CHEF INFORMATION 2018 - Martha O'Bryan Center
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2018 CHEF INFORMATION
WHAT IS MUSIC CITY CHEF THROWDOWN?
Local chefs making an impact on Nashville’s culinary scene are going head-to-head at Music City Chef
Throwdown to benefit Martha O’Bryan Center. NextUP - Martha O’Bryan Center Ambassadors
is challenging Nashville chefs to showcase how an amazing meal can be made with the simplest of
ingredients. Local food experts will choose a champion and guests will choose their favorite.
Formerly known as Foodbank Throwdown, and unique
from other food events, chefs receive a list of low-cost,
HELP US REACH $10,000!
widely available ingredients to create their dish, and cook
against the clock to present their meals to the judges.
Music City Chef Throwdown
Our esteemed judges will choose the 2018 Throwdown
is the annual fundraiser
Champion while our guests choose their favorite as the produced by NextUP
People’s Choice Award, and the lowest cost meal will be
benefiting the Martha
awarded the Spirit Award. Guests will enjoy a generous
sample from every chef team, no crowds or waiting in line,
O’Bryan Center.
and “front row” access to the action.
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The Challenge for Chefs
Create a dish using items typically donated to Nashville food pantries to prove how the simplest
ingredients can make a gourmet meal. Chefs will prepare five dishes - four to present to the judges
plus a dish to be photographed - with 20 minutes to prepare. Chefs will also prepare enough food for
200 tastings to be served to our guests starting at 6:30pm.
We Supply: You Supply:
ingredient list to order from consisting of include your own seasoning, spices,
a protein, canned foods, fresh greens, and herbs or oils
boxed grains or starches choice of one non-protein ingredient
two 8 foot tables with tablecloth cookware and burner for demonstration
plates, forks and napkins at the event
electricity, by request (limited supply) plates for judges sample
delivery of ingredients via volunteers containers to transport the finished
the week of the event dish to the event
Only final preparations should be made during the event. Leftover food will be donated to Martha O’Bryan Center.
Deadlines and more information will follow once you have committed.
Why Get Involved?
Use your culinary skills to help raise money to support Martha
O’Bryan Center, whose programs focus on empowerment AWARDS
through education. Music City Chef Champion -
Enjoy a cooking competition that truly challenges the chefs’ best dish voted by judges
experiences in the kitchen by utilizing food pantry ingredients to Spirit Award - dish costing
create a high-end meal.
the least, calculated by food
Unique marketing opportunities and promotion for your
cost
restaurant on NextUP social media, emails, blog, and press.
People’s Choice - crowd
Compete against Nashville’s most innovative restaurants and chefs.
favorite, voted by our guests
It’s fun! Interact with our judges, guests, and other chefs.
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Past Coverage 2015-2017 PRINT & BLOG EVENT CALENDARS TV & RADIO
PAST CHEFS PAST JUDGES & EMCEES
Music City Chef Throwdown Demographics Marketing Opportunities Included in Your Participation Contact us now to secure your spot as a chef!
DIRECT IMPACT AND RETURN ON INVESTMENT
Martha O'Bryan Center is located in East Nashville, in the heart of Cayce Place, less
than a mile from downtown Nashville, an area comprised of luxury condos, thriving
businesses, and state government offices.
MOBC
SERVICES
MOBC
IMPACT
Your sponsorship helps
Martha O’Bryan Center
continue and expand
these services.
SERVICES AND TARGET POPULATION
Martha O'Bryan Center is located in East Nashville, in the heart of Cayce Place, less than
a mile from downtown Nashville, an area comprised of luxury condos, thriving
businesses, and state government offices.
Martha O'Bryan Center's programs strategically work
The average household income together to build upward mobility, resiliency, and well-being
for families in Cayce Place is within families. Their programs work from “cradle to career":
$7,494, 70% below the national
equipping students with the academic and social-emotional
poverty threshold for a family
skills to thrive in any environment and through any
of four.
challenge
90 percent of households are inspiring high school graduates to envision a future of post-
headed by a single woman; 59 secondary success through exposure to enriching
percent of residents are under opportunities
educating parents so they are better able to facilitate the
the age of 18.
development of caring, competent, and healthy children.
59 percent of residents are
under the age of 18. CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE.
The Martha O’Bryan Center focuses on education. There is a line between a wealth of opportunities
and a poverty of choices. Martha O'Bryan Center's goal is to break that line. We believe poverty is
highly complex and requires the integration of programs, partners, families, youth, and community
working together to Break the Line between poverty and potential.
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ABOUT NEXTUP
NextUP - Martha O’Bryan Center Ambassadors is a service-focused Nashville professionals group devoted
to awareness, fundraising, and volunteering for the Martha O'Bryan Center. NextUP is made up of 18
young to mid-career professionals. Learn more about this year’s team of NextUP Ambassadors at
marthaobryan.org/nextup.
ABOUT MARTHA O'BRYAN CENTER
Martha O'Bryan Center is an anti-poverty non-profit organization founded in 1894, serving East
Nashville and the city core. The Center provides 20 programs at 11 sites to more than 10,000
individuals and families in poverty each year. Focused on high-quality public education, employment
training and placement, and wrap-around family services, Martha O'Bryan Center works to "break the
line of poverty" in Nashville. Learn more about Martha O’Bryan Center at marthaobryan.org.
THESE PROGRAMS SEE A $24 RETURN ON GRANTS AND SCHOLARSHIPS FOR
EVERY DOLLAR INVESTED.
MOBC supports two Academic
Student Unions at Stratford’s
and Maplewood High School.
With your help, over 1,000 high
school seniors will be more
mentally and financially
prepared as first-generation
college students in 2018.
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