We’re proud to announce our 2026 Charity of the Year! PACE (Police Athletics for Community Engagement) is an incredible local organization that provides free athletic opportunities for at-risk and economically disadvantaged youth.
We revealed our 2026 Charity of the Year at our annual Core Night, where we celebrated the successes of our 2025 and opened our next chapter, setting goals for 2026.
For the entire year, we’ll focus our fundraising and volunteering efforts in support of PACE. If you’d like to contribute to this cause, mark your calendars for our Pickleball and Golf tournaments and keep an eye out for other opportunities throughout the year!
We’re so grateful for the partnership of Premier Bank in support of this life-changing organization. Together with Premier Bank, we’re hoping to make a difference in our community’s youth.
Our goal for 2026 is to break our fundraising record. Last year, we raised $40,226 and this year we have our sights set on $40,500. We’re off to a great start thanks to a $10,000 check from Premier Bank!
Presenting our 2025 Charity of the Year, Duet, with a check at our 2025 Chili Cookoff.
Selecting the Charity of the Year
As always, we are a bit non-traditional when it comes to our Charity of the Year. We wrap up the year by presenting our fundraising total at our annual Chili Cookoff. The chef with the winning chili that day wins the rights to decide the next year’s charity, and competition is fierce.
One of our core values is “Enrich The Community We Love And Live In.” We love to put this into action through our Charity of the Year and each year we are blown away by the dedication and generosity of our agents and employees.
If you’d like to help us reach our fundraising goal, mark your calendars for our Pickleball and Golf tournaments and keep an eye out for other donation opportunities throughout the year!
Here’s a look at our past few charities!
• 2023 – $12,700 raised for Siena Francis House
• 2024 – $40,100 for Moving Veterans Forward
• 2025 – $40,226 donated to Duet
About PACE
PACE’s Mission:
- Provide free athletic opportunities to at-risk and economically disadvantaged youth
- Encourage discipline, self-esteem and positive moral values within youth participants through healthy competition
- Build positive relationships between police officers, youth participants, their families and the greater Omaha community
- Reduce crime and decrease juvenile delinquency by keeping at-risk youth off the streets and involved in constructive activities
- Bring together youth of different groups and cultures to facilitate cross cultural understanding and respect
PACE’s Vision:
The PACE program will provide athletics to kids in the Omaha metro that normally would not participate in organized sports. We will build partnerships with organizations throughout the city and help provide affordable athletics. We will also emphasize the importance of education in athletics, as well as our anti-gang message. Our goal is to build stronger relationships between neighborhoods and the officers that patrol those communities and most importantly help make Omaha a better place to be — one kid at a time.
PACE’s Programming includes:
- Baseball
- Basketball
- Chess
- Flag Football
- Jiu Jitsu
- Mountain Biking
- Soccer
- Volleyball
- Golf
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