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  • Purely Social: Love's Jazz & Arts Center
    Starts: 5:30 pm
    Ends: 10 May 2012 - 7:30 pm
    Location: Love's Jazz & Arts Center, 2510 N. 24 St., Omaha
    Description: The Greater Omaha Young Professionals and the Council of Companies are hosting a Purely Social at Love’s Jazz & Arts Center.

    Thursday, May 10
    5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
    Love’s Jazz and Arts Center
    2510 N. 24 St.

    More Information > http://omahayp.org/news/purely-social-loves-jazz-arts-center/
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  • Public Engagement Committee Meeting
    Starts: 7:30 am
    Ends: 16 May 2012 - 9:00 am
    Location: Downtown Chamber 1301 Harney
    Description: Monthly Public Engagement Committee Meeting
    7:30 - 8:30 a.m.
    Downtown Omaha Chamber
    1301 Harney St.

    Attend the meeting and bring a friend.

    Agenda:
    Wayfinding Project update
    Legislative Summit Planning
    Service Club Connection conversation
    B(us) Stop update
    Omaha Creative Week planning


    Contact committee chair Justine Petsch for more information.
    email: justinej2@gmail.com
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  • Council of Companies meeting
    Starts: 7:30 am
    Ends: 24 May 2012 - 9:00 am
    Location: Greater Omaha Chamber, 1301 Harney Street
    Description: The Council of Companies was formed in 2008 as a support group for Greater Omaha companies to form and sustain internal young professional groups.

    If you are interested in starting a YP group at your company, join us at our meeting.

    For more information, visit http://www.omahayp.org/about/council-of-companies/
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  • YP Inclusion subcommittee meeting
    Starts: 5:30 pm
    Ends: 31 May 2012 - 6:30 pm
    Location: Joslyn Art Museum - Omaha Steaks Conference Room (OSCR)
    Description: Young professionals want Omaha be a community where people are welcome to be authentic and connected without barriers due to race, ethnicity, gender, interests or income. This year the Inclusion Subcommittee is focusing on impacting our community. Each month we’re inviting community focused organizations to speak to us on ways we as YP’s can impact our community. We’ll volunteer our time to these organizations and other community focused groups in 2012.

    Contact subcommittee chair Lonnie Michael Jr., for further information.
    lonnie.michaeljr@infogroup.com
 

Engagement

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Events

Join the Greater Omaha Young Professionals and Mutual of Omaha Emerging Leaders Network for the only behind the scenes look at the 2012 Olympic Swim Trials at CenturyLink Center Omaha.  The event will showcase how the city of Omaha, local… [read more]

Engagement

The Trug: Leavenworth project, a temporary, seasonal installation of platforms, seating, and planter units, will convert a limited number of on-street parking stalls into public space between 25th and 27th streets on Leavenworth Street. The project is a partnership between… [read more]


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Omaha: It’s all yours.

Too many places want to be
all things to all people.
For Omaha, it’s pretty much true.

There’s no one reason to love Omaha. Really. Ask people what they like and you’ll get a different answer every time. Truth is, whatever you imagine your life should be, you can do it here. It’s what brings people here and in a lot of cases, it makes it difficult for them to leave. For young professionals who are tired of “more of the same,” Omaha is definitely more of what you want your community to be.

“America’s Most Affordable City”

Forbes looked at the current median asking price of homes on the market in each city, median salaries of workers with bachelor’s degrees or higher and compared it to a cost-of-living index. All while factoring in the latest unemployment rates from the Bureau of Labor Statistics to reflect the relative strength of local economies. [Forbes]

#1 Best Value City

[Kiplinger]

  1. Omaha
  2. Charlotte
  3. Nashville
  4. Colorado Springs
  5. Knoxville
Big Omaha

Top 50 Events for Young Entrepreneurs

  1. CEO National
  2. SXSW
  3. Big Omaha
  1. Startup Weekend
  2. Summit Series
  3. BarCamp

[Under 30 CEO]


Best Cities for Recent Grads

  1. Fayetteville, N.C.
  2. Omaha
  3. Oklahoma City
  4. Austin

[The Daily Beast]

Best Cities for Families

You want the best for your family, and that includes great schools, affordable homes, low crime rates, plenty of jobs, and lots of parkland. Parenting crunched more than 8,000 bits of data in 84 categories to determine this year’s top places to raise kids. [Parenting]