Omaha Time Exchange

Overview
Omaha Time Exchange is a network of people and organizations in Omaha, Nebraska, who offer their services, skills, and time to meet the needs of friends, neighbors, and the larger community. Any resident of the city can join the Omaha Time Exchange and start earning time credits by contributing to other members. After earning time credits, members can spend them or donate them to other members.

How the Omaha Time Exchange Works
A member requests or offers a service by posting the request on the community board, part of the Omaha Time Exchange website. If you want to provide a posted service, you earn time credits by performing the service. If you want to receive a service, you spend time credits to purchase the service. The amount of time a service requires equals the number of time credits earned or spent. For example, if you teach a member how to play the piano for one hour, you earn a one-hour time credit. If a member weeds your garden for an hour, you spend a one-hour time credit.

Examples of Services
· Child care

· Home repair

· Legal assistance

· Medical transportation

· Language lessons

· Respite care

· Tutoring

· Delivery

Special Projects
Omaha Time Exchange participates in special projects for the following local organizations. Time exchanges for these projects are highlighted on the community board.

Rest and Restore
This organization provides basic assistance to people who need a helping hand after an illness, surgery, hospital stay, or accident.

Open Space Gardens
Founded and run by community members, Open Space Gardens creates vegetable gardens in areas that are otherwise unused, such as vacant lots, terrace areas, backyards, and open spaces.

Neighbor to Neighbor
This organization forms ad-hoc groups in neighborhoods to help people meet basic needs such as assisting with daily tasks, gaining access to healthy food, providing transportation, and performing regular visits.

Service Participation
Members are exchanging time in the following categories of services. The number of participants reflects participation in the past two years.

Sources of Funding
Omaha Time Exchange receives funding from other organizations and individual members to support its professional staff, maintain the website, and other ongoing efforts. The following table summarizes current funding and compares percentages to the previous year.

Funding Source
2019
2020
City of Omaha
25%
30%
Omaha Metropolitan School District
15%
15%
Community Support of Nebraska
40%
40%
Donations
20%
15%

Organization
Omaha Time Exchange is 501(c)(3) tax-deductible nonprofit organization. It is run by professional staff and volunteers and managed by a Board of Directors.

Board of Directors
The board provides policy and direction to meet the strategic goals of Omaha Time Exchange and adheres to the highest standards of nonprofit governance. The following members serve on the Board of Directors:

Position

Name

President

Gail Hallowell

Vice President

Tony Wong

Treasurer

Ray Chavez, CPA

Director

Amanda Chen

Director

Josh Wasserberg

Director

Jacki Laurent

Director

Caitlyn McCoy

GETTING STARTED
Open the file NP_WD16_3a_FirstLastName_1.docx, available for download from the SAM website.

Save the file as NP_WD16_3a_FirstLastName_2.docx by changing the “1” to a “2”.

0. If you do not see the .docx file extension in the Save As dialog box, do not type it. The program will add the file extension for you automatically.

With the file NP_WD16_3a_FirstLastName_2.docx still open, ensure that your first and last name is displayed in the footer.

· If the footer does not display your name, delete the file and download a new copy from the SAM website.

PROJECT STEPS
As an assistant at the Omaha Time Exchange, a professional network serving greater Omaha, you are helping to format the final draft of the organization’s annual report.

To direct readers to the Omaha Time Exchange website, start by moving the insertion point to the end of the first body paragraph (which begins “Omaha Time Exchange is a network…”). After the period, insert a footnote with the following text:

For a complete description of our services, see our website at www.ote.cengage.com.

Format headings to refine the organization of the document as follows:

a. Format the “Examples of Services” heading with the Heading 2 style. (Hint: Use the navigation pane to Demote the heading so you do not need to scroll the document.)

b. Format the “Organization” heading with the Heading 1 style. (Hint: Use the navigation pane to Promote the heading so you do not need to scroll the document.)

On page 2, move the insertion point to the blank paragraph following the sentence “Time exchanges…are highlighted on the community board.”, and then insert and format an informative SmartArt graphic as follows:

c. Insert the Continuous Block Process SmartArt graphic from the Process section of the SmartArt gallery.

d. Enter the following text into the SmartArt graphic, with each line of text appearing in a separate shape, as shown in Figure 1 below.

Rest and Restore

Open Space Gardens

Neighbor to Neighbor

e. Resize the SmartArt graphic to a height of 4″ and a width of 6″, if necessary.

Figure 1: SmartArt with Text

On page 3, move the insertion point after the sentence “The number of participants…in the past two years.” After the period, insert an endnote with the following text:

Data compiled from City of Omaha budgets, 2019 and 2020.

Move the insertion point to the blank line after the sentence “The number of participants…the past two years.” To show how many members participated in each category of service, insert a table with 3 columns and 5 rows, and then enter the data shown in Table 1 below.

Table 1: Service Participation

Apply the Grid Table 5 Dark – Accent 3 table style to the table you just inserted.

Under the “Sources of Funding” heading, sort the “Funding Source” table in descending order by the “2020” column. (Hint: Use the default selections for all other Sort criteria.)

On page 4, the table needs to be updated because Caitlyn McCoy is no longer a director at Omaha Time Exchange. The organization also wants to list the number of years each person has served on the Board of Directors.

To make these changes, modify the table as follows:

f. Delete the last row of the table containing the text “Director” and “Caitlyn McCoy”.

g. Insert a column to the right of the “Name” column and enter the data shown in Table 2 on the next page.

Table 2: New Table Column

Format the table on page 4 as follows:

h. Apply the Grid Table 5 Dark – Accent 3 table style.

i. Remove the First Column table style option.

j. Format the table to AutoFit Window.

On page 4, below the sentence “Omaha Time Exchange Staff”, format the list of job titles and employee names as follows:

k. On each line, beginning “Executive Director Jennifer Granada” and ending “Student Interns…Maddy Lewis”, set a 2.5″ left tab stop.

l. Replace the space between the job title and the employee name with a tab so that the names are aligned with the new tab stop.

Turn on automatic hyphenation in the document.

To simplify the design, change the document theme to Office.

Insert the Integral header, and then close the header.

Insert a cover page as follows:

m. Insert the cover page using the built-in Slice (Dark) style.

n. Replace the Document Title placeholder with the following text:

Omaha Time Exchange

o. Replace the Document Subtitle placeholder with the following text:

Annual Report

Your document should look like the Final Figure on the following pages. Save your changes, close the document, and then exit Word. Follow the directions on the SAM website to submit your completed project.

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