Our Story
Located in the heart of North Omaha, POC Collaborative Community Resource Center, serves as a hub for community and economic development.
Our mission is to elevate BIPOC voices, sustain entrepreneurial innovation, activate community resources, and amplify the legacy of the historic North Omaha community.
The space is led by local, Katrina Adams, who works in partnership with a board of community leaders equally committed to the growth and vitality of North Omaha.
A New Kind of Fellowship
Once known as the Church of Jesus Christ Whole Truth and, prior to, the Calvin Memorial/North Presbyterian Church (CMPC) now bears a new name and purpose for the North Omaha community. POC Collaborative Community Resource Center is a space for inclusive professional and entrepreneurial development, co-working and gathering, and strategic investment in emerging businesses.
Our Areas of Work
POC Collaborative Community Resource Center focuses on four core areas of work:
Understanding and evolving Omaha’s ecosystem to be more inclusive.
Preserving and repurposing the historic CMPC building.
Providing programs and services to for-profit and nonprofit businesses.
Supporting emerging and established community leaders.
We Have What We Need
Our organization is steered by an asset-based approach to community development, where we identify, organize, and deploy the resources already found in our community to mobilize individuals, associations, and institutions to come together around shared goals.
Our North Star
Our Mission is to serve as a community and economic development hub that elevates underrepresented voices, sustains entrepreneurial innovation, activates community resources, and amplifies the legacy of our community.
We Aim to increase the economic stability and upward mobility of BIPOC community members and business leaders in Omaha, Nebraska.