VIP BARTENDER INFORMATION

2018

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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.

WHAT IS MUSIC CITY CHEF THROWDOWN?

Formerly known as Foodbank Throwdown, and unique

from other food events, chefs receive a list of low-cost,

widely available ingredients to create their dish, and cook

against the clock to present their meals to the judges.

Our esteemed judges will choose the 2018 Throwdown

Champion while our guests choose their favorite as the

People’s Choice Award, and the lowest cost meal will be

awarded the Spirit Award. Guests will enjoy a generous

sample from every chef team, no crowds or waiting in line,

and “front row” access to the action. 

HELP US REACH $10,000!

Music City Chef Throwdown

is the annual fundraiser

produced by NextUP

benefiting the Martha

O’Bryan Center.  

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AWARDSTake home the People’s

Choice Cocktail Award,

the crowd favorite, voted by

our VIP guests.

Create a unique summer cocktail for our VIP experience, held before the Music City Chef

Throwdown competition begins.  Our VIP guests have purchased a special ticket just for the VIP

happy hour which includes your special cocktail and a VIP bag with some awesome swag. Their

support is why this event is so successful! Bartenders will prepare one of their cocktails to be

photographed as well as enough samples for approximately 50 tastings to be served to our VIP

experience attendees starting at 5:00pm.

The Challenge for VIP Bartenders

Ingredient list to order from consisting of

a liquor, mixes, and garnishes

One 8 foot table with tablecloth

Cups and napkins

Use your libation knowledge and skills to help raise money to

support Martha O’Bryan Center, whose programs focus on

empowerment through education.

Marketing opportunities and promotion for your bar/restaurant

Compete against Nashville’s most innovative bartenders.

Complementary ticket to Throwdown for you and 1 guest.

It’s fun! Interact with our guests and enjoy the chef’s throwdown.

Why Get Involved? 

Additional ingredients outside of the available

list that will be supplied

Beverage glass to be photographed

Tools, such as shakers, stirrers, muddlers, etc.

We Supply: You Supply:

Posts on Facebook and Instagram of your brand alongside

some of Nashville’s best chefs

Inclusion in press releases, blog posts, MCC Throwdown

website, and emails

Professional images of your cocktail, bartender, and event

candids to use in your own marketing

AMAZINGCHEFS

PAST CHEFS 

PAST JUDGES & EMCEES

2018 CHEFS THROWDOWN DEMOGRAPHICS

MEDIADETAILSEVENT CALENDARSPRINT & BLOG

TV & RADIO

Past Coverage 2015-2017

Your sponsorship helps Martha O’Bryan Center continue and expand these services. 

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.

DIRECT IMPACT AND RETURN ON INVESTMENT

MOBC SERVICES

MOBC IMPACT

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The average household income

for families in Cayce Place is

$7,494, 70% below the national

poverty threshold for a family

of four.  

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.

SERVICES AND TARGET POPULATION

Martha O'Bryan Center's programs strategically work

together to build upward mobility, resiliency, and well-being

within families. Their programs work from “cradle to career":

equipping students with the academic and social-emotional

skills to thrive in any environment and through any

challenge

inspiring high school graduates to envision a future of post-

secondary success through exposure to enriching

opportunities

educating parents so they are better able to facilitate the

development of caring, competent, and healthy children. 

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. 

90 percent of households are

headed by a single woman; 59

percent of residents are under

the age of 18.

59 percent of residents are

under the age of 18. CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE.

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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.

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 NEXTUP

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.

ABOUT MARTHA O'BRYAN CENTER

THESE PROGRAMS SEE A $24 RETURN ON GRANTS AND SCHOLARSHIPS FOREVERY DOLLAR INVESTED.