"Breaking the cycle of hopelessness and providing tangible hope for Omaha's inner-city youth and children through faith, education, employment and collaboration."
For eleven years now, the Hope Center for Kids has strived everyday to impact Omaha's inner city youth in the most intentional ways by:
- Providing more than 26,000 meals each year through Kids Cafe
- Empowering 90% of Hope seniors to graduate from high school (local rate- 47%)
- Facilitating local and national college and trade school visits
- Creating 21 part-time jobs and employment training
- Serving more than 100 kids each day, and 1,000 kids each year
Hope Happenings . . .
2nd Annual "Expressions of Hope" Gala
Join us for the 2nd Annual "Expressions of Hope" Gala will be Friday, October 9th at the Downtown Hilton Hotel! Click here for more information!
Golf Success
Thank you, once again, to everyone that participated in our 7th Annual Golf Classic at Champions Run! Your generosity helped raise more than $70,000 to benefit the youth and children in North Omaha! Make sure to mark your calendars for next year's Annual Golf Classic: Monday, June 14, 2010!
Local Restaurant Fundraiser
On July 7th, Schuck's (2 locations) & Bailey's Restaurants will give the Hope Center for Kids 10% of all 3 restaurants proceeds! See flyer for additional information!
Our Children, Our Community, Our Crisis
An Omaha World-Herald article last April explains the epidemic poverty cycle going on in our city: "Omaha in Black and White: Poverty amid prosperity." The article goes on to state that unlike the national trend, Omaha is continuing to increase this economic and educational gap between races. In fact, Omaha World-Herlad says that,"only one other U.S. metro area, Minneapolis, has a wider econmic disparity between how black and white residents fare."
