Event recap
Shine bright 2025
During Shine Bright every August, volunteers pack more than 5,000 hygiene kits for local students.
- August 5 - 8
- Mid-America Center
You can dramatically change a child’s life when you support Shine Bright.
Many local students across the metro are lacking essential hygiene items such as soap, shampoo, conditioner, clean clothes and dental products — impacting their health, learning and confidence. Helping students get access to the resources they lack allows them to build a better and brighter future for themselves and our community.
Every child deserves to come to school feeling confident and ready to learn, but for so many this is not possible.
what is shine bright?
As part of its Good on the Go program, UWM partners with local school districts and raises funds for the purchase and assembly of Shine Bright hygiene kits for kindergarten, sixth- and ninth-grade students. The kits are then distributed to students in the Omaha, Council Bluffs and Papillion La Vista school districts – as well as JAG Nebraska students across the state.
Each Shine Bright kit contains the full-size essential hygiene items kids need to feel confident so they can start the year off right.
LOCAL School Counselors have reported
HOW YOU CAN HELP
Give a Shine Bright kit
By purchasing a Shine Bright kit for $40, you are helping provide for the essential needs of local studens, ensuring they have a positive experience this school year.
Give Your Time
Make a child’s day brighter by sharing your time at Shine Bright August 5-8.
Participate in the volunteer event where you’ll turn good intentions into powerful actions.
what is in each kit?
How are kits distributed?
To protect the privacy of students, kits will be discretely distributed by social workers, school counselors and school nurses who have identified children in need of these items.
Thank you to our sponsors
Supporting sponsors
Community sponsors
