Realtor, NP Dodge Real Estate, Treasurer
Erin L. Moran, Director of Development, Humanities Nebraska
Katie Kresha, Executive Director, River City Mixed Choir
Allie Schrader Lund, Operations Manager, Waiting Room Lounge and Reverb Lounge
Eleanore Tiehen, CADRE Associate, Omaha Public Schools, Secretary
Partners for Livable Omaha is a member of the Nonprofit Association of the Midlands.
All are welcome.
Partners for Livable Omaha does not lawfully or unlawfully discriminate in its hiring practices or service provision to clients and/or customers based on race, ethnicity, religious preference, age, mental, emotional, or physical disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, military service, or gender.