A Holiday WishWho:
"A Holiday Wish" will benefit The Giving Kitchen, which supports metro Atlanta restaurant workers who are facing unanticipated crisis.
"A Holiday Wish" is hosted by the GFWC Atlanta Woman’s Club, a philanthropic organization made up of women working together to improve our local community. Learn more at atlwc.org
When: Wednesday, December 7, 2016
6:00 PM to 9:00 PM EST
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The Atlanta Woman’s Club is proud to partner with The Giving Kitchen to host this holiday event through its Seeded Event Program at its beautiful historic venue, The Wimbish House, one of Midtown Atlanta’s most beloved landmarks. For additional information about The Atlanta Woman's Club's Seeded Event Program please contact events@atlwc.org. For additional information about The Giving Kitchen please contact Stephanie Galer at 404-334-0616 or at stephanie@thegivingkitchen.org.
Transportation & Parking
Parking Company of America (located at 1100 Peachtree, adjacent to The Wimbish House).
Colony Square (located at NE corner of 14th Street and Peachtree)
UBER (on-demand transportation via mobile app, download at uber.com)
LYFT (on-demand transportation via mobile app, download at lyft.com)
MARTA Rail: Arts Center Station (0.33 miles NW, located at 1225 West Peachtree Street NW)Midtown Station (0.41 miles SW, located at 41 10th Street NE)
Please join us for
cocktail buffet & silent auction to benefit
The Giving Kitchen
Wednesday, December 7, 2016
from 6 until 9 in the evening
cocktails • hors d’oeuvres • silent auction • and more •
hosted by The Atlanta Woman’s Club
The Giving Kitchen is the beyond-expectation resource at times of unanticipated crisis for the Atlanta restaurant community.
There are over 200,000 restaurant workers in the City of Atlanta. The Giving Kitchen organization provides emergency assistance grants to cover rent, utilties, or funeral expenses.
Held at The Wimbish House, one of Atlanta’s few remaining historic mansions, "A Holiday Wish" will feature:
- Silent auction items
- Food / Wine pull
- Great hors d'oeuvres
- Specialty food stations
- Cocktails
Proceeds from "A Holiday Wish" benefit The Giving Kitchen.
About The Giving Kitchen
The Giving Kitchen grew out of a beyond-expectation response to the devastating, stage-four cancer diagnosis of Atlanta Chef Ryan Hidinger in December 2012. Ryan was well known in the Atlanta restaurant community for his work at Bacchanalia, Floataway Café, and Muss & Turner’s. And he and his wife, Jen, were beloved for the supper club called Staplehouse that they had been running for several years, as a build-up to starting their dream restaurant.
The response to Ryan’s diagnosis — initially from friends within the restaurant industry, and then quickly from an ever-expanding community across Atlanta — was an outpouring of love and financial support that would help with expenses not covered by insurance.
The Giving Kitchen was formed as a 501(c)(3) to fill the need for a crisis grant program in the restaurant community — as a way to do for others what the community came together to do for Ryan and Jen Hidinger. To help ensure its own sustainability, the Giving Kitchen has a unique hybrid structure as a nonprofit with a for-profit subsidiary. The for-profit subsidiary is Staplehouse — a casual fine-dining restaurant located in Atlanta's Old Fourth Ward. All of Staplehouse's net profits are channeled back to its nonprofit parent as an ongoing stream of support.
Jen has said that the outpouring gave Ryan a peace of mind that she believes extended his life by at least six months. The community’s beyond-expectation response to the Hidingers' crisis moment set the intent, beliefs and values of The Giving Kitchen.
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