Sunday, April 27, 2008
Regency Court
120 Regency Parkway (120 Regency Parkway, Omaha, NE,) This address is in Nebraska. Click to see a map.)
Omaha, NE 68114
6:00 P.M. to 9:00 P.M.
Attire: Business Casual

To purchase tickets, contact Committee Co-Chairman Julie DeWitt at julie.dewitt@koleyjessen.com or at 402.343.3774.

General admission $75.00 ($50 tax deductible)

Local Information

Omaha is proud to take part in Taste of the Nation® for the year.  Our local group of restaurants, sponsors, and volunteers, have helped Omaha give back to our community, our nation, and our world.

Come out and join us.  You will enjoy samplings of over 40 of Omaha's premier restaurants, bakeries, and caterers.  100% of the ticket sales go directly to fight hunger.

Distribution of ticket funds is as follows:

  • 40% to the Omaha Food Bank - Feeding Omaha's hungry by providing 271, yes that's 271 agencies in the eastern Omaha and western Iowa metro area with food.  Bet you didn't know there were 271.  Hunger is possibly more prevalent in these areas than you think.  
  • 20% to Visiting Nurses - Nurses go into shelters to link people to health care and food, enabling them to take better care of themselves, thereby avoiding future crises.  
  • 10% to Voices for Children - Lobbies for food assistance programs, including school lunch and breakfast, commodity food distribution, WICK program and more.  
  • 10% to Center for Rural Affairs - With the assistance from Share Our Strength, the Rural Enterprise Assistance Project, REAP, is able to help rural people start rural small businesses to strengthen their communities.  REAP provides individuals with business management training, technical assistance, lending capital, and networking opportunities.  
  • 20% for International Hunger Relief - Ethiopia is a current high-need area.  

General Information

Taste of the Nation®, presented by American Express and Jenn-Air®, a program of Share Our Strength, is the nation's preeminent culinary benefit supporting the fight to end hunger.

Each spring, more than 10,000 individuals, from chefs and restaurateurs to public relations professionals and accountants, come together in approximately across the United States and Canada to organize one-of-a-kind culinary events.  The events, which include food and wine tastings, seated dinners, brunches and barbeques, host more than 60,000 attendees annually.

Share Our Strength (SOS) works to alleviate and prevent hunger and poverty in the United States and abroad.  By supporting food assistance, treating malnutrition and other consequences of hunger, and promoting economic independence among people in need, Share Our Strength meets immediate demands for food while investing in long-term solutions to hunger and poverty.  To meet its goals, Share Our Strength both mobilizes industries and individuals to contribute their talents to its anti-hunger efforts and creates community wealth to promote lasting change.

Since 1988, Taste of the Nation events have raised nearly $50 million, which has supported more than 450 organizations working to end hunger and poverty in the United States and abroad.

For more information on Taste of the Nation National, visit the website:
For more information on our parent organization, visit their website.
Local Sponsor Links.
Bronze Plate Sponsors:
Croker, Huck, Kasher, DeWitt, Anderson & Gonderinger P.C.
First National Bank
Koley Jessen P.C.
McCarthy Group, LLC

Full Plate Sponsors:
Baird Holm LLP
Heafey-Hoffman-Dworak-Cutler Mortuaries
Shamrock Development, Inc.
Terry K. Watanabe Charitable Trust
Union Pacific
John and Nancy Webster
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