Young Professionals Council
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The Young Professionals Council (YPC) of the Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce is a task force of motivated young professionals, ages 25-40, who represent various institutions within the Omaha business community. The vision of the Young Professionals Council is that Omaha will be one of the top communities in which young professionals want to live and work. The Council’s hope and mission is to generate excitement and enthusiasm among young professionals about living, working and thriving in the Omaha community.
Enticing professionals who were raised here to return is one of the key dilemmas that Omaha faces. Young people who leave town to get an education or find a first job, but return to put down roots, buy a house or raise a family are known as "boomerangers". Getting the 20- to 30-something professionals to stay is seen by many as the key to a city’s future. As the massive baby boomer generation retires over the next few years, they won’t be replaced by their children, Generation Xers. In fact, by 2012, the work force will lose two workers for every one it gains. And that has cities across the country that are facing declines in their college-educated 25- to 34-year-old demographic working to reverse that trend. Cities are competing for what some experts call “the creative class.”
