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Saving Grace Selected for Chamber Business Excellence Award
The Greater Omaha Chamber awards celebrate companies and individuals that dedicate themselves to excellence and help make Greater Omaha a more vibrant place to do business, work and live.
Help us celebrate by attending the awards event on Tuesday, May 10, from 4 to 6 p.m. at Embassy Suites Omaha - LaVista. Tickets, which are
available online, are $40 per person or $1,000 for a VIP table of 10 with guaranteed seating. Reserve your spot by May 3.
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Thrivent Financial Supports Saving Grace
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Sarah H. Wilson of Thrivent Financial presents the check to Beth Ostdiek Smith of Saving Grace as representatives of the two organizations look on.
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A corporate generosity challenge resulted in a $6,000 donation that Thrivent Financial recently presented to Saving Grace.
The challenge is aimed at increasing awareness and support of local nonprofit organizations across the country.
"Our local community is a place where Thrivent members live, work and worship," said Chelsie Olson, community engagement leader with Thrivent in Omaha. "We are excited to be able to support Saving Grace. It is wonderful that opportunities like this exist at Thrivent to help fund programs that contribute to the health and vitality of the Nebraska Region, making it a better place for everyone."
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Making an Impact
Prepared Sandwiches are Popular at Stephen Center
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Richard Couch, right, food services director, and Robert Wilson, kitchen manager, look over a delivery of sandwiches.
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Donations of fresh fruit and prepared sandwiches from QuikTrip Kitchen are important to the Stephen Center's sack lunch program.
"We have a large number of people who need to go out and work, look for work or take part in outside programs to better themselves with the skills they need. We want to make sure they have something to eat when they are out and about," says Richard Couch, food services director for the Stephen Center.
At least twice a week, Saving Grace's professional drivers make a delivery to the Stephen Center in south Omaha, which offers an emergency shelter, permanent supportive housing and substance abuse treatment.
"We can serve up to 600 meals a day, three meals each for 200 people," Couch. Donations from Saving Grace's food partners supplement evening meals provided by community groups, as well as the sack lunch program.
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Three Easy Ways to Support Saving Grace during Omaha Gives!
- Schedule a gift! For your convenience, you can schedule gifts now through May 24. We encourage you to donate early if you cannot participate on May 25.
- Spread the word! Tell your friends that you will be giving to Saving Grace during Omaha Gives! on May 25.
- Post about Omaha Gives! on your social media pages. Let your friends and followers know how they can give and how their donations can help us win matching and prize funds.
Together, we can make this year's Omaha Gives! the best yet.
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Community Happenings
May 3 Shopping Day Benefits Saving Grace
Read about why Beth Ostdiek Smith founded Saving Grace and how refrigerated trucks are the heart of its operation in "Grace to Go," an article in Nebraska Trucker,
Issue 6, 2015. Scroll to page 7 for the article.
Reducing Food Waste: Earth Day Interactive Exhibits
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These girls pledge to do their part to combat food waste by eating more leftovers.
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Saving Grace's interactive exhibit at Earth Day Omaha on April 16 provided opportunities for youngsters to add their name to a food waste pledge, come up with their own ideas on how to combat food waste and pose w
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some fun props.
Earth Day Omaha provided an opportunity for Saving Grace ambassadors to talk with attendees about the agency's grassroots efforts to connect excess perishable food from grocery stores, restaurants, caterers and other food purveyors with local nonprofit agencies that feed our hungry and to raise awareness about food waste and hunger.
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